Paul Freier

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Paul Freier
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Personnel
Surname Slawomir Paul Freier
birthday July 26, 1979
place of birth Bytom ,  Poland
size 180 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1984-1990 ŁTS Łabędy
1990-1993 SV Holzen
1993-1996 BSV Menden
1996-1998 VfL Bochum
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2000 VfL Bochum amateurs 68 (19)
1999-2004 VfL Bochum 117 (16)
2004-2008 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 112 (17)
2008-2014 VfL Bochum 149 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2000-2001 Germany U21 13 0(2)
2002-2007 Germany 19 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2015 VfL Bochum U16 (assistant coach)
2015-2016 VfL Bochum U19 (assistant coach)
2016-2017 FC Iserlohn 46/49 U19
2017-2018 Schalke 04 U19 (assistant coach)
2018-2019 VfL Bochum U16
2019– FC Iserlohn 46/49 (U17)
1 Only league games are given.

Slawomir Paul Freier , Polish Sławomir Paweł Freier (born July 26, 1979 in Bytom , Poland ), is a German football coach and former player.

During his active career he played in the Bundesliga for VfL Bochum and Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He also played 19 games for the German national team . He has been active in the coaching field since January 2015, currently Freier is training the U17s of the Westphalia division FC Iserlohn 46/49 .

Childhood and youth

Paul Freier was born as the son of the former soccer player Eugen Freier in Bytom, Upper Silesia . When he was growing up, the people in the region had to "queue" for food, especially since food cards regulated supplies. In 1990 he emigrated with his family to the Federal Republic of Germany in Arnsberg in the Sauerland , where relatives lived, and became a German citizen .

Active career

Beginnings

Paul Freier began playing football at the age of five for the then third division club ŁTS Łabędy , a local club from Gliwice . After moving to Arnsberg, Freier joined SV Holzen and later went to BSV Menden . As a teenager he received an offer from Borussia Dortmund's youth department , but his father was of the opinion that a change would come too early. Furthermore, due to his father's professional activity, he could not have been driven to Dortmund several times a week. In 1996 Freier switched to the youth department at VfL Bochum .

VfL Bochum

For VfL he gave in the 2. Bundesliga his professional debut on November 5, 1999 at 2: 0 victory on the 11th matchday of the 1999/2000 season in the match against SV Waldhof Mannheim when he briefly left to play for Delron Buckley came on . At the end of the season Freier rose to the Bundesliga with the Bochum team . For the professional team, he came to six missions without scoring this season. On August 12, 2000 he made his Bundesliga debut with his substitution in the 75th minute in the 1-0 win on the first day of the Bundesliga season 2000/01 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . On April 28, 2001 he scored his first goal in professional football with the 1-0 goal at 1: 1 on matchday 31 in the Revierderby against FC Schalke 04 . During this season, Freier made 22 appearances and scored one goal along with two assists. The VfL rose from the Bundesliga as the bottom of the table. In the second division season 2001/02 Freier completed 30 missions and scored seven goals; VfL Bochum rose again to the Bundesliga at the end of the season. The 2002/03 Bundesliga season brought the breakthrough for the right wing striker: He made 30 appearances and seven goals in the German House of Lords and established himself in the German national team. In the 2003/04 season , Freier occupied a UEFA Cup position with VfL Bochum , leaving their rivals FC Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund behind.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

In his first season at Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Freier was mostly in the starting line-up under coach Klaus Augenthaler , where he mostly played in right midfield and played 33 of 34 league games in which he contributed six goals and ten assists. With the Rhinelander he also came to his first European Cup appearances; in the Champions League , the team was eliminated in the round of 16 against eventual title winners Liverpool FC . In the following two seasons, Paul Freier shuttled between the starting line-up and the bench, but was ultimately used in most of the games. Leverkusen could no longer qualify for the Champions League, but played regularly in the UEFA Cup . In 2005/06 they failed in the first round at CSKA Sofia , in the two following years Bayer 04 and Paul Freier each reached the quarter-finals. In 2007/08 , in his fourth and final season with the “Werkself”, Freier - meanwhile under coach Michael Skibbe - was rarely in the starting line-up.

