Lutz Pfannenstiel

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Lutz Pfannenstiel
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Lutz Pfannenstiel (2019)
Personnel
birthday May 12, 1973
place of birth Zwiesel ,  Germany
size 186 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1993 1. FC Kötzting 68 (0)
1993 Penang FA 12 (0)
1994-1995 Wimbledon FC Res. 12 (0)
1994-1995 Wimbledon FC 0 (0)
1995-1997 Nottingham Forest Res. 5 (0)
1995-1997 Nottingham Forest 0 (0)
1996 →  Orlando Pirates  (loan) 7 (0)
1996 →  Sembawang Rangers FC  (loan) 22 (0)
1997 Tampereen Pallo-Veikot 8 (0)
1998 Haka Valkeakoski 0 (0)
1998 → Pallo-Kerho 37 (loan) 5 (0)
1998-1999 Wacker Burghausen 14 (0)
1999-2000 Geylang United 46 (0)
2001 Dunedin Technical 18 (0)
2001 →  Bradford Park Avenue  (loan) 1 (0)
2001-2002 ASV Cham 12 (0)
2002 Dunedin Technical 18 (0)
2002-2003 → Bradford Park Avenue (loan) 14 (0)
2003 Dunedin Technical 18 (0)
2003 Bærum SK 13 (0)
2004 Calgary Mustangs 28 (0)
2004-2006 Otago United 36 (0)
2006-2007 KS Vllaznia Shkodra 14 (0)
2007 Bærum SK 9 (0)
2007 FC Bentonite Ijevan 12 (0)
2007 Vancouver Whitecaps 4 (0)
2008 CA Hermann Aichinger 24 (0)
2008-2009 Flekkerøy IL 11 (0)
2009 SC Friedland 2 (0)
2009 Manglerud Star top football 8 (0)
2009-2010 Ramblers FC 14 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany U-17 5 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2003 Dunedin Technical (player-coach)
2007 FC Betonit Ijevan
2008-2009 Cuba (goalkeeping coach)
2009-2010 Ramblers (player-coach)
2009-2010 Namibia (co- and goalkeeping coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Lutz Pfannenstiel (born May 12, 1973 in Zwiesel ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper and today's functionary . He is the first football player in the world to belong to a professional football club in each of the six recognized continental associations. From 2010 to 2018 he was an expert at various television channels - including ZDF , BBC , CNN , ORF , SRF , DAZN and Eurosport .

Career

player

As a goalkeeper in the German U-17 national team, Pfannenstiel was a teammate of Markus Babbel and Markus Münch, among others . At the age of 18, the youngster, who was playing at 1. FC Kötzting , turned down an offer from FC Bayern Munich to be in the goal of the amateurs. Pfannenstiel was determined to turn pro straight away, inspired by the Serbian goalkeeper Ratko Svilar, who played in Belgium . First he moved to Malaysia to Penang FA . After seven months he moved to Wimbledon FC in England, where he was only used in the reserve team. In 1995 he became a substitute goalkeeper at Nottingham Forest . He then went on loan to South Africa for two months with the Orlando Pirates . Pfannenstiel experienced the pleasant side effect there that the football-mad street gangs loved him and never robbed him. After moving to Singapore to join the Sembawang Rangers, he played 22 professional games as the team's regular goalkeeper.

With the aim of getting back into the English Premier League, he moved to the Finnish league known as the training league and signed a one-year contract with TPV Tampere . After a few months he joined rival Haka Valkeakoski and became Finnish champion in 1998.

After eight games there, Pfannenstiel moved to Wacker Burghausen . After his Indonesian girlfriend fell victim to racist hostility, he was transferred to Geylang United in Singapore after 14 games . There he completed his career record of 46 games. With Geylang United he reached the AFC Champions League . It held up so well during this time that he considered marrying his girlfriend, taking an Indonesian passport and playing for the national soccer team of Indonesia . He was arrested in 1999 on suspicion of sports betting fraud and later sentenced to five months in prison. He was charged with making illegal deals with a bookmaker who testified against him. Of the three games he allegedly manipulated, his team won two and drew once. He was also accused of having done “remarkably well”.

