Reiner Hollmann

Reiner Hollmann (2008)

Reiner Hollmann (born September 30, 1949 in Walsum ) is a former German football player and coach .

As a Bundesliga player, he was relegated in 1973 with SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and then rose to the Bundesliga twice and once with Eintracht Braunschweig . In the meantime he was once third with the Lower Saxony where he played from 1973 to 1984.

As assistant coach at Karl-Heinz Feldkamp's side , he is connected to the German championship of 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1991. As head coach, he won the Turkish championship in 1994 with Galatasaray Istanbul . With the Cairo club al Ahly SC , he won the Egyptian championship, the trophy and the Arab Champions Cup twice in the mid-1990s. Since 2008 he has retired from the coaching business.

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The midfielder Hollmann from Duisburg , who played in the youth division for Eintracht Duisburg , fought relegation with Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the Bundesliga from 1970 to 1973 . On the last match day of the 1972/1973 season, in the 2-1 home win against Kickers Offenbach , which is only relevant for the statistics , he marked the penultimate goal in the Oberhausen Bundesliga history in front of the negative record crowd of only 900 spectators. In total, he scored nine times in 91 games for the Rhinelander.

From 1970 to 1972 he played 13 times in the German amateur national team , which participated in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In preparation he scored a goal. At the finals in Munich he played - in addition to players like Uli Hoeneß , Ottmar Hitzfeld and other Bundesliga celebrities - three times for the Federal Republic of Germany, which there after a 2: 3 in the historic, first domestic football duel against the selection of the GDR in front of 80,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium Missed the silver medal game.

Then he moved to the Bundesliga relegated Eintracht Braunschweig in the Regionalliga Nord. Eintracht, promoted in that era by the liqueur manufacturer Günter Mast (" Jägermeister "), confidently finished the league first with a record goal difference of 102 goals (125: 23). In the subsequent promotion round, the Braunschweiger, trained by Otto Knefler , prevailed thanks to a 2-1 win over Wacker 04 Berlin , in which Hollmann scored the 1-0, due to the slightly better goal difference against 1. FC Nürnberg .

The team trained in the Bundesliga by Branko Zebec - in his sober days one of the best coaches of his era - with national goalkeeper Bernd Franke , the later world champion Wolfgang Dremmler and Bernd Gersdorff in the squad, received the class safely and came in ninth. Reinforced with the Yugoslav winger Danilo Popivoda , Eintracht reached fifth place in 1976 and qualified for the 1976/77 UEFA Cup .

In 1977, Eintracht was third in the league, also thanks to 24 goals from Wolfgang Frank , and thus reached their best rank since the championship ten years earlier. In the UEFA Cup , the team was eliminated in the second round 2-1 and 0-2 against Espanyol Barcelona . In the following year, however, the renewed decline of unity began. Despite the arrival of the world star Paul Breitner , it was only enough for 13th place. The season started hopefully. In the first round of the UEFA Cup , the top Soviet team Dynamo Kiev - trained by Valeriy Lobanowskyj and with Oleg Blochin , Europe's Footballer of the Year 1975 - were eliminated 1: 1 and 0: 0 due to the away goals rule . But from October onwards, victories became the exception, and the UEFA Cup ended after two defeats against PSV Eindhoven in the round of 16.

In the following season, Eintracht was ninth without Breitner under the coaches Werner Olk and Heinz Lucas . During the game on the first day of the match in Kaiserslautern, Hollmann wanted to protest against what he believed to be an unjustified penalty around the 70th minute when the score was 1-0 for Braunschweig and was accidentally struck down with an elbow check by referee Werner Burgers . Hollmann only woke up in the ambulance. Reinhard Meier converted the 911 and the "red devils" won 2-1 in the end. Breitner said, "I didn't know that the referees were allowed to knock out players in Germany." For this he was given a fine of 5000 marks by the DFB. Lucas was soon replaced by Uli Maslo in 1979 , but Eintracht sank in a sea of defeats and Hollmann was relegated for the second time in 1980 as the sovereign bottom of the table.

