Changes to coaching and analysis staff | OneFootball

Xaver Zembrod and Jan Fießer have joined head coach Dino Toppmöller’s staff with immediate effect, while Erwin Bradasch has left the club.

New Eintracht assistant coach Xaver Zembrod comes with a wealth of experience. After a career as a player, he worked as an assistant for a number of Germany’s national youth teams before being named as a support coordinator for the German Football Association and a youth coach for the regional association of his native Baden-Württemberg.

He then went on to work with youth teams at TSG Hoffenheim and SC Freiburg, and was head coach of the latter’s reserve side from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 to 2023, the 57-year-old was assistant coach at Hannover 96, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Leipzig and FC Bayern München, working closely with Eintracht head coach Dino Toppmöller at the last two clubs.

Jan Fießer will also be joining the Eintracht Frankfurt coaching staff. Born in Heidelberg, he played for Frankfurt’s U17s and U19s, and from 2017 to 2020 was assistant and then head coach of those two youth teams. Most recently, Fießer was assistant coach at VfL Bochum under Thomas Letsch, with whom he had also successfully worked at Dutch Eredivisie side Vitesse Arnhem.

Erwin Bradasch, meanwhile, has left the Eintracht Frankfurt coaching staff.

“We are delighted to be strengthening our coaching staff with the arrivals of Xaver Zembrod and Jan Fießer,” said sporting director Timmo Hardung. “Both of them have many years of experience and expertise and are ideal additions to the team, both in terms of their skills and their personalities. Meanwhile, we would like to thank Erwin Bradasch for his work with us and wish him all the very best for the future.”

There are also some changes to the analysis staff, with Sebastian Saglimbeni and Niklas Lanwehr moving on from Eintracht. Their positions are filled by Maximilian Steiger, who was previously match and video analyst for Eintracht’s U21s, and Yannick Herkommer, former match and video analyst at VfB Stuttgart and most recently FC Basel.