Willi Landgraf

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Willi Landgraf
Personnel
Surname Wilfried Landgraf
birthday 29th August 1968
place of birth Mülheim an der Ruhr ,  Germany
size 166 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1977-1985 SV Rot-Weiß Mülheim
1985-1986 Red and white food
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1991 Red and white food 119 (5)
1991-1994 FC 08 Homburg 107 (4)
1994-1996 Red and white food 66 (5)
1996-1999 FC Gütersloh 94 (2)
1999-2006 Alemannia Aachen 188 (3)
2005-2006 Alemannia Aachen II 3 (0)
2006-2009 FC Schalke 04 II 78 (0)
2007 FC Schalke 04 0 (0)
2010-2011 Amacspor Dahlhausen
2011-2013 VfB Bottrop 7 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993 Bundeswehr national team
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2009– FC Schalke 04 Youth
1 Only league games are given.

Wilfried "Willi" Landgraf (born August 29, 1968 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German football player and youth coach .

Career as a player

In 1993, Willi Landgraf took part in the military world championship in Morocco with the Bundeswehr national team and took third place. On October 21, 2005, Landgraf was the first player to play his 500th second division game (0: 1 against Kickers Offenbach). His willingness to work, the high number of games and his combative style of play earned him the nicknames "Willi the fighting pig" and "Mister 2nd League", because Landgraf did not make it to a first division. Landgraf played 508 games and scored 14 goals in the 2nd Bundesliga , holding the second division record (ahead of Jo Montañés with 479 games). At the same time, he holds the record of suspensions with nine expulsions in the 2nd division together with Rüdiger Rehm .

The 1.66 m tall crowd favorite is due to its robust style of play, its character, its origin and its pronunciation as a "typical" Ruhrpottkicker . After Landgraf reached the DFB Cup finals with Alemannia Aachen in 2004 , he played his first competitive game in the UEFA Cup on September 16, 2004 against FH Hafnarfjörður from Iceland . In the 2005/06 season Landgraf rose from the second to the first Bundesliga with Alemannia Aachen . On October 8, 2006, Willi Landgraf and Erik Meijer played his farewell game (8: 8) at the Tivoli cult site . Landgraf and Meijer's fathers called their sons from the field and ended the farewell game. This ended with an emotional farewell to the team and the fans. On May 5, 2006, Landgraf signed a two-year contract with the amateurs of Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 . There he wanted to help out with the team and then get his coaching license. In January 2007, however, he turned professional again, FC Schalke promoted the 38-year-old veteran to the professional squad for the rest of the season. In 2009 he officially ended his career. In February 2010, Landgraf was persuaded to make a comeback and reactivated by the coach of Bochum's A-circle division club Amacspor Dahlhausen. For the 2011/12 season he moved to the district division VfB Bottrop , with whom he was promoted to the Lower Rhine regional league.

Career as a coach

For the 2009/10 season Landgraf first signed a contract as assistant coach at the upper division Alemannia Aachen II, but asked the Aacheners to terminate their contract shortly before the start of training in order to be able to work for Schalke. The Alemannia corresponded to this. Landgraf signed a three-year contract as a junior coach at FC Schalke 04 and trained the club's U-13s in the 2009/10 season. He has been in charge of the Schalke U-15 team since the 2010/11 season.

Football school

Landgraf regularly organizes football camps under the name “Willis Revier”, including a father-and-son camp.

Quotes

  • "Young, I come from Bottrop because we would be killed if I were in the gym!" ( During step aerobics training, when asked whether he had done something like this before. )
  • "To be honest: I never had an offer." ( In his 480th second division game when asked by the taz why he never played in the first division. )

literature

  • Willi Landgraf: No more second division. MM Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-928272-76-4 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 294.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kicker sports magazine No. 47/23. Wo., 10./11. June 1993, p. 21
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Wilfried 'Willi' Landgraf - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ derwesten.de: Willi Landgraf helps out at VfB Bottrop , 23 August 2011
  4. ↑ rp-online.de: Willi, das Kampfschwein , September 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Alemannia Aachen: Contract with Willi Landgraf terminated ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 16, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alemannia-aachen.de
  6. ↑ Willi Landgraf takes over Schalker U13 ( Memento from April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ schalke04.de: Personnel changes in the coaching staff of the youth department ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 17, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schalke04.de
personal data
SURNAME Landgrave, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landgraf, Wilfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 29th August 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr