The Way they were: Lucien Favre

By: Jan | March 3rd, 2008

Here’s Hertha’s coach Lucien Favre circa 1987/88, sporting a slightly rockabilly haircut. Before he was hired to build a somewhat respectable legacy for an egomanic general manager at Berlin, before he won back-to-back Swiss championships with Zürich and before he won the Swiss cup with his former club Servette Genf, Lucien Favre actually played for Servette Genf. I know this, because Wikipedia knows this.

Lucien Favre was the man in the shadows I was looking for over the weekend. Diana got it right, while Luke and Juliet can claim to have gotten as far as picking a Swiss coach.

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Hertha BSC Berlin, Snapshots

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Hertha BSC Berlin, Lucien Favre, Snapshots

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• diana |  March 4th, 2008 at 8:05 am

  
  
  

  ’sporting a slightly rockabily haircut.’

  Oh my word. That’s Favre? He looked so…young. Gee, when I was still in diapers (given Jan, you stated ‘circa 1987/88′)… Nice find. I always like to find out how coaches used to look like when they were younger. Just a, well, strange hobby of mine.

  Anyhow, wow. I got the answer right. Thanks. Guess first instincts can be right sometimes. Initially I wasn’t sure if it’s Lucien Favre (his name just sprung into my head immediately when I saw the photo in the shadows) until I read Jan replied that ‘he definitely had a better weekend than Thomas Doll’ before I tried my luck.

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• Abby |  March 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am

  
  
  

  Awwww. He looks so bewildered.

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• Juliet |  March 4th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  
  
  

  Hm. Now that I think about it… other than Lulu and Huub, are there any other non-German coaches in the Bundesliga? The manager of Cottbus, possibly…

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• Jan |  March 4th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  
  
  

  I did a quick check on the Web to catch them all:
  First Bundesliga:
  Hamburg: Huub Stevens (Netherlands)
  Berlin: Lucien Favre (Switzerland)
  Bochum: Marcel Koller (Switzerland)
  Cottbus: Bojan Prasnikar (Slovenia)

  Second Bundesliga:
  M’gladbach: Jos Luhukay (Netherlands)
  Kaiserslautern: Milan Sasic (Croatia)
  Paderborn: Pavel Dotchev (Bulgaria)
  Offenbach: Jörn Andersen (Norway)

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• Luke |  March 4th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

  
  
  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld is practically Swiss, given that he’s from Lörrach, but Germany will still gladly claim him if only until the end of this season.

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