Something surprisingly, Football Bundesligaist Borussia Mönchengladbach finished searching for a successor for the resigned Max Eberl with an internal solution. The previous young coordinator Roland Virkus enters the service as a Borussia Mönchengladbachs director and gets advance laurels from a Barca star.

“I am very pleased about the trust of the club guidance,” it said in a statement on the club-spirality of the foals: “For me, this new task is a great challenge, which I with humility and respect, but also with great joy and full of strength “

A very prominent advocate has the 55-year-old in Ex-Gladbach-Profi Marc-André Ter Stegen. The Keeper of FC Barcelona, ​​who comes from the youth of the foal and joined the Catalans in 2014, reported after the announcement on Twitter. Return to Virkus, the 29-year-old described as a “good decision”.

“For me, and are you an important pillar in my career,” Ter wrote continues towards Virkus: “That’s why I’m convinced that you will make a great job as a constant, critical and always clear person for the club, the You know you in and out. “

Finally, the Barça Keeper wanted a lot of success and “a good hand” to the new Borussia Mönchengladbachs director of VfL.

Gladbach: Virkus was not the first choice

Other observers showed themselves more critical than the natural plant of the foals. This is mainly because Virkus was not the first Option Gladbach, as Club President Rolf King confirmed.

After a cancellation of Steffen Korell, who continues to work as a squad planner and scouting director at the Lower Rhine, Gladbach dealt with two external candidates. However, these said. Rouven Schröder from FC Schalke 04 and Dieter Hecking from 1. FC Nuremberg publicly rejected a commitment to the Bundesliga club. Now the fourth choice of the foal will hold the office.