Friday’s news

By: Chris | January 23rd, 2009

•The DFB has handed down its verdict on the dust up between Ivica Olic and Carlos Eduardo of TSG:  Suspensions for both–2 Bundesliga games and 3 friendlies. Ouch. For HSV, Olic is out for the Bayern match on 30 January and the trip to Karlsruhe on 7 February.

•Mladen Petric is still nursing a tender calf and missed training again. BMJ expects that he’ll be ready for the DFB-Pokal match with 1860 Munich (I don’t). If he’s not good-to-go for the match, HSV are going to have to go with Jonathon Pitroipa (always a fave at The Hamburg Offside) or Paolo Guerrero (probably Guerrero).

•Alex Silva is due to return to Hamburg from Brazil today following hernia repair surgery. He is in the first week of a projected 4-week recovery period.

•A sad anniversary in the training room–It’s been a year now since Romeo Castelen injured his knee in training. Good news:  He’s finally healthy enough to train on the ball again.

•Finally, some good news from the trainers:  über stud Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting is also back to training on the ball this week. Choupo-Moting, as you may recall,  suffered a knee injury (torn cartilage), had the knee surgically repaired, started rehab-ing the knee, suffered a similar injury to the same knee during the rehab process, and had that injury repaired as well. The Hamburg Offside *loves* Choupo-Moting–he’s a local kid who came up through the youth ranks and is the future face of the club.

•No news from the training room on the status of Thiago Neves. Neves suffered a thigh strain in training camp in Spain. My prepsumption, then, is that he is healthy.

•Nigel de Jong’s departure only means good things to Bastian Reinhardt’s contract negotiations. Reinhardt’s camp have been seeking a 2 year extension to his current deal. There was speculation in the Hamburg media that HSV were dragging their feet on the extension because Reinhardt is getting a little long in the tooth (he’ll be 34 in November). Due to the lack of depth on defense and in the defensive midfield presently, Reinhardt’s bargaining position is a whole lot stronger now that De Jong’s flown off to City.

 

 

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• diana |  January 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 am

  
  
  

  Dust up? I thought it is bust up between Olic and Hoffenheim’s Carlos Eduardo?

  Anyhow, it is ironic one of those matches Olic will be missing will be the one against his future employers Bayern.

  Oh yes, I had been reading around for the past few hours or so that come this Sunday…there is going to be a major meeting between the HSV fans and the board. From what I had been reading, it looked like there is some sort of power struggle between the board and the fans. Any idea what it is really all about, Chris?

  Actually some time back last year when I was listening to the BBC World Service (I am able to receive it here) in its World Football programme, it did profiled what the HSV fans are planning to do (I had forgot the details since).

  Posted from Singapore

  

• Spoon |  January 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 am

  
  
  

  Pitriopa is one of my favorites too.

  Posted from United States

  

• Chris |  January 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm

  
  
  

  Diana, what you are referring to is the election of the HSV (the entire sporting association, not just the professional football side) supervisory board.

  There has been a movement among the football supporters who feel that the club is now too commercial (a la the EPL) and that the should cancel the naming contract on the stadium, reduce the price of beer, reduce ticket prices, etc. To that end, they are looking to elect their own slate of candidates to affect their mandates.

  To which I say, if you want a club like that, go support St. Pauli . . . This is how a major football club in Europe needs to be run, and Berndt Hoffman (he’s the managing director of the entire club) has done a very nice job of running the club.

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• diana |  January 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm

  
  
  

  I was also thinking the same way on what Hoffman has done. The HSV is a familar name in European football. Or as you called it Chris, a major football club in Europe.

  Posted from Singapore

  

• Jan |  January 25th, 2009 at 8:57 am

  
  
  

  The first round of voting is over and six candidates already got a majority of the votes and have been elected directly for the new supervisory board. None of the candidates from the “Supporters” section have made it so far. A second round of voting is necessary for the remaining two seats.

  Posted from Germany

  

• Jan |  January 25th, 2009 at 9:28 am

  
  
  

  Second round of voting is over and the two remaining candidates are non-”Supporters” as well. That was an 8-0 victory for Bernd Hoffmann. I think the four remaining seats are decided internally or something so the Supporters could still get a man on board but not enough to have a go against Hoffmann.

  First time I followed some of this club internal election stuff.

  Anyway, it should be noted that the “Supporters” candidates aren’t some mindless semi-hools and idiots as the tabloids tried to portrait them at some point. One of them is actually writing for “Der Spiegel” which is a publication that is heads and shoulders above the likes of mopo (bild) and abendblatt. And while they might have been critical of the commercialization of the sport and the club (fair enough), they didn’t directly demand cheaper beer and stuff like that. But the possibility of getting rid of Hoffmann or deadlocking the whole club over certain decisions was there.

  Hoffmann certainly didn’t do himself any favors testing out high priced Bundesliga tickets and stuff like that. But the overall concept that he has for the club, with the way he has re-established the club in the city and region, activated old fans, won over new ones, improved relations with the local businesses etc. There’s a ton of excellent groundwork he has done, so I’m happy this vote was in some way also an approval of what he has achieved so far.

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• diana |  January 25th, 2009 at 9:36 am

  
  
  

  What an overwhelming victory for Hoffmann then. And I read that former player Sergej Barbarez has been elected to the board as well.

  ‘First time I followed some of this club internal election stuff.’
  Me too. Usually I do not care too much about such things, but this does sound exciting.

  Posted from Singapore

  

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