Father and son Carlén join Hamburg

Like father like son: the Swedish Carlén family will stay together also for the next season. In November after Oscar Carlén (currently playing for SG Flensburg-Handewitt, GER) signed a contract with HSV Hamburg, starting next season.

Now his father Per (until this autumn coach of SG Flensburg-Handewitt, GER) will follow. The 50-year-old will succeed Martin Schwalb as HSV coach from next season on.

Per Carlén signed a three year contract in Hamburg, after he was dismissed at his former club in Flensburg in autumn.

They will both be new at HSV, but it doesn’t seem like they will start working together from the first day of the preparation: Last week Oscar Carlén was hit really hard as he suffered from a rupture in the crucial ligament. This leaves him to a six to eight month injury break, which will also have an effect on his new club.

Per Carlén was coach in Flensburg for three years, and Swedish international Oscar has been playing for SG since 2009. In Hamburg, Oscar will replace Polish international Krzysztof Lijewski, who will transfer from Hamburg to Rhein-Neckar Löwen.

As a player, Per Carlén was Swedish national team line player, became World (1990) and European Champion (1994) before he became a coach in his home country.

Right at the start of the season HSV had announced that coach Martin Schwalb would step back from coaching and become club director after this season.