Horst Wohlers

Horst Wohlers
Personal information
Full name	Horst Wohlers
Date of birth	6 August 1949 (age 72)
Place of birth	Brunsbüttel, West Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defender/Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Borussia Mönchengladbach II
Youth career
Senior career*
Years	Team
1970–1975	FC St. Pauli
1975–1979	Borussia Mönchengladbach
1980–1982	TSV 1860 Munich
1982–1985	Arminia Bielefeld
Teams managed
1986–1987	TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus
1987–1989	Bayer Uerdingen (assistant)
1989–1991	Bayer Uerdingen
1991–1992	FC St. Pauli
1992–1993	SV Lurup
1994–1995	VfB Oldenburg
1995–1996	SV Eintracht Trier 05
1997	Urawa Red Diamonds (assistant)
2004–2005	Borussia Mönchengladbach (youth)
2005–2010	Borussia Mönchengladbach II
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Horst Wohlers (born 6 August 1949 in Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein) is a former German football player and manager.

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 DFB-Pokal once, and the UEFA Cup in 1979. Wohlers made 95 Bundesliga appearances for Mönchengladbach, scoring six 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 Wohlers was never allowed to break his contract at Bayer 05 Uerdingen.^[1] 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 2004–05 season, he became the coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach II (or U23), which he led to the German third tier (Regionalliga Nord). His contract ended on 30 June 2010.

References[]

^ "Da Horst Wohlers blev præsenteret som dansk landstræner". Berlingske Tidende (in Danish). 7 June 2005.^{[permanent dead link]}

External links[]

Horst Wohlers

[1] "Da Horst Wohlers blev præsenteret som dansk landstræner". Berlingske Tidende (in Danish). 7 June 2005.^{[permanent dead link]}

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