- Markus Anfang signs two-year deal to coach third-tier side Dynamo Dresden.
- Former coach used forged documents to claim he was vaccinated against Covid.
- German FA ban him for one year.
Markus Anfang who was banned from football for using fake documents to falsely claim he was vaccinated against Covid, will take charge of third-tier side Dynamo Dresden, it was announced Friday.
Seven months after he quit Werder Bremen in the midst of the scandal, Anfang has signed a two-year deal to coach Dresden, who have just been relegated from Germany’s second division.
“I am very grateful to those responsible at Dynamo Dresden for this opportunity,” Anfang said in a club statement.
He resigned from Bremen last November after it emerged he and his assistant coach Florian Junge, who also joins him at Dresden, used forged certificates to avoid quarantine as contact cases.
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A district court in Bremen fined Anfang 36,000 euros ($38,169) last February, but he escaped having a criminal record.
In January, Anfang had also been fined 20,000 euros and banned by the German Football Association (DFB) for one year, back dated to last November, but suspended from 10 June (Friday).
Dynamo sports director Ralf Becker, who worked alongside Anfang at second-division club Holstein Kiel from 2016-18, said confidence in the new head coach’s qualities outweighed any reservations.
“For us, it was crucial that he openly and honestly admitted his past misconduct and sincerely regretted it,” Becker explained.
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“Everyone makes mistakes. Markus has taken responsibility for his and rightly been punished.
“We are convinced that we have found the right man.”
