After someone asked him again on Sunday whether he still believed in his future as head coach at TSG Hoffenheim, <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/sc-freiburg-defeated-vfb-stuttgart-in-bundesliga-20/" title="SC Freiburg defeated VfB Stuttgart in Bundesliga 2:0″>Pellegrino Matarazzo replied that he was not afraid in that regard. “I don’t know what’s going to happen,” he said, “but I don’t fear anything.” It sounded as if the German-Italo-American coach had learned in a healthy way to classify his unstable position in the critical center of the Kraichgau Bundesliga club. Which is why it shouldn’t have shocked him that the club fired him on Monday. There was probably only one thing that surprised him: that he hadn’t been informed of his leave of absence six or eight weeks ago.
