This news will not please the fans of MSV Duisburg at all. Engin Vural is leaving Westender Straße.

That’s a real transfer hammer! There are coaches who are rooted to a club and work for one and the same club for decades. The best example is Norbert Elgert at FC Schalke 04.

Even if Engin Vural is still a long way from Elgert’s successes, he is a true Duisburg native, just as Elgert is a true Schalke native. And here’s the thing: Forecasting has learned that Vural will leave MSV Duisburg on January 1, 2024.

The destination of the 38-year-old successful MSV youth coach: Fortuna Düsseldorf U19. Both clubs want to announce the transfer before Christmas. Late on Tuesday evening (December 19), neither Duisburg’s head of youth development Uwe Schubert nor Düsseldorf’s head of the NLZ Stefan Vollmerhausen were available for forecasting purposes. However, according to our information, the transfer has already been finalized and only needs to be communicated through the club’s media.

Vural will replace the current U19 interim coach Florian Elsche at Fortuna. Curious: It was only on December 9, 2023 that Elsche and Vural parted ways with a 2-2 draw in the direct duel between Fortuna Düsseldorf U19 and MSV Duisburg U19 going into the winter break.

Vural has worked for MSV Duisburg since July 2010 and was both U17 and U19 coach at Westender Straße. After more than 13 years, the German-Turkish coach will retire from Wedau on December 31, 2023.

This season, he was also interim coach of the MSV pros from September 18 to October 8, 2023, following the dismissal of Torsten Ziegner. In four games – 0:2 against Viktoria Köln, 0:1 against Borussia Dortmund II, 0:0 against Preußen Münster and 1:0 against Unterhaching – Vural was in charge of the third division team.

Hardly any MSV fan could understand why he had to leave after a draw against Münster and a win against Haching to make way for Boris Schommers. For Vural, this decision was like a slap in the face. It’s quite possible that his move to Fortuna Düsseldorf was also partly the result of this disappointment