Wolfgang Esser (basketball coach)

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Wolfgang Esser (* 1952 in Trier ) is a former German basketball coach .

Life

Esser first studied business administration at the Saarland University , then from 1979 at the German Sport University in Cologne  and also coached the local BBC team as a player coach in the city of Linz am Rhein from 1979, in the 1982/83 season in the 2nd basketball team Bundesliga . In 1985, Esser, until 1987 he was also the regional coach at the Basketball Association of Rhineland-Palatinate , took over the coaching position at the regional league team TV Germania (TVG) Trier in his hometown . In 1986 he led the team to promotion to the second division and in 1990 to the basketball division . "The rise was the greatest moment of my basketball career," said Esser, who was nicknamed "Wolli" in basketball circles, to the newspaper Volksfreund in February 2015. After making the leap to the Bundesliga, Esser trained TVG until 1992 in the highest German Division before he voluntarily retired from coaching.

From 1987 to 2002 Esser worked in the administration of the city of Trier, while at the same time supervising the basketball team of the Luxembourg first division club Sparta Bartreng, with which he also competed in the European Cup. He later remained loyal to basketball as a member of the sports advisory board of the Bundesliga club TBB Trier. In 2003 he became managing director of Castel Trier GmbH, which later became the Messe- und Veranstaltungsgesellschaft (MVG), which operates the Arena Trier, the Messeparkhalle and the Europahalle, and from 2015 also managing director of the newly founded subsidiary MV Gastro Trier GmbH, which covers the catering operations in the MVG division. He retired on July 1, 2019.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ A dinosaur in a party mood. Volksfreund, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Basketball: Wolfgang Esser - Der Aufstiegsmacher. In: Volksfreund. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Le Sparta et la Coupe d'Europe. Sparta Bartreng, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ TBB Junior Team - "The prerequisites for successful work have been created" - Rainer Loch withdraws from TBB day-to-day business. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Wolfgang Esser, the man on the home straight | Trier reporter. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ Arena Trier - The MVG Trier. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Esser, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH trier