Ex-Leipzig player Klauß suspended from Rapid Vienna

Former Nuremberg player Robert Klauß is no longer coach of Rapid Vienna. The Austrian first division club announced the departure of the 40-year-old after only four wins in the last 17 games. Most recently, Rapid had suffered three consecutive defeats in competitive matches. Former Sandhausen player and coach Stefan Kulovits, previously assistant coach, will take over as interim head coach with five matchdays to go.

Klauß was assistant coach under Rangnick and Nagelsmann

The successor to Klauß, who took over at Rapid in November 2023, is to be decided in the first few weeks of the break at the latest. Klauß coached the Viennese side in 67 competitive matches. From summer 2020 to October 2022, the long-time Leipzig native coached 1. FC Nuremberg in the Bundesliga 2. Prior to that, he spent eight years with RB Leipzig's youth team before becoming assistant coach under Ralf Rangnick from 2018 to 2021 and later with Julian Nagelsmann in the RB professional squad.

The trained striker also played for his former club SSV Markranstädt, where he once played in the Oberliga and from there also went to the newly founded club RB Leipzig in 2009, where he only played one match on August 30, 2009 against Germania Halberstadt. According to dpa information, his player pass with the regional league club Markranstädt is still valid. SSV are still in contact with Klauß and are sixth in the table with eight games left to play this season.