According to her husband, national soccer coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, who is currently taking a break, is no longer on sick leave and has recently made public appearances.
“I have had my vacation approved by the DFB for 14 days,” said the 55-year-old to the “German Press Agency.”
This month, Voss-Tecklenburg gave a lecture at both the Bavarian Dentists’ Day in Munich and at a forum of the Federal Association of German Prefabricated Buildings, as the Bavarian Dental Association and the BDF reported.
The German Football Association was asked to comment. “My wife is no longer on sick leave, otherwise she would not have appeared at the dentists’ day,” said Voss-Tecklenburg’s husband Hermann to the German Press Agency.
Horst Hrubesch is currently interim national coach
The DFB announced on September 8th that Voss-Tecklenburg was ill and was temporarily being represented by her assistant Britta Carlson.
Horst Hrubesch was introduced as interim national coach last Friday. DFB President Bernd Neuendorf said that Voss-Tecklenburg would be given time to recover.
Voss-Tecklenburg herself has not yet commented on her health. The 125-time national player was surprisingly eliminated in the preliminary round with the German soccer players at the World Cup in Australia. Your contract with the DFB runs until the 2025 European Championship in Switzerland. Her return as national coach has long been considered unlikely. There is said to have been criticism of her work internally.