Hamburger SV – The rise is secondary – sport

After the separation from coach Dieter Hecking, the HSV realigns itself. We are now looking for a candidate who will drive the club out of impatience.

Of the 15 coaches that Hamburger SV has fired in the past ten years, none of them has stopped after as frank and honest discussions as Dieter Hecking. It was, so to speak, a joint decision, said sports director Jonas Boldt. Apart from that, it wasn’t a dismissal anyway, because Hecking’s contract would only have continued automatically if HSV had left the second Bundesliga upwards with his help. The fact that the club leaders even considered extending their contract, even though the coach failed to achieve the declared goal of returning to the Bundesliga after a 1: 5 victory over the Sandhausen provincial club, did the same Hamburger Abendblatt dream of a new era, which the paper called “Anti-HSV-Weg”.

But in the end it came as always. The traditional club will continue into the coming season with a new coach. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether Hecking canceled the HSV or Boldt came to the conclusion that the coach was no longer the right person for the future. The analysis of why the former Bundesliga dino failed to return to the first division in the second attempt also involved Hecking’s share of the damage. For example, why the team won only ten points in nine games after the Corona break. Or about one or the other tactical mistake.

In particular, Hecking’s skills as a player developer were questioned, as was the case with his previous job in Mönchengladbach. While professionals such as Sonny Kittel, Bakery Jatta, Adrian Fein, Rick van Drongelen or Lukas Hinterseer certainly reached Bundesliga level in the first half of the season, they were able to do so less and less recently. The wing talent Xavier Amaechi, 19, an English Under-19 international, acquired from Arsenal for 2.5 million euros, was only used for 32 minutes. And Louis Schaub, who had played a significant part in the resurgence of 1. FC Köln a year earlier, completely lost the connection after a good start.

Above all, however, Hecking is probably the wrong man when it comes to the new HSV strategy, which for financial reasons essentially only wants to work with talent (the budget is to be reduced from 30 to 23 million euros per year). And he couldn’t make friends with this path either. His conclusion of the failure was about the lack of leaders. But he apparently hardly believes such qualities in young professionals. The experienced riders Ewerton, 31, and Martin Harnik, 33, who were committed at his request, were able to help the team about as much as a retired jockey, who substitutes for the team without training.

Hecking initially stabilized the most excited HSV with his experience and calm. But the more the crucial phase went, the more he seemed to lack the ideas. And there were also contradictions. Had he himself spoken after the first goals in the last second that cost HSV the points for promotion, that was probably a matter for the psychologist, then he didn’t want to know any more about this sentence and said that one had simply defended poorly . While the 55-year-old coach was no longer talking about psychological help, Boldt, 38, can well imagine a mental coach in a team.

Hecking’s successor is already emerging. The former HSV professional Dimitrios Grammozis (1998 to 2000), who led Darmstadt 98th place last season and did not renew his contract there, is the first candidate. However, local rival FC St. Pauli is also interested in the German-Greek born in Wuppertal. Grammozis, 42, who is advised by Hamburg’s Thies Bliemeister, favors an offensive style of play with a stable defense. He is said to be a consistent type with empathy. “For me, human beings come first,” he said recently. And that you have to be patient and believe in your philosophy. To do this, you need calm and serenity.

HSV is still looking for exactly these qualities, especially since Boldt apparently really wants to drive out the impatience for which he was famous. In the future, the HSV should become a company that values ​​the development of players even more than the immediate reappearance.