Erich Ribbeck

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Erich Ribbeck
Personnel
birthday June 13, 1937
place of birth Wuppertal ,  German Empire
size 184 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
SSV 1904 Wuppertal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1962 Wuppertal SV
1962-1965 SC Viktoria Cologne
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1965-1967 Borussia Mönchengladbach (assistant coach)
1967-1968 Red and white food
1968-1973 Eintracht Frankfurt
1973-1978 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1978-1983 Germany (assistant coach)
1983-1984 Germany Olympic team
1984-1985 Borussia Dortmund
1985-1988 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1992-1993 FC Bayern Munich
1995-1996 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1998-2000 Germany
1 Only league games are given.

Erich Ribbeck (born June 13, 1937 in Wuppertal ) is a former German soccer player and coach . In the meantime he was also active in sports management. His well-groomed demeanor and manners earned him the nickname "Sir Erich" and later "Gentleman" in the tabloid press.

As a player, he played for SC Viktoria Köln in the first-class Oberliga West at the time. As a coach he won with Bayer 04 Leverkusen to the UEFA Cup in 1988 and the first title of the club. He was runner-up with FC Bayern Munich . From 1998 until the end of the EM 2000 , Ribbeck looked after the DFB selection as national coach .

Career

Career as a player

Erich Ribbeck began his career as a player at SSV 1904 Wuppertal (replaced in 1959 by the successor club Wuppertaler SV ). At WSV he was initially under contract as a goalkeeper, but soon played in defense . In the 1961/62 season he reached the runner-up behind Bayer 04 Leverkusen under coach Robert Gebhardt , and they were promoted to the first-class Oberliga West at the time.

After a total of 104 missions for the WSV, Ribbeck moved to SC Viktoria Köln for the 1962/63 season . Reason was u. a. a sport study that has now started at the German Sport University Cologne , where his trainer Hennes Weisweiler also taught. At Viktoria Ribbeck played 21 times together with the Yugoslav world class goalkeeper Vladimir Beara and players like Gero Bisanz , Willibert Kremer , Carl-Heinz Rühl and Jürgen Sundermann . In 1965 Ribbeck received an offer from Bayer Leverkusen. He had already accepted it orally when he received an offer from Hertha BSC , which he accepted. Hertha was relegated from the Bundesliga by the DFB due to unauthorized hand money payments to players; the contract with Ribbeck lapsed. Ribbeck then ended his active career with Viktoria after 34 appearances in the then second-rate Regionalliga West . In the meantime, Ribbeck had made the football teacher license under Weisweiler .

Started as assistant coach, Bundesliga coach and assistant to the national coach

Ribbeck began his coaching career directly after his time as an active footballer as an assistant to Weisweiler, who coached the Borussia Mönchengladbach team that had just been promoted to the Bundesliga . So he became the assistant coach of a team he had played against a few months earlier. At the same time Ribbeck trained the Borussia amateur team. He also worked in the mornings as a physical education teacher at the Leibniz Gymnasium in Remscheid .

In 1967, the 30-year-old Ribbeck received his first head coach position at the then Bundesliga relegated Rot-Weiss Essen . He led the club to second place in the Regionalliga West, but failed in the Bundesliga promotion round to Hertha BSC .

From the following season until 1973 he trained as the successor to Elek Schwartz for five years Eintracht Frankfurt , apart from a qualification for the UEFA Cup, but without much success. Ribbeck had taken a leave of absence from school for the post in Frankfurt. The Frankfurt team was shaped at that time by players like Jürgen Grabowski and Bernd Hölzenbein , who won the 1974 World Cup a year after Ribbeck's departure from Frankfurt . With 1,825 days in the service of Eintracht, Ribbeck, together with Friedhelm Funkel, holds the record as coach with the longest term in office in Hessen.

