Two game days before the end of the season
In the middle of the promotion race: Cologne probably releases coaches
Updated on 04.05.2025 – 10:58 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The Rhinelander had recently blessed repeatedly in the fight for the return to the Bundesliga. Now the trainer apparently has to bear the consequences.
Only one victory from the last five games in the 2nd Bundesliga, the promotion race made unnecessarily exciting again: 1. FC Köln crises of all people in the decisive phase of the season – and now coach Gerhard Struber has to go. This reports Sky and the “Kölnische Rundschau” on Sunday evening. Previously, a crisis meeting at “Effzeh” was reported. Sports Managing Director Christian Keller also had to go with Struber.
Cologne had last played only 1-1 on Saturday with the Jahn Regensburg, which was already a relegated team, the lead of the current second in the table on pursuers SV Elversberg has shrunk to three points. An official confirmation of the club is still pending. According to Sky, Cologne wants to announce the separation on Monday.
“It looks like this,” Keller had said after the 1-1 win against Regensburg at the Sky microphone in view of the loud fan mutes, “as if we were completely messed up. But when everyone reflects, we are still on a promotion zone.” But apparently that wasn’t enough.
In fact, the billy goats found no way out of their crisis with only five points from the past five games against the final light in Regensburg.
Struber on Saturday, despite the whistle against his person, was all the more urgent. “It is clear that I am a lightning rod. But it is important for us to remain clear, not let us tear apart and to prove teamwork,” said the Austrian. Now both Struber and the basement will apparently no longer help.