Sports board member Stefan Kuntz explains how the Hamburger SV mixes its traditional club force with humility after the ascent, why players deserved in the large conversion of the squad had to go-and how he managed to get top talents from England.
Stefan Kuntz, 62, stands in front of a refrigerator and wants a cola, but he is denied the wish for now. Because although the refrigerator is in the Hamburger SV’s office, Kuntz has no key to open it. If you want, you can imagine the scene as a kind of metaphor about the HSV: in theory there would be soooo a lot, in practice seven long years had to be experienced in practice. The period of suffering was only interrupted after Kuntz hired as a sports director: in his first season in office, the promotion succeeded. Now he wants to establish the traditional club in the Oberhaus – and this Saturday (6.30 p.m.) against FC Bayern in Munich. The 1996 European Champion and former German U21 coach explained how all this should succeed before wanting to approve the cola.