In 1973 Ribbeck became head coach of 1. FC Kaiserslautern , while Dietrich Weise went from Betzenberg to the Main and finally led the Frankfurters to two triumphs in the DFB Cup . So there was a kind of coach swap. Right at the beginning of Ribbeck's activity in Kaiserslautern there was a 7: 4 win in the Bundesliga match against Bayern Munich , which went into the club's annals because a 1: 4 deficit could be made up. Ribbeck had a personal friendship with the then Bayern coach Udo Lattek . Ribbeck led the Lauterer in 1976 in the DFB Cup final , in which, however, the Hamburger SV retained the upper hand 2-0, which then triumphed in the European Cup Winners' Cup the next season . Participation in the finals was Ribbeck's greatest success in the German cup competition. The Bundesliga placements of those years (6th, 13th, 7th, 13th, 8th), however, did not help the traditional Palatinate club; Ribbeck was replaced in 1978 by Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , who led the team to UEFA Cup participation and in later years to championship and cup victory.

Ribbeck then switched to the office of assistant to the national coach after the previous assistant, Jupp Derwall , had just inherited Helmut Schön as national coach. In the following years he was involved in winning the 1980 European Championship in Italy and the 1982 runner-up in Spain. At the less successful European Championship 1984 in France, after which the era of team boss Franz Beckenbauer began, Ribbeck was no longer an assistant coach. He had resigned in the first third of 1983 because he no longer wanted to work as Derwall's deputy, and was signed by DFB President Hermann Neuberger as the coach of the Olympic team . At the 1984 Olympic Games , he reached the quarter-finals with the team.

In October 1984 Ribbeck replaced Timo Konietzka at Borussia Dortmund, who had been dismissed after nine Bundesliga game days . At the end of the season, Dortmund were 14th and only one point before the place in the table, which is mandatory for the relegation games. The Hungarian Pál Csernai replaced Ribbeck in the black and yellow. Ribbeck accepted an offer from Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

1988 UEFA Cup success

He celebrated his greatest success with his new club Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1988 by winning the UEFA Cup : In the quarter-finals, Leverkusen won the second leg with a 1-0 win at FC Barcelona ; in the semi-finals again just under thanks to a 1-0 home win against Werder Bremen after a draw in the first leg. In the finals against RCD Español Barcelona - the final was played with a home and return leg - it got even tighter: After a 3-0 defeat by the Catalans it was still 0-0 in the second leg at break, but the Leverkusen, led by captain Wolfgang Rolff , in the second half in what was then the Ulrich Haberland Stadium, the deficit from the first leg was compensated with some lucky goals. In the subsequent penalty shootout, they got the upper hand 3-2. As a result, Ribbeck's team secured the club's first major title. At the end of the season he resigned and was replaced by Rinus Michels .

Ribbeck then took over the post of sports director at Hamburger SV for the 1988/89 season and was then until 1992 sports communications officer at the automobile manufacturer Opel , which was very active in sports sponsorship at the time and whose name was on the chest of the 1990s and 2000s, among other things Players from FC Bayern Munich (until 2002) and AC Milan (until 2006) shone.

FC Bayern signed Ribbeck in March 1992 as the successor to Søren Lerby . Under Ribbeck, Bayern finished the season in tenth place. In the following season he was able to lead the team to runner-up with Lothar Matthäus, who returned from Italy . This should remain the best Bundesliga placement in Ribbeck's coaching career. Until the winter break of the 1993/94 season , the opinion prevailed within Bayern management that the coach would be a hindrance to the Munich’s everlasting championship ambitions, and so shortly before the end of the year he was replaced by Vice President Franz Beckenbauer , who finally made the team first Championship since 1990.

In the middle of the second half of the 1994/95 season , Ribbeck was again committed by the Leverkusen team, who had since slipped into mediocrity, to replace Dragoslav Stepanović - in the end Bayer Leverkusen finished seventh. Ribbeck could not build on his successes of the first term. Despite big names like Rudi Völler , Ulf Kirsten and Bernd Schuster , the team battled relegation throughout the 1995/96 season . At the end of April 1996, when the team was in 13th place and only three points away from a relegation place, Ribbeck was released again. This was his second early release in over 20 years as a coach. Peter Hermann took over until the end of the season, before Christoph Daum came. Ribbeck then retired in Tenerife for the time being.

