Mönchengladbach Mavericks

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Mönchengladbach Mavericks Flag of Germany.svg
Mavericks Logo.svg
City: Mönchengladbach
Founded: June 11, 1989
Resolved: 5th November 2015
Team colors: Red, black, white
Head coach: Walter Rohlfing et al
League (2011): German Football League
Greatest successes
2. GFL North, semi-finals 2011
1. GFL2 North , ascent 2010
1. Regionalliga West, promotion 2009
Stadion
Surname:

Hockey park

Address: Am Hockeypark 1
41179 Mönchengladbach
Owner: City of Mönchengladbach , leased to operating company
Play surface: artificial grass
Capacity: 9,000
12,000 (with add-on stands)
Spectators (2009): 5,140
Average audience (2009): 1,028
Data status
September 24, 2011

The Mönchengladbach Mavericks (officially founded as American Sports Club Mönchengladbach Mavericks e.V., most recently International Football Team Mönchengladbach Mavericks e.V. ) were a German football team in Mönchengladbach . You played in the German Football League in 2011 . Their home stadium was the hockey park .

history

1988 to 1999 - foundation and early years

The Mavericks were founded in 1988. At this time, the US soldier Ron Lucas was transferred to Germany and had the idea of ​​setting up a football team at the location of his barracks in Mönchengladbach. Before that there was another football team in Mönchengladbach with the Mönchengladbach Mustangs , who played in the 1st Bundesliga for two years . First the Mavericks trained in the Mönchengladbach barracks. In the same year they had to move from here to a playing field near the Mönchengladbach garbage dump due to safety regulations. A few weeks later they had to move again, this time to a meadow near the Elisabeth Hospital in Rheydt. The International Football Team Mönchengladbach Mavericks eV was founded on June 11, 1989 with 32 founding members, because no existing club in the city wanted to open a football department.

year league rank
1990 2nd national league 3.
1991 Association league 2.
1992 Regional league 2.
1993 Regional league 3.
1994 Regional league 3.
1995 Regional league 7th
1998 Association league 5.
1999 National league 4th

The first training game took place in autumn 1989 against the Solingen Steelers. Since the head coach couldn't find any more time, the Mavericks were without a head coach before the 1989 season, only with offense coach Maroan Wahab and defense coach Steve Alexander. The American Charlie Walz tried to train the team, but failed, which was reflected in the only game of the season. The first real test match against the Neuss Frogs was lost 31-0. Next year, the Mavericks found a suitable head coach in Leroy Smal and started operating in the league. The first game on April 21, 1990, the new team clearly won 70-0 against the Hohenlimburg 89ers at Rheydt Castle . This game is still the game with the largest point difference in the club's history. In the national league, the Mavericks finished with a record of two wins and four defeats as the penultimate. In 1991 the Mavericks played under the defense coaches Sven Seidenberg and Frank Wenke in the Association League NRW. Both coaches played or still play in the 1st Bundesliga . For the 1992 season, the Mavericks were able to commit Maroan Wahab as an offense coach. Wahab played from 1985 to 1987 together with Seidenberg and Wenke at the Assindia Cardinals and from 1988 to 1991 in the 1st Bundesliga with the Düsseldorf Panthers . In 1989 he played for the German national team in the position of running back . With various interruptions, he is still offensive coordinator for the Mavericks. With the new offense coach Wolfgang Best, the team was able to achieve second place in the regional league with a record of seven wins and three defeats.

In the next year, the Mavericks and their new defense coach Frank Wenke were able to play more games against new opponents after the merger of two game associations in North Rhine-Westphalia and ended the season with nine wins, four losses and one draw against Essen. The Mavericks hosted the annual NRW Cup final in 1992, in which the best team in the state is played, and were eliminated there in the third round. In 1994 the team from Mönchengladbach with the coaches Detlef Kampf, Frank Wenke, Jürgen Frambach and Mark Lohweber finished second in the Regionalliga West. A year later, the Mavericks could not build on their performances from previous years and rose with a record of seven defeats in no win back into the league. In 1996 and 1997 the senior team of the Mavericks stopped playing due to a lack of coaches and lack of money. In 1998 the seniors started again in a league. They played eight games in the association league NRW, but lost all of them. In 1999 the Mavericks lost all games except for their last game against the Düren Bravehearts and took last place.

