Chaos at SV Waldhof Mannheim: The president of the third division, Bernd Breetz, has taken a position on the kicking out of sports director Jochen Kientz. He concealed a positive corona test.
“Silence or not, I’m now bursting my collar. A corona test was kept secret. Employees were instructed not to inform the management,” said Breetz at a fan question and answer session and added: “That was a very clear violation there the supervisory board could not react differently. “
Actually, the club had agreed not to give any exact details. “There was an incident,” Beetz said cautiously on Wednesday in the run-up to the cup game against Union Berlin, but did not comment on the exact reasons for Kientz’s dismissal.
The incident came to light because an employee could no longer withstand the pressure and a few days later informed the management, Beetz added: “The managing director (Markus Kompp, editor) then informed the supervisory board, and we did Immediately reported to the DFB and the health department because a threatened point deduction was not an option. “
Subsequently, the supervisory board had “no other choice” than to release Kientz. Initially, the separation was justified with the “latest developments”. It is not known whether the secret case was the trigger for the corona outbreak within the team in mid-October with up to 17 infected players.
Waldhof Mannheim: Kientz hires lawyer Schickhardt
Kientz has now hired lawyer Christoph Schickhardt. “The allegations are so serious and at first glance so baseless that I will now do a thorough examination again before we can give an opinion on it,” said the sports lawyer in the Rheinpfalz.
Breetz had committed a “gross violation of labor law guidelines” with his statements, added Schickhardt: “The association will have to compensate for the damage to reputation that Mr. Kientz has suffered as a result.”
Despite the exemption, Breetz emphasized that he had “worked very well together” with Kientz: “He did a good job and put together a great team.”
