(FILES) This file photo taken on May 24, 2017 shows Ajax Dutch head coach Peter Bosz prior to the UEFA Europa League final football match Ajax Amsterdam v Manchester United at the Friends Arena in Solna outside Stockholm. Peter Bosz was on June 6, 2017 named the new coach of Borussia Dortmund. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN
“Peter Bosz is the new BVB Head Coach. Contract will last until 2019. Further info in a press conference this afternoon,” Dortmund said on their English-language Twitter account.
Bosz, 53, arrives from Ajax after leading the Dutch side to the final of the Europa League, where they lost 2-0 to Manchester United last month.
Briefly a player in Germany with Hansa Rostock in the 1990s, he replaces Thomas Tuchel, who was sacked despite Dortmund winning the German Cup — their first major silverware in five years — and finishing third in the Bundesliga in the season just finished.
Switzerland’s Lucien Favre, formerly in charge at Borussia Moenchengladbach, had been linked with a return to the German game with Dortmund but his current side Nice refused to let him go.
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