Being a football coach is a risky job almost everywhere, but in Schalke 04 is even more true. After Karel Geraerts, successor Kees Van Wonderen experienced it. The Dutchman and Schalke 04 separate with immediate effect, the German club announced through its own channels.
Supporters pressure
The fallen superpower had already made it known that she would break with him at the end of the current season, but Saturday morning, the announcement fell: the story was over with immediate effect. Two days before the end of the 2. Bundesliga, it was decided that Van Wonderen would not leave Schalke at the end of the season, but with immediate effect.
The disappointing results and the growing pressure of supporters have become fatals for Dutch. After the defeat against Paderborn (0-2), the curtain therefore came across Van Wonderen. Deputy Robert Molenaar must also withdraw.
Van Wonderen was the successor of Geraerts to Gelsenkirchen, who was thanked on September 21. Geraerts himself spent a little less than a year in Schalke.
12 coaches since 2020
Schalke occupies a disappointing 13th place in the German second division. Since September 2020, 12 coaches have followed one another at the head of the German club, which means that next season, a new coach will still be at the head of the team. In the meantime, Schalke will apply a familiar recipe: Fimpel will end the rest of the season (once again) as an temporary coach.
