After the separation from Tayfun Korkut, Bundesliga club Hertha BSC found a surprising successor: Felix Magath should save the Berliners from relegation. That shared the table-17. on Sunday evening with “Felix Magath’s CV speaks for itself. With him, we have found someone who has proven many times over that, with his immense experience as a coach, he can make the right adjustments in any sporting situation of his kind and with his charisma, to get us out of our sportingly challenging situation,” becomes sporting director Fredi Bobic quoted in a statement.
Magath (68) is returning to the Bundesliga after nine years as a coach. Until Christmas 2012 he looked after VfL Wolfsburg, which he had led to the championship in 2009. After 2012, Magath coached Fulham FC and Shandong Taishan in the Chinese Super League. From 2020 he was a consultant under the title “Head of Flyeralarm Global Soccer”, including for the Würzburg Kickers. “I had very clear and open talks with Fredi Bobic. We are all aware of the current sporting situation and I’m happy to help Hertha BSC achieve their goal of staying up in the league,” said Magath: “What’s important now is full focus of all to the remaining eight games.”
After the 2-0 loss at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hertha parted ways with Korkut, who only took over as coach last November. After Pal Dardai and Korkut, Magath is the third Hertha coach this season and the seventh since 2019.
The Berliners had recently suffered five Bundesliga defeats in a row and have been without a win for ten competitive games. Magath is to be introduced as a coach at a press conference in Berlin on Monday at 1 p.m. The first game on the Hertha bench is the game on Saturday in the Olympic Stadium against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.