FC Bayern brings in national basketball coach and world champion maker Gordon Herbert from the DBB

Herbert from DBB to Munich
FC Bayern signs national coach and world champion maker

With the German basketball team, Gordon Herbert first won European Championship bronze and then sensationally won the World Championship title. After the Olympic tournament, he is looking for a new challenge. What that looks like is now clear: the Canadian is moving to FC Bayern Munich.

Germany’s world champion coach Gordon Herbert will take over as coach of Bayern Munich’s basketball team next season. As the German champions announced, the 65-year-old has signed a two-year contract until 2026. The news comes shortly before the basketball team’s start at the Summer Games in Paris on Saturday (1 p.m./ARD, Eurosport and in the ntv.de live ticker) against Japan.

Herbert said of his new role: “I am very honoured to be the coach of a club like Bayern Munich, one of the biggest and best organised sports brands in the world.” This is a special moment “for which I will sacrifice myself.” The Canadian emphasised that his current focus is “100 per cent” on the national team.

The Bavarian double winner also wants to take the Olympic mission into consideration and is therefore refraining from “any communication about the new season beyond this announcement,” it said. Bayern President Herbert Hainer described Herbert as a “dream solution.”

Four Bayern stars are with Herbert in Paris

The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) is also meeting the obligation: National coaches must actually take a three-month break before taking over a BBL team. On Wednesday, the league announced that this rule does not have to be implemented “bindingly”, as the clubs had agreed to this in a digital meeting. The regulation is now being reconsidered. Herbert can therefore start straight away.

Herbert’s predecessor Pablo Laso unexpectedly asked to terminate his contract with Bayern in June and left the club. FCBB managing director Marko Pešić therefore explained that it had been a challenge to find a coach who could also handle the planned commitments: “It was obvious that it could end up being Gordie, if there was an opportunity, because he already knows some of the players and the league.”

Next season, four players under contract in Munich – Niels Giffey, Andreas Obst, Oscar da Silva and Nick Weiler-Babb – who are currently in Paris with the national team, are under contract in Munich. The selection of the German Basketball Association (DBB) is aiming for its third medal in three years in Paris after last year’s World Cup triumph and third place at the 2022 European Championships.

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