Julian Nagelsmann as national coach, Andreas Rettig as sports director: Association boss Bernd Neuendorf has risked a lot with his recent personnel decisions – that’s why the home European Championships in 2024 will probably also determine his future.
Big sweeping week at the German Football Association! The new situation surrounding association boss Bernd Neuendorf is now as follows: the national coach will be Julian Nagelsmann, a 36-year-old whom the president has just met and whose work he will now have to follow from the sidelines until the European Championships in his own country. And at the same time, Neuendorf has hired a new conductor for his financially floundering association, which is burdened with simmering judicial problems: Andreas Rettig, with whom he himself has a trusting relationship, but who only vaguely corresponds to the requirement profile that actually characterizes the DFB’s crisis situation.