Walter Junghans

Walter Junghans
in the goal of FC Schalke 04 (1986)
Personnel
birthday	October 26, 1958
place of birth	Hamburg ,  Germany
size	184 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1976	SC Victoria Hamburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1976-1977	SC Victoria Hamburg	18 (0)
1977-1982	FC Bayern Munich	67 (0)
1982-1987	FC Schalke 04	148 (0)
1987-1994	Hertha BSC	192 (0)
1994	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	0 (0)
1994-1996	SC Fortuna Cologne	30 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1976-1977	Germany U18	18 (0)
1979-1981	Germany B	6 (0)
1980	Germany	0 (0)
1983-1984	Olympic team	2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1996-1998	SC Fortuna Köln (goalkeeping coach)
1997	SC Fortuna Köln ( interim trainer )
1998-1999	1. FC Köln (goalkeeper / assistant coach )
1999-2001	Benfica Lisbon (goalkeeper / assistant coach)
2001-2005	Athletic Bilbao (goalkeeper / assistant coach)
2006-2007	Borussia Mönchengladbach (assistant coach)
2008-2011	FC Bayern Munich (goalkeeping coach)
2010–	FC Bayern Munich II (goalkeeping coach)
2011-2017	FC Bayern Munich U19 (goalkeeping coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Junghans (born October 26, 1958 in Hamburg ) is a German goalkeeping coach and former goalkeeper .

Career as a player

societies

Junghans, who emerged from the youth of SC Victoria Hamburg and played 18 times as a youth national player, attracted attention as a promising goalkeeper talent. From the numerous offers from the Bundesliga clubs, he decided in 1977 for FC Bayern Munich and hoped to be able to replace the 14-year-old national goalkeeper Sepp Maier there.

Sepp Maier joked about him at the time: “With me as a goalkeeper, Junghans will become Althans”, but the injuries sustained on July 14, 1979 from a serious car accident forced Maier to retire. Junghans became a regular goalkeeper for the 1979/80 season and at the end of this German champion .

He made his Bundesliga debut on August 11, 1979 (1st matchday) in a 3-1 win at home against newcomer Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He suffered his first goal in the 62nd minute from a penalty converted by Dietmar Demuth . On April 24, 1982 (29th matchday) Junghans was in the Munich goal for the 67th and last time in the decisive game for the German championship, which Hamburger SV won 4: 3 after being down 3-1. With the commitment of the Belgian goalkeeper Jean-Marie Pfaff , Junghans was no longer used and moved to FC Schalke 04 in the current season , for which he first played again on November 5, 1982 (12th matchday) in a 2-0 win at home against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in goal. After the 1982/83 season , Junghans had to relegate Schalke to the 2nd Bundesliga . In 1984 he was promoted back to the top division, in which he played for the "Royal Blues" until 1987.

This was followed by the change to the top division Hertha BSC . With the Berliners, Junghans rose to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1988 after a successful promotion round , played all second division games in the following two years and celebrated his return to the Bundesliga in 1990. After a weak season, Hertha BSC was the last to rise again, with 84 goals conceded. After two unsuccessful attempts at promotion, Junghans was suspended from training and games at the end of December 1993 together with Theo Gries and Uli Bayerschmidt . At this point in time, Hertha was in a relegation battle, both sportily and financially. A short-term move to Bayer 04 Leverkusen for the second half of the Bundesliga season in 1993/94 went without match practice for Junghans, so he moved on to SC Fortuna Köln , for whom he was in goal 30 times from 1994 to 1996 before becoming goalkeeping coach there .

