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18-06-2025
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Club legend Hrubesch to step down as SV Hamburg academy director
Then Coach of the women's German football team Horst Hrubesch, gesticulates during the UEFA European Championship qualifier soccer match between Germany and Poland at Ostseestadion. Sebastian Gollnow/dpa SV Hamburg icon Horst Hrubesch will not renew his contract as academy director at the club and step down after five years at the end of the month. The 74-year-old Hrubesch said in a club statement that "the time has come that new people take over responsibility. Advertisement "I will always be connected to HSV and happily and with full conviction hand things over to the next generation," he said. Board member for sport Stefan Kuntz said: "Anyone who knows Horst and has him in their ranks will never voluntarily give him up. But once Horst has made a final decision, it's almost impossible to change his mind. "Ultimately, we owe him and his family a debt of gratitude that he was available to HSV in a position of responsibility for so long. Hrubesch captain Hamburg to the 1983 European Cup title and won three Bundesliga titles with them as a striker, plus Euro 1980 with West Germany. He worked for the German FA for almost two decades as a coach, winning European titles with the under-18 and under-19 teams, plus Olympic silver with the men and bronze with the women, the latter is interim coach last year in Paris.
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18-06-2025
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From the beach to the training pitch - German women start Euro preps
Coach of the women's German football team Horst Hrubesch, gesticulates during the UEFA European Championship qualifier soccer match between Germany and Poland at Ostseestadion. Sebastian Gollnow/dpa Title contenders Germany gather on Thursday to start final preparations for the women's Euro 2025 tournament in Switzerland, and from an early stage onwards will turn their attention to the first opponents Poland. The team of coach Christian Wück will not play a tune-up match in the final countdown to the first match on July 4, with Denmark and Sweden the other group stage opponents. Advertisement "Our focus is on training," Wück has said, stressing one planned key element of the sessions in Herzogenaurach. "Our players have realised how important the passing quality is. We want to have the ball a lot, we want to be well positioned in our build-up game," Wück said. Wück and his staff will first work on the players' fitness after players had a fortnight off to relax on holiday following the last Nations League matches against the Netherlands and Austria. Germany won the two games 4-0 and 6-0, respectively, to reach the semi-finals boost confidence for the Euros. Germany are record European champions with eight titles and were runners-up at the last edition in 2022. Advertisement Wück said that they will "rather soon put Poland at the centre" of the preparations because "a lot will depend on how the first game goes. "If we start well into the tournament, in which I believe, then we can ignite a euphoria - in Germany and internally as well. And it will give us some security," he said. "We have a very, very high quality in our squad. A very high individual quality in all positions in the team. The team will make the difference at these European championships." The team will train in Herzogenaurach until Tuesday and reconvene there after three days off for another few days before departing for their Euro camp in Zurich on July 1. Wück doesn't have his full 23-player squad led by captain Giulia Gwinn avilable yet because goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger is still playing for her American club NJ/NY Gotham FC, and will arrive next week.
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11-06-2025
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Hamburg legend Hrubesch: Club fame means nothing, team must deliver
Horst Hrubesch, then coach of the women's German football team, gesticulates during the UEFA European Championship qualifying soccer match between Germany and Poland at Ostseestadion. SV Hamburg legend Horst Hrubesch has warned of too much euphoria at the club after their return into the Bundesliga. Sebastian Gollnow/dpa SV Hamburg legend Horst Hrubesch has warned of too much euphoria at the club after their return into the Bundesliga. Former Bundesliga and European champions Hamburg were relegated for the first time from the top flight and it took them seven years to clinch promotion last month. Advertisement There were big celebrations in the city and at the club, but former West Germany and Hamburg striker said the club and the players must now prove their worth. "We all know the talk: That we belong in the top flight. That we have a brand that is recognised worldwide. That HSV has an importance that can't really be measured,' Hrubesch told Kicker sports magazine. "But one thing is clear: once you've been away for five, six, seven years and then have to start again, you have to reorganise, reassess, redo, do something new." Hrubesch, 74, won the European Cup in 1983 and three Bundesliga titles with Hamburg and Euro 1980 with the national team. He returned to Hamburg in 2020 as head of their academy. Advertisement Hrubesch said that it was now essential to form a competitive squad in summer to stay up. "We have to go through the entire squad and make sure that we fill every position adequately. And I believe that's what those responsible will do," he said.
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03-04-2025
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Germany women's coach Wück expected job to be 'a little easier'
Coach of the women's German football team Horst Hrubesch, gesticulates during the UEFA European Championship qualifier soccer match between Germany and Poland at Ostseestadion. German women's national team coach Christian Wueck admitted on Thursday that he still faces a lot of work ahead of the Euro 2025 tournament in July. Sebastian Gollnow/dpa German women's national team coach Christian Wück admitted on Thursday that he still faces a lot of work ahead of the Euro 2025 tournament in July. "I expected it to be a little easier," Wück said on the eve of Friday's Nations League group match in Scotland, with the reverse fixture on Tuesday in Germany. Advertisement And when asked where he sees the team on a scale from 0 to 10, he said: "I would give it a 6.5 to 7." Wück, who took the job in autumn, however also said he sees the team "on a good path. "I think we have started a development ... which is backed by the players. We are working intensely on behaviour that can also be contrary to those at the club," he said. Wück said that recent heavy Champions League exits of Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg "also don't help because they dent the confidence of the players a little bit." The team has problems in defence where Wolfsburg's Kathrin Hendrich and Janina Minge as well as Manchester City's Rebecca Knaak will miss both games in Dundee and Wolfsburg, and Eintracht Frankfurt's Sara Doorsoun is also not available on Friday. After the games against Scotland, Wück has only the remaining Nations League fixtures against the Netherlands on Mai 20 and Austria on June 3 to prepare for the Euros in Switzerland, where Germany play Denmark, Poland and Sweden in the group stage.
