Friedhelm Sturm

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Friedhelm "Frieder" Sturm (born November 25, 1955 in Bietigheim-Bissingen ) is a former German football player .

Athletic career

Sturm began in his youth at FV Kornwestheim , later he ran for Germania Bietigheim . From 1976 he played for VfR Heilbronn in the 1st Amateur League North Württemberg . When the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg was founded , the team missed the qualification, but rose a year later as champions of the Association League Württemberg in the highest amateur class. While he held the class there with the club at the end of the 1979/80 season due to the better goal difference compared to the tied SV Kuppenheim and reached the final of the WFV Cup 1979/80 - in the 2: 3 defeat against the amateur team of VfB He scored a goal in Stuttgart - he had recommended himself for higher tasks: The co-promoted VfB Eppingen had marched through to the 2nd Bundesliga and secured his services. In the second division season 1980/81 , the team in the southern season had no chance and rose directly from the bottom as the bottom, Sturm had completed 35 season games.

In the summer of 1981, Sturm moved within Baden-Württemberg to league competitor Stuttgarter Kickers . There he was under coach Slobodan Čendić most of the time and played 36 league games in the 2nd Bundesliga in two years. Then he went to the second division Alemannia Aachen , which he left after only half a year for the winter break in the direction of SV Kuppenheim. With his new club, which had been coached by ex-professional Heinz Stickel since late autumn 1984 , he missed relegation in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in the summer of 1985, so that he joined the third division club FV Weinheim . Under coach Reinhold Fanz , however, he was only a supplementary player, his former Eppinger team-mate Harry Griesbeck then guided him to FC Marbach after only one season within the league . The first half of the season 1987/88 he was in the service of the club division TSG Backnang , then he ran up to relegation in 1992 for FC Marbach in the league.

Sturm later worked as a coach and youth coordinator in Württemberg amateur football, where he looked after the FV Löchgau , TSV Klein-Gladbach and FV Kornwestheim , among other things, in the youth sector . From summer 2001 he assisted Uwe Rapolder at SV Waldhof Mannheim in the 2nd Bundesliga, before that he had been a youth coach at his former club Germania Bietigheim. In November they were jointly dismissed by the club's management.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. kicker.de: "Rapolder and the great four"
  2. faz.net: "Lost trust: Mannheim dismisses Rapolder"