Thomas Schaaf’s as manager of Hannover 96 take a risk – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Hannover 96 has built up in recent years the reputation to consistently engage in the wrong shelf on important personnel decisions. With sporting director Jörg Schmadtke and Mirko Slomka managed the club twice in the European Cup, after the success of the vehicle combination and a half years ago, the association has found no successor regime that is sustainable over a long time. Dirk Dufner considered it as a sporting director not long in Hanover, with Michael Frontzeck has the club by Tayfun Korkut worn the second trainer within one year.

That has been the club not yet appointed FC Hollywood of the North, is expected to only be that Hannover has too little glamor for a comparison with the dream factory.

In the light of the unfortunate personnel management in recent years, the commitment of Thomas Schaaf comes as a surprise. Because she’s a good commitment from the perspective of the club.

Of course, Schaaf will not bring more shine to Hannover. Gnarled and stubborn are the adjectives that the 54-year-old football coach, living in Brinkum near Bremen, is described best.

But to gloss it comes to the club either. The aim is to avoid relegation. The Hanoverians have just completed the worst first round since the resurgence. With 14 points, the team’s table next to last.

In Bremen he finished the work of Allofs

Schaaf has demonstrated that he, both as a friend in need as also works as an architect of a successful long-term team. In 1999 he took over three games remaining while Werder command of Felix Magath and saved the team from relegation. The following year was the best that the association had experienced for a long time, the season 2003/2004 by winning the doubles even the most successful in the club’s history. Schaaf finished in Bremen the work that sporting director Klaus Allofs rendered in the background – with good ideas and the commitment of players who nobody had on their radar but him

“His Vita and his experience speaks for itself.. He has successfully worked for decades in the Bundesliga, “said Hannover’s sporting director Martin Bader on Schaaf. This is what distinguishes the new man of coaches as Thomas Doll or Thorsten Fink, who had also been touted as candidates for Frontzecks successor.

In his most recent station, at Eintracht Frankfurt, it kept Schaaf only one season by, however, was his work there as well properly. The team ended the season 2014/2015 as a table and placed ninth with Alexander Meier scorer. As in Bremen Schaaf was football in Frankfurt soccer spectacle with many gates on both sides. The entertainment value of the Matches for Hannover 96 is likely to increase significantly in the new year.

Only the first step to rescue

Whether at the end of the season is also avoiding relegation , is not alone to Schaaf, but also because what obligations sporting director Bader makes up the rear round start. Frontzeck is ultimately failed not only to yourself and to the complex working conditions under club boss Martin Kind, but also on a squad that has not yet proved his top-flight fitness. Twelve players have left the club in the summer, including captain Lars Stindl and striker Joselu. Additions sitting either on the bench or disappoint.

Bader must raise the quality of the squad crucial that Schaaf at all chances of a successful class preservation mission. The commitment of the coach is only the first step toward recovery.

Therefore, the signature in Hannover is risky for Schaaf, who had no need to accept the first offer. It apparently was fine last, he worked for the FIFA and UEFA and shunned publicity. Should Schaaf become the face of the Hanoverian descent, he would be in the Bundesliga as soon no longer employable, as they say in the industry language.

His job is not only for the sporting situation tricky, but also the trappings. Schaaf is considered thin-skinned, at least since his departure from Frankfurt in the summer, when he complained about the lack of backing in the public and lack of confidence. Hanover’s club boss child goes with public expressions of faith in times of crisis sparingly (as Frontzeck) or given job guarantees until it is actually too late (as in Korkut).

Should not bring the desired success cooperation, should descend Hannover So, both sides have made provisions. Schaaf’s contract only applies to the first division.