Birthday boy of the month three: Manfred Pomp is 60
Manfred ‘Manni’ Pomp was born in Aachen on 25 October 1964. His first football club was the Aachen police sports club (PSV) but he signed for Alemannia Aachen after a year.
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He joined Bayer 04 in 1980 and also played for Germany at youth level. In 1982 he played in the final of the U16 European Championships where Germany lost 1-0 against Italy. He made a total of 25 youth international appearances and was a very big talent. The hard working and technically skilled midfielder signed his first professional contract at Bayer 04 in 1983 but mainly played for the Werkself reserve team. In the Rückrunde of the 1983/84 season he made his Bundesliga debut on matchday 23 coming on at Westfalenstadion in Dortmund on 83 minutes.
Manni played seven games in Germany's top flight and once in the DFB Pokal for the Werkself but was never in the starting line-up. In the summer he moved to Union Solingen in Bundesliga two where he made seven appearances before ending his career at the age of 22 due to a serious knee injury. He did play at amateur level for SSB 09 Bergisch Gladbach and Borussia Freialdenhoven. During this phase he started his second career, training youth teams at TuS Höhenhaus and Bergisch Gladbach and he successfully completed a football coach course at the German Sports University in Cologne in 1990.
After two brief periods as coach of the men's teams at SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach (1990-1992) and Düren 99 (1993-1995) he moved on to the youth teams.
Today he works in our scouting section focusing on top talents.
Dear Manni, Happy 60th birthday! I wish you above all health and all the best. Have a good one.
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