Willi Reimann

Willi Reimann
Personnel
birthday	December 24, 1949
place of birth	Schwagstorf (Fürstenau) ,  Germany
size	178 cm
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1967-1968	VfB Rheine
1968-1970	Bremerhaven 93	51 (26)
1970-1974	Hannover 96	112 (44)
1974-1981	Hamburger SV	175 (49)
1981	Calgary Boomers	17 0(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1971-1973	Germany U-23	7 0(5)
	Germany B	2 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1982-1984	SC Egenbüttel
1984-1986	Altona 93
1986-1987	FC St. Pauli
1987-1990	Hamburger SV
1991-1993	SC Norderstedt
1994-1995	SV Lurup
1995-1998	VfL Wolfsburg
1998	1. FC Nuremberg
1999-2000	FC St. Pauli
2002-2004	Eintracht Frankfurt
2005-2006	Al-Shaab
2006-2007	Eintracht Braunschweig
1 Only league games are given.

Willi Reimann (born December 24, 1949 in Schwagstorf (Fürstenau) ) is a former German football player and coach .

Player career

Willi Reimann (left) and Rudolf Kargus (right) with the trophy after winning the final against RSC Anderlecht in the European Cup Winners' Cup , May 11, 1977

society

The offensive player Reimann started playing football at VfL Rheine . In 1968 he moved to TuS Bremerhaven 93 , for whom he scored 26 goals in 51 games in the North Regional Football League until 1970 . In the Bundesliga he played from 1970 to 1974 for Hannover 96 , where he made his debut in the top German division on August 15, 1970. In 1974 he moved to Hamburger SV for a transfer fee of DM 700,000 - at the time the highest transfer payment in the club's history. With Hamburger SV, he won the DFB Cup in 1976 and the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1977 and, two years later , the German championship with the team trained by Branko Zebec . When his fellow strikers Horst Hrubesch and Kevin Keegan were increasingly preferred to him, he left Hamburger SV in autumn 1981 and accepted a lucrative offer from the Calgary Boomers, with whom he ended his career at the end of the year. In total, he played 287 Bundesliga games and scored 93 goals. He also played in 38 European Cup games, in which he hit the opposing goal twelve times. In 1981 he scored another eight goals in 17 NASL games for the Calgary Boomers.

National team

Reimann played seven games in the German U-23 national team between 1971 and 1973 , in which he scored five goals. There are also two international goals in two appearances in the B national team .

Coaching career

Reimann began his coaching career in 1982 at SC Egenbüttel , which he coached until 1984. From 1984 to 1986 he was the coach of Altona 93 , from 1986 to 1987 at FC St. Pauli , from 1987 to 1990 at Hamburger SV , from 1991 to 1993 at SC Norderstedt, from 1994 to 1995 at SV Lurup , from October 23, 1995 until March 15, 1998 with VfL Wolfsburg and then in 1998 with 1. FC Nürnberg . He left 1. FC Nürnberg on December 2nd, 1998 at his own request, because his wife got colon cancer.

Between 1999 and 2000 he again coached FC St. Pauli and from 2002 to 2004 Eintracht Frankfurt . Reimann then moved to Al-Shaab in the United Arab Emirates in the 2005/06 season . From November 2006 to March 2007 he finally trained at Eintracht Braunschweig - his last station for the time being.

The highlights of his coaching career were the two promotions from second division to the 1st Bundesliga, with VfL Wolfsburg (1997) and with Eintracht Frankfurt (2003). The negative highlight of his career was an assault (pushing) against the 4th referee Thorsten Schriever in the Bundesliga match Borussia Dortmund against Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2003/04 season, which earned him an indoor ban for five match days and a fine of € 25,000. It was the highest punishment for a coach in the history of the DFB . Reimann spent the home games in a container that stood on the main stand, which had not yet been completed, for the purpose of reconstruction for the 2006 World Cup. This earned him the nickname Container-Willi .

Private

Willi Reimann's wife Angelika died at the age of 47 on December 31, 1999 in Norderstedt as a result of her colon cancer.

Web links

Commons : Willi Reimann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Willi Reimann in the database of weltfussball.de
• Willi Reimann in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Willi Reimann: At home in the north on ndr.de, accessed on November 13, 2014.
2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Wilhelm Reimann - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 31, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
3. ↑ Willi Reimann: At home in the north and article in "Die Welt" from March 31, 2007
4. ↑ Willi Reimann: At home in the north and article in "Die Welt" from March 31, 2007 , article in Hamburger Abendblatt from January 3, 2000 and article in Berliner Kurier from December 3, 1998