Reinhold Fanz

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German football player of the same name, see Reinhold Fanz (football player, 1921) .

Reinhold Fanz
Personnel
Surname	Reinhold Fanz
birthday	January 16, 1954
place of birth	Mannheim ,  Germany
size	182 cm
position	Defense / midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Amicitia Viernheim
	SV Sandhausen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1975	VfR Heilbronn	35 (4)
1975-1977	Wuppertal SV	61 (8)
1977-1979	Fortuna Dusseldorf	34 (2)
1979-1980	Freiburg FC	19 (1)
1980-1983	Karlsruher SC	36 (1)
1983-1984	SV Sandhausen	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1985-1987	FV Weinheim
1987-1996	Hessian Football Association
1996-1998	Hannover 96
1998-1999	Eintracht Frankfurt
1999-2001	Eintracht Braunschweig
2003-2004	VfB Stuttgart II
2004-2005	Karlsruher SC
2005-2006	Bonner SC
2008	Cuba
2013	Wuppertal SV
1 Only league games are given.

Reinhold Fanz (born January 16, 1954 in Mannheim ) is a former German soccer player , today's soccer coach and most recently sports director at SV Wilhelmshaven .

Player career

Fanz played 70 Bundesliga games (3 goals) and 116 second division games (13 goals). Fanz's first clubs were Amicitia Viernheim and SV Sandhausen . His father Reinhold Fanz senior was one of the best players in SV Waldhof Mannheim in the first years after the Second World War in the soccer Oberliga Süd . From 1945 to 1951 he played 130 league games with 32 goals for Waldhof. As early as 1939, the 19-year-old was in the final of the Tschammer Cup with Waldhof . The talented midfielder Fanz junior already belonged to the squad of the North Baden association selection in the amateur country cup competition in 1971/72 . In the games against Saarland and in the semi-final second leg on April 30, 1972 in Mannheim against Bayern, he was used for the first time. In the 2-1 final win on May 11th against Lower Saxony, however, he was not active. But he was able to make up for that the following year. North Baden played the final against the Lower Rhine on May 31, 1973 in Neuss - the hosts played with Rudi Seliger , Jochen Abel and Werner Schneider - and the game ended with a 1-1 draw after extra time. In the 12th minute, the midfielder of SV Sandhausen, Reinhold Fanz, had brought the North Baden selection - with the players Eugen Ehmann , Jürgen Weidlandt , Gernot Rohr , Gerd Störzer - 1-0 lead. Due to scheduling difficulties in the Lower Rhine, North Baden was declared the 1973 regional cup winner. With SV Sandhausen, Fanz finished fourth in the 1st Amateur League North Baden in 1973/74, tied with Karlsruher FV, FC Dossenheim and 1. FC Pforzheim.

In the summer of 1974 he moved to VfR Heilbronn in the newly established Second Bundesliga . Since the Heilbronn team - initially with coach Željko Čajkovski and from November 1974 Rudolf Faßnacht - relegated after a year, the next move to Wuppertaler SV took place in 1975 . In the Bergisches Land he came under coach Diethelm Ferner and at the side of Günter Pröpper with the WSV on the 5th place in the north group and completed 38 games with three goals. In his second season at the Stadion am Zoo , he finished third behind St. Pauli and Arminia Bielefeld in 1976/77. In the two years in Wuppertal Fanz had played in the field of view of the Bundesliga and so he moved to the 1977/78 season in the Bundesliga to Fortuna Dusseldorf .

With the two other newcomers Flemming Lund (RW Essen) and Herbert Zimmer (SWE), Fanz began his Bundesliga career at Fortuna under coach Dietrich Weise . He made his Bundesliga debut on August 12, 1977 in the 1: 2 away defeat against Werder Bremen. Düsseldorf took fifth place in the Bundesliga and the regular formation on the defensive were Heiner Baltes , Gerd Zimmermann , Gerd Zewe and Dieter Brei . The man from North Baden played 15 Bundesliga games in his first season in Düsseldorf and also played in the 1977/78 DFB Cup against FC St. Wendel, Rot-Weiss Essen and Eintracht Braunschweig. In the final on April 15, 1978 against 1. FC Cologne, which lost 2-0 goals, he did not get a chance. Under the new coach Hans-Dieter Tipphauer , 19 games with two goals were added in the Bundesliga in 1978/79. Fanz celebrated his greatest sporting success in 1979 in the DFB Cup . He was actively involved in the successes against VfR Heilbronn, MSV Duisburg, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, in the semifinals against 1. FC Nürnberg and was also in the final formation on June 23, 1978 in Hanover against Hertha BSC. With a 1-0 win after extra time, the trophy was brought to Düsseldorf.

