Wolfgang Frank (soccer player)

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Wolfgang Frank
Personnel
birthday February 21, 1951
place of birth Reichenbach an der Fils ,  Germany
date of death September 7, 2013
Place of death Mainz ,  Germany
size 172 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
TSV Schlierbach
VfL Kirchheim
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1971 VfL Kirchheim
1971-1973 VfB Stuttgart 55 (23)
1973-1974 AZ Alkmaar 26 0(6)
1974-1977 Eintracht Braunschweig 106 (52)
1977-1980 Borussia Dortmund 34 (10)
1980-1982 1. FC Nuremberg 20 0(4)
1982-1984 FSV Bad Windsheim
1984-1988 FC Glarus
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972-1977 Germany B 6 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1984-1988 FC Glarus
1988-1991 FC Aarau
1991-1992 FC Wettingen
1992-1993 FC Winterthur
1994-1995 Red and white food
1995-1997 1. FSV Mainz 05
1997-1998 FK Austria Vienna
1998-2000 1. FSV Mainz 05
2000 MSV Duisburg
2002-2004 SpVgg Unterhaching
2004-2005 FC Sachsen Leipzig
2006-2007 Kickers Offenbach
2008 Wuppertaler SV Borussia
2008-2009 SV Wehen Wiesbaden
2010-2011 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
2011–2012 AS Eupen
1 Only league games are given.

Wolfgang Frank (born February 21, 1951 in Reichenbach an der Fils ; † September 7, 2013 in Mainz ) was a German football player and coach .

Career

Player career

Frank took his first steps as a youth footballer at his home club TSV Schlierbach. The offensive talent came to the youth department of VfB Stuttgart in 1968 via the intermediate station at VfL Kirchheim . In the 1970/71 season he was under coach Karl Bögelein with the VfB amateurs champions of the 1st amateur league North-Württemberg and scored 25 goals. This was followed by the games in the competition for the German Amateur Championship . He lost the final on July 10th in Würzburg with his teammates Günter Sawitzki , Karl Berger , Dieter Schwemmle and Dieter Ungewitter against the defending champion SC Jülich with 0-1 goals. To round 1971/72 he was taken over into the license squad of the Swabians. Under coach Branko Zebec - who was replaced by Karl Bögelein on April 19, 1972 - the small, agile and nevertheless strong attacker scored twelve goals in his debut round in the Bundesliga in 29 league appearances. He led the internal goalscorer list ahead of Karl-Heinz Handschuh (10 goals) and Horst Köppel and Hans Ettmayer, who each scored eight goals . In his second Bundesliga year he scored eleven goals in 26 league games under Zebec's successor Hermann Eppenhoff and VfB was in sixth place in the table. After two rounds of the Bundesliga with 23 goals in 55 games, he signed a contract in the Eredivisie in North Holland with AZ Alkmaar for the 1973/74 season .

At the side of teammates such as Kees Kist and under coach Joop Brand , the striker scored six goals in 26 league games and Alkmaar was seventh in 1974 . The player willing to learn experienced the successful football of Ajax Amsterdam , the " total football " in practice. After the international experience, he accepted the offer from the Bundesliga and joined the Bundesliga returnee Eintracht Braunschweig for the 1974/75 season . He met former VfB teammate Handschuh and trainer Zebec in Lower Saxony. Frank scored ten goals in 32 league games and the newcomer kept the class safely with ninth place. The former Yugoslav world-class player Zebec led through his strictly performance-oriented training, in which stamina and tactical coverage had a high priority, the unity in the next two rounds in the top ranks of the Bundesliga. The basis was the introduction of the four-man defense chain with a "six" in front of it and the renunciation of stubborn man coverage, Zebec replaced it with flexible man / room coverage.

The most productive seasons, in which he was seventh and fourth on the Bundesliga scorers list, were 1975/76 with 16 goals and 1976/77 with 24 goals, which put him on par with Klaus Fischer fourth on the Bundesliga scorer list . He thus contributed to the successes of Eintracht in the 1970s, which ended the seasons 1976 and 1977 as fifth and third respectively and was also a few times league leaders.

The striker scored 89 goals in 215 Bundesliga games, most of them in the years 1974 to 1977 for Eintracht Braunschweig , namely 52 in 106 games. His other Bundesliga clubs were VfB Stuttgart (1971–1973; 55 games, 23 goals), Borussia Dortmund (1977–1980; 34 games, 10 goals) and 1. FC Nürnberg (1980–1982; 20 games, 4 goals). The 'Club' paid Dortmund DM 800,000 for Frank. After he had come to 17 missions in his first season, he was only a reserve player at the club in the second season, who was only used three times.

