Trainer Peter Hyballa has terminated Esbjerg FB for the Danish second division deadlier after three months. The step is the reaction that 21 players of the club had pronounced the mistrust in an open letter to the 45-year-old end of July.

They criticized the training methods as well as the technical and human qualities of the chef coaches. Hyballa rejected the allegations.

"What has expired is a giant foothill. That was call murder. It's a hunting against me. Even my family was threatened," said the native Bocholter Transfermarkt.de. Over the letter he "laughed. It was a very comical movie."

The exercise manager also practiced self-criticism. "As a coaching team, we did not prepare well enough on Denmark. The intensity was not used there," says Hyballa: "But I am a workers and malochertrainer - point."

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"Of course, we are disappointed about the events of the last weeks and the decision of Peter Hyballa to leave the club," said Esbjergs CEO Michael cold. The successor is the Frankfurt Roland Vrabec, former coach of FC St. Pauli. Esbjerg had only been involved on Tuesday the former Dutch international Rafael van der Vaart as a coach assistant.