RB Leipzig appoint Jesse Marsch as next head coach to replace Julian Nagelsmann
Jesse Marsch returns to RB Leipzig having previously been assistant manager under Ralf Rangnick before moving to manage RB Salzburg
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Your support makes all the difference.RB Leipzig have appointed American coach Jesse Marsch as their next manager, who will replace Julian Nagelsmann when he joins Bayern Munich this summer.
Marsch knows Leipzig well having been assistant manager to Ralf Rangnick in 2018-19 before moving to Leipzig’s sister club Red Bull Salzburg. At Salzburg he won the Austrian Bundesliga and Cup double in 2019-20, spearheaded by a prodigious Erling Haaland, and the club are on course to win the title again this season.
In the same season, a half-time teamtalk Marsch delivered during a Champions League game at Anfield went viral for his furious bilingual rant which mixed pieces of the German language with profane English. The speech stirred his side to come back from 3-0 down to 3-3, before Mohamed Salah’s late winner for Liverpool, and Salzburg finished third in the group.
Marsch, 47, has previously coach in Major League Soccer with Montreal Impact and another club in the franchise, New York Red Bulls.
Oliver Mintzlaff, RB Leipzig’s CEO, said: “In Jesse Marsch, we have been able to recruit our main head coach target and quickly fill the most important position in the sporting side of the club with a top coach. We’re looking forward to working with Jesse and to continuing our successful path and development with him.”
Nagelsmann will depart Leipzig in the summer to take up a five-year contract at Bayern Munich, when Hansi Flick steps up to replace Joachim Low as the head coach of Germany following Euro 2020.
Under Nagelsmann Leipzig have grown into the best of the rest in German football. They reached the Champions League semi-finals last year where they were knocked out by Paris Saint-Germain, and they are currently second in the Bundesliga, seven points behind reigning champions Bayern with five games to play.
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