After 101 days in prison, Pfannenstiel was released early from prison, partly because of good conduct and after intervention by the German embassy. He is still not considered to have a criminal record in Germany. Pfannenstiel has been banned for life by the AFC, the Asian continental association. FIFA banned him for six months, but dated the suspension back so that he was eligible to play again after his release. He trained with Bradford Park Avenue in England for a few weeks to rebuild himself - Pfannenstiel had lost 16 kg in prison - and eventually moved to Dunedin Technical in New Zealand . With his debut for an oceanic OFC club, he brought the number of his continental associations to four. He stayed in New Zealand for a total of five years. Since the New Zealand championship only ran from November to April, he looked for another commitment abroad for the other half of the year. So he came to ASV Cham in Germany and for a half season at Bradford Park Avenue. During his time at Bradford, he was so badly injured in a collision with an opponent that he had to be reanimated three times on the field .

In order to better come to terms with his assignments in New Zealand, Pfannenstiel looked for clubs in countries that also played a short championship so that they could also play a championship between April and October. He first got a contract with Bærum SK in Norway and was considered a top earner until the club got into financial difficulties.

Pfannenstiel then went to Canada and played 28 games for the Calgary Mustangs . With his professional debut for a club of the North and Central American CONCACAF , he increased the number of his continental associations to five. Then he moved back to New Zealand to Otago United , the local rivals of his old club Dunedin. In 2006, thanks to a contact with the former GDR national goalkeeper Ulrich Schulze, he went to KS Vllaznia Shkodra in Albania , where Schulze was a coach. When he was dismissed, Pfannenstiel also left the club. A second interlude at Bærum followed in 2007, followed by an engagement with the Vancouver Whitecaps . With his subsequent move to Brazil to CA Hermann Aichinger and his debut in a South American CONMEBOL professional club, he became the first player to have played at least one professional game in all six continental associations.

He played his officially last game as an active professional footballer on June 10, 2011 in the Dreiflüssestadion at a charity match of Global United FC , which, as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations, played a half against the team of the host 1. FC Passau and a selection from Lower Bavaria started.

Trainer

In early 2007 Pfannenstiel received an offer from a millionaire in Armenia to train a competitive team there as a coach for FC Betonit Ijevan . In three months Pfannenstiel signed 18 players from all over the world, until the patron finally stopped funding the club.

In April 2008 Pfannenstiel returned to Germany and started working as a goalkeeper coach for the Cuban national team , which was supervised by German Reinhold Fanz and was preparing for the 2010 World Cup qualifying games in southern Germany and Austria . However, he remained an active player. Contracts with Flekkerøy IL and Manglerud Star followed, then he was player -coach with the Ramblers in Namibia and at the same time goalkeeping coach and assistant coach of the Namibian national team .

Scout and Expert

At the 2010 soccer World Cup , Lutz Pfannenstiel worked as an expert on the broadcasts on ZDF .

After Pfannenstiel ended his active career in 2010, he signed on February 28, 2011 as a scout and head of international relations at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . The Hoffenheim video channel regularly reports on its travels around the world in the series Lutz on Tour . Pfannenstiel also works as an expert for developing countries at the German Football Association .

In the 2012/2013 season he was an expert on the ran-on web show for Europa League broadcasts.

At the soccer World Cup in 2014 he worked again with Rudi Cerne as an expert for ZDF and also for BBC World . At the 2015 African Cup of Nations, he was co-host on the broadcasts of the sports channel Eurosport .

Fifa leads him as an official coach instructor.

Pfannenstiel has been writing a football column as an expert for the Daily Mirror since November 2014 .

At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Pfannenstiel was an expert on Swiss television SRF.

official

From December 16, 2018 to May 31, 2020, he was sports director at Fortuna Düsseldorf in the Bundesliga.

Mid-August 2020 was Pfannenstiel from MLS - Franchise St. Louis City , which for season 2023 will start the game mode, presented as a sports director.

successes

  • Finnish champion with Haka Valkeakoski (1998).
  • Champion in Singapore with Geylang United (2000).

