Otto Pfister (soccer coach)

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Otto Pfister
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Otto Pfister in Biberach / Riß on May 28, 2006
Personnel
Surname Otto Pfister
birthday November 24, 1937
place of birth Cologne ,  Germany
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1957-1958 SC Viktoria Cologne
1958-1959 VfL Cologne 1899
1959-1960 FC Chiasso 20 (6)
1960-1961 FC Grenchen 6 (4)
1961-1963 FC Vaduz
1963-1966 FC St. Gallen
1966-1968 FC Nordstern Basel
1968-1969 FC Moutier
1969-1972 FC Chur
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1961-1963 FC Vaduz (player-coach)
1963-1966 FC St. Gallen (player-coach)
1966-1968 FC Nordstern Basel (player-coach)
1968-1969 FC Moutier (player-coach)
1969-1972 FC Chur (player-coach)
1972-1976 Rwanda
1976-1988 Upper Volta
1979-1982 Senegal
1982-1985 Ivory Coast
1985-1989 Zaire
1992-1993 Ghana
1995-1997 Bangladesh
1997-1999 Saudi Arabia
1999-2002 Zamalek Cairo
2002-2004 CS Sfaxien
2004-2005 Al Nejmeh
2005 al-Masry
2006 Togo
2006-2007 Al-Merrikh Khartoum
2007-2009 Cameroon
2011–2012 Trinidad and Tobago
2014-2015 Al-Merrikh Khartoum
2015-2017 USM Algiers
2017-2018 Afghanistan
1 Only league games are given.

Otto Pfister (born November 24, 1937 in Cologne ) is a former German soccer player and current coach . He was the national coach of the Afghan national soccer team . During the 2006 World Cup in Germany, he looked after the Togolese national team . In 1992 he was voted "Coach of the Year" in Africa . Pfister has coached several club and national teams in Africa and Asia since 1972; he never worked in his native Germany. During the numerous activities abroad, his center of life was always in Mels in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

1958–1972: Pfister as a player and player-coach

The trained mechanical engineer played in Germany in the position of striker for SC Viktoria Köln (until 1958) and VfL Köln 1899 (1958–1959), in Switzerland for FC Chiasso (1959–1960) and FC Grenchen (1960–1961 ).

At the beginning of the 1960s, Pfister obtained his coaching license at the Federal Sports School in Magglingen . He later studied at the German Sport University in Cologne , where he acquired his football instructor license in 1979. As a player-coach he worked for FC Vaduz (1961–1963), FC St. Gallen (1963–1966), FC Nordstern Basel (1966–1968), FC Moutier (1968/69) and FC Chur (1969–1972).

Under Hennes Weisweiler , he interned at 1. FC Köln , also at Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro and at Inter Milan .

1972–1999: Pfister as national coach

Pfister trained several national teams:

With the Ivory Coast junior team, Pfister was U19 African champion in 1983. With Ghana's junior team (including Samuel Kuffour ) he won the U17 World Cup in Italy in 1991.

With the senior national team, Pfister reached the final of the African Championship in 1992 , which his team lost on penalties at 10:11 against Ivory Coast. His team included players like Abédi Pelé , Anthony Baffoe and Anthony Yeboah . About the latter, he said against the background of rumors that Yeboah's date of birth stated in the passport had been "brought forward" a few years: "There is only one thing that helps: saw off your leg and count annual rings."

In addition to Ghana, Pfister also took part in the African Championship with Upper Volta ( 1978 in Ghana ) and Zaire ( 1988 in Morocco ). With Saudi Arabia, he took part in the Confederations Cup in 1997 , but was sacked after the second game during the current tournament. His successor Carlos Parreira was also fired just a few months later during an ongoing tournament, namely during the 1998 World Cup . Parreira's successor was again Otto Pfister.

1999–2005: Pfister as a club coach

From 1999 Pfister worked very successfully for several associations in the Arab region . From 1999 to 2002 he trained Zamalek Cairo in Egypt . With the club he won the African Cup Winners' Cup in 2000, was Egyptian champion and Super Cup winner in 2001 and won the league cup in 2002.

From 2002 to 2004 he was in charge of CS Sfaxien in Tunisia , where he won the league cup in 2003. In 2005 in Lebanon he led Al Nejmeh from Beirut as national champion in the Arab Champions League . A year earlier he had won the Lebanese Super Cup and League Cup with SC. He left the club when the Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri , a supporter of the club, was killed in an attack on his convoy of vehicles , and was in charge of the Egyptian club of al-Masry in Port Said until October 2005 .

Since 2006: Pfister's comeback on the world football stage

From February 18, 2006, Pfister was the national coach of Togo , which he should look after at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Shortly before his team's opening game, however, he resigned from his position on June 9 due to an unsolved bonus dispute between the team and the association. On June 12th, he returned to the Togoers' training camp and ultimately looked after the national team for the entire preliminary round. His eleven lost all three games, but given the turbulence in the run-up, the fighting and playful performances during the defeats were rated by the sports press as a relative success for Pfister. In addition, in August 2006 Pfister's contract extension with the Togolese association until 2008 was reported as perfect.

On September 8, 2006, however, Pfister surprisingly announced that the agreement with Togo's association had not taken place and that he was moving to the Sudanese first division club Al Merriekh Omdurman .

From October 26, 2007 to May 28, 2009 Pfister worked as national coach for Cameroon . At the 2008 African Cup of Nations, he led his team to the final and was runner-up in Africa. He terminated his engagement in Cameroon without notice when the association had replaced its coaching staff (assistant and goalkeeping coaches) without his knowledge, while Pfister had traveled to Greece to observe players.

In April 2011 he took over the management of the national team for the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago . He was supposed to lead the 2006 World Cup participant to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, but it didn't succeed. In February 2017 he became the coach of the Afghan national soccer team. At the beginning of May 2018, Pfister was awarded the honorary prize of the Association of German Football Ambassadors "for his sporting and social commitment" .

Private

Pfister is Swiss by choice and lives in Mels and in the respective countries where he works as a trainer.

Web links

Commons : Otto Pfister (football coach)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pfister national coach of Trinidad and Tobago weltfussball.de
  2. ^ Sportschau.de: Otto Pfister new national coach of Afghanistan. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ http://www.fussballbotschafter.de/news/deutscher-fussball-botschafter-ehrenpreis-2018- geht-an-otto-pfister /
  4. ↑ Note in report in: RevierSport 79/2011, p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Pfister, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne