{"id":81072,"date":"2026-05-12T23:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81072\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T23:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:18:24","slug":"the-future-of-german-football-kovac-speaks-highly-of-reported-dortmund-target-eichhorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81072\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe future of German football\u201d \u2013 Kovac speaks highly of reported Dortmund target Eichhorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/hertha-bsc-168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hertha BSC<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/kennet-eichhorn-625266\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kennet Eichhorn<\/a> faces a major decision regarding his future heading into the summer transfer window, with a long list of European top clubs reportedly interested in signing him.<\/p>\n<p>With Borussia Dortmund among his reported suitors, head coach Niko Kova\u010d was recently asked about Eichhorn on the Bild podcast \u2018Phrasenm\u00e4her\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>While Kova\u010d avoided going too much into detail out of respect for the player\u2019s contract situation, he still made clear how highly he rates the 16-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to talk about players from other clubs, but we do have something in common: he is a Hertha player, I was a Hertha player,\u201d Kova\u010d said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a great player who has huge potential and, like a few others, is the future of German football,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Eichhorn, who has a \u20ac10-12 million release clause in his contract, has enjoyed a breakthrough season with Hertha and has made 18 appearances for the 2. Bundesliga side so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"16-year-old Hertha BSC midfielder Kennet Eichhorn faces a major decision regarding his future heading into the summer transfer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190],"class_list":{"0":"post-81072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116564165248030740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}