After Frank Baumann announced this week that he was stepping down as director of professional football and scouting with SV Werder Bremen following the 2014-15 season...
After Frank Baumann announced this week that he was stepping down as director of professional football and scouting with SV Werder Bremen following the 2014-15 season...
After Frank Baumann announced this week that he was stepping down as director of professional football and scouting with SV Werder Bremen following the 2014-15 season, manager Thomas Eichin offered a calm reaction on Thursday. "I work very closely with Frank. He let me know last year that he would like to hand over his post. We have been working on this plan for a while. It will certainly be a big loss. Frank did a great job with his factual and calm manner. We have to compensate for his departure," said Eichin in a press chat.
‘Baumi', who played for SVW for 10 years, nine of those as captain, became the seventh former Werder player to be named as honorary captain. But he plans on leaving in the summer of 2015. The 38-year-old did not announce any reasons for leaving the club. "Thomas said it all before, the decision was made a while ago. I told the management with plenty of lead time because I want the club to be able to find a replacement for me. It is definitely not the case that I am unsatisfied or anything like that. I enjoy very much so my job as director and do it gladly. But I had never done a career planning in my life. I said back under Klaus Allofs that I would only like to do this job for a couple years but then I could imagine doing something in other areas. I believe this point has come for next year."
