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Because Sandro Wagner is the new assistant to national coach Julian Nagelsmann, ZDF needs a new expert for the DFB international matches. Now the successor should be determined.
Mainz – Sandro Wagner’s career as a coach is going steeply. At just 35 years old, the former center forward for FC Bayern, 1899 Hoffenheim, Hertha BSC, Werder Bremen, Darmstadt 98, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and MSV Duisburg has become assistant coach of the German national football team.
Sandro Wagner: From ZDF expert to national coach assistant
After he led SpVgg Unterhaching as coach from the regional league to the 3rd league in the early summer. And he will also perform this function for the German Football Association (DFB) at the 2024 home European Championships (June 14th to July 14th) next year, alongside the new national coach Julian Nagelsmann, who quickly appointed him as his assistant had called.
Appropriate: Before this international season, the Munich native ended his job as a TV expert for ZDF. In the 3-1 win in the USA and the 2-2 win against Mexico in the United States, the former DFB attacker sat on the substitutes’ bench as an official alongside Nagelsmann. ZDF has now apparently found a replacement for him.
Sandro Wagner (right) is assistant to national coach Julian Nagelsmann (left) until the 2024 European Championship. © IMAGO / Icon Sportswire
Specifically: like that Sports picture and the Bild report, former Bundesliga goalkeeper René Adler will in future analyze the national team’s international matches on the sidelines or in the stands. Accordingly, the 38-year-old Sachse is also scheduled to be an expert for the 2024 European Championship, where Germany will host in preliminary round group A in Munich (June 14th, opening game), in Stuttgart (June 19th) and in Frankfurt am Main (June 23rd). June).
René Adler: Ex-HSV professional should be Sandro Wagner’s successor at ZDF
Adler, who stood between the posts in the Bundesliga for Hamburger SV, Bayer Leverkusen and Mainz 05, is considered an experienced expert. The footballer (twelve international matches), who was trained in the youth ranks of VfB Leipzig, analyzed Champions League games for Sky and the German U21s for ProSieben Maxx. On ZDF he also classifies match days in the premier class.
Last Wednesday (October 25th) he made a critical comment on a sensitive topic surrounding the DFB team in the program “Sportstudio – UEFA Champions League”: Will Manuel Neuer (FC Bayern) be in the German goal again after his comeback, or will Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona) remain Germany’s number one?
TV expert and ex-Bundesliga professional: René Adler. © IMAGO / kolbert-press
ZDF expert René Adler: Critical statement about Bavaria’s Manuel Neuer
“The question arises for me: What else should the boy do so that he gets the commitment and the response from the public that he is number one?” he said to the eternal replacement ter Stegen (31 years old). And he said to Munich’s veteran Neuer (37): “Manu is a fair sportsman, without question. But he is also someone who always wants to play. This is the core characteristic why he has had such a world-class career over these long years. That’s what you need as a goalkeeper. There is a number one position. And if you want to play there, then you have to, to be kind, bite everyone out of the way who wants to get to that position. Manu can do that.” (pm)
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