"I'm really looking forward to it"

Fixed! Didi Kühbauer becomes new WAC coach

Didi Kühbauer(Bild: GEPA pictures)

Didi Kühbauer will - as already reported by the "Krone" - be the new WAC coach! President Dietmar Riegler made the announcement on Saturday after the Carinthians' 3-1 win over WSG Tirol.

"I would like to make it official now. The new coach is an old acquaintance who was already with us. It's Didi Kühbauer," Riegler announced in an interview with Sky. Kühbauer succeeds Manfred Schmid, who the Carinthians will part ways with at the end of the season. Kühbauer, 53, from Burgenland, already worked at the WAC between 2013 and 2015 and has been without a club since his LASK contract ended in the summer of 2023.

"I am delighted"
Riegler: "We had several candidates. But in the end, Kühbauer's experience won me over. We are very similar in how we want to play. I think it's the right time for him to come back. I'm delighted and believe I've made the right decision."

The WAC, who finished first in the Bundesliga qualifying group, will still play their European Cup play-off semi-final against Vienna Austria on Tuesday (7pm) with Schmid. The Wolves would also contest a possible final against the fifth-placed team in the championship group under Schmid.

Kühbauer played 81 league games with the Wolves between September 2013 and November 2015, making WAC the first Carinthian club to become Bundesliga leaders - and leading them to the European Cup for the first time! On leaving, Riegler said at the time: "I can well imagine Didi becoming our coach again." Now the time has come ...