Since the dismissal of Beijing Guoan in the middle of the season last year, 7 months have passed, and the German coach Schmidt has finally ended his unemployment. Eredivisie giants Eindhoven have decided not to renew their contract with manager Faber at the end of the season, looking for a manager for the new season in February. According to Eindhoven General Manager Johann De Jong, Schmidt is their preferred target and he is very pleased that Schmidt is willing to accept an invitation from the Netherlands to officially become Eindhoven's head coach this summer.
The current Eindhoven manager Ernst Faber was originally the head of youth training at Eindhoven, and at the end of last year he replaced former Dutch star Van Bommel, who led the team's poor results, as the team's firefighting coach. Compared with Koku, who is also a defender, Van Bomel's coaching ability is obviously insufficient, Koku led the team to win 3 league titles in 5 years, Van Bomel initially led the team to a good performance, once 9 unbeaten, but then 4 games without a win, 2 consecutive times more than 3 goals to the opponent, in the last game of the first half of December, 1-3 away to Feyenoord made Eindhoven executives completely desperate.
Schmidt will take over from Eindhoven at the end of the season and Faber will return to his role as head of the Academy. At present, Eindhoven has 49 points from 14 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses in 26 rounds, temporarily ranking 4th in the Dutch First Division. Unfortunately, due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Dutch first was forced to suspend 2 rounds, and the future is unpredictable. However, Eindhoven has found a helmsman for the new season for the team, and the 52-year-old Schmidt signed Aindhoven for two years to lead the Dutch southern giants back to the championship. In fact, this is not the first time that Schmidt has had a scandal with Dutch football, in February 2014, his Red Bull Salzburg doubled Ajax at home and away in the Europa League 1/16 final, scoring 3 goals in each game, shocking Dutch football. As early as his time in charge of Red Bull Salzburg and Bayer Leverkusen, he had received olive branches including Alkmaar, Feyenoord and even the Dutch Football Association, but in the end they did not make the trip. This time, Schmidt realized his Dutch football dream.
In fact, since Van Bommel left school at the end of last year, Eindhoven has had substantial contact with Schmidt. Sporting Director Johan De Jong revealed that when he was a club scout, he had watched the games between Red Bull Salzburg and Bayer Leverkusen, coached by Schmidt, and schmidt's seemingly inexhaustible passion shocked him again and again, and he firmly believed that Schmidt was the best candidate. Schmidt has watched all of Eindhoven's matches over the past few months, and on 2 February Eindhoven away to Ajax, he even came to the Cruyff Stadium to watch. Although the team lost 0-1, Schmidt gained a deeper understanding of the Rosso. Eindhoven's last foreign coaching was back to the 2002-2003 season, when the head coach was the Belgian Goretz, Who led the team for three years from the summer of 1999, winning 2 Eredivisie titles and 2 Super Cups, after which Eindhoven experienced 12 local coaches and finally appeared foreign coaches.
At the press conference announcing the signing, Schmidt also expressed his admiration for Eindhoven: "Here I immediately think of great strikers such as Ronaldo, Romario, Van Nistelroe," In fact, the foreign coaches in Eindhoven's history are very famous, England star Bobby Robson has twice coached, the last German foreign coach was Kurt Lindell, who led the team for four seasons from 1968 to 1972. This time, Schmidt took wolff, his assistant coach at Bayer Leverkusen and Beijing Guoan.