However, Fanz did not receive a new contract and from November 1979 put on a stopover at Freiburg FC in the 2nd Bundesliga . Fanz made his debut for the team from the Möslestadion on November 18, 1979 at the local derby against SC Freiburg . With fellow players Hans Ettmayer , Karl-Heinz Schulz and Heinz Wilhelmi , he reached ninth place at the end of the round. He had demonstrated his capabilities in 19 missions and the Bundesliga promoted Karlsruher SC - the Nordbadener achieved promotion after two relegation games against the northern vice Rot-Weiss Essen - committed the fan that could be used in midfield and in the defense center for the Bundesliga. Coach Manfred Krafft opened the 1980/81 round on August 16, 1980 in the home game against FC Bayern Munich (0: 3) with the new arrival in midfield. Surprisingly well, in 10th place, the promoted team from the Wildpark Stadium finished the round. With 32 appearances, Fanz belonged to the narrow circle of the regular eleven. After the fourth matchday of the 1981/82 round, August 26, 1981, KSC won the home game against Arminia Bielefeld with 2-1 goals and Klaus Theiss replaced the seriously injured Fanz after half-time, but the season was over for Fanz. After a shin head fracture including a torn cruciate ligament and a tear in the inner and outer ligament on his left leg in August 1981, he had to end his professional career as a sports invalid. A comeback was no longer successful and so Fanz left Karlsruher SC in 1983. In the 1983/84 season Fanz played again for SV Sandhausen in the amateur league of Baden-Württemberg.

Coaching career

Beginnings and successes with Hannover 96

At the DSHS in Cologne, Fanz had successfully completed his training as a soccer teacher in 1985 under the direction of Gero Bisanz, together with fellow students Hermann Gerland , Helmut Horsch , Martin Kübler and Winfried Schäfer . Fanz began his coaching career in 1985 at FV Weinheim in the Baden-Württemberg Football League . In 1987 he switched to the Hessian Football Association as an association coach . With Hessen, Fanz won the amateur country cup in 1992 with a 3-2 win over Bremen . He also reached the final of the national cup in 1989, 1991 and 1993.

On July 1, 1996, Fanz took over the coaching position at Hannover 96 , which was playing in the Regionalliga Nord at that time. In the 1996/97 season Hannover 96 became champions of the Regionalliga Nord, but failed in the promotion games to Energie Cottbus (0: 0/1: 3). In the second season, 1997/98, he was again champion of the Regionalliga Nord with Hannover 96. The "Reds" won the title ahead of Eintracht Braunschweig and VfL Osnabrück with a goal difference of 120-29 goals. After two play-offs against the champions of the Northeast Regionalliga, Tennis Borussia Berlin, Fanz and his team were promoted to the Second Bundesliga . Hannover lost the first leg with 2-0 goals, the second leg on May 24, 1998 in front of 50,000 spectators in the Niedersachsenstadion ended 2-0 for the hosts. In the penalty shootout, the Fanz-Elf prevailed against the Tennis Borussia trained by Hermann Gerland . Although Fabian Ernst, a great talent, moved to Hamburger SV, Fanz led the other talents Otto Addo , Gerald Asamoah , Fabian Gerber and Sebastian Kehl to an excellent fourth place in the 1998/99 second Bundesliga with technical combination football.

