2023-10-08 11:27:31
Horst Hrubesch has been named interim coach of the German women’s team, replacing the ill Martina Voss-Tecklenburg.
Former international Horst Hrubesch, European champion in 1980 with Germany, was named interim coach of the German women’s team on Saturday, replacing “until further notice» Martina Voss-Tecklenburg ill, announced the German Federation (DFB) in a press release.
«Horst Hrubesch is back at the DFB. At 72, he takes over on an interim basis from the ailing Martina Voss-Tecklenburg as coach of the women’s team.“, indicated the DFB. In March 2018, after the sidelining of Steffi Jones, he had already taken over as interim until the following November.
Health reasons
Martina Voss-Tecklenburg missed the September gathering for health reasons. Her husband Hermann Tecklenburg explained in the German press that she had returned from the 2023 World Cup in Australia “physically and mentally affected».
Britta Carlson, Voss-Tecklenburg’s deputy, took over in September. In the League of Nations, the only qualification route in Europe for the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, the Germans lost to Denmark (2-0), before making up for it against Iceland (4-0 victory).
Double scorer in the Euro-1980 final with the Mannschaft and winner of the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, the ancestor of the Champions League, in 1983 with Hamburg, Hrubesch will be assisted by Thomas Nörenberg and Britta Carlson.
Having become coach of the German men’s youth teams, Hrubesch won the European under-19 title in 2008 and under-21 in 2009. With Nörenberg as assistant, he won the silver medal in the summer of 2016 at the Rio Olympic Games with the men’s selection.
The next gathering of the Germans is scheduled for the end of October with two new Nations League matches against Wales in Sinsheim on the 27th and against Iceland four days later in Reykjavik.
The last two matches of this Nations League are scheduled for the beginning of December, the first in Rostock against Denmark and the second in Swansea on December 5 against the Welsh.
To hope to see the 2024 Olympics, the Germans must finish at the top of their group (currently 2nd, 3 points behind the Danes), and then reach the Final 4 final in February 2024 (or take third place if France is in the final ).
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