Willi Breuer

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Willi Breuer

Willi Breuer (born November 30, 1954 ) is a German football coach . From 1997 to 2002 he was the youth coach at 1. FC Köln , where he coached the D youth for one year, the C youth for three years and the A youth for one year. Among other things, he was Lukas Sinkiewicz's C-youth coach and national player Lukas Podolski and accompanied his first contract negotiations at the time.

Breuer, who actively played league football himself, had been the responsible national football coach in the German Disabled Sports Association since 1992 and, as a state-certified football teacher, trained the German national team for footballers with cognitive disabilities, which he founded in 1992. He quit the coaching position in the spring of 2007 due to differences about the future prospects of the work.

During the 2006 World Cup he was able to lead his team to third place, but had to accept the subsequent disqualification of his team in April 2007: The German psychological test procedures for assessing the suitability of players for the national team were not recognized by the INAS-FID world association.

The trained printer is the father of four children and lives in Hürth ( Rhein-Erft district ). He trained as a qualified sports teacher at the Sports University in Cologne and also trained as a special educator.

On September 1, 2007, Breuer took over the management of the youth performance center at Alemannia Aachen , which he resigned on June 22, 2009 in order to switch back to 1. FC Köln. In the summer of 2012 he became the coach of the women's soccer team , with which he was promoted to the Bundesliga at the end of the 2014/15 season . On November 12, 2015, he was replaced as head coach and took over the management of team management.

Since August 1, 2013, Breuer has also been active as a sports director and trainer for football players with disabilities in the Frechen football performance center of the Gold Kraemer Foundation .

From the 2016/17 season , Breuer trained again in the role of head coach of the women's soccer team of 1. FC Cologne. At the turn of the year 2020 he made the space free for Sascha Glass.

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Individual evidence

  1. Change of coach for the FC women. fc-koeln.de, November 12, 2015, accessed on December 2, 2015 .
  2. ^ Gold Kraemer Foundation: The Frechen Football Performance Center
  3. SportPressePortal: Gold Kraemer Foundation: For the first time in Germany, young football talents with intellectual disabilities train like professionals. July 30, 2013
  4. Rhein-Erft Rundschau: “That's totally my thing” December 9, 2013
  5. ^ 1. FC Köln: Willi Breuer no longer a women coach. Express , December 17, 2019, accessed May 31, 2020 .