National coach

After he had no longer expected offers of a coaching engagement and was thus in quasi-retirement, Ribbeck succeeded Berti Vogts as national coach on September 9, 1998 and at 61 years of age the oldest debutant in this position. His assistant and closest colleague was the former national player Uli Stielike . Ribbeck stuck to the image of a compromise candidate right from the start, also because a temporary appointment of 1974 world champion Paul Breitner as team boss had failed due to personal quarrels between Breitner and DFB President Egidius Braun .

After the first game of the national team under Ribbeck, a European Championship qualifier against Turkey in Bursa , was lost 1-0, there were further bitter defeats in the following two years, for example twice against the USA (0-3 and 0: 2) as well as against Brazil, when the DFB-Elf (but only started with a B selection) lost 4: 0. There were only successes against less important footballing nations. After beating Turkey 0-0 in the second leg, Germany qualified for the 2000 European Championship in the Netherlands and Belgium with two points ahead of the second-placed Turks .

Even in the run-up to the tournament, there were disputes within the German team, in which an opposition to Ribbeck was formed. At the tournament itself, in which Ribbeck used the 39-year-old, outgoing national player Lothar Matthäus as the classic libero and thus called up the only team besides Turkey that still played with this outdated system, the DFB selection came to a fiasco: In the first group match Germany was able to force a 1-1 draw against Romania after a quick 0-1 deficit. After that there were only defeats with a 0: 1 against England and a 0: 3 against Portugal, which had already qualified for the next round and had renounced the use of stars like Luís Figo and Rui Costa . The national team was eliminated as the bottom of the group after the preliminary round. It was the worst performance of a German team in a major tournament since the first round against Switzerland at the 1938 World Cup under the then Reich coach Sepp Herberger .

Ribbeck, who during his tenure also contributed a rich selection of curiosities and truisms to the treasure trove of quotes in German football, could not long resist the persistent criticism that followed the European tournament and resigned from his post on June 21, 2000. His slightly positive record is the worst of all national coaches with ten wins, six draws and eight defeats. He is the only one who failed to win the majority of his games. He was replaced by the Leverkusen sports director Rudi Völler , who was only supposed to take over responsibility for Christoph Daum temporarily, but then remained in office until 2004 due to the Daums cocaine affair. The "trainer finding process", a word from that time, was then even more complex and accompanied by sharper public discussions than when Ribbeck was appointed.

Personal

Erich Ribbeck is married to Ulla, with whom he has a daughter and a son and six grandchildren. He commutes between Pulheim in the Rhineland and the Canary Island of Tenerife . Ribbeck supported the social project “ We Help Africa ” for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and was its city sponsor for Lindau .

Success as a trainer

With the national team

With his clubs

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the German Sport University Cologne: Well-known students and alumni of the German Sport University Cologne
  2. ↑ Hardy Green , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 313.
  3. ↑ Does Funkel break the Ribbeck record? from December 9, 2008 on bild.de.
  4. ↑ Captain Countdown im Spiegel, March 28, 1983, accessed September 12, 2014
  5. ↑ I'm not the worst national coach on reviersport.de , June 13, 2012, accessed May 26, 2016
  6. ↑ Erich's Wheel of Fortune - Random line-ups. , Der Spiegel 24/2000
  7. ^ Ribbeck, the coffee house trainer. , Der Spiegel 25/2000
  8. ↑ Lindau's help Africa city ​​sponsor Erich Ribbeck, We help Africa eV ( Memento from January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

literature

“Suddenly I was Netzer's trainer” - detailed interview in: RevierSport 3/2013, p. 42 f.

Web links

Wikiquote: Erich Ribbeck  - Quotes
personal data
SURNAME Ribbeck, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach, sports manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal , Germany