The signs have been going to say goodbye since the end of the season, now it is probably perfect: coach Christian Titz returns to 1. FC Magdeburg and takes over Hannover 96. In the course of Saturday, enforcement is to be reported.
The contract poker seems to have ended: Christian Titz is said to sign a contract as a coach at Hannover 96 on Saturday (June 14th). As the “kicker” reports, the 1. FC Madeburg can look forward to 500,000 euros. Titz still had a valid contract at the FCM, but leaves the club at his own request. He is supposed to lead Hanover back to the 1st division.
FCM collects the transfer fee
About the upcoming change from Titz to Hanover had initially Territory reports, later the Bild newspaper (€) after. There has not yet been a confirmation, since apparently transferitails apparently had to be clarified. Due to the contract that was originally valid until 2026, the Elbe residents receive a transfer fee. Although the FCM had surpassed the Lower Saxony ranked 9th place in the past season, the long-time success coach of the Saxony-Anhalt now sees the long-time success of the Saxony in the ex-Bundesliga club.
The delays between the FCM and 96 also stall the proclamation of the designated Titz successor on the Elbe. Markus Fiedler from VfB Stuttgart II should have the best prospects for this job. The 39-year-old should already agree with FCM sports director Otmar Schork.
Success duo of the past few years at FCM: coach Christian Titz (left) and sports director Otmar Schork.
Schork: “It was a neck hit”
Via Titz ‘departure had been speculated since the end of the season. Three days after the last second division game day, FCM sports director Otmar Schork had the Change request of the successful coach. “The coach came up with the desire to make a change. I can’t yet say whether the coach stays,” said the 67-year-old at the time.
In February 2021, Schork had poured the Elbe and has been forming an unshakable duo with him-not least in the spring of 2024, when the second division class maintenance wobbled, the atmosphere in the area was on the brink, but the sports director consistently strengthened his trainer. It is hardly surprising that Schork now confessed in the course of the football teacher’s surprising initiative: “I deal with it professionally. Personally, it was hard to hit me. It was a neck strike.”
May 2022: Christian Titz caught the master trophy of the 3rd league. Three years later, the FCM even knocked on the gateway to the Bundesliga.
Most successful FCM newspaper time Under Titz
Four years ago, the Mannheim -born Christian Titz saved the sports club, which was stumbled in a sporty, from crashing into the regional league. In the shortest possible time, he missed the team an unmistakable, attractive offensive football trimmed on a short pass, with which the FCM then dominated the 3rd league and returned to the 2nd Bundesliga as a sovereign champion in 2022.
After two years of relegation battle in the Bundesliga Unterhaus, the blue and white mixed in the past season until the penultimate matchday in the promotion race in the past season. In the end The Magdeburgers came in 5th place a. Under Titz, the former European Cup winner experienced his most successful time since the turn.
Dirk Heyne, who spent almost his whole football life at 1st FC Magdeburg from 1967 to 1991, was also head coach of the blue and white from 2003 to 2007.
Only Heyne and Härtel outdo Totitz
For the 54-year-old, who previously stood on the sidelines at Rot-Weiss Essen, Hamburger SV and FC Homburg, it was personally the longest head coaching station in the professional sector. He was in office exactly 1,581 days. After the reunification, the Magdeburg chief post only had two coaches-club legend Dirk Heyne (1,692 days, April 23, 2003 to December 9, 2007), who almost missed the first second division climb of the FCM in 2007 and Jens Härtel (1,596 days, July 1, 2014 to November 12, 2018), which then the march from the regional league to the 2nd league should succeed.
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