Wolfgang Sühnholz
Wolfgang Sühnholz ( born 14 September 1946 in Berlin ) is a retired German - American soccer player and coach.
Playing career
Sühnholz played football for 15 years in Europe and the United States. From Berlin amateur club FC Hertha 03 Zehlendorf, he joined the 1970/71 season for the Bundesliga club Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, for whom he played 32 league games and scored six goals. He made his debut on August 15, 1979 ( 1st Round ) 2-2 draw in the away match against MSV Duisburg; He scored his first Bundesliga goal on 26 September 1970 ( 8 Round ) at the 8-1 win in the home match against Hamburger SV reduce the deficit to intermediate 2:1 in the 16th minute.
For the 1971/72 season he moved to league rivals FC Bayern Munich with whom he twice won the championship in two seasons. In his first season he became a regular player of Bayern.
In the quarter- final second leg of the DFB - Cup on 12 April 1972, at the 1:5 defeat in the away match against 1.FC Cologne, received because of its hardness as the "Battle of Cologne" in the Cup history, suffered Sühnholz for a foul by Jupp Kapellmann such a complicated leg fracture that for a year he could not play then. In the absence of his contract was not renewed, he left the club in the summer of 1973.
For the season 1974/75 he joined the Master of Regional Berlin and Bundesliga Up Tennis Borussia Berlin, for which he, however, denied only eight league games and a goal - of all things in his final game on October 19, 1974 ( 10th Round ), at the 2:3 defeat in the away match against Fortuna Dusseldorf - achieved. He had never fully recovered from the effects of serious injury.
In 1975 he emigrated to the United States and was in the North American professional league NASL as a player and assistant coach. In 1976 he was declared the best player of the finals of the NASL, when he won the title with Toronto Metros - Croatia. Previously, he played with Boston Minutemen, then at various clubs in the NASL. His career ended in 1980 in Anaheim in California surf.
Coaching career
Wolfgang was Sühnholz 1996-2001 coach at the USSF, the American Football Association. From 1996 to 1999 he was assistant coach of the U-16 and U-20 national team, then for two years head coach of the U-20 national team. After his time as a coach in the youth sector of the Association thereafter, Sühnholz was coach of the Austin Aztex U- 23 in the USL Premier Development League by the end of 2007 until its dissolution and transition to the franchise Orlando City SC in October 2010.