Tayfun Korkut’s successor has been chosen
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Felix Magath becomes the new Hertha coach
Hertha BSC has signed a new coach in Felix Magath. The 68-year-old will take over until the end of the season and now has eight games left to stay up.
The Bundesliga club Hertha BSC, which is threatened with relegation, has signed Felix Magath as their new coach. The 68-year-old from Aschaffenburg succeeds Tayfun Korkut, who after the 2-0 defeat at Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Fredi Bobic, Hertha’s sporting director, will be at the Club homepage [herthabsc.com/de] quoted as follows: “Felix Magath’s CV speaks for itself. With him we have been able to win someone who has proven many times over that, with his immense experience as a coach in every sporting situation of his kind and his charisma, he can can make the right adjustments to get us out of our sportingly challenging situation.”
Extremely successful career
Magath is known as a discipline fanatic who also attaches great importance to the fitness of his players. His former player Jan Aage Fjortoft said: “I don’t know whether Felix Magath would have saved the Titanic. But the survivors would have been in great shape.”
Most recently, Magath was head of “Flyeralarm Global Soccer”, through which he acted as a consultant for the Würzburger Kickers and in Austria for Admira Wacker Mödling. Magath previously worked for several decades both as a coach and as a manager for various Bundesliga clubs. As a coach, he won three German championships (2005 and 2006 with FC Bayern Munich, 2008 with VfL Wolfsburg) and two runners-up championships (2003 with VfB Stuttgart, 2010 with FC Schalke 04). His last Bundesliga station as a coach was at VfL Wolfsburg. He was released from his duties there early in October 2012 after saving the club from relegation in the 2010/11 season.
Also celebrated numerous successes as a player
Germany’s three-time Coach of the Year (2003, 2005, 2009) and “Glasses Wearer of the Year 2004” was also extremely successful as a player. He won three German championships with Hamburger SV (1979, 1982, 1983), the European Cup Winners’ Cup (1977) and the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1983. In the final in Athens, Magath scored the decisive 1-0 win against Juventus Turin. In addition, Magath completed 43 international matches for the DFB and was European champion in 1980.
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