2023-11-05 02:32:56
The German Football Federation has parted ways with coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (55), kept in her position after the 2023 World Cup fiasco in Australia, but on sick leave and then convalescing since, the DFB announced in a communiqué SATURDAY.
“The DFB and coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg are stopping their joint work with immediate effect. This is the result of the meeting on Friday”, a decision validated by the federal authorities “on Saturday during a meeting”, explained the federation.
Appointed at the end of 2018, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg was extended until Euro 2025, in the wake of the lost final of Euro 2022 against England at Wembley, in the spring of 2023. In the summer of 2023, the Germans were eliminated in the first round of the World Cup, an unprecedented fiasco for the players of the Mannschaft.
“After closely analyzing the disappointing elimination of the German women’s national team at the last World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, everyone agreed that the team needed “a new beginning as far as its leadership is concerned,” continues the DFB press release.
“I would like to thank, on behalf of the DFB and on my own behalf, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, for the joint work in recent years,” underlined the president of the federation, Bernd Neuendorg, quoted in the press release.
Retained in her post after the World Cup, “MVT” returned “physically and mentally affected” from Australia, her husband Hermann Tecklenburg explained in the German press in early September. Unable to fulfill her role as coach, she was put on sick leave and then on convalescence leave. The interim was first taken over by his assistant Britta Carlson at the end of September, then by Horst Hrubesch at the end of October.
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