Heiner Schuhmann

Heiner Schuhmann (born November 4, 1948 ) is a former German soccer player and coach . In the last game year-old second-rate Regionalliga South , 1973-74 , he was a member of the champion team of FC Augsburg and graduated from the Augsburg 1974-1978 in the 2nd Bundesliga South 86 games. As a coach, he led the A-Juniors of FC Augsburg to the German championship in 1993 and won the DFB-Juniors-Club Cup four times in 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1995 .

career

Player, until 1978

Jugend and 1860 Munich, until 1973

In the purple-whites of TSV Schwaben Augsburg, Heiner Schuhmann went through the youth department and made his debut in the 1967/68 season on the first game day, August 13, 1967, in the 1: 4 defeat at FC Bayern Hof, in the Regionalliga Süd. Under coach Werner Roth - long-time player in the football league south at Karlsruher SC - he played 33 games alongside Georg Mögele , Werner Sterzik , Walter Sohnle , Georg Lechner and Kurt Haseneder and scored three goals. The Swabians took 13th place. In his second regional league season, 1968/69, another 32 missions were added with two hits, but the TSV could not avoid relegation to the amateur camp as 17th.

As a result of the merger that took place on July 1, 1969 with local competitor BC Augsburg, who had been relegated to the Bayern League in 1967, to form FC Augsburg, Schuhmann joined two rounds of Bavarian amateur football from 1969 to 1971 as a FCA player. With the new fusion club, Schuhmann and his teammates did not manage to return to the Regionalliga Süd in these two years. The FCA had to be content with fourth and third place. By contrast, the strong defensive player celebrated victory in the regional cup in 1970 and 1971 with the Bavarian association selection . On October 6, 1970, Bayern won the final against hosts North Baden with 2-0 goals in Karlsruhe and on July 11, 1971 the defending champion in Bayreuth won 2-1 after extra time against the representatives from the Lower Rhine. Like his teammates Walter Sohnle and Erich Weixler , he accepted the offer from TSV 1860 Munich , who had been relegated from the Bundesliga in 1970, to the 1971/72 round and moved to the Bavarian capital to join the “Löwen” playing in the Regional League South.

Despite the further additions Bernd Helmschrot , Dieter Brozulat , Gerd Störzer , Hans-Dieter Zahnleiter and the come from our own youth Hans-Dieter Seelmann , but it also filed in the UEFA EURO 1972 for the "Lions" under coach Hans Tilkowski not to the Bundesliga return. Distanced from Kickers Offenbach and Bayern Hof, it was only enough for third place with 46:26 points and thus failed to make it into the targeted promotion round. Schuhmann had played 19 games. Despite the additions of Ferdinand Keller - he scored 26 goals - and Hans-Joachim Weller and the replacement of former national goalkeeper Tilkowski's coach by Elek Schwartz , only came back in 1860 in 1972/73 - now behind Darmstadt 98 and Karlsruher SC third rank. Schuhmann had again completed 19 games for the German champions of 1966.

On the part of the DFB, the student was nominated for the amateur national team's first international match after the 1972 Summer Olympics on December 6, 1972 in Hertogenbosch against the Netherlands. In the 1: 2 defeat he was substituted on for Ernst Traser in defense. Since FC Augsburg had been promoted to the Regionalliga Süd in the 1973/74 round, the two Augsburgers Schuhmann and Weixler moved back to their hometown. In the last round of the second-rate Regionalliga era, 1973/74, Heiner Schuhmann played at FC Augsburg.

Regional league champions and 2nd Bundesliga, 1973 to 1978

With Helmut Haller (Juventus Turin) returning from Italy, the Regionalliga Süd had the attraction of this round in their ranks, the FCA definitely. There was an expectant football euphoria in Augsburg. The Presidium provided coach Milovan Beljin with the other newcomers Herbert Höbusch (VfB Stuttgart), Hans Jörg (Bayern Munich) and the three players Hans Hauser , Klaus Vöhringer and Wolfgang Haug (all from SSV Reutlingen), a good player material and the spectators streamed into the Rosenaustadion . Augsburg made a brilliant start with 10: 2 points. From the start of the round, coach Beljin decided on the defensive formation with goalkeeper Hans Hauser, Libero Herbert Höbusch and the three defenders Claus Brandmaier , Heiner Schuhmann (Vorstopper) and Alwin Fink . In the midfield, the ex-national player Haller directed and Haug and Vöhringer did the most of the running work for him. In the attack, Karl Obermeier and Erich Weixler primarily scored the goals. On the seventh matchday, in front of 35,000 spectators in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium , Heiner Schuhmann scored the equalizer in the 41st minute for the Fuggerstadt team to make it 1-1. On the tenth match day, the FCA prevailed with a 2-1 home win against the pursuers 1. FC Nürnberg in front of 41,000 spectators. However, there was already record popularity on the second match day, August 15, 1973, in the away game against TSV 1860 Munich in the sold-out Olympic Stadium with 73,000 spectators. In the last away game of the first half of the season, on December 1, 1973, Schuhmann and colleagues lost the first game of the autumn series. At VfR OLI Bürstadt , carefully led on the libero position by player-coach Lothar Buchmann , there was a 1: 3 defeat. With 26: 8 points - with ten wins, six draws and one defeat - the promoted team finished the first half of the 1973/74 season in the regional soccer league south as the leader of the table. The championship success was four points ahead of runner-up 1. FC Nürnberg and 1860 Munich were five points behind in third place in the table. Heiner Schuhmann had played 34 games and scored one goal.

