Bundesliga: Kathleen Krüger takes over as Hamburg's head of sport
Key takeaways
- Hamburg have presented Kathleen Krüger as the club's new board member responsible for sport.
- We don't want to merely maintain the status quo; we want to develop."
- The press conference came several weeks after her appointment was announced in mid-May.
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Hamburg have presented Kathleen Krüger as the club's new board member responsible for sport. She is the first woman to fill such a role at a Bundesliga club on a permanent basis.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Dea WKathleen Krüger took over at Hamburg on July 1Image: Peter Hartenfelser/Hartenfelser/IMAGOAdvertisement Hamburg introduced Kathleen Krüger as the football club's new board member in charge of sport at a press conference at their home ground, the Volksparkstadion, on Wednesday.
Krüger, who officially took up the post on July 1st, said that following Hamburg's survival in the Bundesliga after their first season in the top flight in seven years, the focus would now be on "further establishing ourselves in the first division. But we are bold, ambitious, and passionate. We don't want to merely maintain the status quo; we want to develop."