DARMSTADT – Seeking a new football coach, second division SV Darmstadt 98 apparently has Markus Beginning at the top of the list. The “Bild newspaper” reports (Sunday). As a result, the 45-year-old, who most recently worked for Holstein Kiel and 1. FC Koln could succeed Dimitrios Grammozis for the new season, who has not extended his contract, which runs until the end of the season.
“We have taken up the topic again, in the past three weeks it would have made no sense given the unclear situation. We are on the shortlist. Video conferences have moved in with us,” said President Rüdiger Fritsch about the coach search.
To begin with, it could be said that he still knows the sports director Carsten Wehlmann from his time in Kiel. After 25 of 34 match days, the lilies are in sixth place in the second Bundesliga, which is currently interrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic.