“I’ll always be a Hamburg man” – Glatzel’s emotional farewell | OneFootball

Robert Glatzel left HSV for Wolfsburg and made sure to share some final words with everyone who accompanied him along the way.

“It’s hard to sum up these five years that I was able to experience here at this club. I got to go through so much, so many highs and lows,” the striker said at the beginning of his statement published on HSV’s channels. After arriving in the summer of 2021, he himself proved reliable from the very start, scoring an impressive 73 goals in 115 second-division matches.

Despite Glatzel even winning the top scorer’s cannon in the 2023/24 season, the Hanseatic side failed to win promotion three times in a row. The longed-for return to the Bundesliga came, of all times, in the season in which the Munich native missed more than half the matches due to injury. For him, however, this was no bitter pill, as HSV had finally reached its goal.

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Glatzel thanks the HSV fans

“I will carry all the beautiful memories in my heart forever. I got to meet so many great people at this club, so many great teammates with whom I was also able to share so many wonderful moments,” Glatzel continued, as he enjoyed high regard internally both as a player and as a person. Beyond that, he also built close personal bonds with figures such as Ludovit Reis and the Vuskovic brothers.

The 32-year-old, who started only six times in the past season, always received plenty of support from the fans, who were often vocal in calling for him to play. That is probably why he noted: “I think you don’t only realize what a special club this is in the good moments, but also in the difficult ones.” Glatzel said he had felt that support “very, very strongly over all these years.”

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His conclusion, drawn through rising tears, therefore seemed only logical: “It was the best time of my career. I will always be a Hamburger and will always keep following the club.” In the future, Glatzel will be chasing goals around 200 kilometers away in Wolfsburg and will probably once again unsettle many second-division defenders. However, he is unlikely to receive this kind of affection a second time anywhere else.

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