Eintracht Frankfurt: Joti Chatzialexiou becomes the new sports director

“It is important to me not to leave overnight, but rather to set the course for a successful future for the club together with my successor,” said Chatzialexiou in a statement from the second division club. »The request from Frankfurt is a very special one for me because it is my hometown club. Otherwise I wouldn’t have thought about leaving the club.”

The Frankfurters parted ways with Krösche in the middle of this month. The 50-year-old Chatzialexiou has now signed a contract until June 30, 2030. In his contract with the Franks, which runs until 2028, he had an exit clause for a move to Frankfurt. The Frankfurt native used to be a youth coach there. He then made a career for the German Football Association. In the summer of 2024 he moved to 1. FC Nürnberg as sports director.

Chatzialexiou made a lot of changes there, especially in terms of personnel. In the third year, the nine-time German champions are fighting for promotion under Klose. Before the second division team's away game at FC St. Pauli on Sunday (1:30 p.m.) Nuremberg coach Miroslav Klose had already confirmed the departure. “I officially found out about it this morning,” said Klose, whom Chatzialexiou brought to Nuremberg as a coach in the summer of 2024.

»We were very close on many issues. And of course he was a close confidant," said Klose: "But that's completely normal in the business that changes take place." He is convinced and has trust in the club that they will find a sensible successor. Nuremberg wants to present this in the coming days.

As the “Frankfurter Rundschau” reported, the transfer fee for Chatzialexiou is said to be less than one million euros. The official of the second division club had this stipulated when he extended his contract at the beginning of August.

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