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Off for Sander over "Spiral affair"

Aus fur Rapolder wegen “Stinkefinger-Affare”Off at KSC for Uwe Rapolder-© SID-IMAGES/Getty Images /.

Only 99 days after taking coach Uwe Rapolder at the Club was dismissed Karlsruher SC. Sander had shown the middle finger to the fans.

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Middle finger up, thumbs down: the responsible abstiegsgefahrdeten playing for Karlsruher SC have drawn the conclusions from the "spiral affair" to coach Uwe Rapolder and dismissed the coach only 99 days after his commitment. A successor will already be presented on Wednesday. Candidates are the former KSC coach Winfried Schaefer and Edmund Becker, as well as of the end of December for the third-division club VfR Aalen dismissed Rainer Scharinger.

Sander to during the 1: 4-defeat in the cellar duel against the FC Ingolstadt last Sunday the fans after a short hour season the outstretched middle finger showed. Before the 52-Jahrige was been insulted apparently evil. Shortly before his sacking, Sander had denied the incident. "I have not done it." "But if I should have any gesture gamacht in the emotion, then I would like to apologise," the coach said on Tuesday.

Wellenreuther: "if it was, then it is unacceptable"

Repentance was however too late. "The team may be applied not by such an action." "If it was, then it is unacceptable", said Chairman Ingo Wellenreuther: "In the relationship between coach and fans had to too much twisted." "We were in the focus so that we befuchtet have a threat to the entire Club."

Wellenreuther stressed however that the incident on Sunday was not the sole reason for the separation of Sander. "The decision was a reaction to the weekend and the last three games." "The overall assessment was decisive," said the President, who summoned the cohesion in the relegation battle: "If we want to create the class, we must all be a unit."

Sporting misery under Sander

Sander on the coach Josef Tin farmers oversaw the Waldlauf of professionals on Tuesday, had taken up his post at KSC on 22 November. Previously, the Club at the end of October had detached from Markus Schupp. Before Sander, who was on the 13th December 2009 release of TuS Koblenz, Markus Kauczinski was in the former European Cup participant as interim coach on the sidelines.

Sander, which was provided by the Karlsruhern with a still valid according to Wellenreuther contract up to the end of the season, but cannot complete the athletic plight. As for Rapolders has entered the Badener are currently on the relegation place.

In the home defeat against Ingolstadt had with debt Sander by a personal wrong decisions itself. Sander wanted after the 2-0 at the break that enforce change and brought three new players. As Serhat akin but had to be replaced in the 60th minute due to an injury, played the host of a half-hour in. After the final whistle, Sander while walking in the cabin was again insulted by the own supporters.

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