Gaby Schuster (player manager)

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Gaby Schuster (* 1953 ) is the former wife of the soccer player and coach Bernd Schuster . She became known as the first gamer woman to manage her husband.

Marriage and professional activities

Gaby and Bernd Schuster married in 1979; Schuster came to Cologne from his hometown Augsburg in 1978 to play as a professional footballer for 1. FC Köln . It was there that he met his future wife. The marriage, which lasted 31 years, had four children.

Gaby Schuster, a trained beautician, soon made a name for herself as her husband's manager : “Who doesn't know the woman who revolutionized the men's world of football?” She was “the first woman soccer player who took over her husband's business and made a difference Pioneering work ". In 1980 she arranged for her husband to move from 1. FC Köln to FC Barcelona and in the following years negotiated lucrative contracts worth millions with Atlético Madrid , Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen . It is rumored that the president of 1. FC Cologne, Peter Weiand , made an inappropriate remark in the direction of Gaby Schuster during negotiations with the Schuster couple, whereupon the cobblers left the room. The footballer moved to Spain shortly afterwards.

The Schuster couple made headlines in 1983 when Bernd Schuster left the training camp before an international match against Albania , as his wife was about to give birth to their third child. At the European Football Championship in Italy in 1980 , Schuster insisted that his wife Gaby - as the only player's wife - could live in the team hotel in Rome . After an international match, he preferred to go out to dinner with his wife rather than partying with the team. "This weighting of things aroused the displeasure of the DFB superiors and in all seriousness led to a public discussion as to whether Schuster was even worthy to wear the eagle on his chest."

In 1986 Gaby Schuster demanded one million marks from the German Football Association so that Bernd Schuster could compete for Germany at the Football World Cup in Mexico , a demand that had been unique up until then. DFB boss Hermann Neuberger found donors who were willing to pay a total of 300,000 marks. But that was not enough for Gaby Schuster, which is why Bernd Schuster never played in a world championship. According to another version, Schuster, who had fallen out with national coach Jupp Derwall , no longer wanted to play for the national team anyway, his wife merely "let it through" that an entry fee of this amount could change his mind.

During Schuster's Leverkusen time, there was also mockery in the press about Gaby Schuster's demand for the family house to be guarded. Evidently there had been several attempts to kidnap the player himself or members of his family. In 1981, his then team-mate at FC Barcelona, Quini , was kidnapped for 24 days.

In 2001 Bernd Schuster took over the coaching position at the Spanish second division promoted Deportivo Xerez and in the following years worked for various foreign teams, especially in Spain. His wife and children stayed in Germany and lived on a stud in Kürten in the Bergisches Land . The marriage ended in divorce in 2011.

Perception in the football world

For Reiner Calmund , the club manager of Bayer Leverkusen, it was a first in 1994 to sit at the negotiating table with a woman. First of all, they “turned up their noses” because a woman “marched” into the male domain. That was "completely unusual", even "revolutionary". Calmund described her as follows: “I've never had such a tough negotiating partner as Ms. Schuster. Their negotiating methods were professional. […] She was tough. ”He said appreciatively:“ When you see how she did it […], you can say à la bonne heure. ”She also said that she“ didn't bother with small vanities ”.

The soccer coach Udo Lattek wrote in 2001 in Die Welt : "However, not all [player women] are as clever as Gaby Schuster, who never pushed into the public eye and in the spotlight, but made tough demands to increase the prosperity of the Schuster family." Christoph Biermann In 2013 he summed up: "For Bernd Schuster, the marriage with Gaby, who was seven years older than him, was the best thing that could have happened to the notoriously phlegmatic Augsburger." transformed".

Angela Häßler, who, like Gaby Schuster, represented the economic interests of her husband Thomas Häßler , commented on her in the Tagesspiegel in 2000 : “[...] she was incredibly defamed. In the end, it should even have been her fault that Bernd no longer played in the national team. As if we could influence our men in sporting matters! ”The fact that Gaby Schuster had nude photos published in Playboy in 1980 was held against her for a long time and her life before her marriage to Bernd Schuster was spread:“ Nobody would have had a similar past life successful male player agent. The corpses that some people have in the basement are not made public. "

Gaby Schuster's husband was publicly referred to as the “henpecked” because of his wife's business conduct, and the media reported that in this marriage the woman “wore the pants”. She dominates her husband, who is only her "mouthpiece" and "remotely controlled" by her.

In 1988 Bernd Schuster spoke to the Spanish newspaper El País . His wife takes care of the finances, what he lacks the talent and what gives him the opportunity to concentrate on football. In an interview with Tagesspiegel a few years later, he said: “As far as my wife is concerned, we must have been a kind of pioneer. Today, other players stay at home when the woman has a child. I had to pay badly at the time [...]. ”In another interview with the football magazine 11 Freunde , he defended his former wife in 2011:“ But I found it very unfair how my wife was portrayed. ”The club's board members would have enjoyed being with negotiating with a woman and then complaining that she had “ripped her off”. Gaby Schuster suffered from this reputation. She only "appeared during the negotiations and then disappeared again", but was not present at games.

As part of her 2006 study on the role of player women, the scientist Christine Eisenbeis questioned media representatives. Many of them agreed that "the women" Gaby Schuster, Angela Häßler, Bianca Illgner and Martina Effenberg were important for the development of professional management in football. Gaby Schuster was a role model for the younger women.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  12. ↑ Thorsten Schaar: A great criminal case of football: The kidnapping of the witcher. In: 11freunde.de. March 1, 1981, accessed February 16, 2016 .
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  18. ↑ Ediciones El País: Schuster: "Ahora tengo la oportunidad de demostrar que no soy tan raro". In: elpais.com. June 9, 1988, Retrieved February 13, 2016 (Spanish).
  19. ↑ A. Huffschmidt: “'I haven't done much for Germany'. Bernd Schuster on his new beginning in Mexico, his wife, football and nationalism [...]. ” Der Tagesspiegel , January 30, 1997, p. 19. Quoted from: Christine Eisenbeis: From Italia Walter to Cora Schumacher - history and development of the player or Sports women phenomenon in Germany . Diploma thesis, German Sport University Cologne, 2009, p. 24 .
  20. ↑ Philipp Köster, Tim Jürgens: The great Bernd Schuster interview (# 2): "I was like John McEnroe". In: 11freunde.de. November 24, 2011, accessed February 13, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Shoemaker, Gaby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German player manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1953