Eugene Igel

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Eugen Igel (born May 20, 1940 in Hamburg ; † April 14,  2020 there ) was a German football coach .

Life

Igel was born in the Hamburg district of St. Georg  , he grew up without a father who was killed in the Second World War . During the war, his mother moved with him and his two siblings to Tönning , and in 1953 they returned to Hamburg. After graduating from high school at Heimfeld, Igel completed a two-year traineeship with the newspaper Hamburger Abendecho .

From 1966 to 1970 Igel was managing director of FC St. Pauli . At the beginning of April 1970 he resigned from the office after the board had decided to fill the post with chairman Walter Windte from July 1 of the same year. In addition to Igel, club president Walter Gerber announced his departure. From 1970 to 2004 Igel worked full-time at the Hamburg Football Association (HFV), where he worked in the areas of game scheduling, women's and girls' football and for the HFV Association Court.

Hedgehog, among other things, at Viktoria Harburg played and himself as a " man-marker called the old school," was coach from 1963 in the amateur field. He worked for the clubs SV Bendestorf , Horner TV , Lauenburger SV , VfL Lohbrügge , TuS Holstein Quickborn , SC Urania , Hummelsbütteler SV , Rasensport Elmshorn , SC Vorwärts / Wacker Billstedt , Duvenstedter SV , FC Elmshorn and SC Sperber .

He was named Hamburg's soccer coach of the year six times, led his teams in Hamburg to a total of ten championship titles, won the cup competition of the Hamburg soccer association three times and thus made it into the DFB Cup three times with his teams . Igel was described as an "institution", "coaching legend", "cult figure" and "real icon" in Hamburg amateur football. As a coach, he put great emphasis on “good leadership”, careful preparation of training units and “carrot and stick” when dealing with his players. In 2004 the Pinneberger Zeitung described him as an “excellent psychologist” and “shrewd tactician”. He himself called football “a drug” that he could never do without. Igel cultivated the sociability of amateur football, and his ritual of smoking a cigar and drinking a wheat beer after playing games became famous. He was nicknamed "Prinz Eugen".

In 1981 he was offered the opportunity to become the coach of the second division VfL Osnabrück , but the Hamburg Football Association as his employer did not let him go. Igel later said he wasn't sure he'd even given up his job at HFV for the professional job. The SC Urania reached the third round of the DFB Cup under Igel as a coach in the game year 1981/82.

He led the Hummelsbütteler SV in 1983 and 1984 to win the championship in the Association League Hamburg, in 1985 he was second in the league with the team. After a 2-0 away win over the pursuers VfB Oldenburg, which Igels team won in front of 12,000 spectators, participation in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga was certain. He missed the league championship with the Hummelsbüttelern by one point after winning ten games in a row at the end of the round of points. In the subsequent round of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga , Hummelsbüttel only managed one win, a 3-0 win over Eintracht Hamm . Previously, Hedgehog's team had suffered a home defeat against Rot-Weiss Essen in front of 5500 spectators, where they were 2-0 ahead, but lost 3-2 in the end. Hedgehog later voiced suspicion of scuffling around the game. In the last game of the promotion round, Hedgehog's team was clearly defeated 7-0 in the second leg in Essen. In Hummelsbüttel, the future professional Jens Duve and the former professional soccer players Peter Hidien , Manfred Mannebach and Georg Volkert were among his squad. Marcus Marin , Norbert Meier and Holger Brügmann were among the other well-known players that Igel supported during his coaching career .

