2nd Bundesliga Hamburger SV
Tim Walter, the constantly steadfast counted one
Status: 16.01.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Tim Walter is stuck in the second Bundesliga with HSV
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For the sixth time, Hamburger SV is heading towards the Bundesliga – for the third time with coach Tim Walter. Despite all the coaching discussions, the 48-year-old is the right man on the sidelines.
No, they really don’t want to hear that question anymore. “I don’t know why I have to constantly repeat myself, just because the trend among people is to always look for someone to blame,” Jonas Boldt, sports director at Hamburger SV, recently grumbled and emphasized that he had not started a coaching discussion: “It would be closed easy to pin it on just one person.”
“It” is HSV’s performance in the first half of the second Bundesliga, and the “one person” is Tim Walter. The coach is the first trainer who has survived a change of season in the lower house of football for the Hanseatic League.
In 2021 he came to Hamburg and was supposed to lead the club back to the Bundesliga. HSV had previously failed at this three times, which resulted in a total of four predecessors (Christian Titz, Hannes Wolf, Dieter Hecking, Daniel Thioune) being given dismissal papers. Walter, however, was allowed to stay, although he too has not yet achieved the promotion he so longed for and his team failed twice in relegation (against Hertha and Stuttgart).
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They long for personnel consistency in Hamburg. And Walter has also made a difference: he is credited with a large part of the team’s solidarity with the fans, the last remaining first-class part of the club. But things are now simmering there too. The coach is accused of not getting the most out of his strong team, of being too one-dimensional tactically and of not getting to grips with the defensive problems that run like a red thread through his tenure. After a good start to the season, HSV is now only in third place in the table, behind their northern rivals Kiel and St. Pauli.
HSV was negligently eliminated from the DFB Cup
The exit from the DFB Cup was even more painful when Hamburg negligently lost leads at Hertha BSC in the final minutes of regular time and extra time and then lost in the penalty shootout. Overall, HSV lost the sovereignty that was so impressive in the first games.
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Walter is going into 2024 on probation, and the first games against Schalke, Karlsruhe and Hertha will show whether the wobbly coaching chair will achieve new stability or collapse. Walter himself appears calm, he says he is not afraid for his job: “I am never afraid because life always goes on. I felt the trust of my superiors, that’s what matters. We communicated with each other, put our heads together and achieved results.” Results that now have to be achieved on the playing field as quickly as possible.
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