Germany places Andreas Rettig accountable for its nationwide soccer groups and youth academy

BERLIN — The German soccer federation appointed Andreas Rettig as sporting director accountable for all its nationwide groups and youth academy on Friday.

The federation stated Rettig was taking on with rapid impact. It didn’t say how the appointment would have an effect on Rudi Völler’s place as sporting director of the boys’s nationwide group.

Rettig is in impact taking on the place previously held by Oliver Bierhoff, who agreed to resign as managing director of Germany’s nationwide groups and academy after the boys’s group’s first-round exit from final yr’s World Cup.

Völler took over the group on Feb. 1 and acted as interim coach final Tuesday when Germany defeated France 2-1 in a pleasant. The federation fired Hansi Flick as coach on Sunday following the group’s 4-1 loss to Japan the day earlier than.

Rettig previously had managerial roles at Bayer Leverkusen, Freiburg, Cologne, Augsburg and St. Pauli. He was managing director of the German soccer league from 2013-15 and was additionally a board member of the federation.

“In Andreas Rettig we have gained an extremely experienced, committed and assertive managing director,” federation president Bernd Neuendorf stated in an announcement. “I’m convinced that he will approach the tasks ahead of us in the area of sports with great passion. Carrying out the various administrative tasks relating to the national teams and the academy requires a strong personality.”