Michael Skibbe coach of Greece, the conclusion is as a football. The Ex-national coach, is on leave of absence. Finally, the results are not more votes. The successor is already determined.
Ex-German national coach Michael Skibbe has been granted a leave of absence as football coach of the national team of Greece. “We have decided to end the cooperation,” said the President of the Association, Evangelos Grammenos, on Thursday in the state radio (ERA Sport). “We would like to thank Mr. Skibbe. He is a Gentleman,” added Grammenos. The new coach of the Greek Angelos Anastasiades (65), the Association chief said.
The former Bundesliga-Coach Skibbe had trained the Greek national team since October of 2015. After the missed qualification for the 2018 world Cup and the recent disappointing performances of the 53-Year-old more and more in the criticism. The Team had lost in the in the C League of Nations League 1:2 in Hungary and 0:2 in Finland and in Estonia, and at home against Hungary, only with a lot of effort just 1:0 win.
Skibbe has made the discipline in the Team again
In the process, Skibbe had been extended until November 2017 his contract by two years, even though he had failed with the Greeks in the Playoffs for the world Cup 2018 on the later Vice-world Champions Croatia. Skibbe has succeeded “to make a wild bunch, against any other team could win a team,” said Grammenos at the time.
Skibbe had been brought to 2015, as a successor to the Portuguese Fernando Santos, the discipline in the Team. Skibbe was with Rudi Völler, trainer license, in the years 2000 to 2004 as a double peak in the case of the German national team.
In the Bundesliga, he has coached Bayer Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt and Hertha BSC. Now Skibbe, who was also in Turkey and in Switzerland as a football Coach is back on the market. Greece, after four matches in the Nations Cup before the descent into the D-League. With six meters behind Finland a Chance in the number one position and the associated rise in the second-strongest B-League is hardly.
jst/ck (dpa)