found the exit: Ingolstadt has arrived in the Bundesliga
They had already several times “the sausage in the mouth” as it called CEO Harald Gärtner. But until Sunday FC Ingolstadt has bitten properly. With an x against RB Leipzig to 0: 1 deficit (. Kaiser / 4), the Upper Bavaria secured through the gates of Lecki (45th) and Lex (77) before 15,800 spectators in the sold-out stadium celebrating the rise. The FCI, had seen in a survey, none of the 18 second division coach front, not even the own coach Ralph Hasenhüttl, making it the 54th club in Bundesliga history.
Author: Christian Eichler, sports correspondent in Munich.
The 47-year-old Austrian is the most important man in this surprising success story. Hasenhüttl took over the club in October 2013 at the end of the table, saved him in his first season before the descent and led him into his second in the Bundesliga. He did the player “Magic Kiss,” says Thomas Linke.
The finish line counter dragged
Along with the sporting director sought Hasenhüttl hungry players who “have not yet reached all”. With them he developed a bold, forward defending style. That brought a Team around the impeller Raphael large, the best players in the second division season, the superior autumn championship, before the second half of the wear was noticeable by the ability to press. In the end you have to “finish line towed counter” Hasenhüttl said.
Club without Properties
Now you have it just crossed against Leipzig, who were regarded as rise favorite because of their huge budgets funded by Red Bull, while the FCI financially with a license Players budget of 8.5 million euros was only in the middle of the second division – and is expected to stand at a due increase at the bottom of the first self. FC Ingolstadt 04, founded in 2004 as a merger of two feuding Altvereine, needed only eleven years by the beginning in the fifth division to rise in the first – and remained virtually unnoticed and without contours. The club without properties.
Since the first ascent in 2008 second division Ingolstadt was more than gray mouse in the House, not as a candidate for the glamorous world of premier league. At the beginning of 2015 left the Bundesliga designated as “long-term objective” that would reach to “one day”. Just a few months later, the day has arrived.
© dpa celebration on the lawn: Ingolstadt promoted Marvin Matip amidst the fans
celebration on the lawn: Ingolstadt promoted Marvin Matip amidst the fans
The fact that the club because of its proximity to Audi often “lumped together with Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg or Leipzig” will, is for left, previously worked in Leipzig, wrong: There was “significantly different financial possibilities”. Hasenhüttl understands the FCI “not as a work club and not as a traditional club”, but as “very young club with a vision”. As an example he sees the development of FC Augsburg. And promoted as the SC Paderborn are for him “the spice of the Bundesliga -. If they show that the little ones can make the big one leg”
The small FCI but has a great partner in the back. Audi, employer of 30,000 people, has built the club in the wasteland of a former oil refinery on the outskirts a small but expandable stadium and a modern training center, is also the main sponsor and a tuning-daughter owners of 19.94 percent of the club shares.
In the operating business of the club came so far without assistance from the auto giant, which operates the FC Bayern as a premium sponsorship and the FCI as “location marketing”. So the club has since re-emergence in 2010 spent only 2.5 million euros for new players. Linke told the “Kicker” that he could “not imagine” that Audi now “padding” will to definitely stay in the Bundesliga. Also the club will “make no crazy stuff”. Their rise is already crazy enough.
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