Personae Non Gratae — Paderborn
Stefan Effenberg: it was only a brief intermezzo between Effenberg and Paderborn.
The Unwanted
Stefan Effenberg: it was only a brief intermezzo
Stefan Effenberg: it was only a brief intermezzo between Effenberg and Paderborn.
Stefan Effenberg: it was only a brief intermezzo between Effenberg and Paderborn. Hailed to the skies by president Finke, “Effe” arrived in October 2015 to drag the club, then lying 15th, out of crisis. Six hundred curious spectators came to his first training session, and after a 2-0 win over Braunschweig he seemed fully accepted.
But the hype did not last. After five months and eventually twelve league matches without a win, the once enthusiastic president pulled the plug. His press conference announcing the dismissal has become legendary.
The constant media circus generated by scandal figure Effenberg - including a revoked driving licence and missing coaching badge - combined with the lack of sporting success to bring his quick end. Paderborn gave the former world-class player the chance to break into professional coaching, and he failed to take it. Quite unlike several of his predecessors: SCP has often functioned as a coaching school, propelling Jos Luhukay, Roger Schmidt, André Schubert and André Breitenreiter to the Bundesliga.
Robert Hoyzer: his refereeing career ended in Paderborn.
Robert Hoyzer: his refereeing career ended in Paderborn.
Robert Hoyzer: his refereeing career ended in Paderborn. In the first round of the DFB Cup he manipulated Paderborn’s tie against Hamburg. Hoyzer received 64,000 euros and a plasma television for the fraud, while the betting gang made 700,000 euros from the sabotaged match.
Eventually everything came out - but Paderborn remain tied forever, however unwillingly, to the biggest betting scandal in German football history.
Dark Chapters
Christian Beeck: the Sport1 columnist tore Paderborn to
Christian Beeck: the Sport1 columnist tore Paderborn to pieces in a commentary at the start of the 2015/16 season. “Paderborn have made a classic false start.
Christian Beeck: the Sport1 columnist tore Paderborn to pieces in a commentary at the start of the 2015/16 season. “Paderborn have made a classic false start. From my point of view, the club completely underestimated the situation,” wrote the former Union Berlin player, before going on to predict that the team would end up more or less where it had come from, down near the bottom of Bundesliga 2. He called the Bundesliga promotion “luck”.
Paderborn saw his words as malicious defamation, but by season’s end had to admit he had not been all that wrong.
Ante Sapina: the Croatian was regarded as the
Ante Sapina: the Croatian was regarded as the mastermind and central figure of the 2005 betting scandal.
Ante Sapina: the Croatian was regarded as the mastermind and central figure of the 2005 betting scandal. Operating out of the Berlin café King with the help of his brothers, he manipulated football matches in Germany and across Europe. Robert Hoyzer was one of his helpers.
Bad luck for Sapina: Hoyzer’s exposure led directly to his own, and in 2005 he was convicted in Berlin for fraud and sentenced to two years and eleven months in prison. The Federal Court of Justice upheld the verdict in 2006. Released in July 2008, Sapina later agreed in a civil case to repay 1.8 million euros in illegitimate winnings to the Berlin state lottery. None of that diminished the image damage Paderborn suffered from his scheme.