Nuremberg (dpa / lby) - Dieter Hecking opened his first session as the new coach of 1. FC Nuremberg with a detailed speech to the team. The 58-year-old, who is supposed to save the Franconians threatened with relegation after the separation from Markus Weinzierl, then accompanied the training session on Wednesday with loud commands.
Hundreds of "club" fans followed the public unity of the troubled second division soccer team. After a little serenade for the birthday boy Erik Shuranov, the team prepared for the crisis summit on Saturday against table bottom SV Sandhausen under the eyes of Nuremberg's new assistant coach Cristian Fiel. 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 coaching bench of the second division team 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.
