Sascha Lewandowski

Sascha Lewandowski
Sascha Lewandowski, 2016
Personnel
birthday	5th October 1971
place of birth	Dortmund ,  Germany
date of death	before June 8, 2016
Place of death	Bochum ,  Germany
Juniors
Years	station
1976–	TSC Eintracht Dortmund
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1994	VfR Sölde
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1988-2000	Eintracht Dortmund youth
	SG Wattenscheid 09 U-17
	VfL Bochum U-17
2003-2006	VfL Bochum U-19
2006-2007	VfL Bochum II
2007–2012	Bayer 04 Leverkusen U-19
2012-2013	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
2013-2015	Bayer 04 Leverkusen Youth
2014	→ Bayer 04 Leverkusen (interim)
2015-2016	1. FC Union Berlin
1 Only league games are given.

Sascha Lewandowski (born October 5, 1971 in Dortmund ; † between June 4 and June 8, 2016 in Bochum ) was a German football coach who, among other things, worked as head coach at Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

Career as a coach

Eintracht Dortmund

Lewandowski began his career as a coach at TSC Eintracht Dortmund . There he was responsible for various youth teams, from D to B youth, until 2000, in order to then take over the B youth (U-17) of SG Wattenscheid 09 .

VfL Bochum

At VfL Bochum he was responsible for the A-youth (U-19) from 2003 to 2006 . With his team he won the West German championship twice in a row and twice in a row in the final of the German championship. In the season 2003/04 you had to in the final of the FC Bayern Munich and in the season 2004/05 the VfB Stuttgart beaten. His team included a. Dennis Grote , Andreas Luthe , Patrick Fabian and Marvin Matip , who all made it into the professional squad.

For the 2006/07 season he took over the second team.

Bayer Leverkusen

For the 2007/08 season Lewandowski took over the A-youth (U-19) from Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He trained this continuously until April 1, 2012. After the exemption of the previous head coach of the first team, Robin Dutt , Lewandowski took over the professional team together with Sami Hyypiä on an interim basis until the end of the season. Hyypiä, who did not have the required football instructor license, took over the position of team manager . Lewandowski, who had passed the required football instructor license of the DFB as one of the three best graduates in 2011, became head coach and took all official appointments such as B. Press conferences true. Lewandowski signed a three-year contract as head coach until June 30, 2015 in May 2012.

For the 2013/14 season Lewandowski moved back to the youth department. He took over the newly created function as the junior head coach and signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2016. After Hyypiäs dismissal on April 5, 2014, he was the interim coach of the Bundesliga team until the end of the season.

1. FC Union Berlin

On September 2, 2015, Lewandowski became the successor to Norbert Düwel as coach of 1. FC Union Berlin . At the beginning of March 2016, the employment relationship was terminated prematurely after Lewandowski was diagnosed with burnout syndrome .

Private

Lewandowski was in a relationship with sports reporter Anne van Eickels and worked as a journalist until 2006.

Lewandowski was found dead in his Bochum apartment on June 8, 2016. Shortly before, he had been arrested by the police on suspicion of a sexual offense against a child. The autopsy revealed that he had committed suicide.

Web links

Commons : Sascha Lewandowski  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sascha Lewandowski in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Allegation of child abuse! The dark side of Sascha Lewandowski , on bz-berlin.de
2. ↑ Sascha Lewandowski is dead , on rp-online.de
3. ↑ "We don't have a table in the cabin" reviersport.de, March 25, 2011.
4. ↑ Bayer 04 releases trainer Robin Dutt . Retrieved May 3, 2020 .  , bayer04.de from April 1, 2012.
5. ↑ Bayer 04 continues to rely on Lewandowski and Hyypiä ( memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), bayer04.de from May 15, 2012.
6. ↑ Bayer 04 part ways with Hyypiä - Lewandowski takes over bayer04.de from April 5, 2014 until the end of the season ( memento April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
7. ↑ Sascha Lewandowski is the new head coach of 1. FC Union Berlin fc-union-berlin.de, accessed on September 2, 2015.
8. ↑ Acute exhaustion syndrome: Sascha Lewandowski no longer coach of 1. FC Union Berlin fc-union-berlin.de, accessed on March 4, 2016.
9. ↑ Sascha Lewandowski: "Be a pioneer again with Bayer" . dfb.de, October 31, 2013.
10. ↑ Soccer coach Sascha Lewandowski is dead. In: DerWesten . June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Florian Flade: Sascha Lewandowski: Suspicion of child abuse before the death of the ex-trainer. Die Welt , June 11, 2016, accessed December 22, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Autopsy confirmed - Sascha Lewandowski has committed suicide. In: DerWesten . June 13, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016 .