In the last round of promotion in May / June 1974, the top performer was used in all eight games in the pre-stopper position against competitors Tennis Borussia Berlin , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , Borussia Neunkirchen and FC St. Pauli . It was not enough for the ascent, with one point ahead of the "Veilchen" from Charlottenburg prevailed over the FCA and the tied "Kleeblatt" from the Lower Rhine. Five draws were too many for the Swabians.

The nomination points of the last regional league year 1973/74 were sufficient for the FCA, so he was qualified for the southern group in the new two-part 2. Bundesliga from the 1974/75 series. In the first two rounds, Schuhmann belonged to the team with 38 (1974/75 in all league games) or 35 appearances. In the third and fourth year of the second division, he only played sporadically. Schuhmann played his last competitive game in the 2nd Bundesliga on August 27, 1977 in the 1: 4 defeat at VfR OLI Bürstadt. He played a total of 86 second division games for Augsburg from 1974 to 1978. At the end of the round, in May and June 1978, he worked as an interim coach for the red-green-whites in the 2nd Bundesliga for the first time.

Trainer

After the relegation of FCA in 1978/79 from the 2nd division, Heiner Schuhmann took over the coaching position in the Bayern League for the 1979/80 round . With a six point lead over 1. FC Haßfurt , he won the championship and immediately led his club back to the second division. From April 1981 he made the rescue attempt to save the FCA from relegation to the amateur camp. Augsburg was in 19th place under coach Heinz Elzner and Schuhmann was not able to bring about a turnaround until matchday 38. In the rounds of 1986/87 and 1987/88 he trained his club in the Bavarian League, which came out in sixth place.

In his long-term role as A-junior coach at FC Augsburg, the economics teacher made an outstanding contribution by promoting the talents Bernd Schuster , Raimond Aumann , Karlheinz Riedle and Christian Hochstätter . Between 1991 and 1995 he and his teams brought five titles to Augsburg. The series began in 1991 and 1992 with two successes in the DFB Junior Club Cup , was crowned on July 4, 1993 by the 3-1 success in the final of the German A Junior Championship against 1. FC Kaiserslautern and continued through the two other DFB Cup successes in 1994 and 1995 .

From July 1995 onwards, Schuhmann took over the full-time job of youth coordinator at FC Bayern Munich, with the aim of organizing the conceptualisation of the youth sector at the record champions. The basic idea when he started work was to “bring the street into the club”. Natural and natural because early on when kicking on the street or automated behavior should and must be practiced intensively in the junior area. “We have to look after the players holistically,” said the new youth coordinator, “we can't just put them in the apartment house and let them play football”. Typical points of the desired model for Schuhmann were, on the one hand, the consistent game philosophy from the youngest youth team up to A-youth or the regional league team, with the associated special position training from the age of twelve, but without curtailing the play instinct. Character shaping of the young people and intensive training of the club's own youth trainers, taking into account international tactical developments, rounded off his ideas. Overall, the concept was designed for three to five years.

The first presentable successes were the title win on July 20, 1997 in the German B-Junior final against Werder Bremen and the final participation in the A-Juniors on July 5, 1998 against Borussia Dortmund.

After three years as youth coordinator at FC Bayern, Schuhmann returned to school in Augsburg at the Reischleschen Wirtschaftsschule, where he taught until February 1, 2011, and in November and December 1999 he was again an interim coach at FCA in the Regionalliga Süd. Heiner Schuhmann also works as a scout for Borussia Dortmund.

literature

• Uwe Nuttelmann (ed.), Regionalliga Süd 1963–1974, Jade, 2002, ISBN 3-930814-28-5
• Ulrich Homann (Hrsg.): Hellfire on Ascension. The history of the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga 1963–1974. Klartext, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-88474-346-5 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kicker, special edition 1973/74, page 108
2. ↑ Kicker, No. 62, July 31, 1995, The new youth concept of FC Bayern Munich, page 14/15