Norbert Müller (football official)

Norbert Müller is a German communication scientist . He worked as a manager at the football clubs Arminia Bielefeld and Hertha BSC .

Career

Müller worked at the Pedagogical University of the Rhineland in Aachen before he became the first full-time manager of the Bundesliga soccer team Arminia Bielefeld in the spring of 1982 . There he replaced Willi Nolting , who had previously carried out this task as an honorary post. With Müller, the club wanted to position itself more professionally. The Bielefeld player Ewald Lienen , who was advised by Müller, made contact with Müller . In view of debts amounting to around 1.5 million marks , Müller wanted to turn the club upside down and rely on young, inexpensive talent instead of highly paid, established players. With this " Gladbach model" he wanted to lead the club into the UEFA Cup . Arminia's trainer at the time, Horst Franz , rejected this concept and sharply criticized Müller, so that Franz was finally dismissed.

In addition, he could not reach an agreement with goalkeeper Wolfgang Kneib , so that the latter remained without a contract in the 1982/83 season. With these personnel decisions, Müller turned the Bielefeld fans against him for the first time, which Müller chases after the film James Bond - 007 Dr. No the nickname Dr. No missed. In order to save money, Müller then presented the team with new, lower-endowment contracts, which worsened the relationship between him and the team. In terms of sport, Arminia was successful and came eighth in the 1982/83 and 1983/84 seasons. They were the best placements in the Bielefeld club's history. At the end of the 1984/85 season , Arminia had to relegate to 1. FC Saarbrücken after losing relegation , which was partly due to the quarrels between Müller and the team. At times, the players refused to talk to Müller at all. In the winter of 1985 Müller had to leave Bielefeld and left behind a mountain of debt that had grown to three million marks.

Müller later worked for the marketing company UFA Sports and became managing director and member of the executive committee at Hertha BSC in the mid-1990s . There he was responsible, among other things, for the spatial planning of the new office and forgot to install doors between the rooms . In the spring of 1998, Müller was fired by the supervisory board chairman Robert Schwan .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 100-105 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Heise: Again and again Friday: Where is "Dr. No"? Berliner Kurier , accessed on January 20, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Michael Jahn: The severance dispute for Norbert Müller ignites the power struggle between the president and the head of the supervisory board. Berliner Zeitung , accessed on January 20, 2017 .