Lutz Michael Fröhlich
Lutz Michael Fröhlich (born October 2, 1957 in Berlin ) is a former German football referee .
He began his career as a DFB referee in 1985, made his debut in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1988 and has directed games in the Bundesliga since 1991 . As a member of the soccer club SV Norden-Nordwest Berlin, he whistled for the Berlin soccer association . From 1994 to 2002 he was also a FIFA referee. A highlight of his career was leading the 2003 DFB Cup final .
In addition to ten international A matches and 14 European Cup matches, Fröhlich also headed 16 matches in the Japanese J. League in 1994 and 10 matches in the South Korean K-League from 2002 to 2005 , thus doing pioneering work in refereeing as part of a cooperation between the DFB and the two Asians Associations.
He ended his active career as a referee after exactly 200 top division games in 2005 at the age of 47. From 2005 to 2008 he volunteered in the area of referee training and development. From 2008 to 2016 he was the full-time head of the referee department at the DFB in Frankfurt am Main . Since 2010 he has been a member of the sports management of the DFB elite referees. As chairman of the Elite Referees Committee, he has also been the sporting director of the Elite Referees since 2016.
In 2005 he received the Fair Play Prize from the Association of German Sports Journalists . The association honored Fröhlich's behavior in the game Bayern Munich against Hannover 96 on November 6, 2004. He had shown Michael Ballack , who had already been warned, the yellow-red card after an alleged foul. After protests by Bayern and the intervention of his assistant referee , he took them back with a public gesture of apology with a handshake.
With his statements, he made a significant contribution to clearing up the soccer betting scandal in 2005 .
He is a trained banker and then completed a degree in communications. He is married and has two grown children.
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Carl Koppehel (1949–1953) | Degenhard Wolf (1953–1973) | Werner Treichel (1973–1978) | Johannes Malka (1978–1995) | Volker Roth (1995-2010) | Herbert Fandel (2010–2016) | Lutz Michael Fröhlich (since 2016)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Happy, Lutz Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German football referee |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |