Mönchengladbach Mavericks

The Mönchengladbach Mavericks ( officially ASC Mönchengladbach Mavericks eV ) was a German football team in Mönchengladbach. They played 2011 in the German Football League. Your home stadium has been the Warsteiner Hockey Park.

History

1988-1999 - Founding and early years

The Mavericks were founded in 1988. At this time, the U.S. soldier Ron Lucas was transferred to Germany and had the idea to build a football team in his barracks in Mönchengladbach. Before there were in Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach with the Mustangs, who played two years in the first Bundesliga, another football team. First, the Mavericks trained in the Mönchengladbach barracks. In the same year they had from here due to security regulations moving to a playing field at the Mönchengladbach dump. A few weeks later they had to move once more, this time to a meadow at the Elisabeth Hospital in Reydt. The Association International Football Team Mönchengladbach Mavericks eV was then treated with 32 founding members established on June 11, 1989, because no existing club in the city wanted to open a football department.

The first training match took place against the Steelers Solingen in 1989. As the head coach could muster no more time, the Mavericks coach stood before the 1989 season without a head there, only with the offense coach Maroan Wahab and Defence coach Steve Alexander. The American Charlie Walz tried to train the team, but failed, which was reflected in the only game of the season. The first real test match against Neuss Frogs went with 31 to 0 lost. Next year, the Mavericks found with Leroy Smal an appropriate head coach and started in the league play. The first game on April 21, 1990 clearly won the new team with 70 to 0 against the chief Limburg 89ers at home Reydt Castle. This game is still the game with the biggest points difference in the club's history. In the national league, the Mavericks with a record of two wins completed with four defeats from last but one. In 1991, the Mavericks played under the Defence coaches Sven Seidenberg and Frank Wenke in the League Association NRW. Both coaches played or still play in the 1st Bundesliga. For the 1992 season, the Mavericks Maroan Wahab could commit offense as coach. Wahab played from 1985 to 1987 along with Seidenberg and Wenke at the Assindia Cardinals from 1988 to 1991 in 1st Bundesliga at the Dusseldorf Panthers. In 1989, he played for the German national team in the position of running backs. He is to this day with various interruptions offensive coordinator for the Mavericks. With the new offense coach Wolfgang Best the team was able to achieve with a record of seven wins with three losses in second place in the Regionalliga.

Next year, the Mavericks with their new defense coach Frank Wenke after merger of two gaming associations in NRW were able to complete more games against new opponents and finished the season with nine wins, four losses and one draw against food. The Mavericks were 1992 host of the annual NRW Cup final, where the best team of the state is played, and left there in the third round. 1994 joined the team from Mönchengladbach with the coaches Detlef fight, Frank Wenke, Jürgen Frambach and Mark Lohweber as second in the Regionalliga West from. A year later, were unable to match their performance from the previous years and the Mavericks topped with a record of seven defeats in any win again in the league from. 1996 and 1997, the seniors team of the Mavericks because of coach and lack of funds the operation of gambling one. In 1998, the seniors started again in the same league. They denied eight games in the League Association NRW, but lost them all. 1999 lost to the Mavericks in their last game against the Düren Bravehearts again all games and occupied the last place.

2000 to 2007 - up and downs

2000 started the Mavericks under head coach LeRoy Small in the fifth division, since the national league was closed due to lack of clubs. With three victories in five defeats, the team was able to Mönchengladbach in third place. Since twice have joined two clubs in the league, got the first three, including the Mavericks, from the fifth division in the league on. Due to problems with the home sports facility, which suffered severe damage due to rain, the Mavericks this season, not all a matches and played so only once against the Dusseldorf bulldozer. Since Remscheid anvil had similar problems with their site, could both the game in Mönchengladbach and are not held in Remscheid. As a result, the Mavericks only occupied the third place with a record of four wins in three defeats.

In 2002, the team presented with Reinhard Frumm a new, relatively inexperienced head coach under contract. Despite of the new coach and some new items from the resolved Neuss Frogs, the Mavericks could only reach the third place with a record of six wins in eight defeats again. 2003 the team lost only three times, where they won seven times. Since the Cologne Falcons were able to ascend from the Regional to the 2nd Bundesliga, was another place in the league free, which could ascend the Mavericks as a table runner behind the Dortmund Giants. The following year, the Mönchengladbach played only mediocre and achieved a fourth place with a record of four wins in five defeats, with up to 1,000 spectators, however, the team had far more viewers than the other clubs in the league. Similarly, it was also 2005, where the Mavericks earned five wins and seven defeats. In the same year, the then 1.Vorsitzende Detlef Gingter came with the operating company of the then still under construction Warsteiner Hockey Park in contact and negotiated that the Mavericks from 2006 were able to complete their home games and their training in the artificial turf stadium. Previously, the team wore their games on the velodrome Mönchengladbach and training in the Grenzlandstadion. Despite a comparatively very high attendance average of nearly 800 visitors per home game, which is roughly represented three times the former league average, and some signings the Mavericks could not keep their league and topped with a balance of only one win in nine defeats in three years in the Oberliga from. However, the decline was only decided in the last game of the season against Remscheid anvil, which were also previously won only one game. The meeting between the two teams in the home of the Mavericks, however, had to be canceled and postponed because of a serious injury to a player Remscheid and ultimately because of floodlight failure with an intermediate score of 7 to 22 for anvil. Despite a complete reprint, as it is actually required by the federal gaming regulations, the boards agreed with the consent of the National Federation for a sequel to the intermediate state of the interrupted game. Since the Mavericks could not come into play again and had ultimately lost 13 to 28, they dismounted in the league.

