Otto Frey (soccer player)

Otto Frey
Personnel
birthday	March 12, 1952
place of birth	Heidelberg ,  Germany
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1975	VfR Heilbronn	31 (1)
1976-1979	SV Darmstadt 98	64 (0)
1979-1981	VfR Bürstadt	65 (3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1985–?	TSV Michelfeld
	VfB Wiesloch
	VfR Heilbronn
	VfR Heilbronn (youth)
	SG Kirchardt
	VfB Eppingen
	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (youth)
	SV Sandhausen (2nd team)
? –2009	SV Sandhausen (Youth)
1 Only league games are given.

Otto Frey (born March 12, 1952 in Heidelberg ) is a former German soccer player and coach .

Career

He started his career at SV Sandhausen . For the 1974/75 season, at the age of 22, he moved to VfR Heilbronn, who was then playing in the 2nd Bundesliga South . He immediately became a regular player in the man markers position and was considered a great talent. Together with his brother Karl-Heinz Frey , he formed the legendary Frey Brothers at VfR this season . However, the two Freys, despite consistently good performances, could not prevent VfR relegation to the 1st amateur league . Years later, Frey said in an interview: “What Željko Čajkovski was too soft, Rudi Faßnacht was too hard. With something in between from both coaches this season, we would probably not have been relegated. "

For the 1976/77 season Otto Frey moved to the second division SV Darmstadt 98 , with whom he rose to the Bundesliga two years later, where he played 22 games. After the immediate relegation, he moved to the second division club VfR Bürstadt , known at the time as VfR OLI Bürstadt , where he ended his professional career in 1981. The following three years Frey played for SV Sandhausen in the league .

Frey was able to gain his first experience in the coaching bench in 1985 at TSV Michelfeld as a player coach and at VfB Wiesloch . From there, Frey was hired by VfR Heilbronn in the course of the 1994/95 season as the successor to Horst Hägele , who was in poor health . After the end of the season, Gerd Störzer was the new coach of the first team, Frey moved to the youth division. Under his leadership, the VfR Heilbronn A-Youth won the 1996 DFB Junior Cup . In the course of the 1997/98 season , Frey moved as the successor to the dismissed Günther Major again to the executive chair of the first team, but could not prevent their descent from the league. In the period that followed, Frey was a coach at SG Kirchardt , VfB Eppingen and the youth team at TSG Hoffenheim .

In 2004 Frey returned to SV Sandhausen, where he initially trained the second team and later also in the youth division. In the summer of 2009 Frey ended his activity as an active coach, but stayed with the club as a member of the youth committee. Most recently, Frey's full-time job ran a taxi company in Heidelberg.

Web links

• Otto Frey in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Otto Frey in the database of weltfussball.de
• Entry on Otto Frey and interview with him in the VfR Heilbronn database.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Team lists of the major league clubs, seasons 1981/82 to 1983/84 ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. . Retrieved March 13, 2012. 
2. ↑ Trainer list of SG Kirchardt ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2012 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. on the website of the association. Retrieved March 13, 2012. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} It's too cold for me on the sports field. Heilbronn Voice , January 9, 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
4. ↑ Otto Frey is 60 years old . Report on the SV Sandhausen website, March 11, 2012. Accessed on March 13, 2012.