1. FC Köln sacked coach Markus Gisdol with immediate effect.
A well-known face should succeed him.
Cologne - The next coach dismissal in the Bundesliga * is certain: Markus Gisdol will be relieved of his duties at 1. FC Köln *.
After the defeat against the direct competitor FSV Mainz 05, those responsible pulled the rip cord.
Late on Sunday evening, the club made its decision official.
A successor should be presented "promptly".
Several media reports that Friedhelm Funkel will follow Gisdol.
Six games before the end of the season, the FC occupied a relegation place with three points behind the relegation rank - the club bosses around sports director Horst Heldt apparently no longer trusted Gisdol to lead the team to relegation.
1. FC Köln throws out coach Markus Gisdol - Friedhelm Funkel is supposed to save Effzeh
Instead, Funkel, most recently a trainer at Fortuna Düsseldorf and actually retired, should look after the Cologne team as a “fire fighter” in the final spurt and provide a new impetus.
This is reported by the specialist magazine
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The 67-year-old is now entering his second term after 2002/03.
Funkel will probably look after the team until the end of the season, by then those responsible want to have found a permanent solution.
Candidates for this could be the former successful Cologne trainer Peter Stöger or Thorsten Fink.
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Gisdol had been combative to the last - even the last-minute defeat against Mainz didn't change that.
“We still have six games and we can still regulate a lot.
Everything is still possible, "he said after the game on Sky.
He didn't want to speculate about his own future: “In the end, I won't judge that.
I'm the coach of this team and try to give everything with the team. "
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Later on Sunday he added that they would know on Monday how things will go next - apparently the trainer had not expected such rapid action on the part of the management.
However, FC has no time to lose, the seventh relegation in the club's history threatens.
“To be honest, I'm not counting on anything, my thoughts are with my team.
The boys are very sad, ”said Gisdol after the final whistle.
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