Adi Hütter / Image: GEPA pictures
Adi Hütter has received an award from the Union of Professional Footballers in Germany (VDV). The man from Vorarlberg, who was at Eintracht Frankfurt, now Mönchengladbach, was named coach of the season with 34.0 percent. He won the “Silver Coaching Bench” for the second time after 2019. Bayern's Hansi Flick came in second (29.1 percent), while Leipzig's Julian Nagelsmann and Wolfsburg's Oliver Glasner (10.6 percent each) shared third place.
“It is very important to me. Firstly, the competition is very well-known and secondly, it is a great award because it was mainly the players who voted here,” said Hütter in a statement. All players in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and regional leagues as well as the other VDV members were entitled to vote in the VDV election.
World footballer Robert Lewandowski from FC Bayern Munich was chosen as the player of the 2020/21 season. The Pole received 75.9 percent of the vote and thus secured the “Silver Shoe” for the fifth time. David Alaba made it into the team of the year as one of four defenders and seven professionals from Meister Bayern.
