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Gernot Rohr (2018)
Personnel
birthday	June 28, 1953
place of birth	Mannheim ,  Germany
size	175 cm
position	Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1961-1972	VfL Neckarau
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1972-1974	FC Bayern Munich	6 0(0)
1974-1975	SV Waldhof Mannheim	21 0(1)
1975-1977	Kickers Offenbach	52 0(1)
1977-1989	Girondins Bordeaux	352 (13)
1978-1989	Girondins Bordeaux B	17 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1970-1971	DFB youth selection	8 0(0)
1974-1975	Germany amateurs	5 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1989-1990	Girondins Bordeaux (Youth)
1990	Girondins Bordeaux (interim)
1991-1992	Girondins Bordeaux (interim)
1992-1996	Girondins Bordeaux (Youth)
1996	Girondins Bordeaux (interim)
1996-1998	Girondins Bordeaux (Youth)
1998-1999	Eintracht Frankfurt (technical manager)
1999-2000	US Créteil
2001-2002	OGC Nice (Scout)
2002-2005	OGC Nice
2005	FC Red Bull Salzburg (Manager)
2005-2007	Young Boys Bern
2007-2008	AC Ajaccio
2009	Étoile Sportive du Sahel
2009	FC Nantes
2010–2012	Gabon
2012-2014	Niger
2015	Burkina Faso
2016–	Nigeria
1 Only league games are given.

Gernot Rohr (born June 28, 1953 in Mannheim ) is a former German soccer player who won the French championship three times as a player in Girondins Bordeaux in 1984, 1985 and 1987. Rohr then worked as a trainer and has been responsible for the Nigerian national football team since August 2016 . He has had French citizenship since 1982 .

Player career

In Germany, 1961–1977

Gernot Rohr, the youngest son of the educator and soccer coach Philipp Rohr , played as a child in the youth department of VfL Neckarau (district of Mannheim), in the Waldweg Stadium there. In 1970/71 he had eight appearances in the DFB youth team . In May 1971 he played with the DFB at the UEFA youth tournament in Czechoslovakia alongside Rudi Kargus , Manfred Kaltz and Ronald Worm in the German UEFA youth team. As a right defender , he was in the team from North Baden, which won the amateur country cup on May 11, 1972 in Weinheim (2-1 against Lower Saxony).

FC Bayern

Because of these missions, the talent scouts of the Bundesliga soon became aware of Rohr. In the summer of 1972, the manager of FC Bayern Munich , Robert Schwan , signed the 19-year-old from Mannheim, who was playing in the first amateur league in North Baden under his father's training direction. Rohr, an enthusiastic fan of FC Bayern even as a child, was in a team under coach Udo Lattek with the players of Franz Beckenbauer , Sepp Maier , Gerd Müller , Uli Hoeneß and Paul Breitner . The problem of adapting to the quality of the Bundesliga in general and that of FC Bayern Munich in particular was immense. In addition, the physical maturation of the talent from Neckarau was not yet complete; he also had to catch up with athletic deficits. In his first season in Munich he made three appearances in the Bundesliga. On September 30, 1972 he was substituted in for Franz Roth for the first time in the 28th minute of the game . That he could not increase in the second year its frequency of use was due to the effects of a cruciate ligament surgery in December 1973. Due to its three-time Bundesliga use in the years 1973 and 1974 belongs Gernot Rohr the champion team of rounds: In the 1973-74 European Cup , he was used once.

Waldhof Mannheim and Offenbacher Kickers

His father Philipp - meanwhile coach of SV Waldhof in the 2nd Bundesliga Group South - brought Gernot Rohr back to Mannheim in 1974. Waldhof took 8th place in the table and Gernot Rohr completed 21 games with one goal. The detour via the 2nd Bundesliga paid off, the coach of Kickers Offenbach , Otto Rehhagel , brought the four-time amateur national player to the Bieberer Berg in the summer of 1975 . Rohr experienced at the side of Sigfried Held the dismissal of coach Rehhagel in December 1975 and the Bundesliga relegation at the end of the round in 1975/76. He had played 24 games for Offenbach. In his second year with Kickers in the 1976/77 series, he was in all 38 games in the 2nd Bundesliga for the OFC. Behind the champions VfB Stuttgart and TSV 1860 Munich , the Hessians took third place in the table. Also in this round he experienced a coach change in Offenbach: Zlatko Čajkovski was replaced by Udo Klug in November 1976.

In summer 1977, the 24-year-old Gernot Rohr, who during his time in Germany adopted Romance studies and German studies had abschlossen with the Magister, from football Germany and moved to France to Girondins FC de Bordeaux. His great uncle Oskar Rohr , who played successfully for Racing Strasbourg in the 1930s, was already active in France.

