Peter Sandhofe

Peter Sandhofe
Personnel
Surname	Hans-Peter Sandhofe
birthday	October 25, 1957
place of birth	Datteln,  Germany
size	179 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	Black and white Meckinghoven
1973-1976	FC Schalke 04
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1976-1983	FC Schalke 04	30 (0)
1983/84	TuS Neuhaus Castle
1984-1989	1. FC Recklinghausen
	Black and white Meckinghoven
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Youth national team	6 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Black and white Meckinghoven
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Sandhofe (born October 25, 1957 in Datteln ) is a former soccer goalkeeper and coach and is now the first chairman of Schwarz-Weiß Meckinghoven.

Youth career

Peter Sandhofe was active at the Datteln suburb association Schwarz-Weiß Meckinghoven up to the B-youth. In 1973 FC Schalke 04 lured him into its youth team. It didn't take long before he became an absolute pillar of the A-youth team and the first games for the Westphalia team soon followed . Due to good performance in this he came to a total of six youth international games. The highlights of his youth career were definitely the two finals for the German A youth championship, in which he was in goal. The first final in 1974/75 was clearly lost against the underdog VfB Stuttgart, the second final against RW Essen a year later was won 5-1 with confidence.

Career

In the 1976/77 season Peter Sandhofe joined Schalke's professional squad with great advance praise, but initially gained match practice in the amateur team. For the pros, however, he was overshadowed by keepers like Enver Marić , Günther Schubert and Volkmar Groß for the first two years . He had thoughts of changing, but goalkeeper Volkmar Groß came more and more criticism and had to undergo knee surgery. So Sandhofe, then 21, got his chance and was able to use it promptly against Eintracht Frankfurt . He surpassed this performance on the next matchday against FC Bayern Munich . However, he did not manage to continue the series. Even if Schalke's president Günter Siebert assured that the rumors of change of national goalkeeper Norbert Nigbur should not be believed, it was precisely this one who switched to the squires. So Sandhofe moved back to the bench and was only used a few times, but even made it into the kicker team of the day. He followed the relegation of Schalke to the 2nd Bundesliga due to a broken hand from his sickbed and remained loyal to the club in League 2. After the promotion, regular goalkeeper Nigbur fell out of favor on the eleventh game day, but the club did not trust Sandhofe, but signed Walter Junghans, who had been sorted out at Bayern Munich . After relegation in the following season, Sandhofe moved for one season to the then top division TuS Schloß Neuhaus and then played for five years at 1. FC Recklinghausen . Then he moved back to his home club Meckinghoven, where he worked as a coach for many years.

successes

• German A youth runner-up (1974/75)
• German A youth champion (1975/76)
• German runner-up (1976/77)

Others

• Sandhofe was voted into the "Eleven of the Day" by the kicker on the 8th day of the season (1980/81).

Quotes

“A very matter-of-fact man, better at running out than the others. And he holds the balls. "

- Herbert Widmayer (youth national coach)

"Powerful jumping and equipped with excellent reflexes (...)"

- The big lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers

"Man without nerves"

- Otto Rehhagel

"Peter Sandhofe was one of the highly praised talents who failed to make a breakthrough."

- BF Hoffmann

Web links

• Peter Sandhofe in the database of weltfussball.de
• Peter Sandhofe in the database of fussballdaten.de

literature

• BF Hoffmann : The great lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. More than 300 biographies - from the beginning to the present. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-526-0 .