Sporty mood uphell after turbulent days: The Foxes Berlin celebrated the first victory under the new chief coach Nicolej Krickau at the start of the handball champions League. A week after the sensational double outline of master coach Jaron Siewert and sports director Stefan Kretzschmar, Berlin won 40:34 (16:17) at the French top club HBC Nantes.
Krickau had followed Siewert, but the first appearance of the Danes on the sidelines had significantly lost the Bundesliga top game against SC Magdeburg (32:39). It looked in Nantes until the break after the next setback of the young season, but the team around world handball player Mathias Gidsel increased in halftime.
The Danish exceptional player scored ten goals as the most successful shooter in the game and made a significant victory over the next victory over the French runner -up. Already at the final tournament in Cologne in June, the foxes prevailed against Nantes in the semi -finals, but Magdeburg prevented the double in the final.
The criticism of Füchse managing director Bob Hanning for the uncompromising approach just a few weeks after the end of the most successful season in the club’s history does not stop. Ex-international Michael Kraus and Christian Schwarzer also reacted with incomprehension to personnel quake in the capital.
“After the beginning of the season, picking a team apart is negligent,” said ex-world champion Kraus at “Handball-world.news” and judged by Hanning: “He played a lot of sympathy in the handball world.” Schwarzer said at Sport1: “Apparently Bob Hanning is too powerful that he can make this decision without having to ask someone. Someone who thinks normally would never make such a decision.”
Hanning had already been whistled by his own fans after the game against Magdeburg, but fought out live in the “ARD”. “I have not let my whole life influence what others think. I make decisions that are probably the right one for the club,” said Hanning.