by The number of comments in the first hour after the publication of the separation of Urs Fischer and 1. FC Union Berlin exceeded what can be read in the club’s social media posts. By early afternoon, almost 600 comments had been collected on the platform
Numerous expressions of sympathy for Urs Fischer
Particular gratitude to Fischer, who led Köpenicker from the Second Bundesliga to the Champions League. “I can’t like this. Urs, thank you for the fantastic time we spent together. Maybe it will never be so beautiful again. I would have wanted to stay with you. You will always remain a union member and feel more than valued. Now I’m sniffling alone”, was what one user read a few minutes after the separation was announced, just one example of the countless expressions of sympathy towards the Swiss.
I can’t like this. Urs, thank you for the fantastic time we spent together. Maybe it will never be so beautiful again. I would have wanted to stay with you. You will always remain a union member and feel more than valued. Now I’m sniffling alone 💔🫶
-Vonnie (@Vonnie09071) November 15, 2023
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He himself used his profiles on the various platforms to review the journey together with the Iron Men and describe his view on the latest developments: “Unfortunately, there are always two sides to a coin and the last few weeks have been very difficult for us all, costing a lot of strength . We tried everything, the team spent a lot, fought against this negative spiral with an iron will, unfortunately it didn’t work! Sometimes a different face, a different speech from the bench helps a team spark development and that’s why my journey with you will end here,” he wrote on social media like Instagram and thanked “for the trust and support unlimited that I have been able to experience this during these 5 and a half years, and I am so grateful! With Union I got to know and appreciate an extraordinary club with fantastic fans.”
In addition to the thanks he expressed to the players, his assistant Markus Hoffmann and the entire team, president Dirk Zingler, Oskar Kosche and Oliver Ruhnert, as well as all the club’s managers and collaborators, who made their contribution for this success story, “ultimately: A huge thank you to the fans… you are amazing!!!!! It’s fortunate to have experienced this kind of overwhelmingly positive support.”
Rapper Finch thanks Urs Fischer
More than 10,000 people liked these words of farewell and gratitude on Instagram in a short time, more than, for example, the post about qualifying for the Champions League on his profile. Union goalkeeping coach Michael Gspurnig, who is traveling with the Austrian national team and was not in Berlin, wrote: “Thanks for everything.” Rapper and Union fan Finch commented on the split under the Union’s message as follows: “Players, coaches, come and they go… but my love for you remains.” And later wrote this in a story on Instagram: “Worse than the breakup with my ex. Urs, thanks for everything.”
Only a few critical phrases could be found among all the acknowledgments, but they were not entirely absent. “Maybe we should have limited ourselves to our own virtues and not think that we were buying old stars who did not understand the Union at all. For me, “Fischer is now the pawn of a completely wrong personnel policy in the summer,” wrote one fan , which sees Fischer as not solely to blame for the slide to 18th place in the Bundesliga. Another wrote: “Absolutely wrong decision, Urs has proven time and time again that he can get teams back on track even in the most difficult situations. Yes, he probably wouldn’t be in the top 5. But you must also be realistic. All the best!”
