Norbert Meier

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Norbert Meier
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Norbert Meier (2011)
Personnel
birthday 20th September 1958
place of birth Reinbek ,  Germany
size 173 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1964-1970 TSV Reinbek
1970-1971 FC Voran Ohe
1971-1975 VfL Lohbrügge
1975-1977 FC St. Pauli
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1980 ASV Bergedorf 85
1980-1989 Werder Bremen 281 (82)
1990-1992 Borussia M'gladbach 50 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1981-1982 Germany B 3 0(0)
1982-1985 Germany 16 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1997-1998 Borussia M'gladbach
2003-2005 MSV Duisburg
2006-2007 Dynamo Dresden
2008-2013 Fortuna Dusseldorf
2014-2016 Arminia Bielefeld
2016 SV Darmstadt 98
2017 1. FC Kaiserslautern
2019 KFC Uerdingen 05
1 Only league games are given.

Norbert Meier (born September 20, 1958 in Reinbek ) is a former German soccer coach and former German national soccer player . Most recently he was head coach of the third division club KFC Uerdingen 05 .

Player career

society

Meier, who was used in midfield, began his footballing career in 1964 in youth football at TSV Reinbek . In mid-1970 he joined FC Voran Ohe for a year . He then played at VfL Lohbrügge until the end of June 1975 . In the following two seasons he will be listed as a player for FC St. Pauli . From the 1977/78 season to mid-1980 he was active for ASV Bergedorf 85 . For the 1980/81 season he signed with SV Werder Bremen , who played in the 2nd Bundesliga North. He rose with the team in the next year in the 1st Bundesliga. As an attacking midfielder, together with Rudi Völler , Thomas Schaaf , Uwe Reinders and Klaus Fichtel under coach Otto Rehhagel, he was jointly responsible for the success of the Bremen team in the 1980s. In 1988 he became German champion with Werder . For Bremen, he played a total of 281 games in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga by the end of 1989. He scored 82 hits. In the first two and a half years of the 1990s he was on the Borussia Mönchengladbach squad . There he scored two goals in 50 Bundesliga appearances.

From 1981 to 1992 he played a total of 292 league games for SV Werder Bremen and Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 1st Bundesliga .

Meier was substituted 111 times in the course of his career as a Bundesliga player, often in away games, which earned him the nickname Heimspiel-Meier in Bremen . Together with Mehmet Scholl and Ulf Kirsten, he is one of the most frequently replaced players in the history of the Bundesliga.

National team

For the national team he played 16 times from 1982 to 1985 and scored two goals, both in the 4-2 win against Yugoslavia on June 7, 1983. The midfielder was in the squad of the national team at the 1984 European Football Championship in France .

Coaching career

Meier worked from November 1997 to March 1998 as a coach at Borussia Mönchengladbach and before and afterwards for the Mönchengladbach amateur team. From January 4, 2003 to December 8, 2005 he was the coach of MSV Duisburg .

After his second season as head coach at MSV Duisburg , Meier was promoted to the Bundesliga at the end of the 2004/05 season . Towards the end of the following first half of the season, on December 6, 2005, during a Bundesliga game against 1. FC Köln , Meier headed the opposing player Albert Streit on the sidelines and then dropped himself. The dispute was then expelled from the court, Meier received a provisional professional ban for this swallow from the sports court of the DFB by injunction on December 7th. Thereupon Meier was initially suspended from his association and released on December 8, 2005. On December 15, 2005, Meier was banned from exercising a coaching activity for three months by the sports court of the German Football Association in single judge proceedings after charges were brought by the DFB control committee for unsportsmanlike conduct in the form of assault against the then Cologne player dispute. Meier was also fined 12,500 euros. The ban expired on March 7, 2006.

From September 10, 2006 Meier worked as a trainer at Dynamo Dresden . There he was released on September 24, 2007 for sporting reasons.

Fortuna Dusseldorf

On January 1, 2008, Meier became head coach at Fortuna Düsseldorf . He succeeded Uwe Weidemann , who had been dismissed seven weeks earlier . In the first year under his direction, Fortuna Düsseldorf missed promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga as third place. This was achieved in the second attempt on May 23, 2009. In the following season 2009/10, Fortuna under his leadership missed promotion to the Bundesliga despite weak competition and a point deduction for Arminia Bielefeld . Above all, the away weakness played a role, as Fortuna only won four of the 17 away games.

