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Bundeslia: History hardly gives rise to hope – rescue is so far from Fürth

NOf course, they haven’t given up yet, after the first quarter of the season no one has been relegated – math prevents that. The story, however, gives the game association Greuther Fürth, which competes on Saturday at SC Freiburg, which is still undefeated this season (3:30 p.m., in the sports ticker of the WELT), little hope. A team has never got off to a worse start in the Bundesliga than that of the Franks – and they have been around for 58 years.

The false start record was that old before the Fürth team took it over because of the even worse goal difference. 1. FC Saarbrücken for the 1963/1964 season confirmed the skeptics and envious people who agreed to the Bundesliga qualification from the outset and attributed his admission to the all too good connections to Hermann Neuberger. The later President of the German Football Association was Saarlander and sat on the committee that selected the first 16 clubs.

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1. Bundesliga, season 1963/64: Saarbrücken loses in the home game 1: 2 against 1860 Munich on March 21, 1964

Source: pa / dpa / Roland Witschel

Saarbrücken in any case was hopelessly overwhelmed, was only not on a relegation zone on the 4th matchday, managed the first victory on the 13th matchday and only really made it to the Bundesliga in the second half of the season (five wins). It was too late by then. However, two real feats of the relegated remain in memory: At the start of the second half of the season he won 3-1 at the championship leaders and later champions 1. FC Köln. And trainer Heinz Schneider was allowed to stay until the bitter end. Perhaps because he did not tend to gloss over: “At 90 years old I would still stop the Saarbrücken storm!”

Big names in the flop ten

There are also big names in the flop ten: Schalke, HSV, Cologne – all ex-champions. The disastrous Schalke of the previous year (30 games, no win, fewest points since the introduction of the three-point rule) even undercut the team from 1967/1968. At that time, after only one win from 13 games, the board ended the experiment with the completely inexperienced coach Karl-Heinz Marotzke and brought in Günter Brocker, who had been dismissed in Bremen. Luckily.

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Schalke’s Gerhard Neuser (left) prevails against Cologne’s Wolfgang Weber. A coach change saved the Royal Blues season

Quelle: pa/United Archiv/Werner Otto

This case is an example of how useful a coach change can be. Brocker scored 16: 4 points from the next ten games and made Schalke a different team. In the end, they were saved – despite only three points from the first nine games.

Only HSV managed to save themselves with a mere two points at this point – of course only after using the tried and tested Hamburg method of firing the coach at the first headwind. Bruno Labbadia flew after the fifth matchday in 2016, but initially lost with successor Markus Gisdol.

“We were done, we were dead,” he said, looking back on a season in the red, the first win in the 13th game and the rescue four minutes before the end of the season when Joker Luka Waldschmidt headed the 2-1 win against Wolfsburg. The dinosaur was given a grace period of one year, then he got down with 1. FC Köln and has not come back so far.

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Markus Gisdol’s way in Hamburg ended in January 2018

Source: pa / press photo Ru / Robin Rudel

Cologne, on the other hand, could no longer compensate for their colossal false start into the 2017/2018 game year – with their first win in the last first round match. Cult coach Peter Stöger’s credit was finally used up after 14 games, his inexperienced assistant Stefan Ruthenbeck only managed the season.

Tasmania Berlin does not hold a negative record

As in most extreme cases of bad starts, changing coaches didn’t help. Several certainly not. What Schalke did in excess in the previous year (five coaches), Hertha BSC did not want to see 30 years ago. In the year after the fall of the Wall, the Berliners ultimately employed four trainers and even a master trainer with the ex-Munich Pal Csernai, but never had a lower diploma than 1990/1991.

They didn’t go that far with local rival Tasmania Berlin 1965/1966, who only made one change. In November they exchanged Franz Linken for Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt. He took on the athletic suicide mission full of confidence: “This task excites me immensely.” The capital city press had something to joke about, as he had previously worked with “difficult-to-educate young people”. From a sporting point of view, he had some again.

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Sadness in the Berlin Olympic Stadium – Tasmania loses as almost always in the 1965/66 season – here 0: 2 against Eintracht Braunschweig

Source: pa / dpa / Konrad Giehr

The fact that the laughing stock of league history is missing in the flop ten is only thanks to her opening win over Karlsruhe (2-0) in front of 81,500 spectators, which she only had another win in the last home game. Almost all of the existing negative records belong to the Tasmanians who came into the league in an adventurous way, who were allowed to move up in 1965 for Hertha, who was suspended because of illegal salary payments – although they had only reached third place in the Berlin city league.

Nobody wants a Tasmania season with just two wins, 15: 108 goals, 31 games without a win or a 0: 9 home defeat – for just that the most important minus records.

The board trusts Fürth’s trainer Leitl

But they know themselves that they can hardly be saved. They should be happy about little things. The first home win in league history (they were completely unsuccessful in 2012/2013) would be a short-term goal, as well as the first away point to set the record for the unloved neighbor 1. FC Nürnberg, who won nothing at all in 1983/1984.

And if Stefan Leitl stayed in office for two weeks without a win, that would be a record for a coach at his first Bundesliga station. It could work, the board of directors is not putting much pressure on it. President Fred Höfler just said: “It is an extraordinary grace that we can play the Bundesliga this year.”

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If, by the way, Freiburg are gracious and won no more than two goals, Fürth would at least not be the worst team after ten game days – but again 1. FC Saarbrücken from 1963/1964. The prerequisites for this are extremely poor. Five players from Fürth have been infected with the corona virus and will be out for an indefinite period.

Managing director Rachid Azzouzi said that the infected players had mild symptoms. One of them has almost no symptoms. You cannot say 100 percent where the infections come from. “We are almost completely vaccinated, so it surprised us a bit,” admitted Azzouzi, without saying whether the cases might also be vaccination breakthroughs.

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