FCK coach assumes whereabouts
The dream of a long-awaited return to the 2nd Bundesliga lives on at 1. FC Kaiserslautern despite the 2-0 defeat at Viktoria Köln. In the hope of a successful relegation against Dynamo Dresden, however, there is skepticism about coach Marco Antwerpen around the Betzenberg. a “SWRAccording to the report, the 50-year-old could also be on the verge of being eliminated in the event of promotion, with Miroslav Klose an alleged potential successor has already been traded, although the wind seems to have calmed down again in the meantime.
The Cologne “express“ Klose brought into play as Antwerp transfer at the beginning of the week. According to this, the “Saar-Pfalz-Invest” group, which owns 33 percent of the shares in FCK, wants to bring the 2014 world champion back to the Betzenberg. There was speculation about a change of coach before the upcoming relegation games against Dresden (May 20 and 24). The “pictureHowever, the newspaper reported that the idea of hiring Klose as a coach was said to have been rejected on Monday. A loose contact is said to have existed at the end of April.
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Meanwhile, Antwerp itself assumes that it will also be on the bench for the relegation games, as he made clear to Transfermarkt. He did not want to comment on the speculation, instead “focusing exclusively on my sporting area”. On Monday morning he had “had a good conversation” with managing director Thomas Hengen, as Antwerpen already told the “Rhine Palatinate“ stated. He said: “This unrest comes at an inopportune time. The most important thing is that we now calmly prepare the team for these two games.”
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“Full house, so many fans, which we unfortunately disappointed today. That was fine, that was a disappointment, especially the way we performed,” said Lautern’s sporting director Hengen, criticizing the team after the disappointing bankruptcy in Cologne at “SWR” and taking responsibility: “You can see, the body language is no longer like that – the willingness to run and work. Which is surprising when you are carried by the fans, by the results.” The defeat meant that the “Red Devils” had lost the chance of direct promotion, behind champions Magdeburg Eintracht Braunschweig instead secured the ticket for league two.
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Stefan Backs from Antwerp’s consulting agency Siebert & Backs also criticized the club’s management (quoted via “dpa”): “If all of that is true, it’s amazing, to say the least, how you deal with a coach who not only saved Lautern from what was believed to be relegation , but then also the most successful third division season in history. And this discussion immediately before the promotion games does not exactly show professionalism either.
Antwerp took over FCK in February 2021, stabilized them and brought them back from the lower regions of the table to the top third. With an average of 1.57 points from 54 competitive games since then, the former Braunschweig player just barely misses the top 10 most successful coaches in the club’s history. Ironically, at the end of the season, his team suffered three defeats in a row. Antwerp’s contract expires at the end of June, but it is said to have a clause that could mean an automatic extension in the event of promotion.
Note: A first version of this article appeared on Transfermarkt on May 9th, 2022 at 3:55 p.m. and was later updated.
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