Hanning drives his team on the edge of the field. The foxes now have the perfect structures to form talented professionals Photo: Picture Alliance
By Ulrike Krieger
Handball maker Bob Hanning (54) has done it again – promotion with announcement!
Third division club VfL Potsdam tried in vain for ten years to advance to the second division.
Only when Hanning joined as a trainer this season (full-time Foxes Managing Director) did it work out. Potsdam won both promotion duels (27:22, 30:25) against Pforzheim.
Hanning: “Since 2013, the foxes have been cooperating with Potsdam, two clubs with the same philosophy. The ascent was the last big piece of the puzzle in our project. Now we are the strongest and first training center in Europe with teams that play in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd leagues and also have two ambitious youth Bundesliga teams.”
Team Füchse II continues to play in the 3rd league, the A and B youths from Berlin and Potsdam are also first class.
Hanning proudly adds: “We have created follow-up funding like no other club. It has never happened before. Maybe you can compare that to RB Leipzig in football.”
Hanning can thus draw from a pool of 70 handball talents who, equipped with the right to play a second game, can play in Potsdam or, if necessary, with the Füchse professionals.
Hanning: “We do it just as intensively here in Potsdam as we do with the foxes. Of 15 players who were on the record on Sunday, only one was not trained in Berlin or Potsdam. Our goal with the foxes is to play in the Champions League and with Potsdam we are giving young players the playing time they need to develop.”
