Vedad Ibisevic Back to Hertha BSC - as coach - Hertha

Vedad Ibisevic (36) is back in the Bundesliga. The former topstürmer (344 BL-games, 127 Goals) again works again for Hertha BSC - but not as a player: how the Berliner announced on Wednesday, the from Friday 37-year-old ex-captains with immediate effect offensive coach for the professionals and in the Offspring.

"The club is very close to my heart since my time here in Berlin," says Ibisevic, who has been a job since his contract resolution at FC Schalke in December 2020 without a job and has now officially finished his profile collision. "I feel as Herthaner and am happy and grateful that I can take this task now."

Dardai: "Ibisevic already as a player my extended arm"

Hertha Managing Director Fredi Bobic is looking forward to being involved with Ibisevic a "other Herthaner in the club". The 83-colored international Bosnia-Herzegovina had met 56 times between 2015 and 2020 in 159 competitions for the "Old Lady". "I am convinced that he will help with his experience and qualities as a former topstürmer to make our offensive players even better in the professional and performance area," says Bobic.

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For coach Pal Dardai, Ibisevic "already at his time as a player my extended arm in the square. He is a leadership, I am looking forward to working with him and on his input as a trainer for this important area. We can do this as a whole even more individual figures. "

Ibisevic reported by "good talks" with Hertha guidance - "especially with Fredi and Pal" - had changed from Dijon to Alemannia Aachen in 2006 and had no longer left German professional football. About the TSG Hoffenheim, for which he met 18 times after the Bundesliga rise in 2008 in the Bundesliga First Round, before he ripped the cruciate ligament, he finally landed at VfB Stuttgart and 2015 at Hertha BSC in 2011. When his contract was no longer extended there 2020, he closed a release-free Schalke in September, but made only four Bundesliga games for the later relegated.