Private life

Pfannenstiel has been married for the second time since 2006 and has one daughter.

Global United FC

Pfannenstiel's Global United FC project aims to draw attention to the dangers of climate change with spectacular football games in special locations . In January 2014, a Global United FC game was planned in Antarctica , with further stops in the Amazon region , Nepal , Namibia and Tanzania . The project is supported by prominent former soccer players such as Aldair , Fredi Bobic , Carlos Valderrama , Cafu , Bebeto , Ole Gunnar Solskjær , Pavel Nedvěd , Christian Karembeu and Stig Tøfting .

Trivia

  • In Finland, his experience was that the game was interrupted in the first half due to a huge swarm of mosquitoes, all spectators fled and the game continued in the second half in front of completely empty stands.
  • He made headlines in New Zealand when he personally picked up a thief who broke into his home and stole 1,500 New Zealand dollars, a Playstation, sunglasses and his goalkeeper jersey and got his belongings back.
  • Pfannenstiel, who according to his own unofficial estimate has played soccer in "over 600 stadiums", names the Maracanã Stadium in Brazil and the Highbury in London as favorite stadiums .
  • In addition to the Singapore affair, he cites the low points of his career as “cockroach-infested changing rooms” in Thailand and Sri Lanka and training on an involuntarily fertilized square in Armenia, as the sanitary pipes in the stadium had burst.
  • Pfannenstiel remains silent about one chapter of his career to this day. He was once under contract in Ukraine , where he presumably came into contact with the Mafia. For fear of reprisals, he hides the name of the city, the club and the president to this day: “I have a lot of respect, even fear, of the club I was with. It was all pretty rough there, and I'm very happy that I got out of there unharmed. ”The anecdote is known from this time that his car was stolen from him and that Pfannenstiel complained to the president of his suffering, who had good connections to the Let the underworld play and Pfannenstiel got his car back within an hour.
  • At a game in the Maldives the kick-off was set for twelve noon and as the crowd heated the mood with fires, it got so hot that the first players collapsed after five minutes and Geylang ended the game with only nine players with a goalless draw . The second leg was won 11-0.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The adventures of a world goalkeeper , n-tv.de
  2. ↑ a b c Legendary adventures of an untenable goalkeeper , diewelt.de
  3. ↑ ZDF WM blog posts by Lutz Pfannenstiel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / blog.zdf.de  
  4. ↑ Dream job for Lutz Pfannenstiel
  5. ↑ Ranón-webshow to Tottenham Basel: Fusbook, Berthold and Barber Shop. ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) ranON // Blog - ran.de, accessed on May 16, 2013.
  6. ^ Hoffenheim Scout Lutz Pfannenstiel on his impressions of the World Cup
  7. ↑ Africa Cup - All games LIVE at EUROSPORT. ( Memento from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ List of official FIFA coach instructors
  9. ↑ mirror.co.uk
  10. ↑ Lutz Pfannenstiel becomes the new sports director. f95.de, December 10, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  11. ↑ mjm / sid: Bundesliga: Pfannenstiel leaves Fortuna Düsseldorf prematurely. In: Spiegel Online . February 19, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Pfannenstiel joins St. Louis City SC , kicker.de, August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020.
  13. ↑ The restless soccer world traveler. In: Mittelbayerische.de. September 30, 2009, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  14. ↑ In the gateway to the world - Globetrotter Lutz Pfannenstiel finished… In: 11freunde.de. June 11, 2011, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  15. ↑ M + Z-Motors is involved in Global United FC, Allgemeine Zeitung, April 19, 2010
  16. ↑ Football globetrotter now wants to promote Namibia ( Memento from September 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Allgemeine Zeitung (Windhoek) from September 24, 2009.
  17. ↑ Pfannenstiel: Clinically dead and innocent in prison. t-online.de
  18. ↑ Jens Höhner: The goalkeeper of the world. In: DerWesten . October 19, 2009, archived from the original on January 25, 2016 ; accessed on June 6, 2017 .
  19. ↑ My great role model is Felix Magath. faz.net
personal data
SURNAME Pfannenstiel, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwiesel , Germany