"HSV would be delighted…" Jansen sees Gladbach as a role model | OneFootball

Former HSV President Marcell Jansen has praised Borussia Mönchengladbach, their opening opponent, in the highest terms. The club can, in some ways, also be a role model.

For Hamburger SV, Bundesliga football is back on the agenda this Sunday (5:30 PM, DAZN) after seven years in the second division. Right at the start, they face Borussia Mönchengladbach, a team that can certainly serve as a role model for HSV. At least, that's how former national player and ex-HSV president Marcell Jansen sees it. He knows both clubs very well from his own experience.

“I sometimes feel it is overlooked how remarkable it is to play continuously in the Bundesliga at a location like Mönchengladbach, where nothing falls from the sky, since 2008,” Jansen told the Rheinische Post. The successes, including the Champions League years, were no accident but the result of a continuous path that began two decades earlier.

For Jansen, this shows how important a stable foundation is. A foundation that HSV mostly lacked in the past one and a half decades. “A club like HSV would be happy if since 2011 the worst Bundesliga placement was 14th place,” said the 39-year-old.

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Jansen does not rule out a job at Gladbach

Despite this harsh analysis, Jansen emphasizes that the upcoming duel is more than just a sporting comparison for him personally. “In this game, it's almost less about the result. Seeing both clubs healthy in the Bundesliga is great,” explained the native of Gladbach, who chased goals for the Fohlenelf between 1993 and 2008. In 2007, he moved to FC Bayern, before taking the step to the Hanseatic city a year later.

After 17 years in Hamburg, most recently as president of HSV e.V., Jansen is drawn back to his homeland: “I think I will relocate my center of life back to the Rhineland in the future. My girlfriend is from Düsseldorf, my parents live in Gladbach, and many of my friends are there too.” He also does not rule out working at Borussia Mönchengladbach if the opportunity arises.

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