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“Not cool”: HSV coach criticizes game scheduling
Updated 10/16/2025 – 4:59 p.mReading time: 12 minutes
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Coach Liese Brancao has criticized the scheduling of her HSV footballers’ Bundesliga game against Carl Zeiss Jena. The game is scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m. (MagentaTV and DAZN) in Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion. At 3:30 p.m. (Sky) the men of Hamburger SV will play in the Bundesliga against RB Leipzig. “We can’t do anything now. That’s how it is now, but it’s not cool,” said Brancao at the match press conference.
The 44-year-old fears that many spectators will forego a visit to the Volksparkstadion so as not to miss the footballers’ game. “I find it very, very sad that our fans had to decide what they wanted to watch or where they wanted to go. We’re back at the DFB. We can’t influence that,” she said. “We have to try to make the best of it.”
She is sure that her players will also look at their tablet after the game to see what their HSV colleagues are doing. “We really like to pursue our men.”
The game in Jena is a relegation duel. As newcomers, Hamburg are twelfth in the table with five points after six match days. The Thuringians are one place behind with just one point and are therefore in the first relegation place. “They are under enormous pressure,” said Brancao. But even if the opponents win, they would still be behind HSV. “We can play freely,” emphasized the coach.
On Thursday and Friday, the federal and state governments will discuss concrete measures on the topic of “security in the stadium” in Heidelberg – such as face scanners, personalized tickets and stricter stadium ban rules. The fan aid organizations warn against “populist” measures and even see fan culture itself in danger.
The umbrella organization of fan aids e. V. accused politicians of working with false claims. Linda Röttig, a member of the board, criticized: “The stadiums are safe places. Nobody has to be afraid of entering a stadium. The clubs know that, the fans know that.” Both must therefore be included in the debate. Accusations of escalating violence are “distorted and factually incorrect”: a visit to the Oktoberfest is “certainly more cause for concern than a visit to Germany’s football venues.”
Röttig feared that the federal-state round could mean a drastic cut: “The measures being discussed are so far-reaching that they…
would be the nail in the coffin for fan culture in the stadiums,” she said.