The 6-0 friendly defeat against Braunschweig was too much: second division team 1. FC Magdeburg has released head coach Markus Fiedler and his two assistant coaches.
Second division bottom club 1. FC Magdeburg has fired its head coach Markus Fiedler and his assistants Saban Uzun and Andreas Schumacher. The club announced this on Sunday evening (October 12th). This was preceded by another slap on Thursday afternoon (October 9th) in the test match against league rivals Eintracht Braunschweig, who were also in crisis. The blue and whites were there 0:6 been swept off the pitch. This will take over on an interim basis U23 coaching duo Petrik Sander and Pascal Ibold in collaboration with Silvio Bankert, the remaining assistant coach of the second division team.
Petrik Sander and Pascal Ibold (from left) will prepare the FCM for the upcoming away game in Darmstadt.
Roll backwards to cover your back
On Tuesday (October 7th). Sports director Otmar Schork expressed his confidence in his head coach at a specially arranged press conference. Above all, the manner of the new defeat has obviously been the last straw.
“As announced, we carried out a detailed analysis last week and came to the conclusion that the team’s trust in Markus and the hope of a turnaround no longer existed. After the 0:4 against Elversberg and the 0:6 in the test against Eintracht Braunschweig, the team was at a loss,” Schork was quoted in the club’s official report.
The 68-year-old added: “We are currently in discussions to find the right coach for the FCM. We would like to thank Markus for the work he has done, who I still consider to be a good coach. Unfortunately, we did not achieve the results we would have liked.”
Now going their separate ways: Markus Fiedler (l.) and Otmar Schork
Fiedler: “It was a great honor”
Fiedler was only in last summer as the successor to Christian Titz, who moved to Hannover 96 been obliged. The 39-year-old had previously worked at VfB Stuttgart’s youth performance center for ten years. In 2023, the aspiring coach took over VfB’s U23s, initially leading them to the 3rd league and then to relegation there.
Fiedler himself also had his say in the statement: “It was a great honor for me to work for this proud, traditional club. Unfortunately, together we did not achieve the results that we would have deserved based on our performance. We knew that we would need time after the upheaval in the summer, but after many unfortunate games, we got into a negative spiral that was difficult to stop. I would like to thank those responsible for the trusting cooperation and wish the club and the Team only the best for the future.”
FCM with just three points from eight games
However, the results at his first second division station are catastrophic. After just three points from eight league games and recently six league defeats in a row, the FCM fell to the bottom of the table. Before the most recent test debacle, the Saxony Anhalters had 0:4 at home against Elversberg suffered the highest defeat of the season to date.
Magdeburg currently has both the least dangerous offense (seven goals) and the most porous defense (19 goals conceded) in the Bundesliga lower house. After the international break, the Blue-Whites will play a difficult away game against currently third-placed SV Darmstadt at Böllenfalltor on October 19th.
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