Clear thoughts, high standards: Dino Toppmöller, head coach of Eintracht Frankfurt.
Even in his youth, when Klaus Toppmöller coached the Adlerträger for almost a year in the 1993/94 season, his son attended the SGE’s home games in what was then the Waldstadion. Later, Dino Toppmöller himself wore the eagle on his chest. The center forward laced up his boots for Eintracht for a year and experienced first hand the legendary 6:3 against SSV Reutlingen and promotion on May 25, 2003. To make this season finale even possible, he scored a brace to make it 2-0 Oberhausen itself played a decisive role the week before.
His coaching career took the Saarlander via the Rhineland League to the Luxembourg F91 Dudelange via an interlude in Belgium back to the Bundesliga, where he worked as assistant coach to Julian Nagelsmann in Leipzig and Munich. “I really enjoyed my time with Julian and his coaching team. I was able to take an incredible amount of things with me. That was very exciting and helpful for my future path.”
Self-proclaimed “football nerd”
Despite all the challenges in the licensed player sector, the “football nerd”, as Toppmöller describes himself, is very concerned about working with young talent. “The jump for a youth player is now much bigger. “We have to work all the better in our NLZ and it is all the more helpful that the boys feel our trust in them,” he says, bridging the gap between the city and the Riederwald. The homegrown players Ignacio Ferri Julià and Elias Baum, who made their first professional appearances in the last few months, stand on their own.
2024-01-22 21:22:23
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