Reiner Calmund Net Worth 2020

Short introduction

Reiner Calmund is a former soccer official who has ever expanded his popularity outside sports as a media leader in various activities. After the end of his career as an amateur player, he became a youth coach, from 1976 youth leaders at Bayer Leverkusen, the next manager. In 1999 he became the executive director until 2004. Since then he can be seen in various genres in public appearance, from reading from his biography to participation in cooking.

Early life

Rainer Calmund grew in a relatively simple state, studying foreign trade trade and managed to study business administration. As a soccer player he was active at SPVG Frechen 20 to 1966 before the shoulder injury stopped him. He then became a youth coach and won the middle Rhine championship for Juniors with the club. Further positions in the bottom football included as assistant coach before he became a young man leader and a stadium spokesperson for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1976. However, he immediately took over the position of professional footballer managers, and extraordinary skills in making commitments distinguishing him for the time long.

Career

In time as a manager, the club won the UEFA Cup in 1988, the DFB Cup in 1993 and moved to the Champions League final in 2002, who had just lost narrowly to Real Madrid 1-2. In addition, the club reached several representative championships in the Bundesliga while Reiner Calmund was working, twice hardly missed the German championship victory when the race was only lost in the last match.

In addition, the intensive sports connection from Bayer Leverkusen to Brazil returned to him. So he brought some famous players from mature South America into world stars during their time at Bayer Leverkusen, like Paulo Sergio, Lucio, Ze Roberto or Jorghinho. In the reunification of Germany, he also proved that he was often the lead in the competition and could sign several East German football stars for Bayer Leverkusen, especially Ulf Kirsten, who lived with Bayer Leverkusen until the end of his career. But even with the transfer of German players who deserve towards the end of their careers, Reiner Calmund is often very lucky. Bernd Schuster, Rudi Völler or Michael Ballack can be mentioned here which end their career here, not without being able to offer a lot of performance for the company club.

He resigned as manager of Bayer Leverkusen in 2004 for health reasons. In fact, it became a public in 2006 that payment irregularities on player advisors resulted in this separation.

For the rest of his life, Calmund never completely released football, but as a manager he did not find a job. He was elected to the Fortuna Düsseldorf Supervisory Board in 2005 and was the 2006 World Cup Ambassador for Disabled. He operates a weekly column in the Bundesliga under Calli.tv, is an advisor for Austrian club Austria Kärnten and also for Dynamo Dresden. Since 2017 – along with many other TV appearances – he has been regularly shown to the public football again because he is an expert on a paid TV channel. Frequent executions never ended in Rhenish singing brought it extraordinary popularity in Germany, although many observers complained to him about lack of expertise in football.

Career spotlight.

In sports terms, Bayer Leverkusen’s victory from the UEFA Cup was the greatest success with him as a manager. However, a person cannot ignore many very successful transfers as the real success of Reiner Calmund. In his heyday he has a famous nose to register for world stars to come for relatively small money. In addition, as a full-minded mind type, Rhenish, he for a long time, Bayer Leverkusen’s human figure, who is considered rather gray, and who gave the club many sympathy.

Famous quotes

“Not a big one who is small, but fasting is slow.”

“Before we pay 15 to 20 million values ​​for the goalkeeper, I put yourself in the goal.”

“Friendship counts a lot for me, but not in this business. I put Jürgen Gelsdorf outside the door, he even my best man.”

“Now the chance is 50:50 or even 60:60.”

“It is important that we also convince fighters and not just make love to skating.”

Amazing facts

For a while Reiner Calmund also appeared in a second computer match, where he lived on his own island, Ceri Island.

In 2008 he wanted to lose weight firmly as part of the Calli Iron Campaign with the support of Joey Kelly’s resilience specialist. Losing more than 30 kg of body weight allows it to complete the first half marathon under 4 hours.

Reiner Calmund married in the third marriage and had five children from his first two marriages. With his youngest wife, he adopted a girl from Thailand.

He published his autobiography in 2008 with the title “Football Crazy!”