The SpVgg Unterhaching has already relegated almost safely from the third division, but there is still hope for a reasonably conciliatory season: This Saturday the team from Munich suburb will compete in the Toto Cup semi-final at the regional league team Eintracht Bamberg; The winner of the competition may take part in the next DFB Cup main round. Shortly before the departure to Upper Franconia on Friday afternoon, SZ information occurred, as several sources confirmed. Haching’s head coach Heiko Herrlich, who once also guided Bundesliga clubs (Bayer Leverkusen, FC Augsburg), no longer even sat in the team bus.
Already after the derby at TSV 1860 Munich last weekend (2-1 for sixty) there is a dispute between the wonderful and Markus Schwabl; Schwabl is a right -back, but at the same time also sports director and son of President Manfred Schwabl. The dispute is said to be escalated on Friday after not wanting to take Schwabl and another player into account for the starting eleven in Bamberg. The 53-year-old, who had already worked in Haching from 2011 to 2012, took part in the press conference before the game on Thursday.
On Friday evening, the association confirmed the leave of absence after two and a half months: It was wonderfully grateful that it had taken over in a difficult situation, Manfred Schwabl explained, “but finally the differences in the perception of the sporting orientation were obvious”. That is why the decision has now been made, “even in the awareness that the time could be better. But sometimes you can’t choose that.” Schwabl had already been criticized for the time of the decision when it was thrown out by Herrlich’s predecessor Marc Unterberger last December.