In the second international break of the season, the focus of German football is on Julian Nagelsmann’s debut as national coach. In addition to the A selection, the DFB’s youth teams also travel. Including the U20, who are forced to act due to Nagelsmann’s appointment. A BVB coach suddenly finds himself on the junior sidelines.
BVB coach Marco Lehmann will act as assistant coach to Hannes Wolf at the upcoming international matches for the German U20 team. Lehmann confirmed this to the “Ruhr Nachrichten”. Wolf’s previous assistant Sandro Wagner, however, was ordered to work at Nagelsmann’s side. Lehmann will take the position temporarily, it is said.
“I’m happy that I can support Hannes in his task. And I’m excited because it will be new impressions for me with the national team, which will definitely help me,” said Lehmann. He is looking forward to “getting a taste of the DFB and working with many talented players.”
For BVB, there was no question of giving Lehmann this opportunity: “Out of our old friendly relationship with Hannes Wolf, we released Marco for the U20 national team. That’s a good thing because we don’t have any championship games for the U17s anyway due to the international squad. For For Marco, on the one hand, this is an appreciation of the work he does at BVB. On the other hand, it is a further training measure and it is certainly nice for him to be able to accompany a team at this level and in this age group,” said BVB youth boss Lars Ricken. Ruhr News”.
(Ex) BVB talents are in the U20 squad
In everyday league life, Lehmann trains Borussia Dortmund’s U17s. Until the summer of 2023, the 40-year-old was responsible for BVB’s U16s, for whom he has been active since 2013. At that time, Lehmann also met Wolf, who also coached various BVB youth teams between 2009 and 2016.
In the upcoming “temporary job” Lehmann will also meet some players he knows from Dortmund: “I trained Caspar Jander and Nnamdi Collins myself. And of course I also know Tom Rothe from BVB. It’s nice to see the boys again.” Defender Hendry Blank is also in the squad.