Already on Thursday morning the message made the round, in the early afternoon came their confirmation of official site.
The Fraport Skyliners have separated from coach Diego Ocampo.
On the eve, the skyliners had lost their home game in the basketball Bundesliga against the S.Oliver Würzburg 61:69.
It was the eighth defeat in the past eight games, and she hurt all the more because it was suffered against a competitor in the fight against the descent.
Managing Director Yannick Binas announced on Thursday that the decision to build Ocampo is very regrettable.
The club guidance "but due to the critical starting position in the fight for the class blances this pulse set this momentum.
We are convinced that the team has great potential, now it's time to bring this self-confident to the parquet.
Each game is an end game for the team and us as an entire club. "For the time being, the long-standing assistant Klaus Perwas takes over the team.
Ocampo had taken over the coaching post in Frankfurt last summer after training several firstligue clubs in his home Spain.
He is considered an expert to work with young players.
In Frankfurt, one hoped for from Ocampo that he would make talents such as Lorenz Brennke (22 years old) and Len Schoormann (19) to established Bundesliga players.
However, the team lost more games from the start of the season than that they won no good conditions to develop young players.
Since the turn of the year, the descent wells were getting bigger.
Lastly, the skyliners won against pouring in the Bundesliga on January 2.
Immense pressure
Nevertheless, the club guide kept a long time to Ocampo.
At the end of February he had traveled with the team once again for a week after Mallorca to take momentum in a training camp for the last weeks of the season.
After the defeat against Göttingen, however, the coach stood under immense pressure.
Overlooking the Games against Weissenfels and Würzburg, sport director Binas said last week: "The next two games count.
We have to win and will do that too. "They did not do it.
Eleven game days before the end of the season is finish for Ocampo.
In the table, the skyliners can be found in the last place again.
Already on Wednesday evening after the game against Würzburg, the responsible persons hardly tried to enumerate confidence, anything but dietary severe would have been implausible.
"Lost is not lost," said Manager Sport Marco Völler, just to attach: "After today it's extremely much harder again." He meant the whereabouts in the Bundesliga.
Trainer Diego Ocampo looked tidy when he said with a quiet voice, "We have to fight on.
And then we will see what happens. "
What else should he have said, after a first half helpless appearance of his team.
Already at the pause, the skyliners were back with 19 points after playing a weak first and a frightening weak second quarter.
Not that the Würzburger had deepened, but in comparison, the skyliners inferior in all matters simply saw a second class.
The general uncertainty was to grab with hands.
The imprints and miscalculations were partly so hair-raising that coach Ocampo no longer just shook his head, but the whole body.
Against Göttingen and Weissenfels, the skyliners had still led to the break before they left the courage each in the final act.
This time they fought in the second half in the face of the high residue with the courage of those who have nothing to lose against the uplied defeat.
And they would have been out of the distance more accurate, they could actually rip the rudder.
But a three-rate ratio of 23 percent (only eight of 35 experiments landed in the basket) is inadequate at this level.
"We throw without confidence," Ocampo said to repeatedly.
Samples for this was playmaker Will Cherry, this season so far the most successful thrower of the skyliners.
The American made his first points in the middle of the last quarter.
He only met two of 14 throws.
Whether of his age (31) and its class, Cherry should be done with a good example, but at this, Cherry will not be able to erect the completely unsettled team.
At the end of the half-time break, the indoor spokesman reminded the 1467 present again to the beginnings of the skyliners in 1999. Since then they play in the Bundesliga in the 23rd season.
A generation of Frankfurter basketball fans was thus great that the terms skyliners and first league belong together like handkaes and music.
The back back to the start time seems to be an expression of reality escape in the detestance of the game.
Because even the hopefully fan should be on Wednesday that the chapter of Bundesliga should close in a few weeks for the first one.
The skyliners remain eleven games to prevent the first descent.
The first of which is on Sunday in Braunschweig (15.00 clock at Magenta Sport).