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Coach fired

Nancy IsensonJanuary 25, 2010

Defending German soccer champions VfL Wolfsburg have fired coach Armin Veh after a winless streak of seven games, and only half a season at the club.

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Wolfsburg's coach Armin Veh
Armin Veh failed to live up to expectationsImage: AP

Wolfsburg coach Armin Veh has become the latest managerial casualty of the Bundesliga season. The club's decision to dismiss coach Veh on Monday followed a 3-2 home defeat by Cologne on Sunday, and the team's failure to win a league match at all since November.

Wolfsburg dropped to 10th place in the Bundesliga, 17 points off the top, after their defeat against Cologne.

"Unfortunately the results did not come. We were not convinced any more that the situation could change in the near future with Veh," sports director Dieter Hoeness said.

The club said reserve team trainer Lorenz-Guenther Koestner has been appointed caretaker coach. Former Real Madrid coach Bernd Schuster is being touted as a possible successor, German media reported.

Armin Veh, who steered VfB Stuttgart to the championship title in 2007, had replaced Felix Magath as coach, at the start of this season.

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