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Former Schalke coach Gross is hiring in Egypt
December 16, 2024 – 9:40 p.mReading time: 1 min.
His coaching career already seemed to be over, now Christian Gross is back on the sidelines. The Swiss are drawn to North Africa. To a club he already knows.
Christian Gross makes a surprising return to the coaching bench at the age of 70. The Swiss will be taking over at Egyptian top club Zamalek SC for the second time, as the country’s 14-time champions announced on social media. Gross had already coached the club from 2018 to 2019.
The former Bundesliga coach most recently worked at Schalke 04, where he was hired in December 2020 during a difficult phase. The club hoped that with Gross they would be able to stay in the Bundesliga. However, after just eleven games and two months, he was released again at the end of February 2021 and Schalke was relegated at the end of the season. Since then, Gross has been without a coaching job.
He had previously also looked after VfB Stuttgart (2009 to 2010) and celebrated great success in his homeland: with FC Basel he won a total of six championship titles in the Swiss league. Now the experienced coach is returning to the international football stage.