Munich (dpa) – After the demise of national coach Pat Cortina, the German national ice hockey team is two years before the World Championships in front of a new beginning -. and possibly of a return of Uwe Krupp
The Stanley Cup winner and current coach of the Eisbären Berlin is considered Topkandidat to the succession. “Right now is a lot of speculation. When I’m on the list, then I am pleased. This does not mean that I am the only candidate. It does not have any discussions given in any official form,” Krupp told Deutsche Presse-Agentur am Wednesday.
Shortly before the DEB had confirmed that there will be no future as national coach for Cortina. From a conversation with DEB-President Franz Reindl resulted after three years Cortinas farewell. His expiring 30 June contract is not expected to be renewed. The national need “to reorganization towards the home World Cup in 2017 and a staffing restart” explained Reindl.
In the follow-up control of the DEB has no apparent hurry. A decision on the succession is due to be “taken by Deb Bureau in coordination with the DEB / DEL Directorate and the competence team sport with representatives of the German Ice Hockey League (DEL).” The talks are expected to be completed no later than mid-June, told the DEB with. Krupp says goodbye for now for two weeks on vacation.
“I think it must be matched in the background a lot of decisions before you is exactly agree on who the right candidate for the DEB is,” Krupp said , The coach of Eisbären Berlin could operate in a dual role. But but the conditions have to be created. Krupp holds more of a team solution for conceivable. “If there is to be a person who takes care of everything, it is not realistic in the double position,” he stressed. “But when Deb and when DEL makes you look just a lot of thought, as one might in future be working better.”
Krupp would be an ideal opportunity to the World Championships to give a prominent German face to the best marketing. The 49-year-old had already been national coach and formed with the then DEB Director of Sport Franz Reindl until 2011 a successful team. Then he had to go under the then DEB President Uwe Harnos because he signed a contract with the Cologne Sharks. “Ending the Krupp era, was a mistake unnecessarily,” Reindl had said at the World Championships in the Czech Republic.
In Prague managed the German ice hockey team for the fourth time in succession and for the third time under Cortina not in a World Cup quarter-finals. Despite several refusals Germany ended the championships but with a respectable tenth place. “The umständehalber very serious World Cup in Prague, he has mastered brilliantly,” Reindl praised the ousted Cortina.
The Italo-Canadian has the 2013 answer failed Olympic qualification for the first time in the DEB history and had due moderate results no longer support. 2014 in Minsk played the German team with the worst place 14 World Cup since 2009, when the team was relegated under athletic Krupp and remained first class only because of the 2010 home World Cup. Cortina had taken the national team in 2012 as successor to the Swiss Jakob Koelliker. “It was and is always a great honor for me to be allowed to have held this position. This is something where I’m going to be all my life proud of it”, Cortina regretted his departure.
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