Thursday, September 30, 2021
“I would never say never”
Handball spokesman flirts with football
After eight years, the German Handball Federation is over: Bob Hanning is the most eloquent and colorful manager in history. The 53-year-old is still a handball trainer, but is already toying with a new managerial job. And that would be tough.
The outgoing DHB Vice President and handball top manager Bob Hanning can apparently imagine a future in football. In an interview with the “Hamburger Abendblatt”, the 53-year-old Berliner by choice speaks about a possible return to the Hanseatic city – not to the handball players he trained from 2002 to 2005, but to the second division club Hamburger SV.
In any case, Hanning believes that the fact that HSV has not had a CEO since the dismissal of CEO Bernd Hoffmann in March 2020, but rather a dual leadership with board members Frank Wettstein (finance) and Jonas Boldt (sports), is wrong. “Sometimes a king, if he thinks of everyone, is better than a democracy,” said the man who is known for his colorful sweaters, the “Abendblatt”: “It helps if you have a strong man at the head of a company . But only if he thinks of everyone and takes everyone with him. “
Hanning, who left the German Handball Federation (DHB) on Sunday after eight years, becomes clearer in his autobiography. “If I were tempted by another sporting task in Hamburg, it would actually be in football. I would never say never”, writes Hanning in his book “Hanning. Macht. Handball”, which will be published on Friday: “Already in my time with I’ve always wondered to the Hamburg handball players why this club doesn’t play in the Champions League permanently. My heart bleeds when I see HSV bobbing around in the second division for years. “
According to Hanning, who has been managing director of Füchse Berlin since 2005, the decisive factor for success is “Abendblatt”, “that everyone is ready to give a little more than they take for themselves. An association is not allowed to join Become an instrument of individuals. ”