Bernd Hollerbach at the post of head coach of Hamburg will be replaced by coach "youth" of the club Christian Tietz.

After a devastating defeat from Bavaria (0: 6), the leadership of Hamburg decided to fire the head coach of the team of Bernd Hollerbach.

"We have long discussed the defeat of Bavaria and the current situation of the team," the Hamburg board member Frank Wettstein quotes the official website of the Bundesliga. "We do not question the professionalism of Bernd Hollerbach at the slightest degree, but under his leadership the team was not able to improve its results. Given that we are threatened with departure from the First Bundesliga, we had to take drastic measures ".

Until the end of the season, the first team will be led by Christian Tietz, who worked with Hamburg's youth team.

"Dinosaurs" who never left the highest division, occupy the penultimate place, seven points behind Mainz and Wolfsburg, occupying the sixteenth (giving the right to play-offs) and the fifteenth (guaranteeing a residence permit in the elite) seats respectively.

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