| 18.10.2008 |
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| After Nuremberg tossed him out in what could have been their hour of greatest need shortly before being relegated to the second division last season, Borrusia Moenchengladbach convinced Hans Meyer to take over until 2010. Meyer will replace Dutchman Jos Luhukay. Luhukay had the team roster ripped from his hands earlier this month after the club grabbed just three points from their opening six matches. Stand-in coach Christian Ziege, who led the team to a point Friday against Bochum, said he wanted to leave the pitch and go back to his office job as the club's sporting director. Players seem, obviously, to be looking forward to having Meyer at the helm. He's got a proven record for turning around teams loitering dangerously near the relegation zone. "From what I've heard he's a real agitator," defender Alexander Voigt told German soccer magazine Kicker. "It's definitely going to be an experience." Meyer left a happy retirement to take the reigns at Nuremberg while the team was at the bottom of the league in November 2005 and turned the team around to an eighth-place finish and raised the German Cup the in 2007 with a 3-2 win over Stuttgart. Then a short bad stretch hit him in Nuremberg. Meyer was let go and the team was relegated to the second division. At his first job since leaving the Bavarian team, Meyer, who coached the club from September 1999 to March 2003, took a positive view of the situation when issuing his expectations of the team. "Seven or eight teams aren't better than us," he told Kicker. "The on-the-pitch substance is there." |
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