After this respectable success, many doors seem to be open to the 38-year-old football coach. Maaßen is said to have already canceled the two relegated Greuther Fürth and Arminia Bielefeld. And according to media reports, an arrangement at FC Augsburg is also off the table. However, a look at Maassen’s still young coaching career shows that the current third division season is not the only decisive factor in courting the 38-year-old.
Remarkable success with Rödinghausen against Bayern
After positions as a player in his native Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, including at Hansa Rostock II, Maaßen switched to SC Verl in 2007. At the age of 30, he ended his active career at SV Drochtersen/Assel in 2014 and took over the post of head coach.
In his first season as a coach, Maassen celebrated the championship title in the Oberliga Niedersachsen and was promoted to the Regionalliga Nord. Maassen’s work was also rewarded with success in the fourth division. Fourth place was followed by the club’s first participation in a cup in the 2016/17 season. For the 2018/19 season, Enrico Maassen moved to NRW as a coach.
Maaßen was only a few weeks in office at regional league club SV Rödinghausen when the club caused a stir throughout Germany with a narrow 2-1 defeat in the DFB Cup against FC Bayern Munich. The East Westphalians had previously thrown second division Dynamo Dresden out of the cup in round one.
Maassen rises with Dortmund
And Maassen and Rödinghausen were also on good terms in the league – at the end of the first season, third place was the best result in the club’s history to date. But even that was topped just a year later. After an outstanding 2019/20 season, Maaßen became the master coach. Out of “sustainable reasonsAt that time, the club decided against promotion to the third division.
And Enrico Maassen also made a decision and switched to Borussia Dortmund’s reserves within the league. A decision with consequences for Maassen and BVB. Maassen celebrated the championship in the Regionalliga West for the second time in a row – this time as head coach in Dortmund and this time he rose with his club to the third division.
Maassen relies on intensity and willingness to run
Enrico Maassen has been a coach for eight years. A team under his leadership has never played a bad or disappointing season. The extremely intense and offensive style of play that Maassen plays has led to success above all for Rödinghausen and Dortmund. Maassen demands a high level of willingness to run from his team, with and without the ball. “In addition, we attach great importance to strengthening the collective feeling of the team and letting everyone participate“Said Maassen the online portal “liga3”.
Where Enrico Maassen’s path will lead is currently still uncertain. What is certain is that coaching at Dortmund’s U23s is not the first time that this has served as a springboard for a coaching career. Between 2015 and 2017 Daniel Farke trained the BVB reserve. Like Maassen, the former Norwich City coach is currently associated with some Bundesliga clubs.