{"id":104122,"date":"2025-10-06T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=104122"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:16:05","slug":"dusseldorf-anfang-thioune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/dusseldorf-anfang-thioune\/","title":{"rendered":"Markus Anfang to replace Daniel Thioune at Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/rp-online.de\/sport\/fussball\/fortuna\/fortuna-duesseldorf-markus-anfang-zu-f95-so-lange-laeuft-der-vertrag_aid-136308299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rheinische Post<\/strong><\/a>, then multiple outlets reported that Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf are set to hire Markus Anfang as their head coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With D\u00fcsseldorf 13th in the 2.Bundesliga, they have decided to part ways with Daniel Thioune after three and a half years together.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kicker.de\/thioune-vor-dem-aus-uebernimmt-anfang-in-duesseldorf-1152991\/artikel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kicker<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>reports that the reason for this is that the club believe he is unable to turn the club&#8217;s current situation around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his time, Thioune made Fortuna a top half 2.Bundesliga side, and they came close to promotion in 2024 when they threw away a 3-0 lead to lose on penalties to Bochum in the Relegation Playoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, D\u00fcsseldorf are set to appoint Anfang as their new head coach. He was previously a player for Fortuna between 2006 and 2008 after joining from Duisburg on a free transfer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anfang was last in charge of Kaiserslautern,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/opinion-can-kaiserslauterns-latest-coaching-change-help-secure-bundesliga-promotion\/\"> before he was dismissed<\/a> with the club within touching distance of the promotion places.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old&#8217;s coaching history has seen him take charge of 1.FC K\u00f6ln, Darmstadt, Werder Bremen, Dynamo Dresden, and FCK.<\/p>\n<p>Anfang&#8217;s time at Bremen was cut short due to a forged COVID-19 vaccination certificate so he could attend carnival in the Domstadt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GGFN | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jackmeenan15\"><strong>Jack Meenan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First reported by Rheinische Post, then multiple outlets reported that Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf are set to hire Markus Anfang as their head coach.\u00a0 With D\u00fcsseldorf 13th in the 2.Bundesliga, they have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312415,"featured_media":104123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,11,16,337],"tags":[449,964,1391,1390,1658,997,570,1028],"class_list":["post-104122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-2-bundesliga","category-bundesliga","category-2-bundesliga-news","category-fortuna-dusseldorf","tag-bundesliga","tag-dusseldorf","tag-dusseldorf-2","tag-f95","tag-fortuna","tag-fortuna-dusseldorf","tag-germany","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104129,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104122\/revisions\/104129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}