Bottom-placed Stuttgart sack sports director Bobic

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former German champions VfB Stuttgart have parted ways with sports director Fredi Bobic following a disastrous start to the season in which they have sunk to the bottom of the table, the club said on Wednesday.

Bottom-placed Stuttgart sack sports director Bobic

(Reuters)





Hours before Stuttgart play Borussia Dortmund, Stuttgart bosses said the bad run in the league with just one point from four matches was the main reason for his departure.

"What was decisive in this decision was the continuing negative trend as well as that with the current personnel there were no more prospects of a sustained development," club boss Joachim Schmidt said in a statement.

The 42-year-old Bobic, a former Germany international who played at Stuttgart for five years, had been in his post since 2010.

Stuttgart, Bundesliga champions in 2007 and German Cup finalists in 2013, have lost three and drawn one of their league games.





(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Ed Osmond)


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