I'm not sure what I fist thought when I saw the news about one of my favorite football teams yesterday. Somehow it first felt like a joke, some Déjà vu, something completely unreal.
I just wiped my eyes and cautiously looked again, hoping the words would have changed. But it was still there, I wasn't mistaken and unfortunately I have seen this so many times before.
Hamburger SV fires coach !
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who was left totally bewildered and spechless, but at the same time I was just shrinking my shoulders free of any emotion.
If you followed the HSV through the last decade this news isn't something you aren't used to.
Since 2008 Hamburg who was one of the founding member of the Bundesliga and who was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga for the very first time this summer, has sacked 16 coaches, including interim solutions.
Bruno Labbadia was even dismissed twice by the Hamburgers, Rodolfo Cardoso took over the job twice on an interim basis.
That's quite an achievement, but if you now think that new brooms sweep better, HSV quickly taught you better.
The performance remained unacceptable, performance increases were only sporadic and of very short duration. Brings of salvation and glimmers of hope never kept their promises and disappeared quickly.
Actually, it was a miracle that HSV had not already relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga, several times they were saved only on the last matchday.
Now also in league 2, where they are currently in 5th place and only 2 points behind the leader. Actually a comfortable starting position, if it hadn't been for the last games. The trend is downward, but if you look at the last 7 months in which Christian Titz trained the team, you have to attest that he has finally brought some stability to the team. Despite several setbacks, his work has shown good results and it seemed that HSV was on the right track.
If only there weren't the irreconcilable contradiction between ambition and reality. The club superiors in the Hanseatic city still think that their club was called to a higher level and that the relegation was just an unpleasant slip. Therefore Christian Titz's performance was allegedly not good enough, and now the next one should fix it.
The new coach has already been hired, Hannes Wolf has been in charge of the Hamburg team since 23 October and will be working on the project "Wiederaufstieg".
I can only watch the whole tragedy in disbelief, of course I keep my fingers crossed and hope that he can stay on this catapult seat longer than his predecessors. It would be to his and above all the club's liking. Not necessarily the bosses but in any case the fans, who have to watch again and again how their favourite club is run down more and more. If there isn't a change of direction soon, it can easily happen that they get stuck in the 2. Bundesliga for a very long time. And with the years it becomes only more difficult to climb up to league 1.
After I could write down my thoughts I am much calmer now and I can even laugh about the whole story. As an HSV fan, the last few years have left me nothing but gallows humor.
Here is the list of the coaches of the last 10 years, which I found at ran.de.
1. Huub Stevens (February 2, 2007 to June 30, 2008)
2. Martin Jol (July 1, 2008 to May 26, 2009)
3. Bruno Labbadia (1 July 2009 to 26 April 2010)
4. Ricardo Moniz (26 April 2010 to 23 May 2010)
5. Armin Veh (24 May 2010 to 13 March 2011)
6. Michael Oenning (13 March 2011 to 19 September 2011)
7. Rodolfo Cardoso (19 September 2011 to 10 October 2011)
8 .Frank Arnesen (10 October 2011 to 16 October 2011)
9.Thorsten Fink (17 October 2011 to 17 September 2013)
10. Rodolfo cardoso (17. september 2013 to 24. september 2013)
11. Bert van Marwijk (25 September 2013 to 15 February 2014)
12. Mirko Slomka (16 February 2014 to 15 September 2014)
13. Joe Zinnbauer (16 September 2014 to 22 March 2015)
14. Peter Knäbel (from 23 March 2015 to 14 April 2015)
15. Bruno Labbadia (15 April 2015 to 25 September 2016)
16. Markus Gisdol (25 September 2016 to 21 January 2018)
17. Bernd Hollerbach (22 January to 12 March 2018)
18. Christian Titz (12 March to 23 October 2018)
19. Hannes Wolf (since 23 October 2018)
Already dizzy? Completely understandable!
In the chronological order the new coach Hannes Wolf is on position number 19.
And the year 2018 is not yet over, maybe there is still more to it.
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