André Breitenreiter: for two years Breitenreiter steered the club’s fortunes. He arrived for the 2013/14 season, turned the team upside down and at the end of a magnificent campaign led them into the Bundesliga for the first time in club history. Yet because the training-centre conditions still lagged behind, the success coach immediately tried to cool the euphoria before the new season.\n\n“The excitement must not turn into unrealistic self-assessment.
If we stay up, that will be an even bigger sensation than promotion,” he told Spiegel in 2014 - and he proved right. Paderborn did not pull off the sensation and were relegated despite a strong first half of the season.\n\nEven so, to the fans Breitenreiter remains the coach who first took the team to the top flight, and for that they are grateful to this day.