The Mavericks were in 2007 hosted two major events, an open workout of the professional team Rhein Fire of Dusseldorf, which was attended by more than 2,000 spectators and the Junior Bowl, in which the youth team of the Dusseldorf Panthers and collided the Stuttgart Scorpions. Sporty, the Mavericks were just mediocre and reached the fourth place with five wins, four defeats and a zero to zero tie against the Dusseldorf bulldozer. With 500 spectators per game, the Mavericks had to go through the sporting descent, although a sharp decline in viewers recorded, but had still about twice as many viewers as all other clubs in the league. In addition, the Mavericks a five-year plan worked out under the 1.Vorsitzenden Detlef Gingter, which should allow the rise of seniors sporting teams in the German Football League, the 1st Bundesliga. In addition, the youth teams should constantly train new performers for the seniors team. This five-year plan was to begin the following year.

2008-2011

In March 2008, the Mavericks have split into the game design by Olaf Meyer as a result of differences. Maroan Wahab, who still played with the Mavericks in 2007, took over the job as sports director. Furthermore, the well-known German Mönchengladbach coach committed as the long-time national coach and multiple German champion Walter Rohlfing as a consultant and coach. Frank Wenke was after nine years again be won for the club and took care of from now on as a position coach at the Defense Line of the Mavericks. In addition, they picked Jörg Mack tuna as a Special Team Coordinator, who could get with the German national team in 2007, the bronze medal at the World Championships in Japan and the Maastricht Wildcats in the first year brought the Dutch championship. Not least because the U.S. running backs Eric Truscott and Jared Stevens and the Canadian quarterbacks Mike Renaud and also the Canadian Safety Cedric Bishop, the team was able to finish the season with a record of nine wins and only one defeat. Also, the average attendance increased from 500 to about 800, in top games up to 1200, again strongly. Despite the new coach and the U.S. running backs to the rise only decided in the last game of the season against Remscheid anvil, which had by then lost only once, that could win the Mavericks with 34 to 29. In this game, the Remscheid were in the last quarter with a 29 to 20 lead, but the Mavericks were able to achieve victory and thus the rise by two more touchdowns. In December 2008, the team with Anthony Doghmi undertook a linebacker coach, the experience from the NFL Europe and the German Football League has.

Mike Renaud, the 2008 was starting quarterback of the team, moved in February 2009 to the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League. His body took over Andreas Trebski, the Assindia Cardinals led in the highest German league last year. The other Americans left the Mavericks, but were replaced by George Bell and John McCardle as running backs and Daniel Tromello as Safety. As Renaud was replaced by a German player, the team could still get another American and so enhanced with Jason Carpenter, the linebacker series.

After a perfect season in the regional league, the Mavericks met in the relegation to the rise in the German Football League 2 at the Hamburg Blue Devils, who were directly descended from the GFL because of financial problems before the season. The Mönchengladbach won the home game before nearly 2,000 spectators with 19 to 13 and the return match in Hamburg with 21 to 12 and thus rose to the GFL2, which is the biggest success in club history. For these games, the Mavericks had committed the NFL experienced offensive lineman Patrick Venzke and the quarterback Justin Goltz.

Before the start of the season in the GFL 2 of the squad was strengthened by players like the GFL experienced Jason Adjei and the Canadian Erik Galas. This season, the Mavericks again achieved a perfect season. Already in the penultimate round, the Bulls secured the first place in the table and get so up in the highest German league. Due to a reform in the GFL Bundesliga rise Mönchengladbach Mavericks as champions on without qualification game.

In the German Football League in 2011, the Mavericks were subject to only three times, twice against the German Bowl winner Kiel Baltic Hurricanes and once to zero against the runner- Berlin Adler, and occupied surprising second place. The club had committed several Americans, including Londen Fryar, who in the playoffs but could not play due to an arm injury. The quarter-finals on 17 September at the Warsteiner Hockey Park was won against Stuttgart Scorpions 43:17. The semi-finals, the Mavericks lost on September 24, 47:21 in the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns, the Südmeister were and then won the German Bowl against Kiel.

The end of 2011 it was announced that an anonymous complaint had been filed for alleged illegal employment of U.S. players, after which authorities had investigated the office and seized documents. It now stood receivables in the amount of EUR 350 000 in the room, so that no one was willing to represent the Association as a board. The leaderless organization was the GFL license revoked by public notification, the Lübeck Cougars to replace the Mavericks in the German Football League in 2012.

Youth

In the fall of 1990, the youth division of the Mavericks, the flag has played football, was founded. The team completed on 15 August 1991 their first game against the pastures Ghosts, which they could win with 22:0. Furthermore, the team was formed in the winter of 1991 in a tackle team, that is, that they have started to play with complete football equipment such as shoulder protection and helmet. The rookies were able to complete two test matches against Dusseldorf Neuss bulldozers and the Frogs, but both have lost. In 1994, the youth department in their sport at the NRW Youth League. In the 1995 season they have occupied and lost in the final of the NRW Youth Cup against Dortmund Giants in first place in their league. After a game - and training-free 1996 season due to lack of funds manager and the young people just a year ago increased the seniors into playing one started in the NRW-Liga. They were in third place at the end of the season. In 1999, she could take second place. The youth trained both in Warsteinerhockeypark, as well as in Grenzlandstadion in Mönchengladbach Rheydt.This.

Cheerleading

In 1991, the Cheerleading Department of the Mavericks by Calvin Rix was founded as Red Angels. The newly formed group took in the first year the so-called Spirit Bowl, a nationwide cheerleading competition, the sixth place, where she was the second best team from North Rhine- Westphalia. The cheerleaders were able to reach the 1993 third place at the first NRW cheerleading championship. In 1994, she hosted this same championship. Some years later, the Cheerleading Department was renamed the Taurus Tamers. Furthermore, there was a youth cheerleading department Tiny Tamers.