Wolf wants to reduce HSV to success | TIME ONLINE

Hamburg (dpa) – In the end, everything happened very quickly. The evening after the disappointing 0: 0 Sunday against the VfL Bochum He realized with Ralf Becker that the days of Christian Titz are considered a coach of Hamburger SV, second division of football.

The sports director of the traditional club quickly tends the antennas to Hannes Wolf. Titz was informed Tuesday of his leave, the former coach of the team Vfb Stuttgart equipped with a contract until 2020. It was the fifth separation of coaches in this second division season.

"At full speed," said the 37-year-old defender during his presentation Tuesday afternoon, how quickly he wanted to tackle the resurgence of the mission. "We will delve into the discussions and bring the skills of the players on the course." Wolf did not comment on specific measures. This should first be discussed with the team that it meets for the first time on Wednesday.

The people in charge occupy HSV's 14th head coach (no acting coach) since 2008. He is "120%" behind Wolf's decision, said the CEO. Bernd HoffmannAnd Becker added: "Hannes knows how to ride, he is not the development of young players and is one of the greatest coaching talents in Germany.

Christian Titz was allowed to try 226 days with his risky Art Nouveau philosophy – so the patience of the HSV superiors was exhausted. A single win in five second division matches and a fifth place in ten days was not enough. On Monday, FC St. Pauli, rival of the city, beat the HSV. Becker: "In this constellation, our seasonal goals were threatened.That's why I suggested to Bernd Hoffmann to make that decision." Titz, who was popular with the team and fans , had taken his professional expulsion: "You can only pull your hat to Christian."

Wolf's mission is clear. Only the resurgence with the most expensive team in the second division counts – and it has a direct English week ahead: on Friday, HSV will play in Magdeburg, followed by the World Cup in Wehen Wiesbaden and the duel against FC Köln relegated to first place November 5th. Sports manager Becker himself knew that the short time between Wolf's commitment and the first match "was not optimal. But we will make the most of it. "

The resurgence is not only an objective declared by the North Germans, but also because of the high responsibilities and the economic necessity. At Wolf, they now bring a young guard coach. He was on leave on 28 January at VfB Stuttgart, Bundesliga club, before bringing the Swabians back to the Bundesliga. Despite the separation, he was honored by the DFB in March as "coach of the year". In particular, his work in the field of youth at Borussia Dortmund has been honored.

More recently, Wolf was at Liverpool FC and coach Jürgen Klopp at training camp. "The fire burns 100%," said Wolf. He is well aware of the difficulty of his task: "We will not get up if we talk about it today, but if we work hard and accept this league and all the matches."

Especially in home games was missing the HSV for weakened media Aaron Hunt, Lewis Holtby and Gotoku Sakai last punch. In six seasons of meetings in front of his home crowd, the Hanseatic League has only eight points. With more than 50,000 spectators per game, the average number of second division spectators in Europe does not seem to inspire. The opening matches against Holstein Kiel (0: 3) and Jahn Regensburg (0: 5) were particularly precarious. In the last three games, Hamburg have not scored any goals in the Volkspark.

Titz was since the 2015/16 season. A junior coach at Hanseaten on March 12, 2018, he became head coach of the Bundesliga. During his tenure, he brought many young players into the professional team and was surprised in the last phases of last season with a new offensive football. Plus, he managed to get the fans back behind the team.

With the high goal maintenance and many changes in the composition of Titz, but also caused a sense of uncertainty – and received keen criticism for this: "It is precisely the time of the Storyteller Titz is a man who knows how to behave, but the HSV must have a different claim than to look for a stranger to the youth and entrust him with such a task, "said Felix Magath, legend of the HSV, recently.

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