Nico Willig
| Nico Willig | ||
 Nico Willig (2019)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | December 11, 1980 | |
| place of birth | Tubingen , Germany | |
| position | Defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| TSG Balingen | ||
| TuS Ergenzingen | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2000-2011 | TSG Balingen | |
| 2011-2013 | TSG Balingen II | |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2013-2014 | TSG Balingen | |
| 2015 | Stuttgarter Kickers U19 | |
| 2016 | VfB Stuttgart U16 | |
| 2016-2018 | VfB Stuttgart U17 | |
| 2018– | VfB Stuttgart U19 | |
| 2019 | → VfB Stuttgart (interim) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Nico Willig (born December 11, 1980 in Tübingen ) is a German football coach .
Player career
Willig, who grew up in Heselwangen , first played for TSG Balingen in his youth and then for three years for TuS Ergenzingen. In 2000 the defender returned to TSG Balingen and began his adult career, where he remained loyal to the club without interruption. In the Association League Württemberg he was with the Balingen champions in 2008 and thus rose to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . By 2011 Willig had completed 92 league games in which he scored one goal. He then played for TSG Balingen's second team before ending his playing career in 2013.
Coaching career
While he was still active as a top division player, Willig took over the newly created position of full-time youth coordinator at TSG Balingen in 2008 . In the summer of 2013 he became the head coach of the first team in Balingen, which he left after being relegated to 13th place in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg at the end of the 2013/14 season. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he was the U19 coach of the Stuttgarter Kickers . In January 2016, Willig moved to VfB Stuttgart , where he initially coached the U16s and from summer 2016 to 2018 the U17s before he became the head coach of the youth team. In 2016 he passed the course to become a football teacher at the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy in Hennef , and formed a car pool with the participants Julian Nagelsmann and Domenico Tedesco .
On April 21, 2019, Willig took over the Bundesliga team at VfB Stuttgart as the successor to Markus Weinzierl on an interim basis until the end of the 2018/19 season . At this point the team was on the relegation place with 21 points after 30 match days, with the gap to a direct relegation place being three and to the first non-relegation place being six points. Under Willig, VfB got seven points by the end of the season and remained on the relegation place. Even before the relegation games against Union Berlin , the club presented Tim Walter as the new head coach for the next season . After a 2-2 home game and a 0-0 away game, VfB Stuttgart relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga for the third time in the club's history .
For the 2019/20 season Willig returned as head coach for the U19s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b When the hobby becomes a job. In: imlaendle.de . July 10, 2018, accessed April 20, 2019.
- ↑ Nico Willig: “U17 instead of U19, clearly a step forward”. Schwarzwälder Bote, May 17, 2018.
- ↑ Nico Willig should do it as a VfB trainer. In: swr.de . Apr 20, 2019, accessed April 20, 2019.
- ↑ VfB separates from Markus Weinzierl , vfb.de, April 20, 2019, accessed on April 21, 2019.
- ↑ Tim Walter becomes VfB head coach , vfb.de, May 20, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Willing, Nico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |