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Published January 13, 2015
Hannover, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) - Tayfun Korkut was named the new manager of Hannover on Tuesday, making him the first Turk to manage a club in the Bundesliga.
The 39-year-old takes over for Mirko Slomka, who was fired on Friday after a disappointing first half of the league campaign that sees the club sitting in 13th place.
Korkut, who has signed a contract through June 2016 with Hannover, spent the past two years as an assistant with the Turkish national team.
Prior to that, he served as a youth team coach with German sides Hoffenheim and Stuttgart and was capped 42 times by Turkey during his playing career.
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