Wagner successor
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This article was published in the first version on May 20 and was updated after the confirmation
At the end of April, the DFB announced that Sandro Wagner will leave the team of national coach Julian Nagelsmann after the final round of the Nations League. A “Sky” reportaccording to the Benjamin Hübner new assistant to the DFB team, his association TSG Hoffenheim confirmed on Saturday. At the nation elf, the 35-year-old holds a contract for three years. Hübner and Nagelsmann know each other from times together in the Kraichgau.
Hübner completed 227 first and second division deportia for Hoffenheim, Ingolstadt, Aalen and Wiesbaden in his active career before completing his career in 2022. He had his most successful time from 2016 to 2019 when Nagelsmann brought him to Hoffenheim. He completed 69 missions under today’s national coach, was involved in 14 goals and qualified for the Champions League in 2018/19. Since February 2024, the former central defender has been a assistant coach at TSG Hoffenheim, where he first assisted Pellegrino Matarazzo and Christian Ilzer since November.
“I am incredibly grateful for the past nine years here at TSG Hoffenheim,” said Hübner on Saturday. “The club and above all the fans of the TSG are very important to me-I will definitely never forget the time together. And I am quite sure that we will see each other again at some point. But when the request from Julian and the DFB came, whether I can imagine the role of the co-trainer at the German national soccer team, it was immediately clear to me: this is a chance that I really cannot miss and I am extremely looking forward to now. that everyone can understand that. “
TSG sports director Andreas Schicker said: “Hübi is an absolute identification figure of the TSG and we would have loved to continue working with him. However, with the express wish, he has spent the request to be able to take great opportunity for him at the German national soccer team. After very trusting and intensive conversations, we finally thanked Hübis. TSG and wish him the best for his new task at the DFB. ”
National coach Nagelsmann said: “I know Benni very well from our three years together in Hoffenheim. He was always a real team player who burned for the success of the team and put on my own interests.”
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Hübner officially starts on July 1st. The first international match at the Nagelsmann side is on September 4 in Bratislava against Slovakia with the start of the World Cup qualification. “Therefore, I am very pleased that the team will start on the pitch in September, and of course the World Cup in the coming year, for which we will give everything.” After the game against Northern Ireland in Cologne on September 7th, Hübner will go back to the old place of work in Sinsheim, where on October 10 against Luxembourg as the third opponent in the World Cup excretion round.
In addition to Hübner, Alfred Schreuder was recently an issue for the Nagelsmann coaching team. After the Dutch was an assistant in Hoffenheim from 2015 to 2018, he took over the coaching post after Nagelsmann’s departure. He has been responsible for Al-Nasr in the Emirates since November 2023. Schreuder is ready for the step to the DFB, it is said. He could be provided as another experienced assistant coach Hübner.