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.jpg) Schlappner in 2006 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1940-05-22)22 May 1940 (age 85) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lampertheim,Hesse, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| Olympic Lampertheim | |||||||||||||||||
| VfB Lampertheim | |||||||||||||||||
| FV Biblis | |||||||||||||||||
| VfR Bürstadt | |||||||||||||||||
| VfR Ludwigshafen | |||||||||||||||||
| Südwest Ludwigshafen | |||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1980 | Darmstadt 98 (assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1987 | Waldhof Mannheim | ||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | Darmstadt 98 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | ||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Carl Zeiss Jena | ||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | China PR | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Waldhof Mannheim | ||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Chongqing Lifan | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Paykan | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Klaus Schlappner (born 22 May 1940) is a Germanfootball manager. He is predominantly remembered for his first spell withSV Waldhof Mannheim, when he led them to the2. Bundesliga title and several seasons in theBundesliga as well as being the first foreign coach to manage theChina national team.
Born inLampertheim,Hesse, Schlappner's early career in football was not particularly eventful. He played for his local football team in Lampertheim in his youth and only progressed up to amateur football or lower league regional football. He moved instead into coaching before he retired playing and achieved the necessary coaching certificates in 1976 before carrying on with his studies inCologne to achieve a certificate in teaching football management.[1]
Schlappner's career as a manager rose to prominence when he was able to leadSV Waldhof Mannheim to win the2. Bundesliga in the1982–83 league season. During his time with them, he helped establish them within theBundesliga for the next several seasons and oversaw them through some of their most successful periods in the club's history until he left in 1987.[2] He rejoined his former clubSV Darmstadt 98 in the second tier to help them fight for promotion during the1987–88 league season where they narrowly missed out on a position to the Bundesliga by losing a play-off position. The following seasons saw other second tier clubs1. FC Saarbrücken andFC Carl Zeiss Jena call for his services in their push for promotion, however, Schlappner was unable to achieve this with either team.
In 1992, he led theChina national team to the semi-finals of the1992 AFC Asian Cup, but he was dismissed after the team failed to qualify for the1994 FIFA World Cup qualification. He would nevertheless stay within China as a technical adviser for the football federation until he returned to Germany to manage SV Waldhof Mannheim again in 1996 to help them for their promotion bid to return to the Bundesliga, however his return was disappointing and he left before the season ended. He moved away from senior management but returned to Asia to help Iran to establish the newly re-brandedIran Pro League during 2000 as well as acting as an adviser for theMongolian Football Federation in 2006.
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