GThe scale is short-lived and football is still full of vitality. This is why it was wrong to see the first Bundesliga in disguise in the second Bundesliga. No matter how attractive this 1b German professional football team with 11 former Federal Republic of Germany clubs and faded East Germany may seem at first glance, all the more ambitious teams in this league want to escape to the top as soon as possible.
The first is the seven-time champion Schalke 04. He was relegated at the end of May. He also played in the Champions League for many years. His sad partner, the four-time champion Werder Bremen, had to fight back after the first industrial accident in 1980. Second class.
After years of success, Schalke has recently weakened their economic and sports foundations, so that they have accumulated more than 200 million euros in debt, and recorded an unstoppable sports decline in 18th place. In addition, Werder, who has looked like a lovely family club for decades, has learned the wrong lesson from the luck of surviving the relegation in 2020 in a duel with No. 1 FC Heidenheim in the second division. Bremen moved on, felt safe in the spring, and it was ripe for the second division to drop to the 17th place in the relegation for the first time on the 34th round.
New game and new luck?
New game and new luck? Even if Bremen and Schalke are the first contenders for many to quickly get promoted, looking at the former Bundesliga dinosaur Hamburg SV helps to proceed with caution. Since the first Bundesliga relegation in 2018, HSV, which has won the German championship six times, has been working hard to achieve a first-class comeback.This former North German flagship club will start a new second division season this Friday (8:30pm) In the 2nd Bundesliga FAZ Real-time Quotes, On Saturday and Sky) as a guest of Schalke Football Club with new coach Tim Walter in front of nearly 20,000 spectators, and the evergreen hope of this great leap forward.
HSV met the team that spent the past few days together in the quarantine after the regular goalkeeper Ralph Freeman The coronavirus test was positive earlier this week. A day later, in the home game against Hannover 96, Bremen faced the challenge of passing their first assessment at home. And this team shouldn’t be exactly the same as the team that may only need to find and participate in the game after the end of the transfer period on August 31.
Everything from the beginning of Bremen?
The Green Whites and their new coach-nomen est omen? -Marcus is looking forward to the start after a good preparation phase. Even though this coach, who has already achieved considerable success in Kiel, Cologne and Darmstadt, places more emphasis on Bremer’s development process in the mid-term than on short-term encouraging results (“We cannot put recovery above reconstruction in the Here”), the winning start of the season will only arouse Weser’s emotions.
Werder is still dependent on many regulars who gave up the mission of staying in the classroom during the last Bundesliga season. Given the scalable economic indicators, temporary personnel results. Therefore, Bremen Sports Director Frank Baumann announced the “another 15 to 20” withdrawal and additions until the transfer deadline.
With the formation of the new team, everything at Weser is still changing. With the Schalke team, they have gone further. The club, completely renewed by Revier, has been reorganized at its head: Christina Rühl-Hamers replaced Peter Peters, who resigned as chief financial officer a few months ago, and Peter Knäbel replaced Jochen Schneider as sports director and the business is already in Mainz 05 Rouven Schröder, who has completed the sale of professionals, becomes the sports director. Twenty professional players have left the club, and there are many more such as Nastasic, Mascarel and Harriet, who have been taken over by high salaries in the Bundesliga era.
Judging from the current situation, 11 new players have come to the second division, including Simon Terodde, who moved from HSV to the Ruhr area, who is almost notorious as the second division shooter. Christina Ruhr-Hammers introduced the club’s political policy in one sentence: “From a commercial point of view, we must pursue a mid-term plan and no longer pursue any short-term success.” Schalke’s new feeling is also reflected. In fact, after four coaches last season, the fifth Dimitrios Grammozis was allowed to stay despite the bad relegation.
This Friday night, as the former coach and second-tier connoisseur of SV Darmstadt 98, he also faced his first practical test. Against Hamburg SV, they once again diligently exchanged employees and trainers, and may be happy that they were not considered the first promotion candidate for the first time in three years. This well-established pole position is now occupied by Bremen and Schalke, depending on wishful thinking.
