Status: 05.09.2025 11:38 a.m.

Füchse manager Bob Hanning publicly apologized to coach Jaron Siewert after the Handball Bundesliga club for the handball Bundesliga club.

Managing Director Bob Hanning has After the personnel quake at the German handball master Foxes Berlin Found conciliatory words for ex-coach Jaron Siewert. “I apologized to him that he had to go out of this system. I made the decisions that are probably right for the club,” he said at a press conference on Friday morning about the 31 -year -old master coach.

On Thursday the Siewert club and sports director Stefan Kretzschmar separated prematurely. Instead, the Dane Nicolej Krickau, as the new coach and sports director in personnel, leads the fortunes in the capital-on Saturday (3:40 p.m., live in the first, on Sportschau.de and in the ARD media library) his debut is in the new edition of the Champions League final against SC Magdeburg.

Stefan Kretzschmar and Jaron Siewert, Foxes Berlin (Source: Imago / Defodi Images)

Füchse Berlin separate from sports director Kretzschmar and trainer Siewert

Two days before the top game against SC Magdeburg there is a personal tremor at the Füchsen Berlin. The sports director and the master coach are affected. A new coach has already been found.more

Hanning: “Stefan has come before”

Hanning emphasized that the decisions between Jaron Siewert and Stefan Kretzschmar had to be distinguished. “Stefan has been preceded by us. This is his right. Whether I like it as a boss is on another sheet of paper. We have exchanged ourselves and both came to the decision that the chapter must now be completed,” said Hanning.

Personally, the decision against Jaron Siewert would have been busy and was not an easy one. “I told him that this is the most difficult process of my life, but the overall situation made it necessary to do this.”

Hanning also stated that he had previously been a trade with the master coach. “The contract was available, we had discussed everything except for the signature,” said the 57-year-old. After the announced farewell to Kretzschmar, according to the public tensions with Hanning on Tuesday Farewell via Instagram at the end of the season had announced, but they decided on a cut and the double solution with Nicolej Krickau.

Krickau: “Huge ambitions with the foxes”

At the press conference, the new Foxes trainer himself emphasized that the unfortunate time of the decision was well aware of. “From the outside, this is a job where you can only lose. But I personally have huge ambitions with the foxes, even though I know that the pressure is huge. Nevertheless, I have the belief that team and the strategy to develop,” said Krickau.

Handball goalkeeper Silvio Heinevetter (Eisenach) in the game against VfL Potsdam (source: Imago / Christian Heilwagen)

“Just because two have now been released, you shouldn’t talk badly”

It is the top game of the handball Bundesliga: On Saturday, the Foxes Berlin receive SC Magdeburg. The duel gets even more explosive because the foxes have just released sports director Kretzschmar and coach Siewert.more

The 38-year-old, who had already worked together with Foxes World Handballer Mathias Gidsel in Denmark at GOG Handball, said that he wanted to go “humbly” to the task in Berlin and praised the work of his predecessors: “I appreciate what Stefan and Jaron did for the club. League competitor Flensburg-Handewitt was employed before it was released by the association.

His predecessor Siewert had become the youngest master coach in Bundesliga history in the previous season. Like Kretzschmar, he had been responsible for the Berliners since 2020 and led the team around world handball player Mathias Gidsel in the previous season, in addition to the championship title, to the Champions League final.

Broadcast: RBB 88.8, 05.09.2025, 10:30 a.m.

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