Hasenhüttl converted the few vaccine skeptics in the squad by describing his dramatic hospital stay in the summer of 2012. When Covid was not yet known to the general public and the Styrians caught the Hanta virus (spread by mice). “At that time I also thought I was in top shape and invulnerable.” The doctors puzzled for a long time, the ex-team player had to fight for a long time. He was threatened with the end of his coaching career, which would later culminate in Ingolstadt’s promotion to the Bundesliga and then in the runner-up title of newly promoted RB Leipzig.
In Southampton he has been holding out against financially overpowering opponents for three years, and the club unconditionally to him even after bankruptcies. He appreciates it. He cannot currently imagine being a coach anywhere else after 2024, after the end of his contract in Southampton.
Hasenhüttl raves about the people in the southern English port city, where the Titanic left in 1912. And where now, despite Corona and recently hapless games, there is never a doom and gloom.
