Michael Pfeiffer

This article is about soccer player and coach Michael Pfeiffer. For other people see Michael Pfeifer .

Michael "Michel" Pfeiffer (born July 19, 1925 in Eschweiler ; † January 2, 2018 in Vaals , Netherlands ) was a German football player and coach .

Life

He started his football career at home SG Eschweiler before joining Alemannia Aachen in 1949 . There he made it to the national team in December 1954 , when he made his international debut at Wembley in front of 100,000 spectators against England . This should be his only full international match. Pfeiffer was the second national player of Aachen after Reinhold Münzenberg . Pfeiffer played a total of 244 championship games for Alemannia in nine years, in which he scored 75 goals.

After his time in Aachen, he continued his career at Rot-Weiss Essen (1958–1961) and Fortuna Geleen (1961–1963). After the end of his career he became a coach. He looked after Alemannia Aachen from the beginning of 1967 to 1969, where Pfeiffer was promoted to the first division straight away and was runner-up behind Bayern Munich in the second year. After that, his contract was not renewed and the club was relegated the following year. Pfeiffer looked after the club a second time in 1973/74 in the Regionalliga West, he led the Alemannia in the newly founded Second Bundesliga, but was dismissed in September 1974. He also trained Roda Kerkrade (1963-1965), FK Pirmasens (1970/71), Austria Salzburg (1972), BSV Schwenningen (1976/77) and the Tunisian club CS Sfax (1980/81). There he became Tunisian champion straight away with the club. Then he ended his coaching career.

Pfeiffer lived in Vaals in the Netherlands . He was married and had at least two children.

literature

• Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .

Web links

• Michael Pfeiffer in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Alemannia Aachen player database
• Thiemo Müller: Hello, Michael Pfeiffer. What are you actually doing? kicker interview on the Alemannia Aachen website, October 12, 2006, archived from the original on June 30, 2013 ; accessed on January 3, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Pauli: Michel Pfeiffer returns to Tivoli. In: Aachener Zeitung , July 15, 2015, accessed on January 3, 2018.
2. ↑ Alemannia legend Michel Pfeiffer died at the age of 92. In: aachener-nachrichten.de , January 3, 2018, accessed on January 3, 2018
3. ↑ Michel Pfeiffer turns 85. Alemannia Aachen website, July 19, 2010, accessed on January 3, 2018.