The coaching team for the new coach of Borussia Dortmund is in place: Edin Terzic’s assistant is also becoming a real veteran – but he was most recently working for his arch-rival.
Peter Hermann becomes assistant to head coach Edin Terzic at Borussia Dortmund and leaves the German Football Association. As the Bundesliga club and the DFB announced on Tuesday, the 70-year-old veteran completes the BVB coaching team alongside the previous junior coach Sebastian Geppert.
Terzic, who is only 39 years old, should benefit from Hermann’s extensive experience as an assistant coach in almost 1,000 games in the top two national divisions and around 200 more European Cup games. Hermann will end his work at the DFB as assistant coach of the U20 national team with immediate effect.
Greatest successes alongside Jupp Heynckes
Hermann had recently helped out at Dortmund’s district rivals FC Schalke 04 as Mike Büskens’ assistant coach and received approval from the DFB for this. He is considered one of the most successful assistant coaches in Bundesliga history. He celebrated great success with Jupp Heynckes and won the treble with FC Bayern Munich in 2013.
“We let him go with mixed feelings. We would certainly have liked to have kept his expertise in our team longer, but on the other hand this obligation also shows the competence we have in our coaching staff,” commented head coach U-national teams Meikel Schönweitz.
The 38-year-old Geppert was already one of Terzic’s assistants in the 2020/21 season, when he led the professional team as an interim solution and successor to Lucien Favre to victory in the DFB Cup and the UEFA Champions League. Geppert had coached the BVB U17s since 2016 and during this time won the German B-Junior Championship once (2018) and reached the final again (2019).