While Borussia Dortmund fans may still be bouncing off the walls following their Revierderby derby win over Schalke and the world may be pitching their tents up outside Säbener Straße in Munich to see what happens next at Bayern Munich, there’s little doubt that the best story in German football this season has come from Union Berlin.
While the club have long since proven themselves as worthy additions to the Bundesliga, even the most optimistic of fans will be struggling to explain why we’re now seven games into the new season and that Urs Fischer’s team are still not only top of the league table, but have climbed to the summit without suffering a single defeat.
Much has been made of the goalscoring heroics of Jordan “Pefolk” Siebatcheu and Sheraldo Becker, but long before either player made their mark at the Berlin side, Fischer arrived at the club and set something in motion that has forced every club in the German top-flight to sit up and pay attention. And in no uncertain terms has the 56-year-old head coach come from nowhere, to suddenly become the most impressive manager in German football today.
The boring man from Switzerland
In many ways, Fischer is the best kind of Swiss successful story: an entirely unexpected one. After extremely uneventful spells at Zürich (where he spent much of his playing career) and Thun, the former centre back from the small town of Triengen found some notable success at Basel in 2015, where he won back-to-back titles as well as a Swiss Cup in 2017.
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