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topicnews · September 17, 2024

Alexander Naretz, club boss of the Münster Blackhawks, resigns

Alexander Naretz, club boss of the Münster Blackhawks, resigns

Alexander Naretz Stop it. Four words that you have to let sink in a little before they leave you with at least something like incredulous amazement. Alexander Naretz died eleven years ago Münster Blackhawks was part of the team’s founding, played for the team, and has progressed with the Falcons from the state league to the 2. Bundesliga rose to the top, was head coach, club president, chief strategist, puppet master, networker and always a jack of all trades. “My work is done!” Naretz announced in a family email – the Blackhawks are nothing more and nothing less than a family to him.

From homework help to moving services, from fitness sessions to running training, from training to league operations – everything under one roof with the caretaker, who was always there and organized everything. His last term as club boss is still ongoing, and his last official act is to be the merger of the Blackhawks with the Mammoths to form the new ASC Münster be.

Münster’s football world shaped

“A great thing for football and for Münster, which I have been working on intensively for three years together with Sascha Krotil of the Mammoths Our football world in the city can and will go full throttle and grow, together. A large part of my work over the last few years has led to this point. And I hope from the bottom of my heart that it works,” says Naretz.

These good wishes mark the end of an era that Naretz, looking back, has little to nothing to criticize – there will be no new entries in the extensive Naretz chronicle at the Blackhawks. “I was there when the Hawks were born, and I will be there on their last day!”

Naretz: “Just wanted to run a little…”

“At some point I came to football and actually had no idea, just wanted to run a bit and catch balls.” The rest is Blackhawks history, the area of ​​responsibility of the novice who causes a stir on the sidelines in shorts and slippers, new talent from season to season. “And that was great fun” – and almost imperceptibly took up more and more time. Time that Naretz often lacks for his girlfriend, family and dog. “Everything often had to take a back seat,” Naretz remembers working through the night on the playbooks and difficult personnel interviews.

But the Münster native also finds it easy to say goodbye because daily business has become more stressful and sometimes less harmonious. “The atmosphere on the training ground, the dwindling sense of solidarity – and too many bad words.” All of this contradicts Naretz’s maxim, which is “have fun, don’t stress.” And only with this guiding principle in mind could he imagine a return to the football field at some point, somewhere.

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