Struggling Hoffenheim fires Andre Breitenreiter as coach

SINSHEIM, Germany (AP) — Struggling Hoffenheim fired Andre Breitenreiter as coach on Monday after seven months in cost and a run of 9 Bundesliga video games with out a win.

Hoffenheim hasn’t gained since beating last-place Schalke within the league after which the cup in mid-October.

Breitenreiter’s final recreation in cost was Saturday’s 5-2 loss at relegation rival Bochum. It left the crew 14th within the 18-team division, three factors above the relegation zone. Hoffenheim has conceded 17 objectives in 5 matches in 2023.

“We made mistakes that have little to do with professional soccer,” Breitenreiter acknowledged after the most recent loss. “Something has to happen, it can’t continue like this. It will be very difficult to survive (avoid relegation) like this.”

Hoffenheim signed American defender John Brooks from Benfica and Danish midfielder Thomas Delaney on mortgage from Sevilla within the switch window to deliver extra expertise to the crew.

The 49-year-old Breitenreiter, who led Zurich to the Swiss league title final season, gained 4 of his first six Bundesliga video games to go away Hoffenheim in fourth spot in mid-September, however has overwhelmed solely Schalke since.

The membership acknowledged that good begin in its assertion firing him. “We thank him for the pleasant cooperation and the many positive moments, especially at the beginning of the time we spent together,” sporting director Alexander Rosen stated.

Hoffenheim, from rural southwestern Germany, has been a Bundesliga crew since 2008 after a speedy rise via the decrease leagues fuelled by software program billionaire Dietmar Hopp, who was a participant on the membership in his youth.

Breitenreiter is the sixth Bundesliga coach to lose his job this season after Pellegrino Matarazzo (Stuttgart), Domenico Tedesco (Leipzig), Frank Kramer (Schalke), Gerardo Seoane (Bayer Leverkusen) and Thomas Reis (Bochum).