With pressure it is such a thing, also and especially in sports. Physically you know what happens when certain strength work. If you have the same effect, pressure on a coat box, it is deformed, but in sports, and since especially in a team cabin, other laws apply than in physics. On Sunday, HC Erlangen won 25:21 at HSG Wetzlar and still ensured on the last matchday to play in the handball Bundesliga next season. Now Carsten Bissel, Erlangen’s President, emphasizes: “The team grew together in the printing situation.”
When Bissel says that, he is currently in Mallorca and runs, a clear view of the sea, along the promenade. After the rescue, the Franks opened themselves to the south, everything fell off, the burden of the big task of keeping the club in the Bundesliga, the pressure of the past few weeks that the team could have deformed like a coke. Ultimately, however, the opposite was the case: everything added, everyone found their place, and so Erlangen goes to his tenth Bundesliga year in a row in autumn.
As highly styled, the professional sport may be, in the end you always end up with what makes amateur sport: camaraderie, belonging to belonging and connected, to be there for each other.
Crises can divide people apart, but they can also bring them together, and that is what has happened in Erlangen and made it possible to bring a pretty messed up season to a good end. You often say that: Constantly completion. There is also talk of this in Erlangen, but at the HCE it was not the conclusion that reconciled – it was the way there. The pressure brought the players together. They knew that they could only survive in the Knüppel -hard relegation battle, and that was what they got in the end.
Now Bissel says: “We want to let the team grow now. We have giant talents in the A-youth. We will incorporate them into the Bundesliga squad.” For example, Dorian Knezevic, the young goalkeeper, but above all back room player Lars Genz, who could help the team considerably the next season. Another player should only be added for the back room, more will not change. It is a coherent structure, and since Johannes Sellin and Matthias Obinger train the team, they have also had the feeling that they have entrusted this structure to the right leadership circle. And this feeling can also be underpinned with numbers: 15 games, 13 points – the club has found stop again.
So when Bissel talks about the closer Erlangen future, he draws a picture with bright and radiant colors. The Bundesliga is so demanding that a club like the HCE can sometimes happen to slip in regions in tabulars with which it actually does not want to have anything to do. But that should be a thing of the past now.
After two difficult years, Erlangen does not want to have anything to do with the fight for staying class
After two years of relegation battle, Erlangen wants to break into a better future with a rejuvenated and conspiratorial team. On the one hand, the fact that this plan seems well thought out and coherent is due to Sellin and Obinger – on the other hand – but also to Viggo Kristjansson. The Icelandic international came during the winter break when Martin Schwalb was still sitting on the coaching bench, from Leipzig to the HCE, but was for a long time due to a knee injury and was not available to Schwalb. When he then registered on the field, Schwalb was already history, and under Sellin and Obinger Kristjansson only needed 13 games to make themselves indispensable and score 96 goals, more than seven per game. But Bissel says: “Viggo is just as important outside of the field as in the field because it allows them all into the community. He has made a significant contribution to pulling everyone together.”
The fact that Kristjansson, who only joined the team in January, was the adhesive, who held everything together, gives the ancient history of camaraderie, solidarity and care a new coat of paint. And if the high -talented players from the in -house offspring are added, something could actually arise again in Erlangen.
By the way, after the game in Wetzlar, Kristjansson wanted to travel to Iceland with his family, but after the victory he decided without further ado and climbed his teammates on the plane in Mallorca. Viggo Kristjansson wanted, no, he just couldn’t miss the big celebration. That also makes a team.