“We have been in touch for a long time”
The Oberliga club ASC 09 Dortmund has managed a transfer coup: Ex-BVB professional Marco Stiepermann will take over as player-coach for the coming 2023/24 season. The 32-year-old is currently still lacing up his football boots for the regional league team Wuppertaler SV, for whom he has contributed five goals and eight assists in 23 games so far this season.
Stiepermann, who grew up in Dortmund and trained at BVB, won the 2010/11 championship with the Black and Yellows when he made four brief appearances. He then played for Alemannia Aachen, Energie Cottbus, Greuther Fürth and VfL Bochum before moving to Norwich City in England in 2016. With the Canaries, the flexible midfielder rose to the Premier League in 2019 and 2021, where he made 21 appearances. After the second ascent, Stiepermann returned to Germany to SC Paderborn, followed by the move to WSV last summer.
Stiepermann, who already has a coaching license, will be supported in future by his older brother Marcel (36), who comes from FC Frohlinde and will act as an assistant. The ASC 09 also wants to announce another assistant coach in the next few days. “We have been in contact with Marco Stiepermann (…) for a very long time and have become more and more specific. We would like to take the next development step together with him,” said sporting director Samir Habibovic. “We are very happy that with Marco and Marcel we were able to win two full-blooded footballers for the ASC 09, whose personal and content-related ideas match those of our club.”
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