Raymond Schwab

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Raymond Schwab is a former German soccer player and coach . He was also active as an artist and professional boxer.

Schwab trained among other things TuS Helene Essen from 1939 to 1941. During this time he rose with the club in the first-class Gauliga Niederrhein and took first place with his team, which secured the club participation in the final round of the German championship. He trained Rot-Weiss Essen from 1947 to 1949 and from 1957 to 1959. He was also the coach of Wuppertaler SV from 1954 to 1956 , with whom he rose to the Oberliga West in 1955 as champions of the 2nd West League. He did the same in 1951 when he coached Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

During his coaching activity, Schwab began to mediate young players between clubs. In this context, an investigation by the German Football Association came about in 1964 and a criminal complaint was filed because there was suspicion of commercial fraud and unfair competition.

He also earned a golden nose when he played the Pittsburgh Phantoms for the National Professional Soccer League of the USA, which operated outside the regulations of the FIFA , began playing in 1967 and in 1968 in the North American Soccer League , with numerous players from Germany and the Netherlands as Manfred Rummel and Co Prins decorated.

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Individual evidence

  1. Kicker from the office . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1968 ( online ).
  2. ^ Raymond Schwab. In: German Football Association . Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
  3. Prices high . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1964 ( online ).