Update May 18th – Didavi extends the contract with VfB
Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart is setting another course for the coming season on the season’s home stretch. As the Swabians announced on Tuesday, Daniel Didavi’s contract will be extended for another year until 2022.
The 31-year-old has been playing for VfB since 1997 with an interruption of four seasons. In the current season, the midfielder played a total of 25 times for Stuttgart (four goals).
Didavi is “very important for our game,” said sports director Sven Mislintat: “With his positive and integrative nature, he is not only a very important factor and orientation point on the pitch, but also in the dressing room.” He also wears “the chest ring with great pride”.
Didavi said: “I belong here and I’m very happy about that.” He wanted to “continue to try to give my best possible performance for VfB, to keep the competition and cohesion within the team as high as possible and to support the younger players”.
Update May 17th – Hermann Gerland before Bayern farewell – Klose also leaves
On Sunday Miroslav Klose announced his departure from FC Bayern Munich and just one day later the “kicker” reported that Hermann Gerland will also be leaving the club in the summer. Accordingly, under new coach Julian Nagelsmann there is no longer any space for the long-time assistant coach. With the record champions, however, the club legend is not supposed to take on a new role, but instead take other paths. Retirement is therefore not an option.
Update May 16 – Florian Kohfeldt sacked – Thomas Schaaf takes over at Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen parted ways with their coach Florian Kohfeldt after the 2-0 defeat in Augsburg. The club announced on Sunday. For the last Bundesliga matchday and possible relegation games, the former master coach Thomas Schaaf will look after the team. The club’s management made the decision late on Saturday evening and the supervisory board approved it.
“Unfortunately after the game in Augsburg we were no longer convinced that we would be able to stay up with Florian Kohfeldt. [… ] We are still convinced that Florian Kohfeldt is an excellent trainer, but we agreed to make another change in order to keep the league “, explained managing director Frank Baumann.
Schaaf takes on a difficult task
Successor Thomas Schaaf coached the green-whites for 14 years and won the double in 2004. He will travel to the quarantine training camp in Barsinghausen on Sunday and henceforth look after the team. In addition to the previous team of coaches, Wolfgang Rolff is now also working for Werder, acting as an assistant coach.
Update May 15 – Lewandowski sets Gerd Müller’s goal record
Robert Lewandowski made Bundesliga history and set Gerd Müller’s “eternal” goal record. Robert Lewandowski made Bundesliga history and set Gerd Müller’s “eternal” goal record. The world footballer scored on the penultimate matchday in the game of the established champions Bayern Munich at SC Freiburg in the 26th minute with a penalty to make it 0-1. Lewandowski has scored 40 goals in the current season – like “Bomber” Müller in the 1971/72 season.
Update May 15 – Hertha and Kiel soaring: Corona quarantine as an advantage?
Dynamo Dresden impressively demonstrated last year that two weeks of quarantine can cost a football club a season. But at Hertha BSC and Holstein Kiel, the forced isolation even seems to turn out to be an advantage. It’s really not an easy season for Hertha BSC. The Berliners, who would like to see themselves as the “Big City Club” and play in the upper spheres of the Bundesliga, fought against relegation from the start. When Pal Dardai replaced the hapless Bruno Labbadia in the dugout in January, the goal was already relegation. Somehow. A tightrope act where stumbling is actually forbidden.
But then the pandemic tripped Hertha. Four positive corona cases, including Dardai, assistant coach Admir Hamzagic and the players Dodi Lukebakio and Marvin Plattenhardt, meant two weeks of officially ordered quarantine. At a time when Hertha was in 15th place – tied with 16th Arminia Bielefeld. Even more difficult than the 14-day compulsory break weighed what blossomed afterwards: six games in 20 days. A program that would push even a stress-tested Champions League club to the limit.
Second division Holstein Kiel suffered a similar fate. Albeit in a different context. The northern lights said goodbye in April for the second time within two months in corona-related isolation. The ascent place close enough to touch was in serious danger, because the people of Kiel also worked their way through a tightly-knit calendar afterwards.
Specter of the Dynamo Dresden
Dynamo Dresden had painfully learned last year that the catch-up game marathon can negatively affect the course of the season after a quarantine. After their two-week compulsory break, the Saxons had not seen any more land around a year ago. The crash in league three followed.
Well, Dresden had laid the foundation for relegation with a catastrophic first half of the 2019/20 season before the outbreak of the pandemic and had to deal with almost all strong opponents in the end of the season. In addition, no football club at the time had any routine in dealing with the difficult circumstances. At that time, Corona was still new territory for everyone.
Update May 15th – Office makes the announcement! Families will have to leave FC Bayern’s quarantine training camp
Like all other Bundesliga clubs, FC Bayern is in a quarantine training camp. When we arrived in Grassau, the families of the professionals were suddenly there. Now the responsible district office has spoken a word of power.
From now on, the FC Bayern players will have to get along in the quarantine training camp in Grassau am Chiemsee without their accompanying families – because there is a violation of the Corona rules. This was announced by the responsible district office in Traunstein early on Friday evening at the request of “tz” and “Münchner Merkur”. “All persons who are not absolutely necessary for the implementation of the training operations have to leave the hotel today”, the office made it clear that this had also been communicated to FC Bayern and the hotel operator. Bayern will compete at SC Freiburg on Saturday (from 3:30 p.m. in the live ticker on ran.de).
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