Richard Job

Richard Job
Personnel
birthday	March 9, 1921
date of death	April 27, 2010
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1939	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1939-1949	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1949-1950	TSG Vohwinkel 80
1950-1955	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1946-1948	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (player-coach)
1960–1962	VfL Leverkusen
1 Only league games are given.

Richard Job (born March 9, 1921 , † April 27, 2010 ) was a German football player and coach . As a player who, like his brother Hermann, played for Bayer 04 Leverkusen , he was one of the defining personalities of the Werkself in the 1940s and 1950s. Based on the pre-war national player Richard Hofmann , Job was nicknamed "King Richard".

Career

Richard Job advanced to a management player and crowd favorite at Bayer 04 Leverkusen at a young age . In the post-war period, the then 26-year-old Richard Job temporarily headed the training sessions for Bayer 04 footballers as a player-coach. However, matches were limited to the regional level immediately after the war.

After qualifying for the five-tier district league, the Werkself headed for first class. After defeats in the decisive promotion games in 1948/49 against 1. FC Köln, which emerged from a post-war merger, and later against FC Schalke 04, two opportunities for promotion to the then first-class Oberliga West were missed, Job moved in the 1949/50 season Wuppertal to the first division club TSG Vohwinkel 80 , which merged with SSV 04 Wuppertal in 1954 to form Wuppertaler SV . After one season, however, he returned to Bayer 04 and made promotion to the top German league with the club in 1951.

Promotion team from 1951 (Job is in the first row third from the left)

The Leverkusen soccer department head Jürgen Gelsdorf commented on Job after his death in 2010: “Richard was an extraordinary player who is very closely connected to Bayer 04's soccer history. He was a huge role model both athletically and personally, and that's a big loss for us ”.

Web links

• Richard Job in the database of weltfussball.de
• "Bayer 04 mourns Richard Job" on www.bayer04.de
• "Richard Job - Formative Personality" at www.ksta.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Alex Feuerherdt : Bayer 04 Leverkusen - The Football Chronicle, Göttingen 2011, p. 27.
3. ↑ Feuerherdt, Alex: Bayer 04 Leverkusen - The Football Chronicle, Göttingen 2011, pp. 21-27.