Bayern Munich signed goalkeeping coach Michael Rechner from Bundesliga rival Hoffenheim on Wednesday to replace the fired Toni Tapalović.
The Bavarian club said the 42-year-old Rechner was joining
the team’s staff, but didn’t give any details regarding the length of his
contract.
Bayern fired Tapalović on Jan. 23 because of what sporting
director Hasan Salihamidžić said were “differences over the ways and means of
working together.”
It led to strong criticism from injured goalkeeper Manuel
Neuer, who had been working with Tapalović since they were both at Schalke.
Neuer and Tapalović joined Bayern together in 2011 and Neuer said his dismissal
was “the worst thing I’ve experienced in my career.”
Tapalović did not get along with Bayern coach Julian
Nagelsmann, whose relationship with Neuer is reportedly cool.
Rechner, a former goalkeeper for VfR and Waldhof Mannheim,
Sachsen Leipzig, Schweinfurt and others, started coaching with Hoffenheim’s
under-19 team in 2008. He switched to the club’s under-23 team five years later
and took over as the senior team’s goalkeeping coach in 2015.
“We really regret his departure,” said Hoffenheim sporting
director Alexander Rosen, who described Rechner’s move to Bayern as “the end of
an era.” -AP
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