Mamodaly has significantly raised the club’s international profile in recent years. Under his leadership, TSG Hoffenheim has further professionalised the future strategy “TSG is movement”, which was launched in 2019. The central focus was on establishing the Common Value Club Alliance with Accra Hearts of Oak in Ghana and the reigning MLS Supporters’ Shield champions FC Cincinnati in the USA, as well as partnerships with the elite Stanford University and the COPA Soccer Training Centre in California.
“Tony has become an outstanding expert in international relations while with us. He understood how to combine the sporting skills of players and coaches with a clear focus on individual requirements and development. That makes it all the more difficult to let him go now. However, Tony has clearly expressed his desire to take advantage of this exceptional personal and family opportunity in one of Africa’s best academies, so we’ve honoured his request,” said Jan Mayer, the TSG Managing Director for Corporate Development. The appointment is further proof of the exceptional training at TSG Hoffenheim, which not only develops special talents on the pitch but also coveted experts on many levels.
“The environment and the people at TSG have strongly influenced and inspired me in my way of thinking and, above all, made me aware of the impact that football can have when paired with the right motives and initiatives. That’s why it’s not easy for me to say goodbye and I’m very grateful to TSG,” Mamodaly said, before adding: “However, the unique opportunity to work with the best talents in Africa and to simultaneously give my family, in particular my children, the chance to grow up in a culturally rich environment characterised by diversity, gratitude and solidarity is a special opportunity that perhaps only comes along once in a lifetime.”
The Mannheim native came through the ranks at the TSG Academy from 2005 to 2009 and then, after spells with Karlsruher SC and Dynamo Dresden, moved to the USA to study in Miami. In 2015, he founded an agency that highlights alternative development paths at American colleges and universities to talented young players from German youth academies. After eight years in North America, Mamodaly returned to the Kraichgau in the 2020/2021 season. In November 2022, he was elected to the DFL Internationalisation Commission, one of eight official advisory bodies within the German Football League (DFL).