HSV go back to their roots
HSV go back to their roots
After a season without winning a title, German side HSV Hamburg are going back to their roots: Martin Schwalb, who had coached HSV from 2005 to 2011 before becoming club director and President, will return full time to the bench again.
Since sacking coach Per Carlen last winter Schwalb has been their interim coach, but now the 49-year-old has been given the role on a permanent basis, the club announced on Tuesday.
"We are happy to have found the ideal solution for the coaches position. This is a good signal for the future of the club," manager Christoph Wendt said. Schwalb led Hamburg to one EHF Cup Winners’ Cup and two German Cup titles before guiding them to the German championship ahead of THW Kiel in 2011. At that point his job changed to more official ones, but now the former German international is back on the bench.
As well as Schwalb returning to a coaches role, the club have also announced that Marcin Lijewski will extend his contract for one year until 2013, and stated: "My heart beats for this club still."
And Torsten Jansen and Blazenko Lackovic will wear the HSV shirt in future, too.
In 2013, when Lijewski returns to Poland, German international Adrian Pfahl will join HSV from EHF Cup Winners’ Cup finalist VfL Gummersbach.
Their first new player for the next season is Swedish international Anders Nilsson, replacing pivot Bertrand Gille who will join Chambery like his brother Bertrande.
