After just seven games
World champion as a trainer
Updated on September 25, 2025 – 6:55 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
With the German national team, he once celebrated the greatest possible success in football. As a trainer, it is much more difficult for Kevin Großkreutz. Now it was a blow to the former Dortmund.
Football world champion Kevin Großkreutz has already lost his first coaching job at the Westphalian sixth team SV Wacker Obercastrop after just seven games of the new season. The 37-year-old was part of a coaching duo in the association league. After the fifth defeat in the seventh game, the deficit of the bottom of the table was greater, so that the club leadership felt forced to act.
“After a sporting analysis, both sides came to the decision to mutually be resolved by mutual agreement,” said the association in a statement on Tuesday. “This ends the collaboration of SV Wacker Obercastrop with the coaching team around Kevin Großkreutz and Jimmy Thimm.”
Großkreutz played 176 Bundesliga games for Borussia Dortmund and ten for VfB Stuttgart, scored 24 goals. With Dortmund he became a DFB Cup winner and twice German champions. In 2014, however, he was also part of the German national team that became world champion at the tournament in Brazil, but was not used in the seven World Cup games under the then national coach Joachim Löw.
In 2021 he ended his professional career after further stations at Darmstadt 98 and the KFC Uerdingen, but continued his career in the amateur area at the Westphalia League team TuS Bövinghausen. In Obercastrop, Großkreutz has initially been active as a player since July 2023, from October 2024 as an assistant coach and since May 2025 as part of the coaching duo.