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Rachid Azzouzi about to return: New sports director for Alemannia Aachen!
Alemannia Aachen signs Rachid Azzouzi as its new sports director. Background and details about the experienced manager’s career.
Rachid Azzouzi about to return: New sports director for Alemannia Aachen!
After a long search, Alemannia Aachen finally seems to have found what it was looking for. Rachid Azzouzi is about to take over the position of sports director at the traditional club. This information reports kicker.de. Azzouzi, who was born in Morocco and grew up in Alsdorf, just a few kilometers from Aachen, has an impressive career and many years of experience in the German leagues.
He began his playing career at Hertha and Alemannia Mariadorf before moving to 1. FC Köln in 1988. Azzouzi subsequently played for MSV Duisburg from 1989 to 1995 and later for Fortuna Köln and SpVgg Greuther Fürth, where he ended his active career in 2004. In total, he can look back on over 260 second division games and 30 goals, and he also played for the Moroccan national team at two World Cups. A short trip even took him to China, where he played for Chongqing Lifan Wikipedia reported.
The challenge in Aachen
Alemannia Aachen has to clarify the successor to Sascha Eller, who left the team after being relegated. The team also currently has a vacant managing director position that is still unfilled. Ralf Bündgen acted on an interim basis, but was released after just six weeks. Stephan Kaulartz is currently overseeing the business, while President Björn Jansen already has a new managing director candidate in mind de.m.wikipedia.org.
Azzouzi can look back on broad experience in sports management. After his active career, he was, among other things, sports director at SpVgg Greuther Fürth and FC St. Pauli. His last stop was also Greuther Fürth, where he completed his second term in office in October 2022, having held the office from 2007 to 2012.
A collaboration with Erdal Celik, who is currently responsible for squad planning and will support Azzouzi, should be particularly valuable in Aachen. This could set the course for a stable sporting future under Azzouzi's leadership.
The coming period will be crucial because Alemannia Aachen has great ambitions to firmly establish itself again in the regional league after the recent upheavals. The fans can be curious to see whether Azzouzi can provide the necessary impetus to lead the club into a successful future.