As a player, he was reamateurised in 1982. He let his career come to an end at FSV Bad Windsheim in the district league and at the Swiss FC Glarus , where he most recently worked as a player-coach. Despite a height of 1.72 m, he was a feared header player , because his jumping power - the low weight of 66 kg helped him with the jumps - and technical skills were superior to many tall defensive players. He scored five goals in five games for Eintracht Braunschweig in the European Cup . Among them were decisive hits like the one to lead 1-0 away against Dynamo Kiev in September 1977, which is why Braunschweig eliminated Kiev in the UEFA Cup with 1: 1 and 0: 0. He also played six times in the B national team from 1972 to 1977 , scoring three goals.

Success as a player

Coaching career

At FC Glarus , Frank began the second phase of his footballing life as a football coach . The transition to the coaching profession took place gradually, because from 1984 to December 1988 he was player- coach in Glarus . He then worked as a coach from December 1988 to 1991 at FC Aarau , 1991/92 at FC Wettingen and 1992/93 at FC Winterthur .

From January 19, 1994 he was coach at the second division promoted Rot-Weiss Essen as the successor to Jürgen Röber , who had followed an offer to the Bundesliga, under which the team was in eleventh place after 19 matchdays. At the end of the season, after 38 game days, Rot-Weiss was second to last and relegated. Nevertheless, Frank and the team made it into the final of the DFB-Pokal in 1994 , even though MSV Duisburg was the only opponent from the Bundesliga on the way to it in October. In the final, Essen did respectably, but lost 3-1 to SV Werder Bremen .

His next stop was 1. FSV Mainz 05 ; there he worked from September 25, 1995 to March 2, 1997. In the Mainz 05 book “Karneval am Bruchweg” by the authors Reinhard Rehberg and Karn it is recorded that “Wolfgang Frank turned the club inside out from head to toe during his first term in Mainz”. The club had found in him a hard worker, excellent tactician, great motivator and creative, forward-thinking coach. In the club that was fighting relegation in the 2nd Bundesliga, he implemented the lesson of Arrigo Sacchi : space coverage with a four-man defensive chain, in a 4-4-2 with fore-checking, pressing and aggressive tempo football. His work became a role model for the Mainz generation of players in their later coaching function: Jürgen Klopp , Torsten Lieberknecht , Jürgen Kramny , Peter Neustädter , Christian Hock , Stephan Kuhnert , Lars Schmidt , Uwe Stöver , Sven Demandt as well as Sandro Schwarz and David Wagner . In Klopp's opinion, Frank had “a decisive influence on the development of coach training in Mainz”.

At FK Austria Vienna , Frank became Walter Skocik's successor after the 29th matchday at the end of April 1997 . In the 1997/98 season he wanted to bring the team closer to the back four , but it failed. After he had already announced his departure, he was released on April 9, 1998. Austria finished seventh in a league of ten teams that year. Frank was immediately accepted again at Mainz 05, where he was back on the second division bench three days later. Until his departure after the 27th matchday of the 1999/2000 season, he reached places in midfield with the FSV.

In the first weeks of the 2000/01 season he coached MSV Duisburg . In 2002/03 he led SpVgg Unterhaching from the Regionalliga Süd to the 2nd Bundesliga; on April 2, 2004, he was released there. The team was 13th at the time, as it was after the end of the season under his successor Heribert Deutinger .

From July 1, 2004 until his dismissal on October 19, 2005, Frank was head coach at the upper division club FC Sachsen Leipzig , from January 25, 2006 to October 31, 2007 at Kickers Offenbach . From February 6, 2008 he was head coach at the regional division Wuppertaler SV ; the contract was terminated on June 30, 2008. In December 2008 he succeeded Christian Hock as coach at the second division club SV Wehen Wiesbaden ; due to continued failure, however, he was released from his duties on March 23, 2009. From October 12, 2010 he was coach at the Thuringian third division club FC Carl Zeiss Jena . The contract was valid until the end of the 2010/11 season, but on April 20, 2011, the club separated from Frank - after nine games without a win in a row. In the summer of 2011 he became a coach at the Belgian club AS Eupen , but he only stayed there for one season.

In May 2013 it became known that Wolfgang Frank had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. On September 7, 2013, his former club Kickers Offenbach informed the public about his demise.

Success as a trainer

literature

  • Hardy Greens: With the ring on your chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 138.
  • Reinhard Rehberg, Christian Karn: Carnival on Bruchweg. The great years of Mainz 05. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-624-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 . Pp. 150-152
  2. ^ Rehberg, Karn: Carnival on Bruchweg. Pp. 51-53.
  3. ↑ Premier League: Jürgen Klopp sees the future in Mainz. In: Sport1.de . November 17, 2018, accessed November 17, 2018 .
  4. ^ Personnel decisions at FC Carl Zeiss Jena. (No longer available online.) Press release from FC Carl Zeiss Jena, April 20, 2011, archived from the original on June 8, 2011 ; accessed on November 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Frank introduced as the new AS trainer. In: GrenzEcho . July 1, 2011, accessed November 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Frank has died. In: kicker.de . September 7, 2013, accessed November 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach an der Fils
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2013
Place of death Mainz