History lesson: Tim Walter faces anniversary

ometimes they really do exist, these stories that supposedly only football writes. You can't make them up or you think: Well, that was obvious. And now such a typical football story is about to happen again on Friday, namely when HSV will play in Kiel's Holstein Stadium on the evening of 9 September. Against the club against which the Rothosen have not managed a single victory in their four years in the second division, which already lends the match between the two northern rivals a certain tension and specialness. 

But now there is also this: HSV coach Tim Walter, who had his first coaching stop in professional football in the Schleswig-Holstein state capital in the 2018/19 season and played his first game - of course - against HSV and won it furiously with 3:0 in the Volksparkstadion - how could it be otherwise - returns to Kiel as HSV coach on Friday evening and - you guessed it - also celebrates an exciting anniversary there. Yes, football and its stories.

Double Anniversary in the Northern Duel

But let's move on from the whimsical stories to the hard facts. Tim Walter returns to Kiel on Friday evening to play his 50th match as coach of Hamburger SV. The special thing about it is that no HSV coach has been able to break this 50-match mark since the club joined the second division in 2018. Even more: by the end of September, Tim Walter will already be the coach with the most HSV games in the past ten years. 

Nice figures, which will be further improved on Friday. Because with a win - it would be the ninth away treble in a row, which would be an absolute HSV record - Walter would raise his personal HSV points average to just under two points per game (exactly it would be 1.92). Around two points per game scored, and incidentally exactly two goals per game scored - preferably by Robert Glatzel, who with his 31 goals is not only the top scorer under Walter, but also the only player to have played in all 49 games so far. This means that Glatzel will also be celebrating his 50th HSV anniversary on Friday evening. There are stories...