Struggling Kaiserslautern sack coach Kurz
Reuters - Tuesday 20 March 2012, 16:04
Relegation-threatened
Kaiserslautern have sacked coach Marco Kurz after dropping to
last place in the Bundesliga and failing to win any of their
last 16 league games, the club said on Tuesday.
"We need to go down this path if we are to exhaust all
chances of staying up," club chief Stefan Kuntz told reporters.
"After the 4-1 defeat by Schalke 04 [on Sunday] and after
many intensive discussions we were convinced we had to take this
step.
"We took many measures in the past weeks and months to get
the team back to success. Unfortunately they did not work."
Assistant coach Oliver Schaefer and goalkeeping coach Gerry
Ehrmann will take over on an interim basis with Kurz's successor
to be announced shortly, Kuntz said.
Kaiserslautern are five points off the relegation play-off
spot.
Kurz, whose assistant Guenther Gorenzel was also sacked,
took over in 2009 and led the Red Devils back to the Bundesliga
with the club finishing seventh in their first season back in
top flight last year.
His contract ran out in 2013.