Frank Pagelsdorf

Frank Pagelsdorf
Frank Pagelsdorf in September 2008
Personnel
birthday	5th February 1958
place of birth	Hanover ,  Germany
size	179 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	TSV Garbsen
1964-1976	TSV Havelse
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1976	TSV Havelse
1976-1988	Hannover 96	71 (10)
1978-1984	Arminia Bielefeld	128 (28)
1984-1988	Borussia Dortmund	102 0(9)
1989	Hannover 96	6 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975-1976	Germany U-18	6 0(0)
1982-1983	Olympic team	2 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1991-1992	Hanover 96 Amat.
1992-1994	1. FC Union Berlin
1994-1997	Hansa Rostock
1997-2001	Hamburger SV
2003-2004	VfL Osnabrück
2004-2005	Al-Nasr Sports Club
2005-2008	Hansa Rostock
2009-2010	Al-Nasr Sports Club
1 Only league games are given.

Frank Pagelsdorf (born February 5, 1958 in Hanover ) is a German soccer coach and former soccer player .

Club player

Frank Pagelsdorf grew up in the Hanover region. Both his grandfather Willi Pagelsdorf senior and his uncle Willi Pagelsdorf junior were rugby players. He attended the C. Herschel secondary school in Garbsen and played for TSV Havelse in the same city as a teenager .

As an 18-year-old, he moved to the 2nd North League for Hannover 96 in 1976, making him a professional . In the summer of 1978, the midfielder was signed by Arminia Bielefeld after 71 second division games and 10 goals for Hannover 96 ; the club had previously been promoted to the 1st Bundesliga. Pagelsdorf played with Arminia in the Bundesliga throughout the next few years and worked under coaches such as Otto Rehhagel , Horst Köppel and Karl-Heinz Feldkamp . In 1984 he decided to change clubs after playing 128 Bundesliga games for Arminia . His total of 28 goals for Arminia Bielefeld in the Bundesliga meant a club record for years until he was hired by Artur Wichniarek on December 15, 2007 . With Arminia Bielefeld, Pagelsdorf has a certain popularity that continues to this day ("The Netzer of Underdogs").

In the summer of 1984 Pagelsdorf signed with the Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund , where he stayed until 1988, where u. a. worked with coaches such as Timo Konietzka , Erich Ribbeck , Reinhard Saftig and Pál Csernai . For BVB, Pagelsdorf scored 9 goals in 102 first division games up to 1988. During this time, Pagelsdorf drew attention to himself next to the square when he poured a can of Coke over the head of a reporter from a tabloid newspaper during a press conference . At the beginning of the 1988/89 season Pagelsdorf moved to the Bundesliga club Hannover 96 and thus played again for the club where his career began. After this season he was relegated with the team to the 2nd Bundesliga. In December 1989 he ended his career as a professional footballer because of a herniated disc , after 14 professional years with 307 games and a total of 47 goals scored.

Trainer

Pagelsdorf's coaching career began in the summer of 1992 when he coached the Hannover 96 amateur team in the 4th division for one season. He discovered u. a. the later Bundesliga professional Sergej Barbarez . For the 1992/93 season he was a coach at 1. FC Union Berlin , who played in the Northeast Football League. In the summer of 1994, Frank Pagelsdorf moved to the second division Hansa Rostock , where he was promoted to the first Bundesliga after one season with the team. Under his leadership, Hansa Rostock finished sixth at the end of the season. In the following season, at the end of 15th place, relegation was just avoided. For the 1997/98 season he was introduced as the new coach of Hamburger SV . The third place in the Bundesliga table of his team at the end of the 1999/2000 season meant his greatest success as a coach to date. In autumn 2001, after a weak start to the season, Pagelsdorf was released as a coach with HSV after a total of 142 games. Since the term of his contract had been agreed until 2004, he received a contractually agreed severance payment of 4.1 million DM .

From the summer of 2003 Pagelsdorf took over the training at the second division club VfL Osnabrück . Here he was less successful, in the spring of 2004 he resigned from his duties a few game days before the end of the season. His team was in 18th place in the table and rose to the end of the season from the 2nd division. Between September 2004 and June 2005, Pagelsdorf was active in the United Arab Emirates when he coached Al-Nasr Sports Club .

In August 2005, Frank Pagelsdorf began to work again as head coach at FC Hansa Rostock, who played in the second division. At the end of the 2006/07 season he led the club to promotion to the Bundesliga. This following Bundesliga season 2007/08 his team finished second from bottom, so that he had to relegate to the second Bundesliga again with Hansa Rostock. After he had lost four games with his team, he was on leave on the 12th day of the 2008/09 season . In January 2009 he returned to Al-Nasr Sports Club as a coach , where he was released in February 2010.

Afterwards it got quiet around him and now he lives in Florida . In an interview from 2019 with the website liga-zwei.de , Pagelsdorf explained that it was never his intention to retire and that he himself does not know exactly why he has not coached a club since 2010. In a quote he himself says: “If it fits, I'll go back on board. I've never stopped following developments in football and coaching life. "

Trivia

• Frank Pagelsdorf is one of eight celebrities so far, which managed the feat of five goals at the goal wall of the ZDF telecast the current sport studio to achieve.
• He is also the owner of a football center in Kiel- Mettenhof .

Web links

• Frank Pagelsdorf in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Frank Pagelsdorf in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ oV : Pagel's mother worried about the son's reputation on the website of the Hamburger Morgenpost dated December 30, 1998, accessed on January 14, 2017
2. ↑ Which school for my child? , Supplement to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from January 12, 2011, p. 13
3. ↑ Frank Pagelsdorf takes over in Rostock. In: FAZ.NET. August 15, 2005, accessed February 21, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Hansa Rostock dismisses Pagelsdorf. (No longer available online.) In: Spiegel Online. November 10, 2008, archived from the original on November 13, 2008 ; Retrieved February 21, 2009 . 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.  
5. ^ Pagelsdorf in the Emirates. In: n-tv.de. January 8, 2009, accessed February 21, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Frank Pagelsdorf is no longer a trainer in Dubai. (No longer available online.) In: FTD.de. February 7, 2010, archived from the original on May 26, 2012 ; Retrieved February 22, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Frank Pagelsdorf reports back to liga-zwei.de
8. ↑ Pagelsdorf Football Center. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .