Nuremberg (dpa / lby) - Interim coach Dieter Hecking has started his rescue mission at 1. FC Nuremberg. With a double training session on Wednesday, the new coach of the second division soccer team prepared his team for the crisis summit on Saturday against table bottom SV Sandhausen.
After a birthday song for Erik Shuranov, various forms of training and an extensive eleven against eleven were on the program at the Valznerweiher. Hecking and the new assistant coach Cristian Fiel accompanied the units in front of hundreds of "Club" fans with loud instructions. The Nuremberg have as Table-13. only two points ahead of relegation place 16.
After the separation from Weinzierl, sports director Hecking returned to the Franconian coaching bench as an interim coach. Hecking was last in charge of Hamburger SV as a coach until the summer of 2020. After that he became sports director in Nuremberg and had actually declared his coaching career to be over.
