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The Big Interview with Mark Fotheringham

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The LeaguePaper Team
2 October 2022

‘GERMAN GAME SHOWED ME THE WAY AND NOW IT’S MY CHANCE’
By Chris Dunlavy

CALLING THE SHOTS: Mark Fotheringham in his stint at Hertha Berlin
PICTURE: Alamy

Mark Fotheringham was born in Dundee and schooled at Celtic but it was the German city of Freiburg im Breisgau where he first fell in love with football.
Fotheringham, the new manager of Huddersfield Town, was just 21 when he quit the UK to chance his arm at Freiburg, a yo-yo club near the Swiss-French border led by legendary coach Volker Finke.
Renowned as a technical innovator, Finke spent 16 unbroken years at Freiburg - a German ...

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