Maribor-born Fredi Bobič takes on an important role in Germany: he will replace Oliver Bierhoff as national team director
Fredi Bobič is a German football legend. He scored 10 goals in 37 games for the national team, and has also played for Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund. In his club career, he played 502 matches and scored a staggering 197 goals. What many people don’t know is that Fredi Bobič also has Slovenian roots.
After all, he was born in
Maribor
where his father is from. Bobic’s mother is Croatian, and the family moved to Germany a few months after Fredi’s birth. Bobič has never hidden his Slovenian roots, although it is interesting that many media have always misspelled his surname. Fredi is not Bobić, but Bobič…
Bierhoff quits after failure in Qatar
However, the once successful striker remained loyal to football even after his career ended. Initially, he was based in Bulgaria, where he was a director of Black Sea. He later became sporting director, a role he held at Stuttgart, Eintracht and Hertha. He moved to Berlin in 2021, and after only a year and a half he is leaving his office in the Hertha club premises. It is moving to
Football Association of Germany
(DFB), replacing Oliver Bierhoff.
Bierhoff left his position as national team director after the failure at the World Championships in Qatar, and after 18 long years, he said goodbye to the DFB. Bobič is expected to replace him, although the news has not yet been officially confirmed. But all major German media claim that it is only a matter of time before Bobic’s move from Hertha to the Federation is confirmed from the DFB premises.
This text was automatically translated using AI.
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