“Wonderful and exciting club”
ZDF expert takes over as a trainer at the German Club
01.04.2025 – 6:42 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
For Friederike Kromp, a new chapter in football will start from summer. In addition to her TV job, as head coach, it goes to the sidelines.
The women of SV Werder Bremen have filled the head coaching post. As the Bundesliga club announced on Tuesday, Friederike “Fritzy” Kromp will take over the role of the outgoing coach Thomas Horsch in the future. However, the 40-year-old works until June 30 as a U20 coach at League competitor Eintracht Frankfurt before starting her first job as head coach in the active area in early July.
Kromp himself said in a message: “I am very happy to be part of this wonderful and exciting club from summer.” Most recently, she “increasingly had the desire to work with adult women in the professional sector. Werder Bremen gives me this opportunity,” continued Kromp.
Bremen’s managing director Clemens Fritz emphasized: “We are very happy to be able to win an absolute specialist for us with Friederike.” She “demonstrated” her “qualities” and the association was convinced that it was able to go another development step with our team with her, “continued Fritz.
As an assistant coach of the German U17 national team, Kromp won three European Championship titles, and in 2022 she also led the team to the European Championship triumph as head coach. At the World Cup, she and the DFB youngsters landed fourth.
As a ZDF expert, Kromp has made a name for herself through her analyzes along the side of Per Mertesacker and Christoph Kramer. The 40-year-old will continue to do this activity, is in use at the European Women’s European Championships in Switzerland in July. On Wednesday, however, she initially worked for the ZDF at the semi-finals of the DFB Cup between VfB Stuttgart and RB Leipzig (from 8:45 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online).