Little successes and frequent changes

Then the relegation-threatened Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt Fanz signed on December 21, 1998 as a coach. However, the success failed to materialize (6 points from 9 games) and Fanz was released on April 19, 1999. Then in July 1999 Fanz was again a coach in the regional league, this time at Eintracht Braunschweig . The desired promotion to the Second Bundesliga was not achieved and Fanz was dismissed as coach on May 17, 2001. On October 9, 2001 came the next engagement as a coach of the amateurs of VfB Stuttgart . After only eight games, he was released again on December 12, 2001, as manager Rolf Rüssmann did not trust him to stay up with the amateur team. On June 28, 2003, Fanz was reinstated as coach of the VfB amateurs by team manager Felix Magath , but after Magath's departure in June 2004, he was dismissed.

Karlsruher SC

Fanz's seven-day “coaching activity” at Karlsruher SC at the turn of the year 2004/2005 was curious : Fanz was signed up by KSC on December 28, 2004. He was supposed to lead the club back up from a relegation zone, and in the longer term promotion to the Bundesliga was planned. However, the main sponsor Energie Baden-Württemberg ( EnBW ) announced that Fanz would not be the right man for this and threatened to withdraw as a sponsor. As a result, Fanz was released on January 4, 2005.

A deeper cause also seems to be the personal relationship between Fanz and the then EnBW CEO Utz Claassen . Claassen became president of Hannover 96 in 1997 and Fanz was a trainer in Hannover at the time. As a first official act, Claassen dismissed the manager Franz Gerber. Fanz then talked Claassen off all football expertise in a newspaper interview, which resulted in legal proceedings. Fanz was forbidden to make further statements under threat of a fine. In a press release from EnBW on December 30, 2004, it read as follows: “The management board of EnBW expects a high standard of professionalism and human interaction both from its own workforce and from EnBW's external partners. It is therefore generally inconceivable for the management board of EnBW to cooperate on a sustainable basis with an association or other institution that employs management staff who express themselves disparagingly about the company or its top representatives or who have made such comments in the past. "

In 1997/98, however, not only Fanz, but the entire Hannover 96 club and the Hanoverian public stood against Claassen and finally chased him out of office with disgrace and shame.

Senior league coach at Bonner SC

At the beginning of the 2005/06 season, Fanz took over the coaching position at the top division team Bonner SC and signed a four-year contract. At that time, Bonn's patron John Viol set promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga as an objective. Within four years, Viol wanted to join the football upper house. In his first season at BSC Reinhold Fanz reached the runner-up in the Oberliga Nordrhein . After some players did not receive their salaries, the squad broke up and the BSC only played in the lower midfield in the 2006/2007 season. After the game against 1. FC Union Solingen (lost 1: 2) on matchday 9, Fanz announced his resignation. According to press reports (e.g. in the Bonn edition of the Cologne daily Express ), Fanz waived 15,000 euros a month.

National coach of Cuba

Since the end of January 2008, Fanz has been technical director and national coach for Cuba . He should lead the team from the Caribbean island to qualify for the 2010 World Cup . Lutz Pfannenstiel was at his side as goalkeeping coach .

On October 14, 2008, the Cuban Football Association announced that Fanz would only act in an advisory capacity. The new head coach was Raúl González Triana . The demotion came shortly after the qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup, lost 6-1 to the USA national team , before the Cuban internationals Pedro Faife and Reynier Alcántara had left the team and asked for political asylum in the United States .

Sports director at SV Wilhelmshaven

On June 18, 2013 it was announced that Reinhold Fanz was moving from Wuppertaler SV to Wilhelmshaven. He took over the role of sports director and hired his assistant coach Farat Toku from Wuppertal times as a trainer. On August 19, 2013, Fanz's contract with SV Wilhelmshaven was terminated by mutual agreement.

Web links

• Reinhold Fanz in the weltfussball.de database
• Reinhold Fanz in the database of transfermarkt.de (player)
• Reinhold Fanz in the database of transfermarkt.de (trainer)
• Page about Fanz at Hannover 96

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Reinhold Fanz new national coach of Cuba" , portrait on the website of the DFB
2. ↑ 1: 6 debacle against USA costs Fanz the coaching job. In: Focus Online of October 14, 2008, accessed on May 21, 2015