Sports “Borders on Kamikaze”
When Daum is asked about Baumgart, he finds clear words
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Christoph Daum is known for his open words. When the long-time football coach was asked about HSV and its commitment by coach Baumgart, he didn’t spare any criticism. He also takes a hard line against his former club Cologne.
He never coached Hamburger SV himself. But he knows his way around the business. Christoph Daum worked as a coach for over four decades; he worked at VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Köln and Bayer Leverkusen, among others, and he also worked abroad. For example in Turkey, Austria – or Romania. He worked there as national coach from 2016 to 2017. It was the 70-year-old’s last coaching position to date.
Daum continues to observe what is happening from a distance – including at HSV. He considers the hiring of Steffen Baumgart as coach to be a “huge mistake”. Because you don’t get promoted from the second league with “full-throttle football, but by setting up a death zone 30 meters in front of your own goal, into which ideally no opponent can penetrate.” Coach said this in an interview with the football magazine “11Freunde”. “But you need square players for that. Trying to force promotion with attractive “always on top” football borders on kamikaze,” said the 70-year-old.
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Baumgart, 52 years old, took over the second division team in mid-February and was supposed to return to the first floor. But after the 0-1 defeat against Holstein Kiel last Saturday, promotion is as good as lost. With a six point deficit and a significantly worse goal difference (minus 16) to third-placed Fortuna Düsseldorf, HSV is threatened with a seventh second division year in a row. Baumgart only scored eleven points in eight league games.
“I assume that FC will be relegated straight away,” says Daum
Meanwhile, Daum expects his former club 1. FC Köln to play in league two alongside HSV next season. “As sad as it sounds, I assume that FC will unfortunately be relegated straight away,” said Daum, who coached Cologne twice for several years. VfL Bochum will probably no longer end up in the relegation vortex, and “when I compare FC with Mainz 05, I can’t imagine how the club wants to grab the straw that saves them: relegation.”
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According to Daum, the people of Cologne can feel the turmoil in the game system. After years of Baumgart’s “what-does-the-world-cost football?”, Schultz has now switched to security and counter-attacking, “which some players probably haven’t really gotten through to yet. Especially since the FC simply lacks outstanding defenses for solid defensive football.”
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Cologne, with Baumgart’s successor Timo Schultz, is second to last, five points behind 15th in the table. Mainz and 16th from Bochum.
