BBL: Baskets Oldenburg separate from Retter Freyer

Trainer Ingo Freyer has to leave the former German basketball champion and cup winner EWE Baskets Oldenburg despite the successful rescue mission. After relegation, the Bundesliga club will go into the next season with a new head coach, the personnel are announced "after clarification of the last details".

According to information from the specialist magazine "Big - Basketball in Germany", Pedro Calles from Ligakon competitor Hamburg Towers is about to move to Oldenburg. The Spaniard had recently announced that he would not extend his contract in Hamburg beyond the summer.

Former German international Freyer (51) had become coach of the EWE Baskets, which was at the time at the time at the time. The Lower Saxony ultimately saved themselves as a table.

Freyer was "until the last round of the selection process of one of two remaining candidates", the club said. "It was not easy for us to have to tell Ingo on the finish line that we chose another," said Managing Director Hermann Schüller: "In the end it was nuances that were decisive."