State league relegated SV Horst-Emscher has found a new coach. It is a former professional.

The past season was not a good one for SV Horst-Emscher. After being relegated from the Landesliga Westfalen, the club from Gelsenkirchen will have to play in the Bezirksliga again next season after ten years.

Now the planning for a new start is in full swing. A large part of the current squad has agreed to stay, and five new players have already been confirmed. And since this Sunday, it is also clear who will be on the Horst-Emscher sidelines in the coming season: Guido Naumann.

The 55-year-old has signed a one-year contract and is expected to lead the club back to more successful times. Naumann takes over from Kevin Kisyna, who arrived in April and left the club after relegation. Naumann last coached in the Oberliga Niederrhein, taking over from bottom club FSV Duisburg in the winter.

Now he is moving down two divisions. The Gelsenkirchen club announced that good talks had preceded the signing. “We are very pleased that Guido Naumann will be coaching our team from 1 July and wish him every success,” it said in a post on Facebook.

Naumann has already coached a number of clubs in the region’s inter-county football, and has been on the sidelines at SV Zweckel, VfB Hüls and Germania Gladbeck. He even spent parts of his active career in professional football. After training with FC Schalke 04, he played for SG Wattenscheid, Darmstadt 98 and Alemannia Aachen, among others, and made 54 appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga.

At Horst-Emscher, Naumann will work with five newcomers in addition to eleven players around captain Aygün Köstekci, whose contract extensions have been publicly communicated: Kahled El-Hamad (DSC Wanne-Eickel), Maximilian Danquah (ESC Preußen), Jeremie Mvunuku (SSVg Velbert II), Khalil Oumairat, Shadi Omairat (both own U19).