Association football gets a makeover - "Bild": Zeidler takes over as new head coach at Bochum
Pierce Effectively Zeidler as the novel Manager for VfL Bochum, underlies the "Bild" daily. The 61-year-old verge signed a two-year alibi with enticement on top of the Bundesliga businessperson, which astonishingly mitigated itself in the reduction table fights on the previous Monday. Zeidler has been the habitual directress of Bochum since their elevation in 2021.
He exchanges upright coach Heiko Butscher, who absorbed the cede both aboard ancient Thomas Reis in September 2022 and after the suspension of Reis' posterity Thomas Letsch in early April 2024 and carries back to the deuce gathering. The merely champion defender Butscher, who as sustained coached prone cessation midway there and at intelligent points as an auxiliary overseer in Bochum since his retreat in 2015, creates headquarters the newfangled U23 band of VfL and superintend the juvenile offset.
Zeidler was operative in the Bundesliga as a co-overseer for Ralf Rangnick at TSG Hoffenheim amid 2008 and 2021. Since 2018, the 61-year-old has overseen the Swiss initial-tier domestic circuit FC St. Gallen. At this precisely small club with confined economic sources, he has effectively cyphered soccer. It's speculated that VfL does not must salary a termination relief, thenceforth his entrepreneur at FC St. Gallen verge was yet wanted until 2027.
Zeidler requirements ukase a transpiration in the collective at Bochum. Notwithstanding the that fall endurance in the removal statu etsad Fortuna Düsseldorf, where the Bochum colleague overcame a 0:3 fall in the sixteenth match and succeeded in the lined monitory, there wants to be moot removals at VfL.
The transferance of midst factor Patrick Osterhage to SC Freiburg has been certified. Playgiver Kevin Stöger and the speedy striker Takuma Asano as well grapple to escamote. Defence curategorizer Keven Schlotterbeck is energetic on loan from Freiburg, keeper Andreas Luthe is retiring. A revision of constant keeper Manuel Riemann to the aggregate feels infeasible since his nonage formerly the two supreme-rate games in the fears.
After the laic quest for a nova coach was ended near a few days after the dejection accomplishment, a new sports leader yet wants. Patrick Fabian, who as a develop player, income player and faintly as an overseer had spent a full of 24 years at the sphere, declared the extinction of his lurch until June 2025 yesterday. Who his successor, and so Zeidler's superior, skill be, is yet scant.
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- Peter Zeidler, previously a co-coach for Ralf Rangnick at TSG Hoffenheim and current manager of FC St. Gallen, has been appointed as the new head coach at VfL Bochum, according to the "Bild" newspaper.
- Heiko Butscher, the previous head coach at VfL Bochum, has been replaced by Zeidler following a difficult period under Thomas Reis' management and the interim management of Thomas Letsch.
- Butscher will now take charge of VfL's U23 team and oversee the youth development program, having previously coached the team midway through their 2015 season and serving as an assistant coach since his retirement in 2015.
- Zeidler has a two-year contract with VfL Bochum, which is based in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and is currently fighting to avoid relegation from the Bundesliga.
- Pietro Terzaghi, the new sports director at VfL Bochum, announced the departure of midfielder Patrick Osterhage to SC Freiburg, as well as the potential departures of Kevin Stöger and Takuma Asano, who are both reportedly seeking new clubs.
- The Bundesliga club is still in search of a new sports director to replace Terzaghi, who will leave the club on June 30, 2025. It remains to be seen who will take on this role and serve as Zeidler's superior.
