Horst Wohlers

Horst Wohlers (born August 6, 1949 in Brunsbüttel ) is a German soccer coach and former soccer player .

Player career

Via TSV Brunsbüttelkoog and FC St. Pauli , the midfielder found his way into the Bundesliga , where he played as a player from 1975 to 1985. His first stop was Borussia Mönchengladbach , where he scored six goals in 95 Bundesliga games. During this time he won the German championship twice and the UEFA Cup in 1979 . He was also a member of the team that lost 3-1 to Liverpool in the 1976/77 European Cup in the final in Rome . Wohlers was replaced after 79 minutes.

During the 1979/80 season, Wohlers, who was now used alternately in defense and midfield, moved to TSV 1860 Munich , for whom he scored eleven goals in 49 Bundesliga appearances by the summer of 1981. In the summer of 1982 Wohlers moved to Arminia Bielefeld , who was then playing in the Bundesliga under coach Horst Köppel . By the time Arminia was relegated in the summer of 1985 under coach Gerd Roggensack , Wohlers had completed another 88 Bundesliga games (four goals). Overall, he came to his three Bundesliga stations on 232 games and 22 goals.

Stations

• TSV Brunsbüttelkoog
• FC St. Pauli (1969–1975)
• Borussia Mönchengladbach (1975-1979)
• TSV 1860 Munich (1979–1982)
• Arminia Bielefeld (1982–1985)

Coaching career

From the summer of 1989, Wohlers worked as a coach for Bayer 05 Uerdingen , where his former team-mate Rainer Bonhof was his assistant. With the Krefeld club he finished his first Bundesliga season as a coach in 14th place. Less known is that Wohlers was presented at a press conference in 1990 as the successor to the successful Sepp Piontek as the new coach of the Danish senior team. However, since Bayer Uerdingen did not allow him to be released from his contract, the appeal had to be withdrawn a week later. In the 1990/91 season he coached the club for fourteen game days before Timo Konietzka replaced him at the end of November 1990 as the responsible coach at Bayer 05. Wohlers returned to the Bundesliga that same season. On February 19, 1991 he took over from Helmut Schulte the table sixteenth FC St. Pauli , where he had already played as a player. Four wins and six draws, which the Hamburger Kiezklub was able to achieve during the remaining 17 games of the 1990/91 season, were not enough at the end of the season to stay up. After three years of membership, the club was relegated from the Bundesliga and at the same time the Bundesliga coaching career of Horst Wohlers ended, who from then on took on a number of foreign engagements (including as assistant to Horst Köppel at the Urawa Red Diamonds in the Japanese J-League ). In the 1992/93 season Wohlers coached SV Lurup .

For the 2004/05 season Wohlers took over the U17 juniors from Borussia Mönchengladbach . After Dick Advocaat's resignation as coach of the Bundesliga team, Horst Köppel, who had previously coached the U23 team, succeeded him. Wohlers, in turn, succeeded Köppel in the U23. In 2006, he and the team made it to the Regionalliga Nord. The immediate relegation followed. In April 2008, the promotion to the regional league succeeded again. Borussia Mönchengladbach then extended the contract with Wohlers for another year until June 30, 2009. In 2010 the U23 team was again relegated from the Regionalliga Nord, but was able to remain in the league, as three clubs were refused the license by the DFB. Wohlers' contract was not renewed despite the relegation achieved at the Green Table.

Stations

• TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus (1986–1987)
• Bayer 05 Uerdingen (1987; assistant coach under Horst Köppel )
• Bayer 05 Uerdingen (1987–1989; assistant coach under Rolf Schafstall )
• Bayer 05 Uerdingen (1989–1990)
• FC St. Pauli (1991-1992)
• SV Lurup (1992-1993)
• VfB Oldenburg (1994–1995)
• Eintracht Trier (1995–1996)
• Borussia Mönchengladbach U-23 (2005-2010)

Web links

• Horst Wohlers in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

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