District league football
Coach learns of dismissal and dismantles locker room
Slightly different rules apply in the district league than in the big football world
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Some trainers first lose their dressing room and then their job. In the case of Niko Lautkötter it was exactly the other way around: the coach of 1. FC Bocholt II was announced that he would be released. He then dismantled the cabin.
Niko Laukötter has to be able to do a lot as a football coach and as a craftsman. On the one hand, his team, the second team from 1. FC Bocholt, is fighting for promotion in the district league A. More precisely: his ex-team. Because as a laukötter loud “Bocholter Borkener Volksblatt” learned last Saturday that he would no longer be Bocholt II’s coach next season, and he resigned with immediate effect.
And not only that. According to the report in the local newspaper, large parts of the cabin furnishings are also said to have disappeared. Accordingly, Laukötter took over and financed the modernization of the cabin itself in the summer of 2020. Among other things, the players are said to have enjoyed personalized cupboards, fatigue pools and disco lights. But that’s over now. Laukötter even removed the floor, as a photo in the newspaper report shows.
Players can still change in the locker room
The cabin is “oversized for the district league A anyway,” said Manuel Jara, technical director of the club, to the “Bocholter-Borkener-Volksblatt”. You can still change clothes in it. It is questionable whether the team will actually do that at the next home game on Sunday. She didn’t play in the away game last weekend – out of solidarity with her ex-coach, as the newspaper writes. So Laukötter couldn’t have done a bad job as a coach. The current condition of the cabin shows that he tends to be thorough.
Sources:“Bocholter Borkener Volksblatt” (paid content), “Mirror”, 1. FC Bocholt II at “fussball.de”.