Bundesliga coach turns 70
This is what Peter Neururer looked like more than 30 years ago
04/26/2025 – 2:31 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Peter Neururer is a veteran of German football. It is a well -known name, especially in the Ruhrpott. Now he is 70 years old.
The man with the perhaps best known mustache of German football has her birthday. Peter Neururer turns 70 this Saturday. A round birthday for a man who stood on the sidelines for several decades and is still working as an expert in football today. Neururer was particularly out and about in the Ruhrpott.
He trains Rot-Weiss Essen at the end of the 1980s, Schalke 04 from 1989 to 1990. From 2001 to 2005 and from 2013 to 2014 he worked at VfL Bochum, in the meantime he was also under contract with MSV Duisburg (2008 to 2009). And at SG Wattenscheid, he was a sporting director. There are also stations in other regions of the country such as Hannover 96, 1. FC Köln, Alemannia Aachen or Kickers Offenbach. A total of 214 Bundesliga games and 320 second division games looked after neururer for his teams.
It has been a little more than ten years since he was last on the sidelines. “I don’t feel like it anymore,” says Neururer in an interview with the German Press Agency itself. Of course there are exceptions, for clubs that are particularly heart-hearted: “If Schalke, FC Köln or Bochum would be in need. But otherwise I would no longer do it.”
Which does not mean that he would no longer return to the professional business beyond the 70. “As a sports director or sports director – immediately. I am fit and dare to do more than others.”
Visually, neururer has changed little, only the hair has become a little gray. However, hairstyle and beard have been almost unchanged since the 1980s. Already at the beginning of his coaching career, the cult trainer was traveling with a “Schnäuzer”.
In any case, there is not much to hear from private plans, which other 70-year-olds perhaps undertake in retirement. Accordingly, there is no need to catch up: “I feel like 45, I have two children who have already given me two grandchildren. I have a fantastic marriage.”
Even as a hobby biker, a lifelong dream is fulfilled: with his Harley-Davidson Cruiste Neururer with his buddies, now through all 50 US states, even Alaska. “We did that last year. We are directly translated from Hawaii to Alaska. A crazy history, but that’s how we are,” says Neururer himself.
So he only remains unfulfilled: “I have this dream of holding the shell in my hand once.” But that would have to work again with the job as a sports director or sports director.