Overview

• Burchert, 35, transitions into the newly created Torwart-Koordinator role immediately after retiring from his playing career.
• His responsibilities include developing a unified training concept in consultation with the youth leadership center, transitional squad coaches and licensing department.
• The Berlin native featured sparingly in three seasons as Nikola Vasilj’s backup and missed last term entirely due to injury.
• Sport director Andreas Bornemann highlighted Burchert’s analytical and communication skills as essential for reshaping goalkeeper education at the club.
• The initiative aims to cultivate homegrown goalkeepers capable of joining the first team as third-choice or higher in the coming years.