2000 to 2007 - ascents and descents

In 2000, the Mavericks started under head coach LeRoy Small in the association league, as the national league was closed due to a lack of clubs. With three wins and five defeats, the Mönchengladbach team took third place. Since two major league clubs have merged twice, the first three, including the Mavericks, rose from the association league to the major league. Due to problems with the home sports facility, which was badly damaged by the rain, the Mavericks could not play all games this season and so only played once against the Düsseldorf Bulldozer. Since Remscheid Amboss had similar problems with their place, neither the game in Mönchengladbach nor the one in Remscheid could take place. Because of this, the Mavericks only finished third with a record of four wins and three defeats.

year league rank
2000 Association league 3.
2001 Oberliga 4th
2002 Oberliga 3.
2003 Oberliga 2.
2004 Regional league 4th
2005 Regional league 4th
2006 Regional league 6th
2007 Oberliga 4th
Lettering of the association

In 2002, the team signed a new, relatively inexperienced head coach with Reinhard Frumm. Despite the new coach and some newcomers from the dissolved Neuss Frogs, the Mavericks could only reach third place with a record of six wins and eight defeats. In 2003 the team lost only three times, with seven wins. Since the Cologne Falcons were able to move up from the Regionalliga to the 2nd Bundesliga , another place in the league became available, which also made the Mavericks move up as second behind the Dortmund Giants. The following year the Mönchengladbacher played only mediocre and reached fourth place with a record of four wins and five defeats, with up to 1,000 spectators, however, the team had far more spectators than the other clubs in the league. It was similar in 2005, when the Mavericks recorded five wins and seven losses. In the same year, the then first chairman Detlef Gingter contacted the operator of the then under construction Hockey Park in contact and negotiated that the Mavericks were able to complete their home games from 2006 and their training in this artificial turf stadium. Before that, the team played their games on the Mönchengladbach cycling track and trained in the Grenzlandstadion . Despite a comparatively very high audience average of almost 800 visitors per home game, which was about three times the league average at the time, and some new signings, the Mavericks could not hold their league and rose again after three years with a record of just one win out of nine defeats Oberliga from. The relegation was decided in the last game of the season against Remscheid Amboss, who had also only won one game. The match between the two teams in the home stadium of the Mavericks had to be canceled and postponed due to a serious injury to a Remscheid player and ultimately due to floodlight failure with an intermediate score of 7-22 for anvil. Despite a completely new edition, as actually required by the federal game regulations, the board members agreed, with the consent of the regional association, on a continuation with the intermediate result of the interrupted game. Since the Mavericks could not come back into the game and had ultimately lost 13 to 28, they were relegated to the major league.

In 2007, the Mavericks hosted two major events, an open training session by the Rhein Fire professional team from Düsseldorf, which was attended by over 2,000 spectators, and the Junior Bowl , in which the youth team of the Düsseldorf Panthers and the Stuttgart Scorpions met . In terms of sport, the Mavericks were only mediocre and reached fourth place with five wins, four defeats and a zero to zero draw against the Düsseldorf Bulldozer. With 500 spectators per game, the Mavericks had to record a sharp decline in spectators due to the sporting relegation, but still had about twice as many spectators as all other clubs in the league. In addition, the Mavericks worked out a five-year plan under the chairman Detlef Gingter , which should enable the senior team's athletic promotion to the German Football League , the 1st Bundesliga. In addition, the youth teams should constantly train new top performers for the senior team. This five-year plan should begin the following year.

2008 to 2011

year league rank
2008 Oberliga 1.
2009 Regional league 1.
2010 GFL 2 1.
2011 GFL 2.
2012 GFL

In March 2008, the Mavericks parted ways due to differences in the design of the game from Olaf Meyer. Maroan Wahab, who was still playing for the Mavericks in 2007, took over as sports director. The Mönchengladbach-based company also hired well-known German coaches such as the long-time national coach and multiple German champion Walter Rohlfing as consultants and head coach. Frank Wenke was able to be won back to the club after nine years and from then on took care of the Mavericks defenseline as a position coach. In addition, Jörg Mackenthun was brought in as special team coordinator, who won the bronze medal with the German national team at the World Championships in Japan in 2007 and the Maastricht Wildcats brought the Dutch championship in their first year. Not least because of the US running backs Eric Truscotts and Jared Stevens as well as the Canadian quarterback Mike Renaud and the Canadian Safety Cedric Bishop, the team was able to end the season with a record of nine wins and only one defeat. The average number of spectators also increased sharply from 500 to around 800, in top games up to 1200. Despite the new coach and the US running backs, the promotion was only decided in the last game of the season against Remscheid Amboss, who had lost only once, which the Mavericks could win with 34 to 29. In this game, the Remscheid team were in the lead 29 to 20 in the last quarter, but the Mavericks were able to achieve victory and thus promotion through two more touchdowns. In December 2008, the team hired Anthony Doghmi, a linebacker coach who has experience from NFL Europe and the German Football League .

Sideline of the Mavericks at the relegation game in Hamburg

Mike Renaud, who was the team's starting quarterback in 2008 , joined the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League in February 2009 . His position was taken over by Andreas Trebski , who led the Assindia Cardinals into the top German division last year . The other Americans also left the Mavericks, but were replaced by George Bell and John McCardle as running backs and Daniel Tromello as safety. Since Renaud was replaced by a German player, the team was able to get another American and strengthened the linebacker series with Jason Carpenter.

