national coach Toni Söderholm the German national ice hockey team can Deutschland Cup 2020 will not be supported directly on site. As a result of the accompanying and mandatory corona tests in the run-up to the home tournament of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund, the 42-year-old received a positive result and is therefore staying in Munich. Contact with players DEBSöderholm did not have any teams, so there is no risk, especially since the professionals all arrived on Sunday with a fresh negative test result. All people from the DEB-Officethat with the DEB-Coach were in contact and tasks with Deutschland Cup Despite their negative test result, will not have any direct contact with the national team over the next week as a precautionary measure.
However, Söderholm will always maintain close contact with his coaching team and the players and will also set the basic line from a distance. Every decision will be discussed with the national coach. U18 national coach Steffen Ziesche will take on an important role due to Söderholm's absence; he is moving from the staff of the top team Beijing to the national team. U16 national coach Thomas Schädler joins the support staff at Top Team Beijing. Former Finnish international Ville Peltonen supports the DEB in the Deutschland Cup in an advisory capacity. From Wednesday onwards it will be even more intense Thomas Popiesch, head coach of PENNY DEL-Club Fischtown Pinguine Bremerhaven, the coaching team of the national team - proof of the very good and constructive cooperation between DEB and PENNY DEL.
There were also changes to the senior national team squad shortly before the arrival. defender Moritz Seider By arrangement, due to the pandemic situation in Sweden, he is staying with his club Rögle BK, to which the 19-year-old is on loan from the Detroit Red Wings. Assistant coach Cory Murphy will also not be traveling, he also works at Rögle BK. In addition, the Munich resident takes Patrick Hager Not on Deutschland Cup The national team's squad includes three goalkeepers, eight defenders and twelve strikers.
National coach Toni Söderholm (Photo: Julian Kröhl): “This is clearly the biggest personal disappointment I have experienced as a player or coach. I did some exercise on Thursday and in the evening the symptoms started with fever and cough. Luckily I was just at home that day. I'm feeling better today on Sunday. The good thing is that if you can see something good, we in the coaching team have already coordinated in advance for such a case. We looked for outside help if something like this were to happen and found it. That's why Ville Peltonen will support us as an external consultant. All the tactical things are very clear and I can intervene from home if necessary. We will be in contact two to four times every day and discuss the processes and content. The training sessions are filmed and sent to me. We'll go through the day every evening, and we'll be in touch during the third half of the games, so a lot of things are possible. It’s just part of the pandemic situation that something like what happened to me can happen.”