Second division bottom club Eintracht Braunschweig separated from sports director Peter Vollmann and shortly afterwards presented a new coach, Daniel Scherning. The 40-year-old is supposed to save the traditional club from Lower Saxony from relegation.
Medium earthquake at Eintracht Braunschweig: Two days after the bankruptcy in the Niedersachsensenderby at Hannover 96, the Lower Saxony team first parted ways with Peter Vollmann, and a few hours later Daniel Scherning as the new one Coach to introduce.
The 40-year-old signed a contract with the “Lions” until June 30, 2024. With options for the 2nd and 3rd leagues, as the club announced. The former Osnabrück and Bielefeld coach will lead the first training session at Eintracht this Tuesday. Scherning brings Andreas Zimmermann with him as assistant coach.
We have to try to ignore everything that has happened so far this season.
—Daniel Scherning
Scherning succeeds Jens Härtel, who had to leave on October 23rd. Most recently, interim coach Marc Pfitzner led the teamcoacht, but suffered two defeats in two games.
Immediately against former club Osnabrück
“I am firmly convinced that we have the sporting potential to initiate the turnaround and catch up as quickly as possible.”said Scherning, who will face his former club Osnabrück in his first game as Braunschweig coach (Saturday, 1 p.m., in the NDR Livecenter). “The focus is initially on the extremely important game on Saturday in order to approach the next few weeks positively with a sense of success. We will work intensively towards that.”
Scherning will be officially introduced on Thursday (11.30 a.m.) at a press conference for the home game against VfL Osnabrück.
Kessel takes over Vollmann tasks
“Daniel Scherning completely meets our requirements profile. He has shown a plan and clear solutions that he would like to implement with our team in the fight to stay in the league.”said Benjamin Kessel.
Eintracht’s sports director will take over Vollmann’s duties. However, as a final act, Vollmann was involved in signing Scherning as the new Eintracht coach.
Peter Vollmann continues to keep his fingers crossed for Eintracht.
“We hired Benjamin Kessel as sports director in the summer with the clear intention of building him up to be Peter Vollmann’s successor. He will now take on more responsibility in his position earlier than originally planned and expand his area of responsibility.”explained club president Nicole Kumpis.
Braunschweig in last place in the table
Vollmann, whose contract as sports director ran until December 31, 2024, is blamed for the traditional club’s sporting decline; he was criticized for the composition of the squad. His coaching decision to replace Michael Schiele with Härtel during the summer break also didn’t work out. With just five points after twelve games, BTSV is in last place in the table and is already seven points behind relegation place 16.
“After the weak start to the season and an in-depth analysis of the past few months, we have come to the decision to make a change in sporting leadership with a view to the future.”said supervisory board chairman Jens-Uwe Freitag, the full man for his “big engagement“ thanked. “Under his leadership, we were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2020 and 2022 as well as staying in the league at the end of last season.”
Vollmann keeps his fingers crossed for Eintracht
Vollmann said he was keeping his fingers crossed for the team in the fight to stay in the league: “I am convinced that she can and will achieve her goal.” At the start of the 2019/2020 season, the 65-year-old was almost 17 years after his time as EintrachtCoach returned to Hamburger Straße as sports director.
In 2002, as coach of the Blue-Yellow, he celebrated promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, in 2020 and 2022 he put together two promotion teams, and again made it into the lower house of football. Last season we ended up in 15th place and staying in the class.
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Sports current | November 7, 2023 | 12:17 p.m