After a perfect season in the regional league, the Mavericks met the Hamburg Blue Devils in relegation to promotion to the German Football League 2 , who had been relegated directly from the GFL due to financial problems before the season. The Mönchengladbacher won the home game in front of almost 2,000 spectators with 19 to 13 and the second leg in Hamburg with 21 to 12 and thus rose to the GFL2, which is the greatest success in the club's history. For these games, the Mavericks had signed the NFL -experienced offensive lineman Patrick Venzke and the quarterback Justin Goltz.

Before the start of the GFL 2 season , the squad was reinforced by players such as GFL-experienced Jason Adjei and Canada's Erik Galas . This season, the Mavericks managed another perfect season . On the penultimate game day, the bulls secured first place in the table and thus advance to the highest German division. Due to a reform in the GFL Bundesliga, the Mönchengladbach Mavericks rise as champions without a relegation game.

In the German Football League 2011, the Mavericks lost only three times, twice against the German Bowl winners Kiel Baltic Hurricanes and once to zero against the runner-up Berlin Adler , and surprisingly took second place. The club had hired several Americans, including Londen Fryar , who could not play in the playoffs due to an arm injury. The quarter-finals on September 17th in the hockey park were won against the Stuttgart Scorpions with 43:17. The Mavericks lost the semifinals on September 24, 47:21 at the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns , who were southern champions and then won the German Bowl against Kiel.

At the end of 2011, it became known that an anonymous complaint had been filed for alleged illegal employment of the US players, whereupon authorities had investigated the office and confiscated documents. There are now demands in the amount of 350,000 euros in the room, so that no one is ready to represent the association as a board member. The GFL license was withdrawn from the leaderless association by public delivery . The Lübeck Cougars replaced the Mavericks in the German Football League 2012 .

Dissolution and succession

After the license withdrawal, many players moved to other clubs and the club disbanded. The youth teams were founded in 2012 by the newly founded American Sports Mönchengladbach e. V. , whose American football teams appear under the name Mönchengladbach Wolfpack. On November 5, 2015, the Mavericks club was finally deleted from the club register.

youth

In the fall of 1990, the Mavericks' youth division, which played flag football , was founded. The team played their first game against the Weiden Ghosts on August 15, 1991, which they won 22-0. Furthermore, the team was transformed into a tackle team in the winter of 1991, which means that they started to play with full football equipment such as shoulder protection and helmet . The rookies were able to play two test matches against the Düsseldorf Bulldozer and the Neuss Frogs , but they both lost. In 1994 the youth department started playing in the NRW youth league. In the 1995 season they took first place in their league and lost in the final of the NRW Youth Cup against the Dortmund Giants . After a game and training-free season in 1996 due to a lack of coaches and lack of money, the youngsters started playing a year before the seniors and started in the NRW League. They were able to take third place at the end of the season. In 1999 they came in second. The youth trained both in the hockey park and in the Grenzlandstadion in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt.

Cheerleading

In 1991, the Mavericks cheerleading division was founded by Calvin Rix as Red Angels . The newly founded group took sixth place in the so-called Spirit Bowl , a nationwide cheerleading competition, in its first year , and was the second best team from North Rhine-Westphalia. The cheerleaders were able to achieve third place in the first NRW cheerleading championship in 1993. In 1994 they hosted this championship. From 1996 to 1999 the cheerleading department was called "Red Devils". In 1999 the cheerleaders from Krefeld came to support. A few years later the cheerleading department was renamed the Taurus Tamers . There was also a youth cheerleading department, the Tiny Tamers .

Individual evidence

  1. a b MG-Mavericks.de ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History of the club. Accessed August 8, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mg-mavericks.de
  2. ^ Rheinische Post , April 29, 2000
  3. ^ Rheinische Post , October 3, 2003
  4. ^ City of Spiegel Mönchengladbach, June 2, 2004
  5. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung , September 19, 2006
  6. ^ Rheinische Post , October 2, 2006
  7. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung , October 23, 2006
  8. ^ Rheinische Post , April 10, 2007
  9. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung , September 15, 2007
  10. Public delivery to Mönchengladbach Mavericks in accordance with Section 17 (5) RVO. In: afvd.de. American Football Association Germany , December 9, 2011, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  11. Tobias Buyer: Mavericks - End of a football fairy tale. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . December 23, 2011, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  12. Public announcement to Mönchengladbach District Court VR 4896 In: Justizportal des Bundes und der Länder . October 24, 2012, accessed April 20, 2020.
  13. Wolfpack inherit the Mavericks. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . February 3, 2012, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  14. ^ Company owner data North Rhine-Westphalia District Court Mönchengladbach VR 1617 - International Football Team Mönchengladbach Mavericks in the justice portal of the federal and state governments