Werner Schumacher (soccer coach)

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Werner "Mollo" Schumacher (born October 10, 1935 in Langenei - Kickenbach ; † February 12, 2013 in Attendorn ) was a German football player and coach who, in the course of his career as a coach, included Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid in the 1979 / 80 in the 2nd Bundesliga and VfL Klafeld-Geisweid 08 at the beginning of the 1971/72 season in the then second -rate regional soccer league .

Career

As an active footballer, Schumacher became the first post-war district champion in Olpe with TuRa Altenhundem .

In 1960, Schumacher, who worked as a qualified sports teacher at the municipal high school in Olpe , finally began his coaching career.

His greatest successes were winning the vice-Westphalia championship and advancing to the then second-highest German division, the regional soccer league , with VfL Klafeld-Geisweid 08 in the summer of 1971. He looked after the club in the 1971/72 regional league season up to his discharge on November 18, 1971. With Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid , Schumacher returned to the 1979/80 season as a coach of a second division team. The year before, he had led VfL Klafeld, who had crashed into the Landesliga Westfalen, back into the Association League Westphalia . Schumacher spent the longest time at SV Ottfingen , to whom he remained loyal to a total of 13 years in two terms. With the Ottfingern, which he led up to the Association League Westphalia, “Mollo” Schumacher experienced another high point of his career on August 6, 1988 with the game in the first round of the DFB Cup against the then Bundesliga leaders VfB Stuttgart in front of 15,000 spectators in the Siegener Leimbachstadion .

Furthermore, he celebrated promotions in the Landesliga Westfalen with the FSV Gerlingen and SuS Niederschelden / Gosenbach and promotions in the Association League Westphalia with the VfB Altena and FSV Werdohl . Further stations were the Sportfreunde Siegen from 1993 to 1994 and the VSV Wenden , with which he ended his career in 2008.

Schumacher died on February 12, 2013 in a hospital in Attendorn after a brief, serious illness .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coach icon Werner Schumacher is dead. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 12, 2013, accessed on February 13, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Jörg Hellwig: "Mollo" Schumacher defeated by cancer. Lüdenscheider Nachrichten , February 12, 2013, accessed on February 13, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumacher, Mollo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenei - Kickenbach , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2013
Place of death Attendorn , Germany