David Wagner

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David Wagner
David Wagner (2019)
Personnel
birthday	19th October 1971
place of birth	Frankfurt am Main ,  Germany
size	180 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	SV 07 Geinsheim
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1990-1991	Eintracht Frankfurt	1 0(0)
1991-1995	1. FSV Mainz 05	94 (19)
1995-1997	FC Schalke 04	29 0(2)
1997-1999	FC Gütersloh	49 0(7)
1999	SV Waldhof Mannheim	5 0(0)
1999-2002	SV Darmstadt 98	76 (21)
2002-2004	TSG Weinheim
2004-2005	Germania Pfungstadt
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1992	Germany U21	1 0(0)
1996-1998	United States	8 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2007-2008	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim U19
2008-2009	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim U17
2011-2015	Borussia Dortmund II
2015-2019	Huddersfield Town
2019–	FC Schalke 04
1 Only league games are given.

David Wagner (* 19th October 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German - American football coach and former poker players . From November 2015 to the beginning of 2019 he coached the English club Huddersfield Town and rose to the Premier League with them in 2017 . For the 2019/20 season he took over FC Schalke 04 , with whom he had won the 1996/97 UEFA Cup .

Career as a player

In the club

Wagner was born to a Thai father and a German mother in Frankfurt am Main and grew up in Geinsheim am Rhein . Since his mother married his US stepfather while pregnant , Wagner is a US citizen and lived in Los Angeles during his childhood . He started playing soccer at SV 07 Geinsheim . The center forward began his professional career in the 1990/91 season at Eintracht Frankfurt , when he was appointed to the 1st team by coach Jörg Berger . His only Bundesliga game for Eintracht he completed on March 16, 1991 against VfL Bochum , in which he came on for Anthony Yeboah in attack. When Berger was replaced by Dragoslav Stepanović in the current season , Wagner was no longer considered. In the summer of 1991 he moved to the second division club 1. FSV Mainz 05 , for whom he scored 18 goals in 94 games in the second division by the end of the 1994/1995 season.

From July 1995 Wagner was signed by Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 . Here he was initially trained again by Jörg Berger (who had been under contract with Schalke 04 since 1993). In the spring he achieved his greatest success: He was - now under Huub Stevens  - 1997 UEFA Cup winner , but was mostly a substitute.

In July 1997 Wagner moved to the second division club FC Gütersloh , where he played in the second division seasons 1997/98 and 1998/99 . Further stations were the then second division SV Waldhof Mannheim until the end of the first half of 1999/2000 . Wagner let his playing career come to an end in the amateur league, from 2000 to 2002 with the then regional league club SV Darmstadt 98 , from 2002 to 2004 with the association and upper division club TSG Weinheim and from 2004 to 2005 with the district league club Germania Pfungstadt.

In the national team

Wagner has US and German citizenship . He played one U-21 international for Germany and eight senior international games for the USA , for which he was named on call for the 1998 World Cup in France .

Career as a coach

Beginnings

In the summer of 2007, Wagner successfully completed the DFB's football teacher training course and completed a teaching degree in biology and sport at the TU Darmstadt with the first state examination. He then worked at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim as a youth coach and coached the U-19 juniors in the 2007/08 season and the club's U-17 juniors in the 2008/09 season. Afterwards he did a teaching traineeship in biology and sport for a short time at the Gymnasium Gernsheim . On July 1, 2011, he succeeded Theo Schneider as coach of Borussia Dortmund's U23 team. In his first season he rose with the team in the 3rd division . After relegation in 2015, there was no success in the Regionalliga West. In consultation with the club, Wagner terminated his contract in October 2015.

Huddersfield Town

From November 9, 2015 he was the head coach of the English club Huddersfield Town . On May 29, 2017, he and his team achieved promotion to the Premier League with a 4-3 victory over Reading FC in front of 76,000 spectators at London's Wembley Stadium on penalties in the play-off final . David Wagner was elected Premier League Manager of the Month of August in September 2017 . At the end of his first Premier League season, his team managed to stay in 16th place.

Huddersfield Town and Wagner split on January 14, 2019. Huddersfield was at this time with eleven points from 22 league games and eight points behind the non-relegation ranks in the last place in the table. His successor was Jan Siewert . At the end of the season, the club rose from bottom of the table.

FC Schalke 04

For the 2019/20 season , Wagner took over the Bundesliga team at FC Schalke 04 as the successor to interim coach Huub Stevens . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2022. Under coach Wagner, Schalke 04 played a strong first half of the season, but then played 16 Bundesliga games in a row without a win. This negative record is unique in the history of Schalke 04.

successes

As a player

• UEFA Cup winner : 1997 (with FC Schalke 04)

As a trainer

• Promotion to the 3rd division : 2012 (with Borussia Dortmund II)
• Promotion to the Premier League : 2017 (with Huddersfield Town)

Private

David Wagner is married and has two children. His daughter Lea works as a reporter and sports presenter for SWR .

Web links

• David Wagner in the database of fussballdaten.de
• David Wagner in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player profile in the archive of fsv05.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ How David Wagner revived Schalke - Wagner's greatest achievement ( Memento from December 20, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} David Wagner: The former Lilien captain who grew up in Geinsheim forms talents at BVB. main-spitze.de, September 26, 2015, archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on December 17, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Details on www.transfermarkt.de .
4. ↑ David Wagner , kicker.de
5. ↑ Ron Ulrich: How David Wagner revived Schalke: The test of courage. In: 11freunde. September 29, 2019, accessed September 30, 2019 . 
6. ↑ David Wagner: The former lily captain who grew up in Geinsheim forms talents at BVB , main-spitze.de, September 26, 2015
7. ^ David Wagner takes over Dortmund's U23 ; sid message on Focus-Online from March 3, 2011.
8. ↑ Borussia Dortmund and David Wagner end their cooperation, press release BVB09. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
9. ↑ DAVID WAGNER NAMED HTAFC HEAD COACH htafc.com, accessed on November 5, 2015.
10. ↑ htafc.com: David Wagner named Premier League Manager of the Month for August Article dated September 8, 2017
11. ↑ www.kicker.de: [1] from January 14, 2018
12. ↑ bbc.com: David Wagner: Huddersfield Town manager leaves club by mutual consent (Jan. 14, 2019) , accessed on January 14, 2019.
13. ↑ David Wagner is the new head coach of FC Schalke 04 on the Schalke 04 website on May 9, 2019, accessed on May 9, 2019
14. ↑ https://www.n-tv.de/sport/fussball/Der-FC-Schalke-04-ist-nur-noch-Katastrophe-article21876516.html
15. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/fussball-freiburg-feiert-schalke-setzt-pleitenserie-fort-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-200627-99-587349
16. ↑ https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/0-4-pleite-in-freiburg-schalke-demonstriert-schalke-demontiert-71541094.bild.html
17. ^ David Wagner - Football - Schalke 04. In: schalke04.de. Retrieved June 7, 2020 . 
18. ↑ David Wagner: Daughter Lea von Schalke-Trainer now regularly moderates sports on TV on ruhr24.de, accessed on July 19, 2019