Fortuna Düsseldorf: The club trusts its "coach without a name"

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Fortuna’s new path with Christian Preusser

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12 pictures This is Fortuna’s new trainer Christian Preusser
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Düsseldorf Christian Preusser from the second representative of SC Freiburg is now to develop the team of the second division club from Düsseldorf as the successor to Uwe Rösler. The 37-year-old wants to refute his critics with content.

On this early afternoon, Christian Preusser from Freiburg joined us. There is a man sitting in Breisgau who knows that he has got the chance of a lifetime. This one coveted position. There is only a limited market in German football, 36 jobs in the first and second division. There is still the 3rd division, and regional division clubs don’t pay badly either, but everyone’s goal is as high as possible. Statistically, however, most of them do not stay very long – the half-life of head coaches in the Bundesliga is only roughly one year.

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In Düsseldorf, Preusser’s predecessor was able to fulfill his contract – but after 18 months it was over for Uwe Rösler. “We are glad that we were able to carry out the succession very quickly. We have worked intensively on it over the past few weeks and have had many discussions. Uwe (Sports Director Klein, editor’s note) and I were, you can already say, not only nationwide, but Europe-wide and checked who could be the right trainer for us? The decision was then made last week, and the choice fell on Christian. “

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*Photo: AP / Martin Meissner*

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The Düsseldorf delegation did not find what they were looking for in the Netherlands (that was probably the European part of the search) or in a German metropolis, but in the comparatively tranquil Breisgau. In Freiburg, Preusser has been working as a coach of the second representation for five years, before that he was briefly responsible for the team of the then third division club FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. In the data center of the DFB, his balance sheet so far reads positively: of 216 games as a coach, he was able to win 94, 54 games were drawn and 68 he lost.

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But not yet in one of the two highest professional leagues. Preusser is charming about the existing prejudice of some in the area that he is a “coach without a name”. About his lack of experience, he says: “Of course I have to live with this remark if I start as a coach at 37 without having already played a second division game as a coach. Then I can only counter that I have already gained some experience and will try to refute critics with content. “

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Preusser, who grew up in the east of Berlin, the VSG Altglienicke is his home club, is a very eloquent guy. He asks himself all questions, weighs up, is aware of the scope of his words. He knows that much more is being put on the gold scales than is still the case in his current biotope. With the second representation of Freiburg he is fighting for promotion to the third division, the goal can be reached on Saturday. That could provide for a significant relaxation in terms of time. He won’t officially have his last game with Freiburg until June 12th, and if the championship had been decided beforehand, they’d definitely like to get him earlier. Because the season preparation in Düsseldorf starts around June 20th, everything is very tight. Preusser: “Yes, but we can do it.”

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*Photo: dpa / Frank Molter*

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Preusser’s ideas are very clear. “What is asked in the 2nd division, what tasks are we facing, how can we best solve them? We have to be prepared for anything, ”he says. “In Freiburg I preferred a 3-4-3 system, but we will be very flexible. So variable, but that doesn’t mean that we change our planning every week. “

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One will no longer be part of the Preusser team: For Axel Bellinghausen, once a cult player of the club, a new task is to be found in the club – at the express request of Bellinghausen, as Fortuna announced.

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Fortuna Düsseldorf: The club trusts its “coach without a name”

Trainer presentation
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Fortuna’s new path with Christian Preusser

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