Roger Wittmann

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Roger Wittmann (born February 29, 1960 ) is a German entrepreneur . He is co-founder and managing director of ROGON-Sportmanagement.

ROGON sports management in Ludwigshafen am Rhein

With ROGON sports management, Wittmann manages and represents football players all over the world. Well-known players supervised by ROGON include and included Kevin Kurányi , Jermaine Jones , Tim Wiese , Julian Draxler , Roberto Firmino , Max Meyer and Luiz Gustavo .

Wittmann is a brother-in-law of the former national soccer player Mario Basler . He is in a relationship with the former tennis player Anke Huber . He and her have a son and a daughter. He has four other children from two previous marriages.

criticism

Again and again, Wittmann and his agency are accused of exerting a great deal of influence on the transfer and squad policy of clubs and of neglecting their sporting interests. For example at 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 2002, when the board of directors around Jürgen Friedrich was refused discharge for Wittmann in view of the only narrowly avoided bankruptcy and high consultant fees.

Wittmann's friendly relationship with Dietmar Hopp , the patron of TSG Hoffenheim , in 2012, when seven professionals were looked after by ROGON, and with Clemens Tönnies , chairman of the supervisory board of FC Schalke 04 , were also heavily criticized . During the tenure of the managers and sports directors Andreas Müller and Horst Heldt , ROGON looked after a large number of FC Schalke 04 players. According to information from the disclosure platform, ROGON earned Football Leaks on Julian Draxler's contract extension in 2013 and his move to VfL Wolfsburg two years later around 7 million euros.

There were conflicts in the 2017/18 season over the failed contract extension of Max Meyer between Meyer, Wittmann and his brother-in-law Mario Basler on the one hand and Schalke's sports director Christian Heidel on the other.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ https://www.transfermarkt.at/rogon-sportmanagement-gmbh-amp-co-kg/beraterfirma/berater/1
  3. ↑ a b c http://www.bild.de/sport/2007/sport/wittmann-roger-2027408.bild.html
  4. ↑ a b https://www.zeit.de/2007/33/Spielerberater/komplettansicht
  5. ↑ a b c https://www.swr.de/sport/grund/Die-Geschaefte-des-Roger-W,roger-wittmann-102.html
  6. ↑ Christoph Ruf: Babbel expulsion: Ex and hop in Hoffenheim. In: Spiegel Online . December 3, 2012, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ https://www.sport1.de/fussball/bundesliga/2018/05/schalke-04-das-ist-roger-wittmann-der-berater-von-max-meyer
  8. ^ Sip: Max Meyer: Consultant Wittmann lets the dispute with Schalke 04 escalate. In: welt.de . May 2, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wittmann, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1960