Dietmar Beiersdorfer
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At the end of 2016, Dietmar Beiersdorfer was sacked by Hamburger SV. Since then, the manager has been in professional football without a permanent job. Now the bottom of the table in the second division is betting on the 58-year-old.
Dietmar Beiersdorfer is the new Managing Director for Sport and Communication at the second division soccer team FC Ingolstadt. The former sports director of Hamburger SV should, among other things, provide important new impulses in the current sporting situation, as the Upper Bavarian club announced on Tuesday.
“We are in a very challenging situation, which we want to turn positively with solidarity on and off the pitch,” said Beiersdorfer according to the announcement. To do this, all efforts, motivation and courage must be bundled: “We are looking ahead. I am very happy to be able to help shape the future of FC Ingolstadt 04 with a lot of dedication and enthusiasm. I want to be successful in this environment. “
Beiersdorfer had to wait a long time for this chance. The former national player (one mission) worked as a successful manager for years from 2002. He worked for Hamburger SV, Red Bull GmbH and Zenit Saint Petersburg. In 2014 he was hired again at HSV, this time as chairman of the board. In 2016, he also took over the post of sports director, before he was removed from the board at the end of the year and left the club entirely a few weeks later.
“Beiersdorfer an experienced specialist”
After almost five years without a permanent job, the people of Ingolstadt are now relying on him. The task is not going to be easy. The club is with only five points on the bottom of the table in the second division. The new coach André Schubert, who has only been in office since the end of September, has not yet brought the hoped-for points in the relegation battle.
“With Dietmar Beiersdorfer we have been able to gain an experienced specialist who will be an absolute identification person both internally and externally,” said supervisory board chief Karl Meier: “In the long term, we want to build stable sustainability with him with a holistic view of the sporting area, in the short term we see in but also an important new impulse for his person in our current sporting situation. “
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