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Timo Schultz: FC St. Pauli wants to go back to the future with him

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FC St. Pauli wants to go back to the future with him

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Timo Schultz is the new head coach of the second division football team FC St. Pauli

Timo Schultz is the new head coach of the second division football team FC St. Pauli

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With Timo Schultz, a home grown company takes over the fortunes of FC St. Pauli. It is also a last attempt by the club to ensure continuity in the coaching question. Because he’s the sixth coach since 2014.

EActually, it doesn’t go bad for Oke Göttlich. Elected chairman in 2014, he has managed to pacify the heterogeneous and conflict-friendly membership of the neighborhood club to this day. Its economic balance sheets differed from the moderate sporting success: FC St. Pauli shows bottom line profits year after year. And he even rose to the presidency of the DFL in 2019.

However, one flaw remains. The 44-year-old entrepreneur was unable to ensure continuity on the team’s executive chair. Timo Schultz, who was appointed on July 13, is already the sixth head coach in Göttlich’s term of office. The method of “hire and fire” is pretty much the opposite of what the left-wing president wants to stand for.

According to some observers, Schultz is now something like his last trump card. But he has to sit now. In this respect, the decision is risky to entrust the second division team, which has been dormant for years, to a football instructor with little experience in professional business. What spoke for him: In the industry, Schultz is considered to be intellectual and suitable for character, especially since he himself has several years of professional experience. Some second and first division teams already had him on the radar. Time was short.

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In addition, Schultz could not complain about a lack of advocates. Only sports director Andreas Bornemann hesitated. He would have liked to have brought an old buddy to Hamburg: Together with Michael Köllner, Bornemann managed to advance to the Bundesliga with 1. FC Nürnberg two years ago. But Köllner is now under contract with TSV 1860 Munich, from which he should have been bought. Not a good idea, one found in the club management. Perhaps because the last attempt to unite two former companions had failed. Former manager Andreas Rettig had piloted Jos Luhukay to Hamburg, with whom he had already worked successfully in Augsburg. In the end there was the separation.

For a change, 42-year-old Schultz has FC St. Pauli in his DNA. Already in the past they had good experiences at the Millerntor with Hamburg’s “own family”, the most notable: Holger Stanislawski, who made two ascents, from the third to the second and soon afterwards to the first Bundesliga. In 2002 the club made the leap into the elite league under the guidance of Dietmar Demuth, who had previously been a regular player and amateur coach with the Braun-Weißen. The latest attempt with a former Kiezkicker went wrong: Thomas Meggle was relegated from the table after a quarter of a year and relegated to the post of sports director for comfort.

FC St. Pauli: More than a normal club

Not only because of his career in professional football, Schultz is seen as a contrast to his predecessors, who strangled with the idiosyncrasies at the Millerntor and stayed out of everything that was not directly related to the fight for league points. A mistake at a club like St. Pauli that wants to be more than just a normal club. Schultz, on the other hand, is considered an easy-going type who also masters Hamburg flax. His footballing ideas seemed conclusive to the decision-makers, and that shortly after he was enthroned, he purposefully redesigned the coaching staff radiated energy and determination.

He will continue to need it. After the experiences of the past seasons, the central problem lies in the composition of the professional squad, whose quality has also been permanently overestimated by transfer market experts. However, the addition of the players’ market values ​​is at best an indicator and not even the decisive one. Above all, the squad must be balanced and coherent. Sports director Bornemann, who has been in office for a year, has yet to deliver this.

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At the press conference to introduce the coach, which, as always, resembled a vow to serve the club as best he could, Schultz has already indicated what he considers to be priority: “We lack physique.” St. Pauli has been ill for years -Play on lack of assertiveness in midfield, where there are too many lightweights running around, which also do not develop any risk of scoring. The unusual vulnerability of the defense in turn was mainly due to the fact that it was constantly reassembled in the past season. This led to coordination problems.

Likewise, a construction site that should be worked on intensively during the season preparation: the lack of planning in standard situations, with corners and free kicks. Terrifying how little the neighborhood regularly gets out of such situations. In the end it was not even clear who should shoot the penalty.

In addition, there is a specific problem in the St. Pauli cosmos: the tendency, not only in fan rows, to be satisfied with second division mediocrity. What was once meant as a contrast program to the eternal chase for more success and more profit does not fit the laws that prevail in performance-oriented professional sport. The announcement of a “humble” seasonal goal, as Bornemann put it, should not yet mark a change in direction. The coach, however, formulates the goals somewhat more aggressively: Schultz wants “greedy” players, yes, even an “innovation culture” in the club. At least that sounds like something new.

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