Anne Trabant-Haarbach

Anne Trabant-Haarbach (born January 1, 1949 as Anne Haarbach ) is a former German soccer player and coach .

Career

societies

Anne Haarbach grew up in Emlichheim and played football on the soccer field as a child , but was not allowed to compete in the local boys' club because the German Football Association did not allow women's football. Therefore, she first played handball and did athletics , later she founded the women's handball department of the local sports club in her home town. When she began studying at the University of Mainz in 1969 , she responded to an advertising poster from Mainz in 1817 .

From now on, Haarbach developed into an outstanding technician and is considered one of the best players of her generation. From Mainz she switched to TuS Wörrstadt . With the club she won the Gold Cup in 1973 at the first, as yet unofficial German championship and in 1974 also became the first official German champion in women's football. In the final, she missed a penalty kick when the final score was 4-0 .

In the following season, Trabant-Haarbach, meanwhile married, moved to Bonner SC as a player- coach and was German champion again in 1975. In order to earn a living, she worked as a qualified sports teacher at a public school, just as the teammates also played football as a hobby, as the clubs only paid travel expenses. She won her next championship title two years later after switching to SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach as a player- coach . Under her leadership, the club became the best German team that was to dominate German football for almost a decade. Another five titles followed in the years 1979 to 1983. In 1981 and 1982 the club also won the first two finals for the DFB Cup . In 1984 she became champion as a trainer and lost in 1986 with the Bergisch Gladbach women in the final against FSV Frankfurt . Two more championship titles followed with a younger team in 1988 and 1989. In January 1992, she ended her work as a coach.

National team

In 1981 Trabant-Haarbach was invited to a meeting with Egidius Braun , Horst R. Schmidt and Gero Bisanz . The topic was the establishment of a women's national team . The DFB did not maintain a national women's team, but had an invitation to an unofficial World Cup in Taiwan . For this, the SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach was sent by player -coach Trabant-Haarbach as a makeshift, which to the great surprise also won the tournament. During this conversation it was decided to found the German women's national team. Bisanz became her first coach because the DFB did not trust women in this role. Trabant-Haarbach played the first eight international matches, including the first on November 10, 1982 in Koblenz in a 5-1 victory over the Swiss national team . She last played as a national player on October 22, 1983 in Brussels in a 1-1 draw against the Belgian national team .