They started the 2010/11 season with six defeats in a row and were eliminated in the first round of the DFB Cup against third division club TuS Koblenz . A trend reversal then set in, with which Fortuna Düsseldorf u. a. with nine home wins in a row, he was able to catch up with the upper third of the table. The first 18 competitive games of the 2011/12 season were played without defeat. After the end of the first half of the season, Meier led Fortuna to the autumn championship after 26 competitive games without defeat and with 41 points - which is the second division record since the introduction of the three-point rule. With third place in the final table, the qualification for the relegation games for the Bundesliga promotion against Hertha BSC succeeded . After all, Meier was promoted to the top German league for the second time since 2004/05, but Fortuna Düsseldorf was relegated straight away. After relegation, Meier and the club separated amicably. Shortly afterwards, he turned down a request from Beşiktaş Istanbul .

Arminia Bielefeld

Meier became coach of relegation-threatened second division Arminia Bielefeld on February 23, 2014 as the successor to Stefan Krämer, who had recently been on leave . He led the team with a 3-2 win on the last match day at Dynamo Dresden on the relegation place 16. In the relegation Arminia failed despite a 3-1 first leg win by a 2-4 home defeat against Darmstadt 98 .

Shortly after relegation, Meier's contract for the coming season in the 3rd division was extended to June 30, 2015. Meier and the sporting director Samir Arabi managed to build a competitive team for the new season, despite a number of departures, which after initial problems established themselves at the top of the table quite quickly. The direct return to the second Bundesliga succeeded on the penultimate matchday with a draw in the game against Jahn Regensburg . Meier's team was also successful in the DFB Cup when they eliminated four higher-class clubs - SV Sandhausen , Hertha BSC , Werder Bremen and Borussia Mönchengladbach - and only failed in the semi-finals at VfL Wolfsburg .

Meier's contract ran until 2017, but he canceled it at short notice at the beginning of June 2016 in order to move to Darmstadt.

SV Darmstadt 98

Meier has been the head coach of the first division club SV Darmstadt 98 since summer 2016 . After leaving the DFB Cup against the regional league club FC-Astoria Walldorf and five defeats in the league in a row, he was released from the club on December 5, 2016.

1. FC Kaiserslautern

On January 3, 2017, Meier was introduced as the new head coach of 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the 2. Bundesliga. He succeeded the retired Tayfun Korkut and received a contract that runs until June 30, 2018. On September 20, 2017, he was released one day after a 2-0 home defeat against Erzgebirge Aue and with a total of two points won from the first seven games of the season. The FCK was bottom of the table that day.

KFC Uerdingen 05

On February 3, 2019, the third division KFC Uerdingen 05 Meier introduced as the new head coach. He succeeded the previously released promotion coach Stefan Krämer, who was temporarily represented by his assistant coach Stefan Reisinger . Meier was also fired in mid-March after the KFC had been without a win for ten league games.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Awards

  • Düsseldorfer of the year in the field of sport: 2012 (together with the manager Wolf Werner )
  • 3rd league coach of the year: 2015

Private life

Meier has been married since 1983, has two children and lives in Viersen-Dülken .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RP ONLINE: Fortuna's promotion coach: Norbert Meier ends his career in professional football. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Profile on kicker.de , accessed on October 5, 2016
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Norbert Meier - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Norbert Meier - International Appearances . RSSSF . June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  5. ^ Headbutt attack: Duisburg and Meier split up , Spiegel Online , December 8, 2005
  6. ↑ Fortuna Düsseldorf and Norbert Meier split up , fortuna-duesseldorf.de, May 27, 2013
  7. ↑ Ex-Fortuna-Coach very popular, express.de, June 3, 2013
  8. ↑ Norbert Meier new DSC head coach arminia-bielefeld.de, accessed on February 24, 2014
  9. ↑ Arminia agree with Meier nw-news.de, accessed on May 31, 2014
  10. ↑ DSC Arminia Bielefeld GmbH & Co. KGaA (ed.): Norbert Meier signs until 2017. In: Arminia Bielefeld's website. January 7, 2016, accessed January 19, 2016 .
  11. ^ "Contract signed with Darmstadt for two years - Meier is out" - Westfalen-Blatt.de, June 10, 2016, accessed on February 9, 2019
  12. ^ Message ( memento of March 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the Darmstadt 98 website, accessed on June 10, 2016
  13. ^ SV 98 separates from Meier and Fach ( Memento from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) sv98.de, accessed on December 5, 2016
  14. ↑ FCK releases trainer Norbert Meier - FCK DE. Retrieved September 20, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Norbert Meier is the new Uerdingen trainer , kicker.de, accessed on February 3, 2019
  16. ↑ KFC separates from Norbert Meier , kfc-uerdingen.de, accessed on March 16, 2019
  17. ^ Düsseldorfs Sportler 2012 ( Memento from November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinbek , Germany