The Bundesliga club Hertha BSC, which is threatened with relegation, has signed Felix Magath as their new coach. The 68-year-old from Aschaffenburg succeeds Tayfun Korkut, who after the 0-2 defeat at Borussia Monchengladbach was furloughed.
Fredi Bobic, Hertha’s sporting director, is quoted as follows on the club’s website: “Felix Magath’s CV speaks for itself. With him we have been able to recruit someone who has already proven many times that with his immense experience as a coach in any sporting situation of his kind and his charisma can turn the right screws to lead us out of our sportingly challenging situation.”
Extremely successful career
Magath is known as a discipline fanatic who also attaches great importance to the fitness of his players. His former player Jan Aage Fjortoft said: “I don’t know whether Felix Magath would have saved the Titanic. But the survivors would have been in great shape.”
Most recently, Magath was head of “Flyeralarm Global Soccer”, through which he acted as a consultant for the Würzburger Kickers and in Austria for Admira Wacker Mödling. Magath previously worked for several decades both as a coach and as a manager for various Bundesliga clubs. As a coach, he won three German championships (2005 and 2006 with FC Bayern Munich, 2008 with VfL Wolfsburg) and two runners-up championships (2003 with VfB Stuttgart, 2010 with FC Schalke 04). His last Bundesliga station as a coach was at VfL Wolfsburg. He was released from his duties there early in October 2012 after saving the club from relegation in the 2010/11 season.
Also celebrated numerous successes as a player
Germany’s three-time Coach of the Year (2003, 2005, 2009) and “Glasses Wearer of the Year 2004” was also extremely successful as a player. He won three German championships with Hamburger SV (1979, 1982, 1983), the European Cup Winners’ Cup (1977) and the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1983. In the final in Athens, the 43-time national player Magath scored the decisive 1-0 against Juventus. In addition, Magath completed 43 international matches for the DFB and was European champion in 1980.
Broadcast: rbb24, March 13, 2022, 10 p.m
Source: rbb