Dotchev does not want to remain head coach beyond the end of the season
Hensel was at Dotchev’s side: The 35-year-old, who next Monday “Per License” course starts at the new DFB academy in Frankfurt/Main, but stays in the spotlight and moves back “to the second row as an assistant coach,” says Leonhardt. The 63-year-old emphasized that staying up in the league was “on no account” written off. This has “top priority – even if we are already being written off from the outside.”
Dotchev said: “We want to do everything we can to stay up. It’s not an easy situation – for anyone here.” When asked whether he would be available as head coach after the end of the season, the 56-year-old said no. He “wants to help now. I’m taking on this difficult task.” But the goal is to find a new head coach – “let’s see how long that takes.” Leonhardt later added that they were looking around the coaching market. It was “but a bad time to do a hyperactive action now.”
Just a draw from nine games
Aue was there last Sunday (February 20) after a largely dismal performance 1: 3 at Fortuna Dusseldorf lost and was through this eighth loss in the last nine games – it remained only one bitter draw at St. Pauli left – slipped to the bottom of the table for the first time since the 10th matchday. The FCE, in the sixth year in a row in the 2nd division, currently has both the worst offensive (20) and the most vulnerable defense (45) of the entire competition. Eleven games before the end, the gap to relegation place 16 (Sandhausen) and the saving shore (Rostock in 15th place) is ten points each. On Friday (February 25th) the FCE will visit SC Paderborn.
Hensel, long-time Auer professional and previous assistant coach under Dirk Schuster and Aliaksei Shpileuski, was after the all too early separation from Shpileuski In September 2021, he was promoted to team boss and thus the person responsible for the team around captain Martin Männel. After a hopeful fall streak with at least eleven points from six games since the end of November, the violets have gotten deeper and deeper into the mess.
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Source: MDR