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Club icon Gerald Asamoah is leaving FC Schalke
Gerald Asamoah’s contract with FC Schalke 04 will not be extended
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FC Schalke 04 wants to streamline its structures and is eliminating Gerald Asamoah’s position as head of licensing for the new season without replacement. This means the end for the club legend.
FC Schalke 04 is parting ways with club icon Gerald Asamoah in the summer. As the second division football team announced on Friday, the contract with the 45-year-old former national player as head of the licensed player department, which expires on June 30th, will not be extended. The elimination of the position without replacement is part of the club’s personnel restructuring.
“Everyone knows how much Schalke 04 means to me. Here I not only played football and took my first steps in management, but over more than two decades I developed into the person I am today. This makes it all the more painful for me that this chapter ends for now,” Asamoah said. And further: “I will remain connected to the club forever. For me this is more than just lip service: once a Schalke player, always a Schalke club.”
Asamoah has been team manager at Schalke since 2019
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“As part of the ongoing, sustainable restructuring of the sport, we as club leaders have decided that the role of Head of License will no longer exist at Schalke for the new season. The collaboration with Gerald will end accordingly,” explained Schalke’s CEO Matthias Tillmann. “With the completion of his management studies at DFL and DFB, the time has come for Gerald to take the next step. In a personal conversation, I told him that we cannot give him this perspective at the moment.”