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Grammozis becomes Schalke’s fifth coach of the season
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Bobic claims he will leave Frankfurt at the end of the season
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Kramer unveiled as new Arminia Bielefeld coach
2nd March
Grammozis replaces Christian Gross at Schalke
Schalke has appointed Dimitrios Grammozis as their new coach confirmed the fighting Bundesliga club at Tuesday evening.
Grammozis replaces the fired Christian Gross, will Schalke’s fifth coach this season after David Wagner, Manuel Baum, Huub Stevens and Gross.
The 42-year-old Grammozis has a contract until June 2022 and his first game is a crunch match against relegation rivals Mainz.
“I am very excited about this task,” said Grammozis. “I will use the short time until the first league game to try to be as comprehensive as possible.”
Picture as possible – and of course we want to start with a win against Mainz. “
The last-placed Schalke has nine points ahead of safety and eleven more games in the season.
Fredi Bobic leaves Frankfurt at the end of the season
Eintracht FrankfurtSports director, Fredi Bobic, According to comments he made on Tuesday to the German ARD broadcaster, he should leave the club at the end of the season.
“I don’t have to fool around. I expressed my wish to leave the club in summer 2020 a year ago before the coronavirus,” he said.
Because of the global pandemic, Bobic stayed with him, but Frankfurt did not confirm that the former German striker would leave his position. Philip Holzer, chairman of the advisory board, said the talks had taken place but had not “not been resolved and would resume after the next advisory board meeting in mid-March”.
Bobic’s current contract runs until 2023, but for weeks there was speculation this Bobic is Hertha Berlin preferred Candidate to succeed the dismissed sports director Michael Preetz. Should Bobic go?, Frankfurt would face a major shock in its management team as it had already been announced that Sport director Bruno Hübner will leave the club in the summer.
Kramer presented as the new Bielefeld trainer
The day after the dismissal of Uwe Neuhaus, the man who promoted Arminia Bielefeld last season, the club signed Frank Kramer as a replacement.
The 48-year-old Kramer recently coached a number of German youth teams and was briefly head coach of Fortuna Düsseldorf (2015) and Greuther Fürth (2013-15).
“Frank is a versatile trainer with a wealth of experience in the professional and youth field. We are convinced that his professional and analytical qualities make him the type of trainer that fits the Arminia path and that we need for the next steps,” said Sports director Samir Arabi.
Bielefeld is currently in 16th place, the relegation playoff place, and receives Union Berlin on Sunday.
1st March
Arminia Bielefeld sack coach Uwe Neuhaus
Bundesliga club Arminia Bielefeld have sacked head Trainer U.we Neuhaus. According to media reports, the decision was made at a joint meeting of the club Management and supervisory board on Monday.
The change comes two days after the newly promoted club’s 3-0 defeat against Borussia Dortmund, the latest setback in five games Bielefeld had only secured one point.
Neuhaus led the club to promotion last season, but Bielefeld’s sporting director Samir Arabi said the decision was made to increase their chances of survival.
“We believe the team has the quality to achieve our goal but given the current situation we decided to act now,” said Arabi.
On Tuesday, the club named 48-year-old Frank Kramer as Neuhaus’s successor.
Formula 1 rejects the vaccine proposal for Bahrain
An offer from Bahrain to vaccinate all Formula 1 employees in the preseason was rejected by the organization.
The Gulf state made the offer as part of its vaccination, but with the majority of UK-based F1 teams, the sport said it would prefer to wait for vaccinations from that country.
Stefano Domenicali, F1 President, said earlier this month: “The priority is the most vulnerable. We don’t want to skip the vaccination line.”
Preseason testing begins later this month in Bahrain ahead of the opening weekend on March 28th.
Golfers provide support for woods after the crash
Tiger Woods received support from his colleagues after his serious car accident last week.
The players wore red shirts and black pants in the final round of the World Golf Championships and other weekend events. The outfit Woods always wore on his final laps.
“It’s hard to explain how touching it was today when I turned on the TV and saw all the red shirts,” Woods tweeted on Sunday. “For every golfer and every fan, you really help me through this difficult time.”