Building a new team
Special report from Hamburg
HSV is showing a big ambition to return to the glorious times in the short run. For 2004/05 Toppmöller want a team to fight for the title and negociations to bring top players to Hamburg already started. Roque Junior is the defender wished to substitute Hoogma (that will end his carrer in the end of the season) and negotiations seem to be in a good point.
Argentinian International Cardoso is going to retire also and will become the south american scout for the HSV. Thinking on that, Co-trainer Ralf Zumdick will escape the freezing temperatures of Hamburg today and fly to Santiago de Chile, where he will watch an under-23 semi-final Olympic qualifying match. He will be back in Hamburg on Thursday: "We have our eye on several players," confided the HSV coach Toppmöller.
And the player wished for Cardoso palce is the Cruzeiro star Alex, according to the rumours in Hamburg (noticed already in journal Bild). But that´s not all. The Brasilian samba seems to please Toppmöller that want to give a new partner to Romeo in the front of the HSV attack. The name, already mentioned by the coatch on a conference, is Robinho.
So, Zumdick might bring some presents from the south already.
Ledesma (hired two seasons ago from River plate and currently on loan in Mexico) might had a chance to prove is value again in Germany and getting a place at the midfield. Carlos Bueno, Uraguay International and curently at Penarol, is also very close to HSV and might fight with Ledesma for a place in the team.
HSV is showing a big ambition to return to the glorious times in the short run. For 2004/05 Toppmöller want a team to fight for the title and negociations to bring top players to Hamburg already started. Roque Junior is the defender wished to substitute Hoogma (that will end his carrer in the end of the season) and negotiations seem to be in a good point.
Argentinian International Cardoso is going to retire also and will become the south american scout for the HSV. Thinking on that, Co-trainer Ralf Zumdick will escape the freezing temperatures of Hamburg today and fly to Santiago de Chile, where he will watch an under-23 semi-final Olympic qualifying match. He will be back in Hamburg on Thursday: "We have our eye on several players," confided the HSV coach Toppmöller.
And the player wished for Cardoso palce is the Cruzeiro star Alex, according to the rumours in Hamburg (noticed already in journal Bild). But that´s not all. The Brasilian samba seems to please Toppmöller that want to give a new partner to Romeo in the front of the HSV attack. The name, already mentioned by the coatch on a conference, is Robinho.
So, Zumdick might bring some presents from the south already.
Ledesma (hired two seasons ago from River plate and currently on loan in Mexico) might had a chance to prove is value again in Germany and getting a place at the midfield. Carlos Bueno, Uraguay International and curently at Penarol, is also very close to HSV and might fight with Ledesma for a place in the team.