Igel was the longest active at Rasensport (Raspo) Elmshorn: From 1989 to 2000 and from December 2001 to December 2003 he coached the team. In 1993 Raspo won the Hamburg Cup competition under his leadership, and in 1996 he was promoted to the top division. In 1998 he led Raspo to the championship title in the Association League Hamburg, combined with promotion to the Oberliga Nord. Initially he held the office until 2000. In December 2003 he resigned, along with officials and large parts of the team, after they saw no basis for continuing their work by merging Lawn Sport Elmshorn and Fortuna Langelohe to form FC Elmshorn. During his tenure in Elmshorn, Igel also looked after the future professional players Collin Benjamin  and Hauke ​​Brückner . In 2007 he returned to Elmshorn as a sporting director and held this position until 2009 and again from 2011 to 2014. In his last tenure in Elmshorn, Igel worked with coach Bert Ehm in 2011/12 , according to the Hamburger Abendblatt "two characters of Hamburg football" who were among the most successful amateur football coaches of their time in the Hanseatic city.

Between 2008 and 2015 Igel coached the Hamburg referee team. After retiring from club football in 2014, he was a columnist for the Hamburg football newspaper “Sport Microphone” and commented on football events for the Internet station “Elbkick.tv”. At the end of June 2015, Igel suffered serious injuries as a passenger in a car accident in Hamburg-Barmbek and was henceforth paraplegic. He then lived in a care facility and was dependent on a wheelchair. In November 2015, he attended a soccer game for the first time since his accident.

successes

  • SV Bendestorf: Champion of the district league 1968, champion of the Heide district league 1969
  • Horner TV: Champion of the district league 1970
  • Lauenburger SV: Champion of the District League 1972, Champion of the District League 1973
  • TuS Holstein Quickborn: Champion of the regional league 1979 and 2001
  • SC Urania: Hamburg Cup winner 1979
  • Hummelsbütteler SV: Champion of the Association League 1983 and 1984, second in the Oberliga 1985, Hamburg Cup winner 1984
  • Lawn sport Elmshorn: promotion to the upper league in 1996, champion of the association league / promotion to the upper league in 1998, second in the association league in 1989, second in the upper league in 2000, Hamburg cup winner in 1993

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jan Haarmeyer: Suddenly nothing is what it was before . September 1, 2018, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1970/pdf/19700402.pdf/ASV_HAB_19700402_HA_018.pdf
  3. ↑ Interview: Hedgehog's view of things. In: Sportnord. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/IgelEugen/status/1020264952857268224
  5. ↑ https://www.shz.de/sport/lokaler-sport/lokalsport-elmshorner-nachrichten/eugen-igel-ein-fussballsuechtiger-mit-grossem-herz-id28023152.html
  6. ↑ a b c d HFV: Hamburg's football mourns Eugen Igel. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Hamburg coaching legend Eugen Igel is dead. In: Kicker. Retrieved on May 17, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ a b c Eugen Igel: Real icon from the north. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c d https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2004/pdf/20040110.pdf/HAPZ20040110lf004.pdf
  10. ↑ a b AMATEURS: Back in Elmshorn - Eugen Igel has landed. October 12, 2007, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ a b HAMBURG'S AMATEUR FOOTBALLER: From Bendestorf to the Bundestag. April 30, 2009, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1985/pdf/19850513.pdf/ASV_HAB_19850513_HA_019.pdf
  13. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1985/pdf/19850517.pdf/ASV_HAB_19850517_HA_017.pdf
  14. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1985/pdf/19850624.pdf/ASV_HAB_19850624_HA_011.pdf
  15. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1985/pdf/19850627.pdf/ASV_HAB_19850627_HA_016.pdf
  16. ↑ https://twitter.com/IgelEugen/status/1067022286274875392
  17. ↑ a b Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Eugen Igel is preparing to leave FC Elmshorn. November 30, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  18. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1996/pdf/19960610.pdf/ASV_HAB_19960610_HA_019.pdf
  19. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2003/pdf/20031218.pdf/HAPZ20031218lf001.pdf
  20. ↑ Wolfgang Helm: Two master makers in one boat. March 11, 2011, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  21. ↑ Niklas Heiden: Great action: Eugen Igel back on the lawn. November 11, 2015, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Hedgehog, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2020
Place of death Hamburg