New coach for talents: Henri Fuchs leads Rot-Weiß Erfurt to the climb!

New coach for talents: Henri Fuchs leads Rot-Weiß Erfurt to the climb!

Erfurt, Deutschland - On July 1, 2025, Rot-Weiß Erfurt has a significant fresh start. The football club not only plans to climb from the regional league to the third division, but also focus on strengthening its young talent center (NLZ) in order to optimally train talents and to equip them for the future. Henri Fuchs, an experienced football professional and trainer, takes on a key role in the NLZ as a coach developer: The 55-year-old is the owner of the UEFA Pro license, the highest coaching license in European football. This license is crucial for the status of the NLZ, because in order to maintain it, a sporting employee has to be employed full -time with this license, explains Thuringia24.

Fuchs not only brings his extensive experience, which he collected both as a player, with around 60 competitive games for Red-Weiß Erfurt, as well as as a trainer in different positions. Most recently, he led Energie Cottbus' youth department and is not afraid to contribute his knowledge to the football training of the youth at the traditional club of Erfurt.

new management team and goals

The NLZ is reorganized under the new sporting direction of Fuchs. Oliver Ruhe takes over the organizational management of the NLZ, while Karsten Voigt takes responsibility for the U11 to U15 teams. Together with the coach of the first team, Thomas Brdaric, they are working on optimizing the basic structures in the youth area. The management team also plans to promote the recertification of the 2-star NLZ, which is enormous for young talent work, as is emphasized on the Red-Weiß Erfurt website.

The goal of this restructuring is clear: The football training of the youth is to be significantly improved and enable the most talented players of the U19 to be permeable to the professional sector. This is a step that is of great importance for the development of young talents, and it turns out that the club is really picking up speed here. "I am looking forward to the upcoming tasks and the new beginning in the NLZ," says Fuchs optimistically.

licensing and requirements

An important aspect that Henri Fuchs brings as a current commitment is the UEFA Pro license. This top -class qualification is required for trainers in the highest national leagues and international professional football. The license is the result of a complex training process that not only requires profound specialist knowledge, but also skills in team leadership and media work. The necessity of such a license reflects the growing professionalism in football.

The importance of the coaching licenses in Europe underlines the strict requirements that are placed on current and future trainers: from starting with the UEFA C license to the highest level, the UEFA PRO license, numerous hurdles are to be overcome that define their way into the management levels of football. This shows how important it is to train well -founded trainers in order to secure the qualification in the youth area, according to Zone14.ai.

The U17 and U19 teams of Rot-Weiß Erfurt will continue to play in the DFB youth league, which is also considered a significant step. An exciting future is waiting for the club here, and the fans can be excited to see which talents are forged in the Erfurt youth performance center.