The German soccer club VfB Stuttgart
recently hired Robin Dutt as its new Director of
Sport. The 49-year-old has coached several teams
in the Bundesliga, the premier soccer league
in Germany, which boasts the highest average
stadium attendance worldwide.
Dutt, whose mother is a native German and
father an immigrant from Kolkata, grew up near
Stuttgart and played amateur football as a youth.
He began his coaching career in 1995 with TSG
Leonberg. Before joining
Stuttgart, he coached Werder
Bremen from 2013 to 2014.
“The club has some big challenges
ahead of them, in the ever-changing Bundesliga,”
Dutt said, as he accepted his boardroom position
at Stuttgart. “In the short-term we are going to
invest everything into staying up this season in
the Bundesliga.”