Full name Horst Wohlers Date joined 1975 Years Team Height 1.80 m | Role Football player Name Horst Wohlers | |
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Date of birth (1949-08-06) August 6, 1949 (age 66) Current team Borussia Monchengladbach II | ||
Playing position Place of birth Brunsbuttel, Germany | ||
1991 FC St. Pauli - Fortuna Düsseldorf 2:3 | Tore: Hey, Baffoe, Allofs | Interview Hickersberger
Horst Wohlers (born 6 August 1949 in Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein) is a former German football player and manager.
Contents
- 1991 FC St Pauli Fortuna Dsseldorf 23 Tore Hey Baffoe Allofs Interview Hickersberger
- Playing career
- Management career
- References
Playing career
Wohlers joined first teams of SC Brunsbüttelkoog and FC St. Pauli until his 1975 transfer to Borussia Mönchengladbach. He was a midfielder, who played during Borussia's golden years in the 1970s, when he won with Borussia the Bundesliga two times, the German Cup once, and the UEFA Cup in 1979. Wohlers made 95 Bundesliga appearances for Mönchengladbach, scoring 6 times.
He appeared in total 232 times in the Bundesliga, playing also for TSV 1860 München and Arminia Bielefeld until he retired from playing in 1985.
Management career
After his playing career ended, he became a coach for Bayer 05 Uerdingen in 1989 assisted by his former colleague Rainer Bonhof. The Danish football association DBU contacted Horst Wohlers in 1990, because he was pointed out as the ideal replacement for another German, Sepp Piontek. Horst Wohlers was even presented as new national coach at a press conference, though he was still under contract at Uerdingen. This led to a public farce in Denmark, because Horst Wohlers was never allowed to break his contract at Bayer 05 Uerdingen. Therefore, the later successful Richard Møller Nielsen was appointed as new Danish coach instead.
In 1991 Wohlers became the coach of his former club FC St. Pauli, where his career as Bundesliga coach ended in the same year. He worked for a while as assistant to Horst Köppel in the Japanese J-League with the Urawa Red Diamonds.
In the 2004/2005 season he became the coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach II (or U23), which he led to the German 3rd league (Regionalliga Nord). His contract ended on 30 June 2010.