{"id":605235,"date":"2021-12-09T10:09:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=605235"},"modified":"2021-12-09T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:09:57","slug":"domenico-tedesco-rb-leipzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/09\/domenico-tedesco-rb-leipzig\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenico Tedesco Replaces Jesse Marsch as RB Leipzig Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RB Leipzig have appointed Domenico Tedesco as the club&#8217;s new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows the dismissal of Jesse Marsch last week after a poor run of form that saw them lose three consecutive Bundesliga fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;s head of soccer, Oliver Mintzlaff, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/03\/pressure-rb-leipzig-boss-jesse-marsch\/\" target=\"_self\">went public with his displeasure<\/a> at the 2-1 loss to Union Berlin, hours before Marsch was let go.<\/p>\n<h2>Domenico Tedesco Becomes RB Leipzig Head Coach<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RBLeipzig?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RBLeipzig<\/a>, Domenico <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tedesco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Tedesco<\/a>! \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old takes over from Jesse Marsch as head coach on a deal until June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34\u26aa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreLeipzig?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WeAreLeipzig<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0GWYAWoiPa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/0GWYAWoiPa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RB Leipzig English (@RBLeipzig_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBLeipzig_EN\/status\/1468883555468165120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Domenico Tedesco&#8217;s Story So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Tedesco has signed a contract with RB Leipzig until June 2023, starting work immediately, preparing to host Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday, December 11. Monchengladbach are another German side to find themselves struggling for form &#8211; sitting 13th following 4-1 and 6-0 losses to Koln and Freiburg, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>RB Leipzig have also confirmed the departure of assistant coach Achim Beierlorzer, who, as interim coach, guided them to a 2-1 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/11\/26\/manchester-city-forward-ferran-torres-future\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> in midweek.<\/p>\n<p>Tedesco, 36, was born in Italy and has worked as a head coach in senior football since 2017, starting out with Erzgebirge Aue, before spending over a year with Schalke and more recently holding the position at Spartak Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, he worked within the academy setups at Stuttgart and Hoffenheim, assisting and leading their developmental sides.<\/p>\n<p>Tedesco has been out of work since May 2021 when he left Spartak Moscow after finishing second, citing family reasons.<\/p>\n<h3>Return to Germany<\/h3>\n<p>He now returns to Germany hoping to rekindle RB Leipzig&#8217;s season. They currently sit 11th in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/09\/bundesliga-preview-the-battle-for-european-qualification\/\" target=\"_self\">Bundesliga<\/a> having collected 18 points from 14 games &#8211; that puts them seven points off the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/09\/five-takeaways-champions-league-matchday-six\/\" target=\"_self\">Champions League <\/a>places and five clear of the relegation play-off spot.<\/p>\n<p>Having finish third in their Champions League group, behind Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, they will drop into the Europa League &#8211; remaining in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Hinkel and Max Urwantschky have agreed to join the club as Tedesco&#8217;s assistants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"-bC099uQQA9kJe_HBw4ROQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1206180488\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-bC099uQQA9kJe_HBw4ROQ',sig:'7AqNyhG2tAN49Dyqo7xHWVpqqmDgAB-RYfrTce_fb34=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1206180488',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RB Leipzig have appointed Domenico Tedesco as the club&#8217;s new head coach. The decision follows the dismissal of Jesse Marsch last week after a poor run of form that saw them lose three consecutive Bundesliga fixtures. The club&#8217;s head of soccer, Oliver Mintzlaff, went public with his displeasure at the 2-1 loss to Union Berlin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3469,"featured_media":605236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[1836,620],"class_list":["post-605235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-news","tag-domenico-tedesco","tag-rb-leipzig"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}