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The bottom of the table in the German Bundesliga parted ways with the 57-year-old coach on Monday and immediately presented Sebastian Hoeneß – Uli’s nephew and Dieter Hoeneß’s son – as his successor.
Hoeneß, coach of TSG Hoffenheim from 2020 to 2022, signed a non-league contract until June 30, 2025.
Since Labbadia took office on December 5, Stuttgart have only won one game in the Bundesliga, a good two weeks ago they slipped to last place. The third relegation of the five-time German champions since 2016 is getting closer, the 0: 3 at 1. FC Union Berlin on Saturday was too much.
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After the departure of coach Pellegrino Matarazzo in mid-October and the intermezzo of Michael Wimmer, the current coach of Wiener Austria, as an interim solution, Labbadia is the third coach this season under whom no improvement in performance was achieved.
Labbadia had previously saved some clubs from relegation, and he also managed to stay up with VfB in his first term between 2010 and 2013.
With the quarter-finals on Wednesday (6:00 p.m.) in the DFB Cup at second division club 1. FC Nürnberg, Hoeneß faces the first serious test before the relegation duel at VfL Bochum on Sunday.
Source: Nachrichten
