Graz – Sturm Graz has a new technical director. Austria’s football champions announced the appointment of German Benjamin Schunk on Saturday. The 33-year-old most recently worked as an assistant in scouting and squad planning at Bayer Leverkusen. Schunk will take office at the beginning of the year and will support the new sports director Michael Parensen. The director position had been vacant since October, when Paul Pajduch followed sports director Andreas Schicker to Hoffenheim.