Steffen Baumgart, Urs Fischer and Bo Svensson were just trainers who embodied a new role model. Now reality gets in the way – and their idea of football is reaching its limits.
The news of the separation between FSV Mainz 05 and Bo Svensson on Thursday evening, a divorce between club and coach that was anything but standard, certainly touched not only the fans in Rheinhessen due to its sentimentality. Concern may also have been aroused in Cologne and Berlin, possibly also in Heidenheim and Bochum and perhaps even in Freiburg. However, not only out of compassion for our dear colleague Svensson, but also for our own sake.