Nowotny completes U-18 coaching team at the DFB kicker

The former national player will serve together with Guido Stringbier and Gunther Metz the vintage 2004. He performs his new task on 1 August. "I'm really looking forward to the coming time and work with the talents and the coaching team. In football and also after my professional career, I have experienced a lot from which I believe that I can do it well and benefit it from it," If the 47-year-old is quoted on the association website.

The DFB officers impressed "especially the clear focus on content", says in the message. Nowotny himself says: "I do not plan to start a professional career as a coach. All the higher are my ambitions to convey young people on their way to the professional content and to give something back in football in this role."

Nowotny graduated between 1992 and 2006 334 Bundesliga games for his training club Karlsruhe SC and Bayer Leverkusen. In addition, he ran from 1997 to 2006 in 48 international matches for Germany. He participated in the European Championships 2000 and 2004 as well as at the 2006 home World Cup. After a semi-annual guest match at Dinamo Zagreb, in January 2007 he finished his active career, even because the defender has repeatedly been plagued and braked by injuries.

According to his career, he was involved, among other things, in young and youth football and acted as ambassadors of the Sepp-Herberger Foundation.