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Tarnat relies on Aue's potential - advisors offer players

Tarnat relies on Aue's potential - advisors offer players
Aue's new sports managing director Michael Tarnat is fighting relegation with the third-division soccer club / Photo: Matthias Koch/dpa
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Michael Tarnat sees great potential in third-division soccer club Erzgebirge Aue. When it became clear that the ex-national team player would be the new sporting director, there were a few calls.

Aue's new sporting director Michael Tarnat believes the relegation-threatened third-division soccer club is capable of much more than the current position in the table would suggest. "I know that there is incredible quality in the dressing room. I am convinced that the team is better than its position in the table," said the former German international at his presentation. After 19 match days, the Saxons are in 16th place.

The Aue fans are hoping for added value from Tarnat's broad network in particular. "A lot" of advisors have already contacted him in the past few days. "After it became known that I was doing this here, I received a lot of congratulations for the new year and then they directly said, I have a player there," reported the 56-year-old.

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Away game in Rostock on 17 January

Tarnat won the Champions League with FC Bayern in 2001 and was head of the youth training center at Munich and Hannover 96 after his active career. Most recently, he lived in the Bavarian capital. "Everyone told me it's a culture shock when you come from the big city, but I don't feel that way at all. The Mulde flows through the city - at first I thought it was the Isar," joked Tarnat.

Zerzgebirge Aue kick off their winter break with an away game at Hansa Rostock on January 17.

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