Jochen Schneider is to become the new sporting Director at FC Schalke 04. As the Bundesliga club announced on Tuesday, the 48-year-old Team-coordinator of RB Leipzig at the turf club, the successor of Christian Heidel. He will be presented next Tuesday officially, and has a contract until 30. June 2022. Last Saturday, his predecessor, Heidelberg had announced that he will dissolve his labour contract with the “Royal blue”.
“We have formulated for the occupation of the sports management Board has a clear profile: a highly experienced football professional who has a first class network in the national and international professional football and in the last few years with the success of modern concepts followed. Jochen Schneider meets all of these requirements,“ said Schalke Chairman Clemens Tönnies.
Jochen Schneider who also worked in Stuttgart
Schneider worked in the Leipzig and especially in the Background, publicly, he entered practically in appearance. He was met in the October of 2015 to Red Bull, where he first worked in the area of Global Soccer at the drinks company from Austria. He should work as a coordinator of the synergies between Leipzig, Sao Paulo/Campinas and New York, and the three football sites network.
“For me, it is a great honour to take on a huge challenge, the Department of Sport at FC Schalke 04. Schalke has a very special charisma that extends far beyond the Ruhr area and Germany,“ said Schneider, his move to the turf club.
mid-2017 Schneider rose in the circle of sport management at RB Leipzig to the current coach and sport Director Ralf Rangnick. He was bound in contract negotiations. He should also push the internationalization of RB Leipzig.
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First experiences in Schneider, 1999, gathered by 2017 in the Management of the VfB Stuttgart. In the case of the Swabians, he had ascended to the separation of Felix Magath in 2004, the sports Director, worked together from 2006 with the former Schalke sporting Director Horst Heldt and celebrated together with coach Armin the German championship Veh. (dpa)
