Ilja Kaenzig becomes Head of Sport at the Blick Group
The 36-year-old sports expert Ilja Kaenzig will become the new head of sports at the Blick Group on February 15. He succeeds Walter De Gregorio, who left Ringier in November 2009. The two interim heads of the sports editorial team, Ernst Kindhauser and Patrick Mäder, will become his deputies.
Ilja Kaenzig worked as assistant sports director and transfer coordinator for Grasshoppers-Club Zürich from 1994 to 1998. He then worked as manager of Bayer 04 Leverkusen until 2004, with whom he reached the Champions League final in 2001/2002. From mid-2004 to mid-2007, he was Managing Director and Sports Director of Hannover 1996. Most recently, he worked independently in the field of investments in football.
Kaenzig studied business administration and began his journalistic career in 1993 with regular expert appearances and columns on international football on television and in print media, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and FIFA magazine. Since June 2008, he has been writing a weekly column for Blick am
Evening. Kaenzig is a member of the Association of Swiss Sports Journalists.
Kaenzig studied business administration and began his journalistic career in 1993 with regular expert appearances and columns on international football on television and in print media, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and FIFA magazine. Since June 2008, he has been writing a weekly column for Blick am
Evening. Kaenzig is a member of the Association of Swiss Sports Journalists.
