The former Finnish national team player Toni Söderholm is the new volleyball coach. The obligation of the former defender as the successor of Marco Sturm, according to dpa-information perfect. The 40-year-old Söderholm will be presented on Thursday. Until then, the German ice hockey does not want to Express-Bund (DEB) officially.
the term of The contract is as yet unclear how the trainer team, Söderholm the Olympia-the Second of Pyeongchang now is take care of. As well as secure the integration of silver medalist Christian Ehrhoff. The 36-year-old former NHL-defender had finished his career after the Olympics and will in the future take over as the face of the German ice-hockey mainly representative tasks. Whether he does this as a General Manager or in some other function, is still unclear.
The German NHL-record players of the storm was between 2015 and 2018 national coach and General Manager. In November, he had accepted the offer of the Los Angeles Kings, to be Co-trainers. Storm wants to prevail in the North American professional League as a coach.
unlike its predecessor, which had become in 2015 without a coach-the experience surprisingly, the national coach, can Söderholm have as a Coach quite a bit, even though he comes from the SC Riessersee from the third League. The good German-speaking Finn actually stood for the German champion EHC Red Bull Munich under contract and should be the successor of successful coach Don Jackson (62).
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was in Munich cooperation partners Riessersee Söderholm parked. With the tradition of the club, he was champion in the pre-season regular season and reached the Playoff final. In the was del2, he was also chosen as the “coach of the year”. The SCR was then withdrawn for financial reasons in the top League. (dpa)