United States coach Jesse Marsch has been appointed the brand new RB Leipzig supervisor after leaving defending Austrian champions FC Salzburg.
Marsch, 47, will exchange Julian Nagelsmann who will be part of Bundesliga defending champions Bayern Munich subsequent season after signing a five-year-contract.
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Marsch returns to Leipzig the place he was assistant supervisor at through the 2018-19 marketing campaign beneath Ralf Rangnick. Salzburg are six factors clear from Speedy Vienna within the championship spherical of the Austrian Bundesliga, whereas they nonetheless hope to tie up the Austrian Cup closing on Might 1 for the third season operating.
Marsch started his teaching profession in 2011 with an assistant function with the United States males’s nationwide group earlier than taking cost of Major League Soccer outfit Montreal Affect the next yr. His enjoying profession spanned from 1996 to 2009 with three MLS golf equipment — D.C. United, Chicago Fire FC, and Chivas USA — and he had two caps for the USMNT.
In 2015, he grew to become New York Red Bulls coach and guided them to the MLS Supporters’ Protect and picked up the MLS Coach of the 12 months award that very same yr.
He left NY Purple Bulls in 2018 for RB Leipzig, one other membership within the Purple Bull armoury. It was seen as of venture on the time, however Marsch impressed beneath Rangnick and it led to him taking cost of FC Salzburg in 2019.
Salzburg and Leipzig are sister golf equipment, with plenty of gamers transferring from the Austrian champions to the Bundesliga facet. Throughout his first season answerable for Salzburg, Marsch led them to a league and cup double — turning into the primary American coach to win a serious trophy in Europe.
Jesse Marsch will turn into our new head coach from the 2021/22 season!
He takes over from Julian #Nagelsmann, who’s becoming a member of #FCBayern.
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— RB Leipzig English (@RBLeipzig_EN) April 29, 2021
Marsch was confirmed on Thursday, simply 48 hours after studies emerged Leipzig have been additionally contemplating Wolfsburg supervisor Oliver Glasner, and Stuttgart boss Pellegrino Matarazzo. However Leipzig CEO Oliver Mintzlaff has opted for Marsch, who can be charged with chasing down Nagelsmann’s Bayern subsequent season.
Marsch was additionally on the radar of Eintracht Frankfurt and Tottenham Hotspur, sources informed ESPN, however Mintzlaff is delighted to have gotten his man.
“With Jesse Marsch we have been capable of appoint our dream candidate as the brand new head coach and shortly fill crucial place within the sporting area at RB Leipzig with a prime coach,” Mintzlaff stated. “Jesse has achieved a superb job in all of his earlier positions and has developed step-by-step.
“It’s naturally an amazing benefit that he has already labored for RB Leipzig for a yr. Jesse is aware of the membership, the town of Leipzig and above all our membership and sport philosophy. Along with his qualities as a coach, Jesse is characterised above all by his constructive and bold method he can encourage individuals in and across the membership and take them with him. We sit up for working with Jesse Marsch in order that we will proceed on our chosen path with him and proceed to develop the membership. “
With Marsch’s arrival, 5 of the Bundesliga prime seven golf equipment — Bayern, Leipzig, Wolfsburg, Frankfurt, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Monchengladbach — could have a brand new particular person within the dugout for the 2021-22 season.