Soccer – Berlin – After Schmidt: Not a day here was a chaos club – sport
Berlin (dpa) – Carsten Schmidt’s voice sounds heavy, his effort and grief shape his look. Hertha BSC has a managing director “earned 100 percent, I can no longer control that,” said the 58-year-old manager at a press conference on Wednesday about the reason for his resignation as head of the Bundesliga.
The day before, the association and Schmidt had announced the termination of the contract from “exclusively indissoluble private” due to illness in my immediate family environment. “Schmidt had only taken over the office on December 1, 2020.
In several previous talks, Hertha President Werner Gegenbauer had looked for solutions to keep the former Sky boss employed. Farewell was the only way out. “The weeks and months have gnawed at me. In my private life it was one of the worst years,” said Schmidt, “that it ends so abruptly, I feel sad. The private situation is very stressful. I had first looked for solutions for myself before marriage I went to Mr. Gegenbauer “. He will also not be active in an advisory capacity for the club, but will answer the phone “when Hertha calls”.
In addition to the reasons for illness in the family environment, the restless sporting times and the lack of successes gnawed at Schmidt, who had expressed clear criticism of the team and coach after the 0: 5 defeat at Bayern Munich. He also had to sack coach Bruno Labbadia and long-time player and manager Michael Preetz at the beginning of his tenure. Despite the continuous problems on and off the field, he was “very upset when we were referred to as a chaos club, which we weren’t here for a day”.
Gegenbauer regretted very much “that everything that has been initiated we can no longer process and harvest together”. Schmidt launched the “Goldelse” project at the beginning of his tenure. In several measures over the coming years, the association is to receive better structures. Schmidt emphasizes that there was never a rift in the collaboration.
Schmidt’s area of responsibility will initially be taken over by Ingo Schiller, Head of Finance and Fredi Bobic, Head of Sports. Whether and when a new managing director WILL join Hertha was not an issue for Gegenbauer on Wednesday. But it is not the place for it now. We do not need any quick fixes, “said Gegenbauer,” we will be discussing intensively in the committees how we can ensure that everything that has been initiated can be brought to success. The conditions are very good. We can take time to talk that together “.
Even if Schmidt did not want to judge his own work in the last eleven months, he sees the foundations for the club in place and the club well positioned for the future despite leaving the management: “I’m worried that the club will slide into a vacuum. “
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