In France, 1977–1989

At Girondins de Bordeaux Rohr became a regular player straight away and had played over 30 league games in each season from 1977 to 1987. At the side of the French national team Alain Giresse (until 1986), Bernard Lacombe (until 1987), Marius Trésor (1980-84), Jean Tigana (1981-89) and Patrick Battiston (1983-87) the Mannheimer became an equal figure in the team.

In 1984, 1985 and 1987 Gernot Rohr celebrated three championship titles as well as two cup successes in 1986 and 1987 (not used in the second final) ; In 1987 the doublé was added - in the country of the 1984 European champions . Under coach Aimé Jacquet , Gernot Rohr was voted best defensive player in Division 1 twice . At times he was not the only German at the Garonne : Ex-national players Dieter Müller (1982-85) and Uwe Reinders (1985-87) were also part of his team, from 1982 to 1984 also the occasional Caspar Memering .

On the European stage, Bordeaux reached the semi-finals in the championship rounds in 1985 and 1987; Gernot Rohr made 33 appearances and scored one goal in the 4-0 win against Hajduk Split in late 1982. One of his most memorable games was the semi-final game in April 1987, when the blue-whites from Bordeaux played the second leg in the central stadium after a 1-0 defeat at home to Stade du Parc Lescure against 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (the East Germans with a René Müller in world-class form) for their part won 1-0, but made the only fatal miss in the subsequent penalty shoot-out when the score was 5: 6.

Rohr, who has had French citizenship since 1982, was never appointed to the German national football team - despite his success in France. At the European Championship tournament in France in 1984, Bernd Förster from Stuttgart defended on the right . Even with the rebuilding, Germany dropped out in the preliminary round, the new team boss Franz Beckenbauer did not rely on Rohr, but on the talent of Thomas Berthold .

On July 8, 1988, Gernot Rohr played his official farewell game - another sign of the appreciation he was shown in France - against FC Bayern Munich in Parc Lescure. In the subsequent round in 1988/89 he helped out in 13 games. From 1977 to 1989 he came to 352 missions and 13 goals in Division 1 for Girondins Bordeaux.

Coaching career

Girondins Bordeaux, 1989-2002

Following his playing career, Gernot Rohr took on the role of youth coordinator and sports director at Girondins Bordeaux. The management of the youth work was interrupted several times because he took up the position of chief coach. After the forced relegation in 1991 he succeeded in 1991/92 in Division 2, the immediate promotion. On February 4, 1996, Gernot Rohr again took on the task of protecting the club from relegation. Through the success in the UI Cup, he led Girondins Bordeaux into the UEFA Cup . Among other things, thanks to the surprising quarter-final success against AC Milan , the club finally made it into the finals against Bayern Munich. Outstanding players on his team were Bixente Lizarazu , Christophe Dugarry and Zinédine Zidane .

He directed the sporting fortunes of the youth work in Bordeaux until 1998. The starting point for this was the "Château Bel Air", a castle built in 1746 with an extensive training area in Le Haillan , ten kilometers outside the city.

Eintracht Frankfurt

From October 1, 1998, Gernot Rohr worked as a technical director at Eintracht Frankfurt , which he ended on April 20, 1999 due to differences of opinion with the club presidium. This was followed by a coaching position at US Créteil , where his ex-president at Bordeaux, Alain Afflelou , brought him. From 2000 to 2002 Gernot Rohr was again director of the youth school in Bordeaux.

OGC Nice, 2002-2005

This was followed by three rounds at OGC Nice as sports director. Gernot Rohr came to the Côte d'Azur in a very difficult situation in 2002 , because the first division climber should first be transferred to the 3rd division due to excessive financial debt. Together with others, her new sporting director first found fresh money and new players, then also took over the coaching position and temporarily (on matchday 21) even led his team to the top of the French league. At the end of the season they rose to Ligue 1 as third in the final table. The round 2002/03 finished the red-blacks from the Stade du Ray with 55 points in 10th place. 2003/04 followed in 11th place. On April 25, 2005, President Maurice Cohen put him on leave after the 3-1 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain on matchday 34 of the season: Nice was in 17th place with 38 points four rounds to go , the last non-relegation place. Despite the veto of the players' council, despite numerous protests from OGC supporters and in disregard for Rohr's commitment to the club, Cohen pronounced the dismissal.

