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American coach Marsch to take over at German team Leipzig

LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) Bull Salzburg on a two-year
— Jesse Marsch will take contract until June 2023. Marsch, a former player who
over at German soccer made two appearances for the
team Leipzig next season Marsch will take over from United States national team,
in one of the most promi- Julian Nagelsmann, who was the first American to
nent jobs for an American agreed Tuesday to replace coach a team in the Champi-
coach in European club from Hansi Flick at Bayern ons League. He helped Salz-
soccer. Munich. Flick is expected to burg win the Austrian league
coach the German national and cup double last season
The Bundesliga club said team after Joachim Löw steps and could repeat the feat this
Thursday that Marsch will down following this year's year.
switch from sister club Red European Championship. his positively ambitious style,
Marsch is following a well- which he uses to motivate Leipzig is in second place in
worn path from Salzburg to and engage the people and the Bundesliga and virtu-
Iran gets 4-year ban from Saxony. Leipzig signed Hun- around the club." ally assured of playing in the
garian midfielder Dominik
Champions League next sea-
world judo over anti-Israel Szoboszlai from Salzburg last Marsch said he was looking son.
forward to reuniting with
December in the 18th trans-
policy fer between the two clubs younger players where "I Marsch will be the second
had a role in their education" American coach in the Ger-
funded by energy drink com-
pany Red Bull. during his spell as assistant man league along with Pel-
LAUSANNE, Switzerland its rules on discrimination coach. legrino Matarazzo, who has
(AP) — Iran was suspend- and accepts to compete with Marsch spent the 2018-19 taken Stuttgart to 10th place
ed by judo's world govern- Israel. season as an assistant coach at "Obviously Leipzig is a team in its first season since pro-
ing body on Thursday as Leipzig under Ralf Rangnick, I know very, very well," he motion.
punishment for refusing The IJF said Thursday it helping the club reach the said. "I think it's a super
to let its athletes face op- "continues to defend the German Cup final and fin- group with so much quality." Other American coaches who
ponents from Israel. fundamental human values ish third in the Bundesliga in have worked in Europe's top
2019. The 47-year-old Amer-
and rights of all its mem- Nagelsmann said he was leagues include Bob Brad-
The International Judo Fed- bers, with a special emphasis ican previously coached the happy that his successor was ley, who had Marsch as an
New York Red Bulls in MLS found so quickly and he assistant while coaching the
eration imposed a four-year on the rights of athletes and
ban after the Court of Ar- reiterates its commitment to from 2015-18. He was coach backed Marsch to continue United States national team
of the year in 2015.
bitration for Sport ordered fight against any form of dis- the club's development. in 2010-11. Bradley coached
then-Premier League club
a disciplinary review last crimination in the sport of "Jesse knows the club, the "I see how Salzburg play and Swansea in 2016. Jürgen
month which said a previ- judo."
ous indefinite ban was not city of Leipzig and, above all, I've heard how he worked as Klinsmann represented Ger-
the club and playing philoso-
allowed. Until the Iranian policy to- an assistant to Ralf (Rang- many as a player but was a
ward Israel changes, its ju- phy," Leipzig CEO Oliver nick)," Nagelsmann said. U.S. national by the time
The CAS judges had been dokas cannot compete at Mintzlaff said. "Alongside "He's a very emotional coach he coached Bundesliga club

tough on Iranian officials IJF events, including world his qualities as a coach, Jesse with a good connection to his Hertha Berlin in 2019-20.
is characterized above all by players."
from the national Olympic championships, and officials
and judo bodies and govern- cannot take part in the world
ment sports ministry, saying governing body's work.
the case "clearly reveals an
institutionalized scheme" to The ban does not affect Ira-
prevent athletes facing Israe- nian judokas going to the To-
lis. kyo Olympics because that
team is sent by the national
The case began when for- Olympic body and not the
mer world champion Saeid national judo federation.
Mollaei left the Iranian team
in 2019, claiming he was or- Iranian officials can again
dered to lose world champi- challenge the IJF verdict at
onships matches to avoid fac- CAS.
ing Israelis.
Mollaei fled to Germany in
The ban — backdated to start 2019 and has since switched
in 2019 and run into Sep- national eligibility to com-
tember 2023 — is provisional pete for Mongolia in a move
and can be lifted if the Ira- approved by the Internation-
nian judo federation respects al Olympic Committee.