During his four seasons in the Bundesliga (from 2018 to 2022), with Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Mönchengladbach, he was certainly nicknamed “Adi”. But the future coach of AS Monaco, whose formalization seems close, is well named Adolf Hutter. The 53-year-old Austrian is aware that he has a very heavy name to bear.
Born twenty-five years after the death of Adolf Hitler, the technician confided in 2018 to the German media Hit Radio FFH on the subject. “You can’t be totally happy with a name like that, even if you don’t realize it when you’re a child. But growing up, there were always connections that were made between my name and the past. »
“My mother always called me ‘Adi'”
His parents obviously did not have a tribute to the “Führer” in mind when they named him that. Again, the former coach of Red Bull Salzburg and Young Boys Bern explained this choice in this same interview.
“My parents wanted to call me something else but my father’s brother died at 27 in an avalanche,” he says. My grandmother, who was also my godmother, insisted that there remain an Adolf in the family. Finally, my parents let themselves be convinced. Of course, I would have liked another first name. But my mother always called me “Adi” and since then everyone calls me that. “We wish the former Austrian international (14 caps), who should succeed Philippe Clement, to quickly succeed in imposing his nickname again, when he arrives in Ligue 1.