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Last Sunday, those responsible at FC Schalke 04 made an unprecedented all-round blow.
After the 1: 5 in Stuttgart, coach Christian Gross was dismissed from the bottom of the table.
In addition to the Swiss, his assistant Rainer Widmayer and athletic trainer Werner Leuthard also had to leave.
The wave of layoffs also rolled through the level of functionaries.
Sascha Riether was relieved of his position as coordinator of the licensed players department, Jochen Schneider was on leave as the sports director.
The overall responsibility for sport was initially transferred to Peter Knäbel.
The director of the youth department has taken over the job from Schneider.
Together with ex-professional Mike Büskens and U19 coach Norbert Elgert, he is to push the planning for the coming season.
Grammozis stays with relegation
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The trio has made an important first decision.
According to information from "Bild", Dimitrios Grammozis will be the new trainer at Schalke.
The 42-year-old should take over the team with immediate effect and also look after a relegation in the second division.
After the end of his active career, Grammozis gained his first coaching experience in the youth department of VfL Bochum.
From there he moved to Darmstadt 98. At the second division club he was on the sidelines from February 2019 to June last year.
In 47 games, Grammozis and his team scored an average of 1.6 per game.
Grammozis played 143 Bundesliga games
Source: pa / dpa / dpaweb / Achim Scheidemann
At Schalke, he should now initiate the recovery project.
Because the first descent since 1980 seems inevitable for the Royal Blues.
The team is nine points behind the relegation rank 16, behind in the last place in the table.
On Friday the Royal Blues will play against the penultimate Mainz, only a victory would give Schalke hope in the relegation battle.
Grammozis is to receive a league-independent contract until 2022.
After David Wagner, Manuel Baum, Huub Stevens and Christian Gross, he would be the fifth Schalke coach this season.
The Greek, who was born in Wuppertal, played for HSV, Cologne and Kaiserslautern, among others.