Dirk Bauermann
Dirk Bauer Mann ( born December 10, 1957 in Oberhausen ) is a German basketball coach. Most recently, he was active as a coach at Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius and the Polish national team.
Players and coaches career
In his active career peasant played until 1981 when BBC Krefeld, the 05 Uerdingen is risen today in SC Bayer, in the Regionalliga. However, due to an injury he struck early one the Trainerweg and became youth coach at the BBC Krefeld and then at Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Bayer Giants Leverkusen at first, since mid-2007 Dusseldorf Giants ). In 1986, he acquired the coach -A license and became an assistant coach at Fresno State University in California. In 1988 he returned to Germany and became an assistant coach at Bayer Leverkusen, before he was promoted to the 1989/90 season as Head Coach. In his first season he managed the Double ( German league and cup ), and he was voted coach of the year. Even in the following year won the team coached by peasant the Double, and again he was elected Coach of the Year. The German Championship was brought in the next five years. In European competitions, but his team always different from the previous round. Greatest success was reaching the semi-finals in Korac Cup 1998.
As for the 1994 World Cup in Toronto, the post of national coach was unoccupied, took over the task peasant, and coached by his team won the 12th place.
After Leverkusen could win any titles for two years, peasant man left the club and moved to Belgian club Sunair Oostende, with whom he also the semi-finals in Korac Cup, where it Estudiantes Madrid was beaten reached. The subsequent involvement with the then Greek second division club Apollon Patras ended after only seven months. Differences with the club's management were the reasons for early termination of the contract.
In the 2000/2001 season peasant coached the Bundesliga Brandt Hagen. As the sponsor, the company Brandt, their commitment after the season ended, farmer man moved in the fall of 2001 to the Greek first division Dafni Athens; However, the club's management on leave peasant after four games of the season despite a balanced balance ( 2-2).
In the same year took over as coach in peasant TSK Bamberg. Already in his second season as coach Bamberger he led the team to the finals of the National Basketball League, where they lost the series champion Alba Berlin. After another runner-up in the following year ( losing to Skyliners Frankfurt) in 2005 succeeded in winning the title. For peasant the eighth championship for basketball stronghold Bamberg, which started in the meantime as GHP Bamberg, the first one. In addition, he reached in 2006 with the champion team the Top 16 of the Euro League. This created no other German basketball club from GHP Bamberg. His ninth title as a coach, he celebrated in 2007 with the Brose Baskets. After the early departure of the Brose Baskets in the play-offs in 2008 peasant announced his retirement and wanted to from now on only concentrate on the national team, which he coached in personal union since 2003.
At the 2005 European Championships in Serbia and Montenegro, Germany was surprisingly Second and only ended in the final of Greece. Due to this success was the direct qualification for the 2006 World Cup in Japan.
In addition to the office as national coach Bauer man took over as coach from 2010 onwards when ProA team of FC Bayern Munich, which he exercised in 2011 only after the rise in the BBL.
On 27 September 2012, the FC Bayern München peasant on leave.
In January 2013 peasant was the new coach of the Polish national team. He received a contract until 2014.
On March 20, 2013, it was announced that Dirk Bauer man will operate in the future as head coach of Lietuvos Rytas. Back in December of the same year he was made redundant in the Euro League due to the early failure. On January 7, 2014 Bauer man announced that he would not renew the contract as national coach of Poland.
Private
Bauer is married and has one daughter. The family lives in Krefeld.
Stations as head coach
Success as head coach
- German master 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 with TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2005 GHP Bamberg 2007 Brose Baskets Bamberg
- German Cup 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995 with TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
- Coach of the Year 1990, 1991 with TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2003, 2004 with GHP Bamberg ( TSK Bamberg)
- German national 1994 World Cup - twelfth 2005 European Championship runner-up 2007 European Championship Fifth
Honors
2009 Dirk Bauer man was described as " Coach of the Year " by North Rhine -Westphalia awarded the " Felix".