Willi Reimann

Willi Reimann ( born December 24, 1949 in Rheine ) is a former German football player and current coach.

Career

He played in the Bundesliga for Hannover 96 ( 1970-1974 ) and Hamburger SV ( 1974-1981 ). In a total of 287 league games he scored 93 goals. With the HSV he won the 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup and 1976 German Cup winner and 1979 German Masters.

As a coach he was, inter alia, FC St. Pauli, Hamburger SV, VfL Wolfsburg (October 23, 1995 - March 15, 1998 ) and at the 1 FC Nuremberg busy. From 2002 to 2004 he coached Eintracht Frankfurt. Then trained Reimann in the season 2005/ 06 Al- Shaab in the United Arab Emirates. From November 2006 to March 2007, he coached Eintracht Braunschweig.

Highlights of his coaching career were the ascents of the second in the Bundesliga with VfL Wolfsburg (1997) and with Eintracht Frankfurt ( 2003). The negative peak of his career was the assault ( pushing ) compared to the fourth referee Thorsten Schriever in the Bundesliga match between Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2003/04 season, which earned him a five- game days lasting interior ban and € 25,000 fine. This was the hitherto highest punishment of a coach in the history of the DFB. Reimann spent the home games in a container that was on the up to now not yet finished grandstand for the purpose of rebuilding for the 2006 World Cup. This earned him the nickname container -Willi.