Rüdiger Menges

Rüdiger Menges (born February 28, 1959 ) is a soccer coach and former soccer player.

In his youth Menges played at SV Waldhof Mannheim with the later national players Karlheinz and Bernd Förster as well as Paul Steiner in a team. During his active time he played for three years for VfB Eppingen , with whom he made the leap to the 2nd Bundesliga South . He then spent twelve years at SV Sandhausen , where he won the championship of the Baden-Württemberg Oberliga three times .

For the German national soccer team of amateurs , he was in action at the Olympic qualifying game on September 26, 1979 in Trondheim against Norway at the side of Walter Kubanczyk and Dieter Kohnle .

In 1993 Rüdiger Menges took over his first coaching position as a player coach at SG Dielheim , with which he was promoted to the association league. He then worked for two years as a coach at SV Sandhausen and six years at FC-Astoria Walldorf , which he also led in the association league. After coaching SG Heidelberg-Kirchheim and briefly SpVgg Ilvesheim for two and a half years , he was introduced on June 19, 2007 as the new coach of the TSG Weinheim club .

In the 2009/10 season he coached TSV Amicitia Viernheim in the Association League North Baden. In March 2011 he took over the district league club DJK Neckarhausen , where he was released in March 2012. A week later he returned as a coach for the national division SG Dielheim .

Web links

• Rüdiger Menges in the database of weltfussball.de