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“Oh no!”: What Thomas Müller thinks about ex-HSV captain Schonlau
Updated on August 28, 2025 – 11:44 a.m.Reading time: 36 min.
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For a few days now, Thomas Müller has been playing with the former HSV defender Sebastian Schonlau at the Vancouver Whitecaps. The 35-year-old told the “kicker” how the first days together ran in Canada. “At first when I heard of the obligation, I thought: ‘Oh no! I wanted to integrate myself very quickly and be thrown into the cold water,” said Müller. Because actually he wanted to communicate in English from the start and get a feeling for the club and city.
Of course, the Bayern legend is also happy about the newcomer, the Vancouver “will definitely help”, but “now I have to be careful not to avoid too often and go to the German comfort zone”.
This German comfort zone is not without any advantages, Müller admitted: “I still have to translate one or the other joke into the Canadian-English. With Schonlau he had already done a few things that they had already left. Now it is about “coming in first” – regardless of nationality.
HSV coach Merlin Polzin appealed to a cool head among fans in front of the city derby against FC St. Pauli. In addition to all rivalry, it should be about “that it is very peaceful about the stadium when it comes to arrival and departure,” said Polzin on Wednesday. The “should be in the top priority for all of us in Hamburg.”
For the first time in more than 14 years, HSV and St. Pauli are back in the Bundesliga. Polzin and his team go into the game in the game after the promotion in summer. “We want to win this home game with all our might,” he said. 2666 days after relegation, it is also the first Bundesliga game in the Volksparkstadion. The HSV “had to wait seven years”, said Polzin, in order to “let everything out of us now”.
“Tingling” and “anticipation for the game” have long been felt, said Polzin: “We want to put our football on the square in front of our families, friends and fans. We are convinced for this in us, that’s clear. For me, the HSV is Hamburg, the HSV is the north.”