In four years, Freier played 146 competitive games for Bayer Leverkusen, scored 18 goals himself and prepared another 30, but in the end he was rarely one of the established regular players.

Return to Bochum and end of career

For the 2008/09 season Freier moved back to VfL Bochum , where he signed a five-year contract. He suggested better-endowed offers from Hertha BSC and Hannover 96 . At the end of his first season, in which he was a regular player in the first half of the season, he had held the class with VfL. At the end of the 2009/10 season , VfL Bochum was relegated from the Bundesliga after three coach changes. During the first half of the second division season 2010/11 , he missed the rest of the first half of the season and most of the second half from the 14th matchday. As third in the table, VfL Bochum qualified for the relegation games, in which the Westphalia failed to Borussia Mönchengladbach . In the 2011/12 season he again missed promotion to the Bundesliga with VfL Bochum; this should not succeed in the next few years either.

At the end of the second division season 2013/14 Freier ended his active career. Since returning to VfL, he had played 149 other first and second division games in seven years.

National team

Paul Freier made his national team debut on May 9, 2002 in a 7-0 win against Kuwait in Freiburg im Breisgau . After the soccer World Cup in 2002 he was promoted to a regular in the national team and was also a candidate for a place in the squad for the 2004 European Championship , but was unable to participate due to injury. In February 2005 he made his comeback for the national team under Jürgen Klinsmann in a 2-2 friendly game against Argentina in Düsseldorf . After that, he was not nominated for the national team for a year and a half before he was nominated in November 2006 by Joachim Löw for the European Championship qualifier against Cyprus in Nicosia , but was not used. In March 2007 he played for the national team for the last time in a friendly against Denmark in Duisburg .

Coaching career

In January 2015 freelance assistant coach of the U16 team at VfL Bochum. With the U19 of Bochum, he was third in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga West in the 2015/16 season . In the summer of 2016, he moved to FC Iserlohn 46/49 , whose U19 team he coached.

From the 2017/18 season he was assistant coach of the U19s at FC Schalke 04 . After one season, Freier stopped working at FC Schalke 04 and trained the U16s at VfL Bochum for half a year before asking for an immediate termination of his contract on January 15, 2019 for private reasons. For the 2019/20 season he returned to FC Iserlohn 46/49 and took over the coaching position of the U17 team.

Others

Freier is married and has four children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Slawo Freier: "Always stay tuned". In: FC Schalke 04 . FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 1904 eV, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hartwig Sellmann: Paul Freier from VfL Bochum was often on the ground - a professional career with ups and downs. In: WAZ. FUNKE DIGITAL GmbH & Co. KG, June 26, 2012, accessed on September 5, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Stars tell - Paul Freier - Inspired by the father. In: dfb.de. German Football Association V., archived from the original on July 11, 2007 ; Retrieved September 7, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Jan-Hendrik Böhmer: "On the wrong track of self-satisfaction". In: spox. Perform Media Deutschland GmbH, May 25, 2011, accessed on September 5, 2014 .
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Sławomir Paul Freier - International Appearances . RSSSF . March 17, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ Slawo Freier new co-trainer of the U16 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Official website of VfL Bochum, published on January 13, 2015, accessed on January 16, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfl-bochum.de
  7. ↑ fc-iserlohn.com from June 13, 2016: Ex-national player Paul Freier will be coach of the U19 ( memento of the original from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 2, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fc-iserlohn.com
  8. ↑ Free new U19 assistant coach, Willeke takes over U16 - Aktuell - Schalke04.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 7, 2017 ; Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / knockenschmiede.schalke04.de
  9. ↑ Christoph Winkel: Paul Freier is no longer assistant coach of the Schalke U19. June 4, 2018, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ The veteran Freier leaves Bochum. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Paul Freier back at FC Iserlohn , report in Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and newspaper , May 4, 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Suitor, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suitor, Sławomir Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytom , Poland