Former national football coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg is ready for a comeback. “I’m completely relaxed again and have plenty of energy,” the 56-year-old told “Sport Bild”. She is currently checking offers, working as a TV expert and giving lectures. “I haven’t decided yet whether it’s an association or a club, I can imagine a lot of things,” she said.
A job in men’s football is also an option for her. She has the highest coaching license, is open to everything and listens to everything. Especially since the quality of the coach is not a question of gender, but of quality. “The athlete just wants to know, can this person who is training me help me progress? Men’s football must finally open up and ask itself why we find it difficult to employ proven good female coaches,” she said in the interview.
Voss-Tecklenburg was national coach from 2018 to 2023. Her contract with the German Football Association was terminated in November 2023 following an illness. The original contract ran until 2025 – and had only been extended before the World Cup last summer, where the German women were surprisingly eliminated in the preliminary round.
Her sick leave and her inglorious end to her time with the women’s national team after the World Cup exit had been a concern for the DFB for a long time. Last November, Voss-Tecklenburg spoke for the first time about her psychological problems after the German women’s soccer team’s World Cup exit.
How does she look back on her time as national coach? “With a lot of pride,” says the 56-year-old. “It was a privilege to be national coach for both six and a half years in Switzerland and for over five years with the German team. We achieved a lot, got a lot going. I wouldn’t want to miss a single day of that time.”
