Sascha Burchert becomes a goalkeeper coordinator at FC St. Pauli: A new way!

Sascha Burchert becomes a goalkeeper coordinator at FC St. Pauli: A new way!

After his end of career as a professional goalkeeper, Sascha Burchert takes on an exciting new challenge. The 35-year-old native of Berlin becomes a goalkeeper coordinator at FC St. Pauli. In this newly created position, he should take on a decisive role in the realignment of the training of the young gatekeepers, such as NDR . Burchert explained that he is looking forward to the future tasks and was positively looking at his professional future at FC St. Pauli. The people there would have impressed him and he wanted to pass on his knowledge.

The former keeper, who moved from SpVgg Greuther Fürth to FC St. Pauli in 2022, played four DFB Cup games during his active time and competed three times for the second team in the regional league. In the past season, however, he had no effort due to an injury. Andreas Bornemann, the sports director of FC St. Pauli, praised Burchert's experience and emphasized his communicative and analytical skills. "Sascha has a good hand when it comes to promoting talents," says Bornemann.

a comprehensive training concept

Burchert will now develop a comprehensive training concept for the club's goalkeepers. The focus is on accompanying the young keepers individually in their development and optimally preparing them for their tasks in the senior sector. This realignment is an important step in the club's youth work and is intended to help promote the talents better.

FC St. Pauli thus relies on a sustainable strategy to develop your own young players. The training of goalkeepers is a central part of sporting success, which also underlines the importance of the goalkeeper coordinator position. The challenges that are waiting for Burchert here are great, and the expectations are correspondingly high. Sat.1 regional agree to this picture and emphasize the young talents to the first teams.

With the return to the football world in this new function, Burchert proves that great opportunities are waiting even after the active career. And who knows, maybe one or the other young gatekeeper will become a later star of FC St. Pauli.