The former German player has been named as the new sporting director of the River Islanders
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/SV-Werder-Bremen-c40666 have unveiled Thomas Eichin as their new director of sport. He is currently the general manager of the German DEL ice hockey team Kolner Haie. He has a similar role at the Koln based club and will fill-in the vacated
place of Klaus Allofs, who departed the team last month to join fierce rivals, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/VfL-Wolfsburg-c40881.
The retired defender will start work at Weserstadion outfit in the spring, when the ice hockey season will conclude. Club chairman Willi Lemke has approved the new athletic supervisor and said he expects a good future for the club
under him.
The club official had previously claimed that he would find a suitable replacement for Klaus Allofs and he has succeeded in his attempts with the appointment of Eichin. He further added that the former Borussia Monchengladbach
and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/1-FC-Nuremberg-c38162 star was on their wish-list right from the start.
"We had announced that we would find a smart solution to succeed Klaus Allofs and we have found it with Thomas Eichin," the UN advisor was quoted as saying in an interview.
Lemke stated that the Green-Whites have found a good professional in Thomas as he has vast experience for a http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 of this nature. Moreover, he said that the newly-appointed man is a great negotiator, has good knowledge about the
German League and can withstand the pressures of a big club like Werder.
"He was on our shortlist from the very beginning and fits perfectly into the profile we had drawn up given his previous experience,” the Ambassador for Peace and Sport mused.
"He is an experienced negotiator; he knows the Bundesliga and has proven in the ice hockey world that he can survive the highs and lows at the top of a club with a great tradition," he finally concluded.
Eichin’s official appointment will be announced on Monday. He worked 13 years for the Koln Sharks after he hung up his boots.
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