Wolfgang Frank, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wolfgang Frank

German footballer

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1951

Place of Birth: Reichenbach an der Fils, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Sep-2013

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Wolfgang Frank (21 February 1951 – 7 September 2013) was a German football manager and player.Frank was born in Reichenbach an der Fils, and made a total of 215 appearances in the Bundesliga during his playing career, scoring 89 goals.
For the Germany national football B team, he scored three goals in six games. As a manager, Frank was at the helm of 16 different clubs and led Rot-Weiss Essen to the 1994 DFB-Pokal final, only to lose 3–1 to SV Werder Bremen at Berlin's Olympic Stadium. In his final year as a player, Frank trained as a teacher in sport and religion.
He was very inspired by Arrigo Sacchi's A.C.Milan and introduced the 4-4-2 system to Germany at a time when everyone played with a sweeper.
Inspired by how Sacchi had got his team to press, marking space rather than individual players, Frank introduced this advanced tactical thinking into German football.
He is credited with inspiring a renaissance in the Bundesliga which has inspired a new generation of managers such as Jürgen Klopp and Joachim Löw. Frank died in Mainz, aged 62.