After the 1: 5 debacle against VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Dortmund pulled the rip cord.
Coach Lucien Favre was on leave with immediate effect.
His successor comes from his own stable.
Update from December 13th, 10:00 p.m.:
As the
picture
wants to know, the
Borussia Dortmund team council was
informed
on Sunday morning in a
Whatsapp group
about the
end of Lucien Favre
.
In addition to Captain
Marco Reus
and his deputy
Mats Hummels, the committee
also includes
Thomas Delaney
,
Emre Can
and
Axel Witsel
.
The shot coach said goodbye to some players a little later via SMS, and called actors like Reus directly.
Update of 13 December, 16:45
Even
Lucien Favre
has become his
dismissal
to speak.
The Swiss told the dpa: "I think it's a shame that our paths are going separate ways here.
We had
two very successful years
and had a team that
would have
played a successful season
this year too
.
I am still convinced of that. "
Update from December 13th, 3:30 p.m .:
Now it's official!
Borussia Dortmund
has announced the
separation from Lucien Favre
.
The bosses agreed on this "unanimously", according to a tweet.
“We are all grateful to Lucien Favre for
his excellent work
over the past two and a half years, in which he and his team won
two runner-up championships
.
As an expert and as a person, Lucien Favre is beyond any doubt, ”CEO
Hans-Joachim Watzke is
quoted as saying.
Sports director
Michael Zorc
emphasized: “It is difficult for us to take this step.
Nevertheless, we believe that achieving our goals for the season is at high risk due to the recent negative developments in the current constellation and we must therefore act, "BVB had only won one of their last five games and before.
1: 5 against VfB Stuttgart
also lost his home game
against 1. FC Köln with 1: 2
.
In the Bundesliga, the gap to
front runner FC Bayern is
five points after eleven games.
Until the end of the season, the previous assistant coach
Edin Terzic
will take over the duties of the head coach.
He is assisted by the previous U17 coach
Sebastian Geppert
and top talent coach
Otto Addo
.
The 38-year-old
Favre successor
joined the BVB junior division as a “co” in 2010 and worked with
Hannes Wolf
.
In the summer of 2013 the Croat moved to
Besiktas Istanbul
and worked there as an assistant to his compatriot
Slaven Bilic
, whom he followed two years later to
West Ham United
.
In the summer of 2018 Terzic then taught back to Dortmund.
So now the former striker is working as head coach for the first time.
Lucien #Favre is no longer the coach of Borussia Dortmund.
After the 5-1 home defeat at #BVBVFB, the decision makers of #BVB unanimously agreed to release Favre and his assistant coach Manfred #Stefes with immediate effect.
- Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) December 13, 2020
Borussia Dortmund fires Favre: Decision made after bankruptcy against Stuttgart
Dortmund - After the VfB debacle, the rumor mill was already seething about a possible kicking out * of
Lucien Favre
.
Less than 24 hours after the game, BVB is serious and apparently throws the Swiss coach out.
This is reported by the
picture
.
Initially there was no statement from the association on this step.
The dismissal followed less than 24 hours after the disastrous result against
VfB Stuttgart
.
Assistant
coach
Edin Terzic will
step in
for the next game against Werder Bremen
.
According to the
picture, it
says in the room that Terzic should lead the team until the end of the season.
Favre had been the coach of
Borussia Dortmund
for
the past two years
.
During this time he was able to win two runner-up championships with the team.
But in the past three home games against
Bayern
,
Cologne
and
Stuttgart
, defeat followed defeat.
The debacle against
VfB
was now apparently the decisive point for the management team to part with the coach.
Favre was
able to become runner-up twice with BVB and played a total of 110 games with the team, of which 68 wins, 17 draws and 25 defeats.
Borussia Dortmund fires Favre: Matthäus was already speculating about the end of the coach
Even before the expulsion,
Lothar Matthäus
expressed
the suspicion in an interview that
BVB would part
with the Swiss coach.
On the television channel
Sky
, Matthäus said:
"
Of course the coaching discussion will arise." In the interview, the record player continued to speculate that Favre's contract would probably not be extended.
"After games like this, it will be very tight for Lucien Favre to be coach of Borussia Dortmund at Christmas," said Matthäus.
Matthew had no idea how right he would be.
In addition to
Matthäus
, the former national player
Dietmar Hamann
also expressed his
horror at BVB's disastrous performance in the
Sky
Interview: “You have a
championship
contender who has fallen
apart.
That was an oath of disclosure.
The air for the trainer becomes very, very thin.
The team shows no progress.
At best, there is a standstill.
I can imagine that the topic of coaches will be discussed ”.
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