Berlin (AFP)
The coach of Mönchengladbach Marco Rose will be next season on the bench of Dortmund, currently in difficulty, announced Monday the two "Borussia".
Marco Rose, 44, is considered a coach with a great future in Germany, and his name was mentioned for several weeks to take over in Dortmund from Edin Terzic, the former assistant of Lucien Favre bombed as head coach after the dismissal of the Switzerland mid-December.
"Marco Rose will be our head coach from the 2021/2022 season," Dortmund said on his website, "the 44-year-old technician has made a commitment to this end with BVB officials".
Two days before the first leg of the Champions League against Sevilla, the Ruhr club seems to have been surprised and upset by the public announcement of this transfer, first by the press, then directly by Mönchengladbach.
"The BVB is fully focused on the current season and on the pursuit of its sporting goals", insists the Dortmund statement, "out of respect for all stakeholders, Borussia Dortmund will not speak (on the subject) until 'at the end of the current season ".
"Marco Rose has decided that he wants to use a clause in his contract, which runs until 2022, and join Borussia Dortmund this summer," Mönchengladbach sporting director Max Eberl tweeted.
Borussia Dortmund are going through a very bad patch: they have won only one of their last six Bundesliga games, and are completely stalled in the title race, in sixth position with 15 points behind Bayern Munich.
Barely two months after his arrival, Terzic is already in the hot seat.
The leaders fear that he will not be able to bring the team back to the top four, qualifying for the lucrative Champions League.
Financially weighed down by the Covid-19 crisis, Borussia is playing its medium-term future on this qualification.
Marco Rose, who arrived in Mönchengladbach at the start of last season, had done most of his training as a coach in Austria, in Salzburg, first with the youth teams and then with the first team.
His record is already rich with two Austrian championship titles (2018-2019) and one cup (2019).
Last year, for his first season at Mönchengladbach, he lifted the team to fourth place in the Bundesliga, and landed a ticket for C1.
Qualified this fall in a pool where Real Madrid and Inter Milan were, however, Borussia must face in the round of 16 the English ogre Manchester City.
The first leg is scheduled for February 24 in Budapest, Germany having banned the English team from entering its territory, under current health rules.
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