Friedel Rausch
Friedel Rausch ( born February 27, 1940 in Duisburg ) is a former German football player and coach.
- 2.1 successes as a coach
Career as a player
From 1957 to 1962 played with the noise Meidericher SV before he went to FC Schalke 04 and 1971 there ended his active time.
Successes as a player
- Participation in the DFB Cup Final 1969 ( 1:2 defeat against FC Schalke 04 against FC Bayern München)
Career as a coach
After his playing career he became a coach at Schalke 04, first in youth teams and then as an assistant to Max Merkel. In March 1976, he became head coach of the team, reaching with her in the 1976/77 season at first the runner-up. After his release at Schalke 04 December 1977, it took until January 1979, before he found a new coach station at Eintracht Frankfurt. Under the noise Eintracht won in the 1979/80 season in the final against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the UEFA Cup.
For the 1980/81 season joined noise to Turkey to Fenerbahce, where he admitted his post after less than two years to go to 1982 in the Netherlands to MVV Maastricht. This interlude lasted only a year and so just as long as its subsequent occupation from 1983 to 1984 at the Greek club Iraklis Thessaloniki.
Significantly more successful than other foreign clubs was his time at FC Lucerne, where he held the position of head coach since 1985. With Lucerne, he won the Swiss football championship in 1989 and 1992, the Swiss Cup. After he as head coach of the second division side FC Basel missing out on promotion in the 1992/93 season, noise returned to the Bundesliga for 1.FC Kaiserslautern.
With the " Red Devils" he took the runner-up in 1994 and reached the following year 4th place in the league. However, after the performers Ciriaco Sforza and Stefan Kuntz for 1995/96 season left the club, followed by the crash. Nine game days before the end of the season and the descent of Kaiserslautern in the second league noise was dismissed. After a year as head coach of the Austrian representative LASK Linz, he could prevent in the late phase of the 1997/98 season as coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach relegation of the club in the second league. After a disastrous half of the season the following season Noise was released in Gladbach in November 1998. When 1 FC Nuremberg he was already in January 1999, a new job, but increased with the club after a dramatic season finale only on goal difference in the league from 2.
Once in February 2000 rush activity ended in Nuremberg, he became the manager back to Eintracht Frankfurt. In April 2001 he took over at the club until the end of the season once the office of the head coach, but could not prevent the descent of harmony in the 2nd league and ended there his commitment.
Between 2001 and 2004, noise was without employment, before he began in March 2004, his last post as team manager at FC Luzern, which he held until the end of the 2005/06 season.
Success as a coach
- German runner-up in 1977 with the FC Schalke 04
- UEFA Cup victory in 1980 with Eintracht Frankfurt
- Swiss football champions in 1989 with FC Luzern
- Swiss Cup victory in 1992 with the FC Luzern
- German runner-up in 1994 with the first FC Kaiserslautern
Curiosities
The name noise is also a particularly curious chapter in Bundesliga history. On September 6, 1969 he gritted during the Ruhr classic Borussia Dortmund against Schalke 04, a police dog into the buttock. The team doctor gave him a tetanus shot, and noise played to the end on.
Private
Friedel Rausch lives with his wife Marlies in Horw, a suburb of Lucerne. The couple has two sons and four grandchildren. Several times he had to deal with health problems. He suffered two heart attacks and two pulmonary embolisms and was meantime suffering from skin cancer.