Germany women's coach Hrubesch expects to retire next year

Horst Hrubesch, Germany's interim women's coach, assumes he will quit football coaching next year.

The 73-year-old told reporters on Tuesday: "I've got to begin to recognize that I am no longer 25, 30 or 50, but that I am slowly approaching 75, more precisely 74."

It was always clear that Hrubesch would step down from the women's job after the Olympic Games in Paris (July 26-August 11). His successor will be German men's under-17 world and European champion Christian Wück.

Hrubesch, who won the Euros in 1980 with Germany as a player, has a contract as a youth-team coach at second tier SV Hamburg until 2025.

"I will continue with youth coaching, definitely until next year," he said. "Then it will slowly come to an end."

Hrubesch and Germany still have the European Championship qualification matches on Friday in Reykjavik against Iceland and next Tuesday in Hanover against Austria before the Summer Olympics.

In his last home game in Hanover, Hrubesch will have an official goodbye ceremony.

He was previously men's Olympic coach, winning silver in 2016. As a player, the forward lifted the European Cup with Hamburg in 1983 as well as three Bundesliga titles.