New coach, new luck: Baumgart starts at Union Berlin!

New coach, new luck: Baumgart starts at Union Berlin!

Heidenheim, Deutschland - Steffen Baumgart is the new head coach of 1. FC Union Berlin. As fc-union-berlin.de will take up his position on January 2, 2025. The 52-year-old, born in Rostock, brings valuable experiences from his time as a player and coach in the Bundesliga, where he played a total of 225 games and scored 29 goals and gave 16 templates.

Baumgart, who played for Union Berlin from 2002 to 2004 and scored 22 goals in 68 competitive games during this time, was also awarded twice as the "Union footballer of the year". After his active career, he had various coaching stations, including at 1. FC Magdeburg and SC Paderborn, before he was last worked at 1. FC Köln and Hamburger SV.

challenge for Baumgart

Union Berlin is under pressure, because the team has only won one point in the last five games and is preparing for an important game against FC Heidenheim on January 11th. Until then, the association has time to improve its offensive performance, since the team was only able to score 14 goals in 15 games this season, such as berlin-live.de reported.

Heidenheim has already signed two new players: Budu ZivziVadse from Karlsruher SC, who scored 12 goals in 17 second division games last season, and 21-year-old Frans Krätzig from Bayern Munich, who had previously been loaned to VfB Stuttgart. ZivziVadse signed a contract until 2029. Union Berlin, on the other hand, has not made any transfers, although many fans are demanding a new goal scorer.

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