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German DFB Cup winners Borussia Dortmund this afternoon unveiled Peter Bosz as their new Head Coach. The Dutchman, whose contract will initially run for two years until June 2019 will take over the reins on July 1.
Dortmund had other coaches in mind when they were looking for a replacement of highly successful Thomas Tuchel, but Lucien Favre or Julian Nagelsmann didn’t get a release, while other candidates didn’t fully fit the clubs requirements, which Peter Bosz in the end did.
Bosz has just completed a very successful season as the Head Coach of Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam, where he came in second in the Dutch Eredivision one point behind his former club Feyenoord Rotterdam and he also reached the final of the UEFA Europa League with Ajax.
As a player Peter Bosz made 310 appearances as a professional in the 1990’s, where he played in the Eredivisie, the UEFA Champions League and also 14 games for Hansa Rostock in the Bundesliga. He took part in the 1992 European Championships and played a total of eight international matches for the Dutch national side. In 1993 he won the Championship with Feyenoord and all in all he won the Dutch Cup on three occasions.
Borussia Dortmund and their new Head Coach from the Netherlands share a vision of the way the game should be played and a passion for working with youngsters and helping them to develop. Bosz is a firm follower of the footballing philosophy founded by legendary compatriot Johan Cruyff, who was in charge of Bosz’s former club Ajax between 1985 and 1996 before spending eight years with Catalan giants FC Barcelona. Bosz’s teams combine possession with counter-pressing and explosive attacking play. The 53-year-old “leaves his wild youngsters in attack to roam free and they pay him back with a spectacular brand of football,” read a report by the Frankfurter Rundschau on the new coach, who has been coveted by several of Europe’s top clubs after last season guiding Ajax to second place in the Dutch top-flight – one point behind eventual champions Feyenoord – and the UEFA Europa League final, where they were beaten 2-0 by Manchester United.
Bosz, who speaks perfect German, will have the chance to build on his reputation for working with young and highly-talented players when he takes over a Borussia Dortmund squad boasting the likes of Ousmane Dembélé, Christian Pulisic, Felix Passlack, Alexander Isak and Emre Mor. Last season he placed his full faith in youngsters. When Ajax faced Willem II on the final day of the season, he fielded the youngest starting XI in the capital club’s history with an average age of 20.4 years.
After hanging up his boots, Bosz coached Bosz AGOVV Apeldoorn, BV De Graafschap, Heracles Almelo, Vitesse Arnheim and Maccabi Tel Aviv before joining Ajax. Between 2006 and 2010 he worked as the Technical Director at Feyernoord, where he brought BVB midfielder Nuri Sahin to Rotterdam on loan for the 2007/08 campaign.
Peter Bosz and Borussia Dortmund’s paths have crossed on another occasion too: on April 4, 1998 he played in midfield for Hansa Rostock as the North Coast club beat then-FIFA World Club Cup winners Dortmund by a 3-1 scoreline at the Ostseestadion.
