Viktor Skripnik is appointed as head coach of Werder Bremen . The new coach will be the previous U23 coach Viktor Skripnik, who will take over the control of the Bundesliga team with his coaching staff of Florian Kohfeldt, Torsten Frings and Christian Vander. "We would like to thank Robin Dutt and his team for their work. He led SV Werder through a difficult stage in the past couple of months with a lot of passion. But after the recent results, we are convinced that the team needs a new impulse to get them out of the current situation," said manager Thomas Eichin. Eichin thought it was the logical step in favour of the former Werder player Skripnik, who successfully coached Werder's U17s and U23s in recent years. "We forced our talent development with him over the past few years. He was an important part of the connection between the academy centre and the professional team. Now he has the chance to continue this path in the Bundesliga. We are convinced t