Hans-Ulrich Thomale
Hans- Ulrich " Ulli " Thomale (December 6, 1944 in Sörnewitz at Meissen ) is a former German football player and coach.
Career as a player
Hans -Ulrich Thomale was as a player with little success. As a midfielder he played for motor Sörnewitz, the TSG Meissen, Dresden and FSV locomotive BSG Stahl Riesa. In Riesa, he played 14 games in the DDR - Oberliga, scoring one goal.
Career as a coach
Much more successful was his career as a coach. In 1971 he began as a youth coach at Halle FC chemistry and moved in the same year for FC Carl Zeiss Jena. After ten years working at youth level Thomale 1981 head coach at bismuth floodplain. 1985, where he succeeded after a fourth place in the league of entry into the UEFA Cup. After this successful year Thomale became coach of the 1st FC Lok Leipzig. With the residents of Leipzig, he won the 1986 fdgb Cup after a 5-1 win in the final against 1 FC Union Berlin. The following year Thomale reached with his team the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, which lost the Leipzig in Athens with 0-1 against Ajax Amsterdam. 1987 successfully defended with the Lok Leipzig fdgb Cup Thomale, Hansa Rostock was beaten in the final 4-1. In the GDR Championship Thomale was denied an unqualified success with the first FC Lok Leipzig, 1986 and 1988 was runner-up behind the locomotive is BFC Dynamo.
Thomale coaching 1.FC Lok Leipzig between 1985 and 1988 in 19 European games and dueled it quite successfully with coach Legends of European football as Nils Liedholm (AC Milan ), Otto Baric (Rapid Vienna), Aime Jacquet ( Girondins Bordeaux) and Johan Cruyff (Ajax Amsterdam).
In his successful time at Lok Thomale formed also talented players who were able to prevail in the Bundesliga later, Olaf Marschall, Jürgen Generic (both Kaiserslautern ), Bernd Hobsch (Werder Bremen), Heiko Scholz (Bayer Leverkusen) and Torsten Kracht ( VfL Bochum).
After the turn Thomale tried his luck first with clubs from the old federal states. He was from 1990 to 1992 KSV Hessen Kassel and coach at the 1992 FC 08 Homburg. From 1993 to 1996 he coached the Austrian club Grazer AK, with his 1995 promotion to the Bundesliga and in the following year with a fourth place in the table qualify for the UEFA Cup. In the 1996/97 season Thomale was coach at KFC Uerdingen 05 and came after a two-month interlude at the Chinese Chengdu FC for season 1998/99 back to VfB Leipzig. There he was, in April 1999, standing at No. 2, dismissed. In November 1999 Thomale was coach at VFC Plauen, but failed to make it into the new Regional before he came to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 2001. He could not prevent the sporty relegation from the Regional there though, but the club by the license revocation for SSV Ulm 1846 could still hold the class. After an unsuccessful start to the 2001/ 02 season Thomale was made redundant in Erfurt. From February to October 2004, he returned once for KSV Hessen Kassel, but was unable to repeat his earlier successes here as well.
Private
Hans -Ulrich Thomale is married and has two adult sons. During his vacation in December 2004 in Khao Lak in Thailand were Thomale and his wife victims of the tsunami disaster. Both, however, survived with serious injuries.
Hans -Ulrich Thomale now lives in Kassel.