Ungrateful end for Holger Seitz as coach of the U23 at FC Bayern: After the defeat against Lübeck, the successors Demichelis and Schwarz are faced with a Herculean task.
Munich - It is not a pile of broken glass that Holger Seitz leaves behind.
The little Bavarians are eight game days before the end of the season on a non-relegation place and still have every chance to keep the class on their own.
The trend is alarming, however.
And the task is a real test for the two successors Martin Demichelis and Danny Schwarz in their first station in the professional field.
The second farewell to the master and promotion coach in 2019 with the U23 is just as ungrateful as his start.
After the brilliant second half of the season and the march through to the championship, Sebastian Hoeneß moved to TSG Hoffenheim in the 1st Bundesliga.
The right coach could not be found or not available and Seitz took over the second team of FC Bayern in addition to the NLZ management.
FC Bayern II: Only one win from the last eight games since mid-February
The direction in which he and the team would go was already clear to him when he took office: "From the point of view of the club management and the campus management, it is important that the U23 confirm the 3rd division as a competition class," said Seitz, who had to be persuaded by sports director Hasan Salihamidzic and NLZ manager Jochen Sauer.
Even if no replacement was found for striker Wriedt who had emigrated, things went well for the little Bavarians for a long time.
In mid-February, the young players had earned a seven-point cushion on the first relegation place.
Then things went downhill: one win, two draws and five defeats from the last eight games.
The talents are only because of the better goal difference in no relegation place in the table.
FC Bayern: Holger Seitz has "a lot of tasks that could not be done recently" at the NLZ
Demichelis and Schwarz should bring a breath of fresh air to the team in the final weeks of the season on the home straight towards relegation.
“Of course there will be new impulses, I am convinced of that.
We implemented what was planned in the summer, namely as soon as it is possible for the new coach or the new coaching team to take over, ”said Seitz on Saturday after the game.
"My concern is that we score the points and get out of the back."
Seitz is now "going back to where I should have been since the summer." He tried to get it done, but "there are a lot of tasks that could not be completed in the end." Jochen Sauer has "taken on a lot" .
FC Bayern: Shadows over the campus through two WDR revelation stories
This could also mean, for example, the two extremely unpleasant revelations around the campus from the FCB's point of view.
In mid-March, the WDR magazine “Sport Inside” published an unflattering report from FCB's point of view about the common practice of poor pay for youth coaches.
At the end of August, colleagues at WDR had already uncovered a racism scandal.
In the course of the misconduct, some people were fired.
In spite of this, the club will endeavor to do better justice to its own “Red against Racism - FC Bayern confesses color” campaign in the club's own youth training center, especially in future.
(jb)