{"id":84362,"date":"2026-05-17T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/84362\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:27:10","slug":"horst-steffen-among-five-candidates-for-1-fc-union-berlin-coaching-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/84362\/","title":{"rendered":"Horst Steffen among five candidates for 1.FC Union Berlin coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Marie-Louise Eta to depart in summer, Sport Bild has identified four coaching candidates to take over at 1.FC Union Berlin. Bild lists four possible alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sky Germany, Mauro Lustrinelli, who achieved a sensational success in Switzerland this season, bringing newly promoted FC Thun to the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old Swiss coach will likely take the next step in his career this summer, and a move to Union Berlin would see him follow a similar path to that of Urs Fischer.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Eichner is another candidate, who will leave Karlsruher SC after more than six years following the season. Talks with the 43-year-old have been ongoing for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Horst Steffen \u2013 most recently in the dugout at <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/teams\/sv-werder-bremen\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Werder Bremen;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Werder Bremen&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Werder Bremen<\/a> \u2013 is, alongside Eichner, is another favourite option at the Alte F\u00f6rsterei despite also being linked with 1.FC K\u00f6ln.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ren\u00e9 Wagner is currently in charge at K\u00f6ln, but it&#8217;s unknown whether the interim coach will be promoted to head coach. If not, Berlin could present a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the tabloid lists Andr\u00e9 Breitenreiter, most formerly of Hannover 96, but gives the 52-year-old a similarly slim chance of getting the job at the K\u00f6penick club.<\/p>\n<p>Like Steffen, Breitenreiter is currently without a club and knows Union&#8217;s managing director of professional football, Horst Heldt, from time together at Hannover and FC Schalke 04.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Marie-Louise Eta to depart in summer, Sport Bild has identified four coaching candidates to take over at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,33298,44967,44965,190,25670,44964,33232,33299,44966,36468,2353,6187],"class_list":["post-84362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-christian-eichner","tag-fc-schalke-04","tag-fc-thun","tag-germany","tag-horst-heldt","tag-horst-steffen","tag-interim-coach","tag-karlsruher-sc","tag-mauro-lustrinelli","tag-sport-bild","tag-union-berlin","tag-werder-bremen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116589208887582990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84362","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=84362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}