Hollman stayed this time, as did Maslo, and Eintracht finished second in the 2nd Bundesliga , now with national player Ronnie Worm and the later "Bayern" Wolfgang Grobe as the most prominent players. These two then met in the relegation second leg against Kickers Offenbach to win 2-0, which was enough for the immediate promotion after the 0-1 in the first leg. In the next seasons, Eintracht was eleventh, 15th and 1984 ninth. Hollmann played his 27th game of the season and his last Bundesliga game on matchday 30, in a 0-0 draw against Bayer Leverkusen. He still netted six times this season. He only scored more Bundesliga goals, seven, in the Oberhausen relegation year. In total, he scored 24 goals in 259 Bundesliga games for Eintracht and in the 2nd Bundesliga he scored two goals in 15 games.

In 1985, Eintracht said goodbye to the Bundesliga for the next quarter of a century.

Trainer

After his playing career, Hollmann became a coach. At the beginning he worked from 1984 to November 1985 at MTV Gifhorn , which played in the third-class league, and then until 1988 at the Westphalian league club Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid .

From 1988 to 1992 he was assistant coach at 1. FC Kaiserslautern ; initially he assisted the coaches Josef Stabel and Gerd Roggensack , from 1989 to 1990 he was also the coach of the FCK amateurs. In February 1990 Karl-Heinz Feldkamp became head coach with whom he became German champion in 1991. With 48:20 points, defending champion FC Bayern Munich (45:23 points) was relegated to second place. In the 1991/92 season it was only enough for fifth place. In the 1991/92 European Cup , Kaiserslautern narrowly retired in the second round against the eventual winner, FC Barcelona, coached by Johan Cruijff , with 0-2 and 3-1 after a goal by José Mari Bakero in stoppage time.

At the same time as Feldkamp, who went to Galatasaray in Turkey, Hollmann left the club in 1992 and became head coach at FC Carl Zeiss Jena where he was eighth in the 24-team league due to the reunification .

With the beginning of the 1993/94 season, he was equipped with a one-year contract, the successor of "Kalli" Feldkamp, who withdrew from the coaching business, on his recommendation head coach of the Turkish champions Galatasaray Istanbul . With the star Hakan Şükür , the ex-Bundesliga heroes Falko Götz and Reinhard Stumpf and the former Bayern amateur Uğur Tütüneker , he first won the Supercup in August with a 2-0 win against Beşiktaş Istanbul . After that, the title was also defended in the Süper Lig .

After results of 3: 3 away and 0: 0 against Manchester United , Galatasaray managed to move into the group stage of the Champions League , which that year consisted of eight clubs in two groups, due to the away goals rule . There Galatasaray was eliminated with only two points. In April and May there was still the opportunity to defend the cup, but failed with results of 0: 0 and 2: 3 in the finals against Beşiktaş, trained by Christoph Daum . At the end of May there was still the final of the Supercup 1994 where there was a 1: 3 against Beşiktaş in Ankara. No new contract offer was made to him at the end of the season. His compatriot Reinhard Saftig , who came from Kocaelispor , was hired as his successor. If he tried to defend his title again after 25 match days, he would fall by the wayside.

For the 1994/95 season he was hired by the second division 1. FC Saarbrücken , where he was in 14th place after 20 matchdays and only one point above the relegation ranks, replaced by ex-Schalke player Klaus Scheer , who opened the season Finished in seventh place.

From 1995 to 1997 he was head coach at the Egyptian top club al Ahly SC . The time in Cairo was a success. He won the championship title in 1996 and 1997, and in 1996 the Cup, the Arab Champions Cup and the Arab Super Cup .

In December 1997 he was brought back to Carl Zeiss Jena as an emergency nail. Under Frank Engel the team was in 16th place in the 2nd Bundesliga and was therefore doomed to relegation. Hollmann couldn't change anything about the placement.

Hollmann then worked for the Al-Hilal Saudi Club in the Saudi capital Riyadh , several clubs in the United Arab Emirates and, at the end of his career in 2008, with the Egyptian top club Zamalek SC , where his engagement was terminated at the beginning of December after the Cairo club only ranked sixth in the League occupied.