Wolfsburg Hires Ralph Hasenhüttl To Replace Niko Kovac As Coach After 11-game Winless Run – News18

WOLFSBURG, Germany: Wolfsburg employed former Southampton supervisor Ralph Hasenhüttl to interchange Niko Kovac as coach on Sunday after a 3-month winless run left the group 14th within the 18-group Bundesliga.

Hasenhüttl has signed a “long-term contract” at Wolfsburg and can take cost of coaching from Tuesday, the membership stated. It would be the 56-12 months-outdated Austrian’s first job within the Bundesliga since leaving Leipzig in 2018 earlier than his 4-12 months spell with Southampton.

The group’s subsequent recreation is March 30 in opposition to Werder Bremen.

Wolfsburg introduced Kovac was leaving earlier Sunday following a 3-1 loss at dwelling to Augsburg the day earlier than. It was the group’s eleventh recreation in a row with out a win, a run stretching again to December.

“In our internal review of the defeat against Augsburg and the overall situation, we came to the decision to end our collaboration,” managing director Marcel Schäfer stated in a press release. “We regret this development but regard it as necessary to give the team a new impulse, in order to stabilise the situation.”

Kovac, the Berlin-born former Croatia captain, received the German Cup as coach of Eintracht Frankfurt in 2018 and the league and cup double with Bayern Munich a 12 months later. He additionally coached Monaco from 2020 by the beginning of 2022.

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