Football, Eintracht Frankfurt: Markus Krösche will take over from Fredi Bobic as sports director at Bundesliga soccer club Eintracht Frankfurt for the new season. The Hessians announced on Saturday. Krösche had recently terminated his contract as sports director at Frankfurt’s league rivals RB Leipzig at the end of the season. At Eintracht, the 40-year-old ex-professional will receive a contract until 2025. Bobic will also move ahead of schedule as managing director to the first division Hertha BSC in Berlin for the coming season.
Figure skating, end of career: Olympic figure skating champions Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot are ending their careers. The 37-year-old Ukrainian-born announced this on social networks on Friday evening. Savchenko and Massot won Olympic gold in pair skating in Pyeongchang in 2018 and impressed them with her “Freestyle of the Century”. “Bruno and I have decided not to return to the competition,” wrote Savchenko, who last spoke about a possible comeback at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. She spoke of an “extremely difficult decision” and is still struggling with herself. “I really love the adrenaline rush of competitions, pushing myself over the limit and the daily training. I was hoping to continue our career, but unfortunately some parts of the team are missing! “, she wrote.
Savchenko gave the German Ice Skating Union with Robin Szolkowy and then with Massot 23 medals at the Olympics, World Championships and European Championships from 2006 – eleven of them were gold. Currently, the coronavirus pandemic has “made everything a bit harder,” wrote Savchenko.
Ice hockey, World Cup: The women’s ice hockey world championship, which was canceled at short notice due to the corona pandemic, is to be rescheduled from August 20 to 31. This was announced by the world association IIHF after a conference call of the participating teams. Originally the tournament was supposed to take place from May 6th to 16th in Halifax and Truro, Canada, now the venue is still open.
Last week, the German selection had learned of the cancellation due to the strict corona measures in the province of Nova Scotia one day before the planned departure to Canada. DEB captain Julia Zorn then expressed clear criticism of the unequal treatment of men and women: “It is simply unfair that the U20 World Cup for men took place in Canada a few months ago.”
The Canadian Hockey Federation and the IIHF are still looking for a new venue, which, according to the announcement, will be set “in the coming weeks”. With a view to the Olympic qualification in November, in which the German team is also participating, a later alternative date in September was discarded.
Bundesliga, FC Bayern: The sums mentioned in connection with the change of coach Julian Nagelsmann from RB Leipzig to FC Bayern Munich are not all true, according to Bayern President Herbert Hainer. “We had to find an agreement with RB Leipzig because Julian Nagelsmann was still tied there. And don’t believe all the numbers that were being rumored,” said the 66-year-old in an interview with the Evening News to a question about the record transfer in the Corona period, in which the German record champions also have to save according to their own statements.
Reports on the transfer fee range from 15 million euros plus bonus payments to 30 million euros. Nagelsmann, who gets a five-year contract with FC Bayern, is definitely the most expensive coach in football history. “FC Bayern are one of the best teams in Europe, and they also need a top coach. We managed to do that by signing Julian Nagelsmann,” said Hainer.
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