In Austria and Switzerland

On July 22, 2005, Gernot Rohr took over the position of chief junior coordinator at Red Bull Salzburg . In addition, from October 2005 to September 2006 he was in charge of training at Young Boys Bern , and in 2006 led the team to third place and thus to the UEFA Cup. In the fall of 2006, he was pressured to resign after a series of bad games.

Return to France

From June 2007 Gernot Rohr worked as a coach at the French second division AC Ajaccio . Although he had started the season well with the Corsicans - his last game on the ACA bench ended in a 4-0 win over OC Vannes  - the club terminated his two-year contract early in September 2008. After an interlude at the Tunisian first division club Étoile Sportive du Sahel (until May 2009), Rohr took over the training at Ligue 1 relegated FC Nantes for the 2009/10 season , where he dissolved his contract that ran until the summer of 2011 after just five months.

National coach in Africa

From February 2010 Rohr worked as the national coach of Gabon ; in this role he succeeded his long-time teammate Alain Giresse . Rohr reached the quarter-finals with the Gabonese at the 2012 Africa Cup ; shortly afterwards, at the end of April, his activity there ended. In September 2012, Gernot Rohr was presented as the new coach of the Niger national team . He was also represented with this team at the 2013 African Championship , but retired as bottom of the group B after the preliminary round. On October 20, 2014, he resigned as national coach of Niger due to unsuccessfulness.

In early 2015 he became the new head coach of Burkina Faso . In December 2015, Rohr announced his resignation from the office of coach in Burkina Faso. As a reason he did not give sporting aspects, but the “difficult political situation” in the country. In 2016 he took over the post of head coach of the Nigerian national soccer team , with whom he finished third in the 2019 Africa Cup .

Success as a player

• 1 regional cup winner 1972 with the selection team of the regional association North Baden
• 2 championships in Germany with Bayern Munich (1973, 1974)
• 1 European Cup win with Bayern Munich 1974 (used on September 19, 1973)
• 3 championships in France with Bordeaux in 1984, 1985, 1987
• 2 cup wins in France with Bordeaux in 1986 and 1987
• eight-time youth and five-time amateur national player for Germany

Success as a trainer

• Championship in the 1991/92 season in Division 2 with Bordeaux
• Finals in 1996 in the UEFA Cup with Bordeaux

Life outside the football stadiums

Unlike his too many years in France playing and living great-uncle Oscar has Gernot Rohr of the Rhine chosen as the country west permanently to his new home: since 1982 he has French citizenship and has his main residence in Lege-Cap-Ferret on the Bay of Arcachon where he has owned a hotel for a quarter of a century. His two adult sons also live in Bordeaux. In the regional elections for Aquitaine in 2004, he ran, albeit unsuccessfully, on the list of the UDF by François Bayrou . He was one of the co-organizers of the benefit game for Daniel Nivel, who was beaten into a coma by German hooligans in 1998 . Rohr, who has earned a great reputation in the French public for his reserved temperament and technical skills, is often regarded as a “prophet who is little valued in his own country of birth” due to his comparatively low professional success in Germany.

literature

• 11 Friends, “The world is round.” February 2008, pp. 88–91
• Matthias Weinrich: 25 years 2nd division. The second division almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-145-2 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The first division teams in Europe since 1885. 2., completely revised. Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-163-0 .
• KICKER, magazine No. 36 of April 29, 1996, page 14/15
• KICKER, Magazine No. 35, April 28, 2005, page 32

Remarks

1. ↑ France Football of September 2, 2008, p. 33
2. ↑ Rohr released in May 2009
3. ↑ Rohr gives up ( Memento from December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (article from France Football)
4. ↑ Gabon: Rohr sélectionneur , from Afrikfoot, accessed October 18, 2019
5. ^ Rohr à la tête du Niger , from September 5, 2012 in France Football
6. ↑ fifa.com: "Rohr resigns as national coach of Niger"
7. ↑ Gernot Rohr, le choix de la FBF ( Memento from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), sports.gov.bf, accessed on April 13, 2015 (French)
8. ↑ Gernot Rohr, nouveau sélectionneur des Étalons cafonline.com, accessed on April 13, 2015 (French)
9. ↑ Hardy Hasselbruch: Rohr declares his resignation in Burkina Faso. In: kicker online. Retrieved December 21, 2015 . 
10. ↑ VRM GmbH & Co. KG: Gernot Rohr wants to remain a Nigeria trainer . ( Allgemeine-zeitung.de [accessed on July 9, 2018]).
11. ↑ Fabian Ruch: "This is a different world" . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 14, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 9, 2018]).
12. ↑ Interview with Gernot Rohr in 11 Friends from February 2008, p. 91

Web links

Commons : Gernot Rohr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Detailed interview with Gernot Rohr about his life