After his resignation as coach of Hertha BSC, Jürgen Klinsmann will no longer return to the supervisory board of the Berlin Bundesligasoccer team. “Unfortunately, the way the company is leaving is so unacceptable that we cannot continue to work in a way that is in the interests of the association,” said investor Lars Windhorst at a press conference on Thursday: “Jürgen Klinsmann has lost a lot of his credibility. It really is sad, but we have to live with it. “
However, Windhorst left open “whether we can rely on him and his advice in a different form in a few months. I never close doors.” The sponsor personally “regretted that Jürgen Klinsmann left us very abruptly”. Regarding the fact that Klinsmann apparently announced his resignation spontaneously and without consultation with a club representative, Windhorst said: “Perhaps you can do that as a teenager, but you shouldn’t do it in business, where you have serious agreements.”
Klinsmann was named for a position on the Supervisory Board in early November
According to his own statement, Klinsmann was contacted by Windhorst last October whether he could support the entrepreneur in football matters. At the beginning of November, the donor’s Tennor Holding named the world champion of 1990 for a place on the supervisory board of GmbH & Co. KGaA after it increased its stake to 49.9 percent for a total of 224 million euros. Klinsmann left this post when he took over as head coach just three weeks later. The supervisory board of the KGaA has comparatively little authority and is, for example, not responsible for approving transfers or deciding on the management of manager Michael Preetz.
On Wednesday evening, Klinsmann had described the circumstances of his sudden resignation as “questionable” via the Internet message and apologized to the fans. At the same time, however, he also criticized the role of manager Michael Preetz and justified his resignation with the desire for more skills, which the club had denied him. “We wiped ourselves out in many, many side war scenes.” He “unbelievably came across” that the manager is sitting on the bench and making his comments.
In a duel with a direct competitor in the relegation battle, the Berliners compete on Saturday (3:30 p.m. / Sky) at the bottom of the SC Paderborn. Hertha will initially train the previous co-trainers Alexander Nouri and Markus Feldhoff. “We will go into the next few weeks with Nouri and Feldhoff and the coaching team. They deserve full support,” said Manager Preetz. “We hope and are convinced that we will get the necessary points.”
Performance manager Arne Friedrich also remains in office. The job for the former Hertha captain was created at the end of November at the urging of Klinsmann. With regard to the coaching post, Preetz said that “it is of course a task for summer” to “find a new occupation for the head coaching post”. You are looking for a trainer “who approaches the goals with us, who is ambitious and ambitious”, explained Preetz. “This is an interesting job description.”
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