Austria Vienna: New assistant coach for Manfred Schmid

The OK Austria Vienna found a new assistant trainer for the Manfred Schmidt team. Mark McCormick (42), last head coach of the U18 of the Austria Academy team, immediately pushes to the team and is already in the case of training start.

We already know each other for a very long time, were always in exchange, explains Manfred Schmidt, who could get his wish candidate with the Scots. He has followed McCormick's development very closely as a coach. We have the same idea of ​​football, yet he will bring new aspects into the daily work again. He fits very well in our team with his kind, and we again promote someone from their own offspring.

Austria-sports director Manuel Ortlechner: Mark is certainly a very good solution. He has been with us in the academy for several years and has done a great job there in the summer. We have already stated some positions with internal people in the summer, Mark now has the chance Packed on the screw.

McCormick itself says, I am pleased to be part of this energetic coaching staff now. You realize in the entire club that here are very many young, hungry people at the work — that's very attractive. I'm the next one, so to speak From your own academy comes — and I know that we have a lot of quality there. We are all ready to go this, our way to go and believe it.

Before the U18 (July 2021 until now) Mark McCormick was a season head coach of the U16, previously co-coach of the U18 — together with CEM Sekerlioglu, which is also part of the coach team of Manfred Schmidt — and the U15 in our academy.

Before that he was also training manager at AFC Sunderland and as coach with clubs in Australia (Northern Tigers, Western Spirit).

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Reinhold BEU left the coaching staff of the OK Austria Wien at the end of December at its own request, now acts as a technical director at the football association in Lithuania.