Horst Wohlers (born 6 August 1949) is a German former football player and manager, who played as a defender or

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Playing career

Wohlers was born in Brunsbüttel,

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. He joined first teams of SC Brunsbüttelkoog and

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until his 1975 transfer to Borussia Mönchengladbach. He was a midfielder, who played during Borussia's golden years in the 1970s, when he won with Borussia the

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two times, the

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once, and the

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in 1979. Wohlers made 95 Bundesliga appearances for Mönchengladbach, scoring six times. He appeared in total 232 times in the Bundesliga, playing also for

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and Arminia Bielefeld until he retired from playing in 1985.

Managerial career

After his playing career ended, he became a coach for

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in 1989 assisted by his former colleague Rainer Bonhof. The Danish football association DBU contacted Horst Wohlers in 1990, because he was pointed out as the ideal replacement for another German,

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. Horst Wohlers was even presented as new national coach at a press conference, though he was still under contract at Uerdingen. This led to a public farce in Denmark, because Wohlers was never allowed to break his contract at Bayer 05 Uerdingen. Therefore, the later successful

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was appointed as new Danish coach instead. In 1991, Wohlers became the coach of his former club FC St. Pauli, where his career as Bundesliga coach ended in the same year. He worked for a while as assistant to

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in the Japanese

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with the

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. In the 2004–05 season, he became the coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach II (or U23), which he led to the German third tier (Regionalliga Nord). His contract ended on 30 June 2010.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wohlers, Horst 1949 births Living people People from Brunsbüttel Footballers from Schleswig-Holstein German footballers Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders UEFA Cup winning players Bundesliga players FC St. Pauli players Borussia Mönchengladbach players TSV 1860 Munich players Arminia Bielefeld players German football managers Bundesliga managers 2. Bundesliga managers KFC Uerdingen 05 managers SC Paderborn 07 managers FC St. Pauli managers VfB Oldenburg managers SV Eintracht Trier 05 managers West German footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Japan Borussia Mönchengladbach non-playing staff