Gottlieb Göller

Gottlieb Goller ( born May 31, 1935 in Nuremberg, † August 27 2004 in Basel ) was a German football player, engineer and four-time football coach of the national teams of Togo.

Career as a football player

Goeller started by a hopeful youth, his career as a football player at the 1 FC Nuremberg, where he played from 1953 to 1955. For Nuremberg, he ran into two friendlies, but completed no duty games. Subsequently, he played 1955/56 FC Bayern Hof and 1956-1961 at VfL Neustadt. For Wormatia Worms he ran in the 1961/62 season to a total of 19 locations in the midfield last stop of his career was in 1962/ 63 of FK Pirmasens

Career as a coach

National coach of Togo and Africa Championship 1972

Goeller, working as an engineer in Togo, was entrusted to operate Harald Ganns, former Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Togo, the responsibility in early 1970 as coach of the Togolese national team. For the players of the leading football clubs in Togo, Étoile Filante de Lome, models Lomé, Dynamic Togolais Lomé, UniSport and Essor he put a team together, with which he means the first qualifying Togo for the African Cup of Nations (French Coupe d' Afrique des Nations, CAN ) managed. After successful qualification against the strong opponent Ghana a 0-0 draw in the first leg of the second qualifying round on 13 October 1971, a 1-0 victory in the second leg on 27 October Togo took part in the African Cup of 1972 in Cameroon. After a 3-3 draw against Mali, a 0-2 loss against the hosts Cameroon and a 1-1 draw against Kenya Togo already retired from after the first round. All 4 Goals of the Togolese contributed Edmond Apéti called Kaolo in.

Return to Togo and Africa Cup of Nations 1984

The late 1970s was Goeller coach of Julius Berger FC in Nigeria, a football club owned by the construction company Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, a subsidiary of the German Bilfinger Berger. The end of 1981 he took over the Nigerian national team, which had suffered a 0-2 defeat to Algeria in qualification for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. The engagement lasted only a very short and already ended after a 1-2 defeat in the return match against Algeria. Goeller left Nigeria again, briefly worked in Mozambique and finally returned to Togo.

For the African Cup of Nations 1984 in Ivory Coast after qualifying against Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ethiopia. As with the participation of 1972 different from Togo in the first round after a 0-3 defeat against the host nation of the Ivory Coast, a 1:4 defeat against Cameroon and a goalless draw against Egypt ended as a group Togo bottom of Group A the tournament.

Rebuilding and Africa Cup 1998

1996 Goeller returned again as a coach to Togo and took over the Togolese national team of his predecessor Engot Babuama Sabe. With gambling at this time only a few professionals in Europe as Bachirou Salou ( MSV Duisburg), Koffi Fiawoo (CS Louhans - Cuiseaux ), affo Atty (SC Charleroi) and Apkalo Gnavor (FC Tours) undertook Goeller a rebuild of the team. Within a short time, mainly due to the Bosman ruling, increased the number of Togolese players in Europe, which zugutekam also trained by Goeller national team. With a strengthened team Togo managed to qualify for the Africa Cup 1998 in Burkina Faso. Goeller secured with a win against the Republic of Congo, the foundation for entry into the group stages of the qualification. The group stage itself led mostly Messan Zougbede. After qualifying took over the German coach Eberhard Vogel. After a 1:2 defeat against the Democratic Republic of Congo, a 2-1 win against Ghana and a 1-3 defeat against Tunisia Togo different again from the group stage of the tournament. Bird gave the job after less than a year again, his successor was Mawuena Kodji.

African Cup of Nations 2000 and resignation

In 1999 Göllersdorf the trainer's office one last time and led Togo to the African Cup success in 2000. Togo earned a 1-1 draw against Ivory Coast on 24 January 2000, a 0-2 against Ghana on 27 January 2000 in the absence Göller, the right to the game has voiced criticism of the Togolese Association and finally a 1-0 victory against Cameroon, which, however, was not enough to qualify for the quarter-finals. Togo resigned as group bottom of Group A after the first round. Even the last game had not pursued with Goeller. Contrary to the assertions advanced of malaria Göller he had left the service after his criticism before the second game. Reasons for his criticism were serious organizational shortcomings in the Togolese Association, outstanding salary payments and disagreements with the President of the Togolese Football Federation, the president's son rock Balakiyem Gnassingbé.