“I’m happy for Schwalbe. He’s someone who can do what Erlangen needs right now: bring looseness, clear heads, give a team self-confidence and give individual players self-confidence in personal conversations. He’s really strong there. He’ll do that for them give the necessary self-confidence,” commented Stefan Kretzschmar on the coaching change Dyn format “Kretzsche & Schmiso”.
After the fourth defeat in a row, HC Erlangen announced on Tuesday morning that Martin Schwalb would take over as head coach at HC Erlangen. His predecessor Johannes Sellin moves to the second row. Despite 18th place in the table and 0:8 points, Kretzschmar was a bit surprised by the timing of the decision.
“I think Erlangen did really well in Berlin with Johannes Sellin. They neither gave up nor completely screwed up their play. What I saw there in defense, motivation and speed was not the performance of a relegated team. That was Definitely a reaction. If it had continued like this in the future, then the points would have come, I’m sure,” said the sports director of Füchse Berlin.
Schwalb narrowly lost his debut at the HCE 27:28 against VfL. In the Bundesliga, the basement duel against the promoted team VfL Potsdam, which has also had no points so far, follows on Sunday (October 6th, 3 p.m.). “Erlangen has to win the game, they have to. Against Potsdam at home, they have to win at all costs if they don’t want the entire Nuremberg region to burn,” Kretzschmar explains the importance of this game.
