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Towers rely on the wobo boom!
The tinsel has just been swept out of the arena. Ten days ago, Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann (32) won bronze at the European Championships with the national basketball team in Berlin. Wednesday, the new Towers Center returns to the site of its success.
In the BBL opening game, the Hamburgers have to play against champion Alba with the EM heroes Maodo Lo (29) and Johannes Thiemann (28) (7 p.m., free of charge with Magenta Sport).
“It’s an immense challenge. Berlin is THE team,” says “Wobo”. “I’m looking forward to competing against the boys.”
The Towers rely on the wobo boom!
The new Towers coach Raoul Korner (48): “Wobo has changed our characteristics again. For me, what he showed at the European Championships is an example of how you can be a superstar in your role.”
And a role model for his team! Only Seth Hinrichs (29) and Lukas Meisner (27) stayed. Eight new ones came. Even the club name is no longer the same after the entry of main sponsor Veolia (pays around 1 million euros per season)…
“We’re not a team that has a superstar,” says Korner. “With us, the team has to be the superstar.”
The new Captain Hinrichs is confident that this will work: “The chemistry is good. We have a smart, trained team and nobody is selfish.”
But for the triple burden of league, cup and EuroCup, the squad is extremely thin with only ten professionals and two talents! “We’re already sewn to the edge: But the budget doesn’t allow for more,” says Korner.
The towers have estimated around 5.5 million euros for their fourth Bundesliga season. Rising energy and travel costs and the decline in viewers are a cause for concern. Just under 900 season tickets would be sold – minus 10 percent!
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Korner wants to excite fans with “fast, aggressive team basketball.” After the total upheaval, his goal for the season is vague: “The league has 14 play-off candidates, and we count ourselves among them.”
Before Corona, the Inselpark (3400 places) was sold out for over a year – this time managing director Jan Fischer calculates with 2400 fans per game. But EM hero Wobo wants to change that: “It is now necessary to kindle such a euphoria in Hamburg.”
