Regionalliga East

Traiskirchen pulls the ripcord – Kleer has to go

Hans Kleer is now leaving Traiskirchen earlier than he had planned.

(Bild: Mario Urbantschitsch)

Eastern regional league soccer club Traiskirchen terminated the cooperation with coach Hans Kleer prematurely. Media statements were a thorn in the side of chairman Werner Trost. 

"We have parted ways with coach Hans Kleer with immediate effect," said Traiskirchen boss Werner Trost on Tuesday, drawing an early line under the matter. Just the weekend before, the coach had announced that he would be leaving the Eastern Football League club at the end of the season. "Due to his statements in the newspaper, however, we wanted to end the collaboration earlier." Kleer said, for example, that the club had other or higher goals at the start of the Admira cooperation and that the club no longer needed a professional coach like him for the new ones. Trost: "We are and will remain a training club. I would still like to thank him, he has done a good job here for two years." Jochen Wöhrer is taking over on an interim basis for the second time.

"Must be motivation enough!"

While regional league leaders Korneuburg are eagerly awaiting the final first leg (Wednesday, 7.30 pm) in the Lower Austrian Cup against St. Peter/Au. The winner of the two duels (second leg on May 20) can look forward to a place in the ÖFB Cup. "That must be motivation enough," says Korneuburg goalkeeper Lorenz Grabovac. "I've never been in a final in my career and I really want to win this cup."