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Reiner Calmund (2017)

Reinhold "Reiner" Calmund (born November 23, 1948 in Brühl ) is a former German football official . He became known as the person in charge of the soccer department of Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen , for whom he worked from 1976 to 2004; most recently from 1999 as the first managing director of Fußball GmbH, which was spun off from TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . Calli , as he is also called, is now active as an expert , moderator and book author .

Life

The trained foreign trade clerk and studied business administration already played for the amateurs of SpVg Frechen 20 during his school days until he was seriously injured in 1966 . In 1967, Calmund became a youth coach in the same club and, with his B-youth, became a Middle Rhine champion the following year. As a trainer, he also worked for SV Franken Lövenich and BC Efferen . 1974 to 1976 he worked under Fritz Pott as an assistant coach at the association league club SC Brühl , who in 1975 was runner-up behind promoted TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen on the Middle Rhine and thus reached the final round of the German amateur championship.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

From 1976 Calmund worked at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, initially as a youth leader and stadium announcer , until 1988 he was also a member of the board . He then took over the position of manager of the professional football department and in 1999 finally became managing director of Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH .

The greatest successes of the Leverkusen team during Calmund's engagement were winning the UEFA Cup in 1988 and the DFB Cup in 1993 . In addition, Leverkusen reached four runners-up championships and the 2001/02 Champions League final under Calmund .

His services to the club include the obligations of Ulf Kirsten (1990), Bernd Schuster (1993), Rudi Völler (1994) and Michael Ballack (1999). In addition, he was able to win the Brazilians Paulo Sérgio , Jorginho , Emerson , Zé Roberto , Lúcio and Juan as well as the Bulgarian Dimitar Berbatow for the club. Bayer 04 Leverkusen enjoys a good reputation in Brazil, particularly due to the commitments made by the Brazilians and their subsequent positive development at the club.

On June 8, 2004 he announced his resignation as managing director on June 30, 2004 - according to his own statements for health reasons. In March 2006, however, it became public that Calmund had been fired from the club. The background was an unexplained cash payment of 580,000 euros to the Bielefeld players' agent Volker Graul , allegedly for an option to buy two Croatian players who were never signed. In addition, Calmund claims to have transferred 350,000 euros from his own pocket to Graul at the behest of the association. The public prosecutor's office in Cologne initiated proceedings against Calmund for breach of trust, but these proceedings were discontinued on payment of a condition of 30,000 euros.

Activities from 2004

On April 25, 2005 Calmund was elected to the Supervisory Board of Fortuna Düsseldorf .

He was involved as an ambassador for the 2006 World Cup for people with disabilities in Germany. On August 4, 2007 he received the “Golden Gourmet Duck” in Wassenberg for his achievements in cooking.

Calmund was honorary ambassador of the soccer World Cup 2006 for North Rhine-Westphalia and "International EM Ambassador 2008 of the City of Klagenfurt ".

From February 1, 2008, Calmund presented a video blog on his website Calli.tv , in which he published his assessments of the respective Bundesliga match day and other football events on a weekly basis. On the phone, he explained how the world of football is going to an imaginary conversation partner. The website is now offline. From 2008 he was on the advisory board of the meanwhile dissolved Austrian association SK Austria Kärnten .

On June 15, 2010 it was announced that Calmund would act as a consultant for Dynamo Dresden . He wants to "create proper, professional structures" there. The commitment should neither cost the city, which has a say in the club, nor the club money.

Since 2015, Calmund has been a sports advisor to the Hamburg entrepreneur Klaus-Michael Kühne , who is involved in the decisions on player transfers for Hamburger SV . He works in an advisory capacity for the German Sport University Cologne and the Sportstotal GmbH agency . He wrote a weekly column in the daily Express .

Since the 2017/18 Bundesliga season , Calmund has been working as an expert in reporting for the pay TV broadcaster Sky .

Private

Calmund has been married for the third time since September 2003. In 2013, he and his wife Sylvia Calmund adopted a two-year-old Thai girl. He also has five children and four grandchildren from his first two marriages. Calmund has lived in Saarlouis since 2012 .

In January 2020, Calmund underwent a stomach reduction.

Appearances in television programs (selection)

Trivia

  • Since May 10, 2007, Calmund can also be found as a virtual character in Second Life . There he lives on Calli Island , on which, in addition to the virtual image of his house, there is also a stadium and various other stations in his life.
  • From the summer of 2008, Stern TV reported on the Iron Calli campaign for a year . Calmund wanted to lose thirty kilograms from 163 kilograms within a year. He was trained by Joey Kelly , and the Cologne Sports University monitored his health. As part of this campaign, Calmund completed his first half marathon on May 17, 2009 in 3:56:07 hours. He had already lost almost 30 kg for this.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Reiner Calmund  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heiner Gillmeister: Football in the Cologne region. The history of SC Brühl. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3895338816 , pp. 130–135
  2. ↑ Calmund's resignation was an expulsion ( memento from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) stern.de, March 5, 2006
  3. ↑ Calmund charges wooden houses faz.net, March 10, 2006
  4. ↑ Calmund affair by zeit.de, January 18, 2007
  5. ↑ Reiner Calmund supports Fortuna as a member of the supervisory board . reinercalmund.de, accessed on June 28, 2013.
  6. ↑ rp-online.de: "Wassenberg: Schlemmerente für Calmund" ( Memento from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) and rp-online.de: "Wassenberg: Great station for connoisseurs" ( Memento from December 4th, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Reiner Calmund supports Klagenfurt on the way to the European Championship
  8. ↑ Calmund advises Dynamo . In: Kicker online , June 15, 2010, accessed June 28, 2013
  9. ^ Frank Heike, Hamburg: HSV: Rich uncle instead of self-determined club politics . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 13, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 15, 2016]).
  10. ↑ biography , on reinercalmund.de
  11. ↑ Vim Vomland, Katrin Löhr: Calmund's child is here! In: Bild.de , February 20, 2013, accessed June 28, 2013
  12. ↑ Reiner Calmund: Reiner Calmund for reporting on his move to Saarlouis . Reinercalmund.de, July 10, 2012, accessed on June 28, 2013
  13. ↑ mdr.de: Reiner Calmund doing well after gastric bypass surgery | The first. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  14. ↑ 5 against Jauch , report on rtl.de, accessed on May 12, 2020
  15. ↑ Virtual character
  16. ↑ Has Reiner Calmund already lost weight? ( Memento from June 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Calmund manages the first half marathon
personal data
SURNAME Calmund, Reiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calmund, Reinhold (real name); Calli (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German football official
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruehl , Germany