Overall, Junghans contested:

• 205 top division games (67 for Bayern, 110 for Schalke, 28 for Hertha BSC)
• 211 second division games (38 for Schalke, 143 for Hertha BSC, 30 for Fortuna Cologne)
• 21 third division games in the amateur upper league Berlin (all for Hertha BSC)
• 18 DFB Cup games (4 for Bayern, 4 for Schalke, 8 for Hertha BSC, 2 for Fortuna Cologne)
• 17 European Cup games (for Bavaria)
• 2 relegation games (for Schalke, against Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1: 3 and 1: 1 to stay / relegated to / from the Bundesliga)
• 7 games in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga (all for Hertha BSC)

National team

After 18 appearances in the U-18 national team (debut on 28 September 1976 in Nybro at 2: 2 draw against the selection of Sweden) in 1979, he was appointed to the B national team , for which he on October 16 in Koblenz at 9-0 win against the senior national team of Luxembourg - substitute for Toni Schumacher - made his debut. This was followed by games against the selections of Italy (2: 1; December 19, 1979 in Genoa ), Austria (3: 0; April 1, 1980 in Bayreuth ), Poland (2: 1; May 14, 1980 in Kassel ) , Portugal (2: 0; on April 28, 1981 in Coimbra ) and against Ireland's A-selection (3: 0; on May 21, 1981 in Bremen ).

He belonged in 1980 as the second man behind "Toni" Schumacher and before Eike Immel the squad of the senior team at that in Italy European football champions was, however, came in his entire career at no senior international. Junghans played twice for the Olympic team: on November 20, 1983 in Tel Aviv , in the 1-0 victory in the qualifying game against Israel, and on July 17, 1984 in Koblenz , when China was defeated 6-2 . He also took part in the 1984 Olympic soccer tournament in Los Angeles as the second goalkeeper .

Although he was nominated as 2nd goalkeeper for the European team in 1980, he was not used in the games. Nevertheless, he and the team of Federal President Carstens were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf with the entire team .

Career as a coach

In 1996/97 he became goalkeeping coach at SC Fortuna Köln, whom he saved from relegation as an interim coach in the last five games of the season. Since then he has held the post of goalkeeper / assistant coach at 1. FC Köln (1998 to 1999), Benfica Lisbon (1999 to 2001) and Athletic Bilbao (2001 to 2005).

In the 2006/07 season, Junghans returned to the first German division after 15 years of absence from the Bundesliga as Jupp Heynckes ' assistant coach at Borussia Mönchengladbach , but was released a few days after Heynckes' resignation on February 5, 2007.

In the 2007/08 season , Walter Junghans returned to his old place of work after 25 years at the behest of manager Uli Hoeneß and Sepp Maier worked as his successor at Bayern Munich. Sepp Maier resigned as a goalkeeping coach there in 2008. Jürgen Klinsmann announced in spring 2008 that Walter Junghans would be the sole goalkeeper coach in his new coaching staff from the 2008/09 season . In the summer of 2010, the Dutchman Frans Hoek became the goalkeeping coach of FC Bayern Munich, and Junghans has been looking after the goalkeepers of the club's second team ever since. After Hoek left the company on April 10, 2011, when Louis van Gaal was on leave, Junghans temporarily resumed goalkeeping training with the professional team. With the signing of Toni Tapalović as goalkeeping coach from the 2011/12 season, Junghans returned to the junior division and has since been (again) responsible for the second team and also for the A-Juniors.

In his coaching career, Junghans worked alongside Heynckes and Hitzfeld, also with Bernd Schuster and briefly with José Mourinho .

successes

• European champion 1980
• German champion 1980 , 1981
• DFB Cup winner 1982

Others

Walter Junghans has also been active as a goalkeeper in the Bayern All-Stars team , a selection of former, famous Bayern Munich footballers trained by ex-colleague and later Bayern chief scout Wolfgang Dremmler , since 2007 .

Web links

• Walter Junghans in the weltfussball.de database
• Walter Junghans in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Walter Junghans in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Jahn: Hertha: Ball paradox on the Maifeld. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 5, 1994, accessed November 6, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Federal Archives: Sports Awards (Silver Laurel): Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the German National Team (European Championship 1980), signature BArch B 122/29165
3. ↑ FCB II trainers and supervisors ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ FCB U-19 trainers and supervisors ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2014 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.