11 March 2009
Gunnar Prokop, manager of Hypo Niederösterreich, reveals secret of his clubs success. Despite key players are leaving, he is not worried.
“Mr. Hypo” comments excellent results of his team in Champions league:
“Trainings make all the difference. I have feeling that some of the teams of the CL’s second group phase have not been training enough between the two group phases. You should not be satisfied buy reaching a good form in autumn. You have to go on training hard and I think that we have an advantage here.”
He agrees about Hypo and Viborg being favourites for winning CL trophy:
“This would also be my bet: a final between Viborg and Hypo…”
Hypo’s key players will leave at the end of the season - Sabine Englert and Gorica Aćimović. Still, Prokop is not worried:
“I’m sure that we will not be weaker next season as most of the team will stay together. We have a great goalkeeper already and we will also find a good successor for Aćimović. So I don’t really worry.”
TEXT: www.ehfcl.com