Manfred Bender

Manfred Bender ( born May 24, 1966 in Munich), often called just " Manni ", is a former German football player and coach. He played in the Bundesliga from 1989 to 1999 for FC Bayern Munich, Karlsruher SC and the TSV 1860 Munich and played for these clubs a total of 229 matches and scored 42 goals.

Career as a player

FC Bayern Munich (1989-1992)

In the summer of 1989, Manfred Bender moved from second division SpVgg Unterhaching promoted to Bayern Munich. He came as a talent and winner of the Country Cup, which he won 4-2 in a penalty shootout against the selection of the National Association of Hesse with the selection of the national association Bavaria. Despite the fierce competition - Jürgen Kohler ( 1 FC Köln ), Alan McInally (Aston Villa ) and Radmilo Mihajlovic (Dinamo Zagreb ) is also switched to the record champion - he came in his first season after all 20 missions in which he scored two goals. His league debut came on August 5, 1989 ( 2nd Round ) when he was a substitute in a goalless away draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 71st minute for Radmilo Mihajlovic. His first Bundesliga goal was to make the score 2-0 win on 27 October 1989 (15th Round ) FC St. Pauli. At the end of the season he won his first title as a professional football player - the championship.

Bender's second season began as the first had ended - with a title. On 31 July 1990 he won with the Bavarians to DFB - Supercup with 4:1 goals against 1.FC Kaiserslautern. In his second season, 1990/91, the Bayern second in the championship and Bender were doing was set with 33 appearances and five goals as a regular player. The following season 1991/92, however, was unusually bad for the FC Bayern Munich. Three coach ( Jupp Heynckes, Søren Lerby and Erich Ribbeck ) " wore out " of the club, slipping to tenth place in the table could not yet be prevented. Searched in player squad for the guilty and you looked at the same time for new players around. Bender moved in summer 1992 to Karlsruhe and Mehmet Scholl came in return to Munich.

Karlsruher SC (1992-1996)

In addition to Bender and the winger Sergei Kiryakov came to KSC so that the shepherd protégés developed into a strong attacking team. In the 1992/93 season the team reached the sixth place and qualified for the UEFA Cup competition. For successful performance of the KSC in this competition ( the highlight was the 7-0 victory at home to FC Valencia) was the strong offensive midfielder Bender at much. Another success with the KSC was reaching the DFB Cup Final 1996.

TSV 1860 Munich / Karlsruhe SC (1996-2000)

In 1996, Bender to the "Lion " for which he three seasons - with a decreasing number of bets, the latter with only six - graduated. He then returned for one season to the second division club Karlsruher SC - but only got two appearances.

1 FC Saarbrücken and conclusion (2000-2004)

From 2000 to 2002 he was active for 35 times the second division 1 FC Saarbrücken and scored five goals. At the end of his footballing career, he still played for the premier league clubs SV Wilhelmshaven and FC Ismaning, then for the Bavarian division club TSV Eching.

Career as a coach

Bender began his coaching career in May 2006 at the Austrian first division side FC Vöcklabruck. From June 2007 to January 2008, he coached the Austrian Bundesliga side SC Rheindorf Altach, from which he amicably parted.

From December 2010 to July 2011 he was assistant coach of the U-20 national team of Nigeria, the 3-2 won the final of the African Cup against Cameroon on May 1, 2011.

Career as manager

From March until June 2013 Bender worked as a sports manager at Kickers Offenbach.

Achievements

• German Champion 1989, 1990 ( with Bayern Munich)
• DFB - Supercup winner 1990 ( with Bayern Munich)
• Countries Cup winners 1989 ( with the Bayern selection)

Others

Especially with the standards provided " schlampernde genius" for danger. His strength was the " turning in " of free kicks from the right half side of the field with his strong left foot, the ball was either extended by a teammate with his head toward the gate or without direct contact came towards the goal.

Legendary is still his goal against Oliver Kahn ( Bayern Munich), he scored a free kick directly from an impossible angle. The Karlsruher SC won the match in Munich on February 17, 1996 ( 19th Round ) 4-1 gates.

Following Manfred Bender Sven Bender of Borussia Dortmund is called by his fellow players " Manni ".