Scottish coach Mark Fotheringham (left) helped Hertha Berlin secure Bundesliga survival under the management of Felix Magath (right)In 2018, Mark Fotheringham was plying his trade in Scotland's fourth tier at Cowdenbeath as part of a coaching team attempting to save the club's Scottish Professional Football League status. Fotheringham watched Hertha avoid the drop in a nerve-shredding play-off, just as Cowdenbeath did four years prior. "Felix, the fitness coach and I cycled to work every day," Fotheringham says. The influence of 'special' MagathFotheringham's passion for German football started when he made the move to Freiburg as a teenager in 2005Fotheringham's love affair with German football started as a 19-year-old when Freiburg prized the teenager, who also had spells playing in Switzerland and Cyprus, away from Dundee. His relationship with former Bayern Munich manager Magath, though, began six years later after an unsuccessful trial with Wolfsburg, a club Magath remarkably led to the Bundesliga title in 2008-09.

Source: BBC June 19, 2022 12:53 UTC