Nevertheless, the 57-year-old also enjoyed collecting the title. In his “Panini album”, as he calls it, only the Champions League is missing. The opportunity to fill this gap will have the foxes next weekend at the Final Four in Cologne. “Of course I would also like to win the Champions League very, very much,” said Hanning. A few weeks ago he had announced the title in a large extent.
While the party hit band Malle Anja on stage has been doing her hit “The train has no brake” for the fourth time, the foxes boss does not yet think of braking the expectations and is already looking into the future. When asked whether his club can also shape an era, Hanning says: “I think we don’t get worse and now the question is whether the others will be better” and then emphasizes: “If we stay healthy and continue to work, why shouldn’t we become German champions again next year?”
Hanning leaves open whether it needs more superstars in addition to Mathias Gidsel, whom the Berliners lured to the capital in a real coup in a real coup. He believes that not all top stars absolutely want to play in a team with world handball player Gidsel. “We saw that we didn’t get every player, and I’m not so sure whether we may not have got one or the other player because Mathias is there because he simply takes a certain place,” said Hanning. His club has now become “an address” in world handball. But he doesn’t want to force anything: “If you want to play with us, you can come, and if you don’t want to, you should play elsewhere.”
In any case, his own era at the foxes will end in three years. Then Hanning plans to submit the management. One successor is already ready: Paul Drux, who was emotionally adopted as a player in the capital for legend and because of a serious injury after the last home game of the season, is then to return to the foxes in a new function.
Hanning also fulfills this with satisfaction: “When I see that we have already determined a successor with Paul Drux and that, as in all life situations, I was able to determine the beginning and the end myself, then it makes the day special again today,” he says and then enjoys success again. In contrast to the team that is still moving to a club, but in his own house by the lake and “with a nice bottle of red wine”.