Uwe Igler

Uwe Igler
Personnel
birthday	November 14, 1964
place of birth	Schwaebisch Hall ,  Germany
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	1. FC Eislingen
0000-1985	1. Goeppinger SV
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1985-1986	1. Goeppinger SV
1986-1987	SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg	22 (10)
1987-1989	Stuttgart Kickers	27 0(6)
1989	FC Schalke 04	10 0(0)
1989-1990	Kickers Offenbach
1990-1992	VfL Osnabrück	19 0(3)
1995-1996	TSV 1860 Munich
1996-1998	VfL Kirchheim / Teck
1998	→ 1. Göppinger SV (loan)
1998-1999	VfL Kirchheim / Teck
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2006-2008	1. FC Donzdorf
2008	TSV Crailsheim
0	1. FC Heiningen (individual coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Uwe Igler (born November 14, 1964 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a former German soccer player . For the Stuttgarter Kickers , FC Schalke 04 and VfL Osnabrück he played a total of 56 games in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 before he hit the headlines in the mid-1990s on suspicion of drug trafficking. He was in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup with the Hessian league club Kickers Offenbach .

Career

Player career

Igler played in the youth of 1. FC Eislingen and 1. Göppinger SV . At Göppingen he made the leap to the first team in 1985 and after a year moved to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, where he scored ten goals in 22 appearances for SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg . Through his performances, the Stuttgarter Kickers became aware of the young striker and brought him to the team for the 1987/88 season , around Bernd Grabosch , Demir Hotić , Frank Elser and Ralf Vollmer . The kickers, who were trained by Manfred Krafft , played a convincing season in the 2. Bundesliga at the end of the first place in the table. Igler had contributed four goals to success in 17 appearances and the associated promotion to the Bundesliga . In the Bundesliga, things didn't go on like the last season ended. The Kickers were just next to last. The places 14 to 17 were tied in the final table, but the Kickers had the worst goal difference of the four teams that occupied these places, so that the direct relegation was to book. Igler had played ten times in the Bundesliga and scored two goals. He could not prevent relegation as he moved to FC Schalke 04 during the winter break . At S04 he reinforced the storm around Uwe Wassmer , Ingo Anderbrügge and Carsten Marquardt . He completed ten more games in League 2, remained without scoring and landed with Schalke on 12th place in the table, then moved to Kickers Offenbach for a year . With the second division relegated he missed in the league season 1989/90 with seven points behind Rot-Weiss Frankfurt the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga clearly, in the DFB-Pokal 1989/90 the Offenbacher succeeded. After successes with the Bundesliga clubs Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Borussia Mönchengladbach as well as the second division MSV Duisburg , the later title holder 1. FC Kaiserslautern only proved to be too strong in the semi-finals .

In June 1990 Igler signed a two-year contract with the second division club VfL Osnabrück . After the president and patron Hartwig Piepenbrock had upgraded the team again with over 2 million DM in the summer of 1991, but could not fulfill the ambitions associated with it in the second division season 1991/92 and was even in danger of relegation until the end of the season, it came in Summer 1992 for re-installation. In addition to the new signing of coach Hubert Hüring , this meant the separation of several players, in addition to the injury-prone Igler, Ralf Voigt , Dirk Lellek , Branko Žeravica , Ralf Heskamp and Jean-Pierre de Keyser were victims of the retirement and realignment. He then ended his professional career for health reasons.

In the summer of 1994, Igler and four other defendants had to appear before the Munich regional court for drug trafficking after he was arrested in December 1993 in his house near Göppingen. He is said to have been involved in the trade in 500 grams of cocaine worth 70,000 marks.

Then Igler played for the amateur team of TSV 1860 Munich , before he was brought in 1996 by his former Stuttgart teammate Andreas Kleinhansl to VfL Kirchheim / Teck , who had been trained by him, in the fourth-class Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . In 1997 he rose with the team in the Regionalliga Süd , but he joined his ex-club Göppinger SV for a season. After returning to VfL Kirchheim / Teck, which had meanwhile been relegated back to the league, he ended his active career in 1999.

After active football

In 2006 Igler took over the coaching position at 1. FC Donzdorf , but at the end of the season the team was relegated from the Württemberg Association . In the Landesliga Württemberg , however, the direct rise was achieved as the season winner. In September 2008 he took over as the successor to Wolfram Wuttke as coach at TSV Crailsheim in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. At the beginning of December of that year, however, he announced his resignation due to the uncertain situation and unrest in the club, also due to the dependence on the main sponsor. Later he belonged to the coaching team of 1. FC Heiningen , where he worked with his assistant coach Tobias Flitsch from Donzdorf and Crailsheim times.

Igler works as an independent financial advisor in Salach .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung : "sporttelegramm" (June 19, 1990, p. 14)
2. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: "New beginning - despite constant frustration" (July 10, 1992, special supplement p. 4)
3. ↑ Nürnberger Nachrichten : "Briefly reported" (July 25, 1994)
4. ↑ Neue Württembergische Zeitung : "INQUIRED: Why the resignation?" (December 8, 2008, p. 23)
5. ↑ swp.de: "Overtime - Overtime - Overtime"

Web links

• Uwe Igler in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Uwe Igler in the database of weltfussball.de
• Uwe Igler in the database of kickersarchiv.de