Thunderclap at Burgwall: After only three match days in the 2024/25 Bremen League season, Blumenthaler SV parted ways with its new coach Frank Dahlenberg on Tuesday evening before team training. The chemistry between the team and Dahlenberg was simply not right, said club chairman Peter Moussalli and his deputy Peter Nowak, justifying the dismissal of the 54-year-old. His position will now be taken over by Malte Tietze, who, as a long-time player in the first men’s team, has the term BSV gene that is so often used at Burgwall. Tietze was bid farewell as a player in May when the Werder professionals played at Burgwall and is now returning as head coach.
Recently, the BSV players and officials were not at all happy about Frank Dahlenberg’s absence from last Sunday’s match against newly promoted SV Werder Bremen III (1:2). The reason: Frank Dahlenberg was taking part in a motocross event. However, the football coach and head of a Bremen primary school explained what the club’s management had known when asked and complained: “The match against SV Werder III was moved from Saturday to Sunday because the club did not lodge an official objection.” Moussalli countered: “He gets the money for his work with us.”
Blumenthaler SV had high hopes for the respected coach. Chairman Peter Moussalli and his deputy Peter Nowak make no secret of this. But from the start, things obviously didn’t work out between Dahlenberg and the Bremen League team. And after the third game of the season and winning just one point (2:2 at Habenhauser FV), the team’s dissatisfaction with the coach became unmistakable. There were fears that several key players would leave the club during the winter break, according to the management of Blumenthaler SV. Because even though the Bremen League team had agreed to train four times a week instead of three, the new coach didn’t want to hear about it.
Frank Dahlenberg returns the ball. The preparation for the new season was already unsatisfactory. He spoke intensively with Peter Moussalli about this and about problems with the team and made it clear that such a young team is subject to fluctuations in performance and that is why they have given away points. In addition, the personnel losses at Blumenthaler SV after last season were great, but apart from Denis Chinaka, no new players were hired.
On Monday, there was such a commotion in the team that a decision was made on Tuesday. “We told him that our collaboration was over,” Moussalli recalls, and continues: “The team approached us. We had to take this step. We had to act in the interests of BSV.” Dirty laundry was not washed, and Moussalli expressed himself very diplomatically afterwards: “We imagined the collaboration differently – and so did he. Perhaps we should have supported him differently.” After the separation, Moussalli immediately made it clear that he would not return to the coaching chair.
Dahlenberg, who was kicked out by the board of FC Union 60 in September 2023 after a good five years of successful work, had seen his new job at Burgwall as an interesting challenge. And even after parting ways with him, club vice-president Peter Nowak emphasizes that Dahlenberg is an excellent coach, but that he probably started his engagement at Blumenthaler SV at the wrong time. This could mean that although Dahlenberg himself says he likes to work with young players to form them into a strong team, it didn’t work out with the young Blumenthal players.
Even if the echo of the bang at Burgwall has not yet died down, there is already a solution for the post-Dahlenberg era. On Thursday, former long-time Bremen league player Malte Tietze will lead training for the first time. This means that the man who was described months ago by Peter Moussalli as the “ideal solution” during the long search for a coach, but who was not available, is now taking the command bridge. “But now Malte has regular working hours and is taking over. But he certainly doesn’t want to leave us alone in this difficult situation,” explained Moussalli. A curious side note: Frank Dahlenberg will not be returning to his long-time place of work in the away game at FC Union 60 on Sunday. Instead, the focus will be on Malte Tietze’s debut at the Pauliner Marsch.
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