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The 47-year-old Marsch, who was an assistant
coach at Leipzig in 2018/19, will join from sister club RB
Salzburg, where he won the Austrian league and Cup double last
season.
From 2015 to 2018 Marsch had coached another Red Bull-owned
club, the New York Red Bulls. Marsch is also the first U.S.
coach to have managed in the Champions League, with Salzburg.
"Jesse has done outstanding work everywhere he has worked so
far," said Leipzig's Head of soccer Oliver Mintzlaff. "He has
kept developing and it is obviously an advantage that he has
worked at RB Leipzig for a year in the past.
"Jesse knows the club, the city, but most of all the philosophy
of the team and the playing style," he said.
Nagelsmann this week announced his departure for Bayern at the
end of the season having signed a five-year contract.
Marsch has big shoes to fill in Leipzig, with 33-year-old
Nagelsmann last season having led the team to third place in the
Bundesliga and the Champions League semi-finals with high-octane
pressing and attacking football that has won over many fans.
They are currently second in the standings, seven points behind
leaders Bayern with three games left, and can still win their
first trophy, having reached the German Cup semi-finals.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; editing by Ken Ferris)
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