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“My coaching license is only valid on January 1st,” says Huub Stevens (67), FC Schalke 04 coach of the century and interim coach since Manuel Baum was fired. He was unable to remain a coach at the club, which currently wears the Bundesliga’s Red Lantern and is threatened with relegation. What if you request a new license for 2021? “For me, that is knowledge, for you it is the big question,” said the Dutchman with a laugh before Tuesday’s cup match against SSV Ulm (6.30pm).
Well, Gelsenkirchner’s goal is to introduce a new coach before Christmas. Athletic director Jochen Schneider said last Friday when Stevens was introduced as interim coach that “the decision-making process is not yet complete.” After the loss to the newly promoted Bielefeld, Schneider said he already had a new name in mind.
On the one hand, there is Alexander Zorniger, a former Stuttgart manager, whom Schneider knows from ordinary times. The “promising alternative”, as the “Welt” writes, is the Swiss Christian Gross!
Schneider and Gross meet from VfB
Gross also knows Schneider from his days in Stuttgart. The Zurich manager legend saved VfB from relegation in the 2009/10 season before returning to Switzerland to join the Young Boys. Adventures in Saudi Arabia (Al-Ahli) and Egypt (Zamalek SC Cairo) followed, before he resigned “in principle” in May this year.
In “Sportpanorama”, Gross said after 32 years of coach: “With the dismissal at Al-Ahli and the arrival of the coronavirus, I decided to stop training.” When asked about a possible return, the son of a Höngg policeman said: “You say casually, never say never. Maybe I have to stick with that. “” I definitely wouldn’t rule out “overseas involvement.
After 32 years: Gross gives resignation on the sports scene(01:03)
So now Gross is a problem with Schalke. However, it is said, sporting director Schneider would have to have any obligations approved by the supervisory board. And Schneider doesn’t just have friends there.
Besides Gross and Zorniger, there are also names like Friedhelm Funkel or Thorsten Fink on the carousel of candidates. (Red)
