Ulrich Pfisterer

This article is about the football coach. For the art historian, see Ulrich Pfisterer (art historian).

Ulrich Pfisterer

Pfisterer in 2009
Personal information
Date of birth	(1951-11-04) 4 November 1951
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	German National Blind Football Team (Coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1974–1975	SC Westend 1901
1976–1978	Juventus Melbourne
1979–1980	Knox City
Managerial career
1983–1984	Alemannia Richmond
2007–	MTV Stuttgart
2007–	German National Blind Football Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ulrich Pfisterer (born 4 November 1951) is a German football coach and former player who is head coach of Blind Football Team Germany and of MTV Stuttgart since 2007.

Playing career

Pfisterer was born in Berlin, Germany. He was 1970 German U21 champion with Hertha 03 Berlin. In 1972, he was a member of the German Olympic Squad, losing his place with the final cut off. In 1976, he signed a two-year contract with Juventus Melbourne, Australia.

Coaching career

After finishing his Physical Education Teacher Training 1974 in Berlin, he went 1976 to Australia working as a P.E. teacher for the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, Melbourne. Here he developed many new approaches to teaching Blind and Vision Impaired Children. In 1982, he received his Post-Graduate Diploma in Physical Education and Recreation for the Disabled at Deakin University (Burwood State College). As a founding member of the Victorian Olympic Sports Association of and for the Blind (1980) he also introduced Goal Ball to Australia. From 1990 to 1998 he was asked by the University of Melbourne and Renwick College Sydney, to lecture in Early Childhood Development, Motorik, and Integration of the Blind. In 2005, he joined the Nikolauspflege in Stuttgart, Germany as a P.E. and English teacher. In May 2006 he participated in the IBSA Footsal-Workshop in Berlin, Germany. Straight after he founded the Blind Football team at the MTV Stuttgart, Germany. In 2007, he was asked to become Head Coach of the German B1-Football Team. In 2009 this side became 5th at the European Championships in Nantes, France. 2009, 2010, and 2011 he coached MTV Stuttgart to successive German Championships. Since July 2011 Ulrich Pfisterer is a member of IBSA Futsal Subcommittee.

Publications

• Ulrich Pfisterer: Games for All of Us. Activities for Blind and Sighted Children in Integrated settings, Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, Melbourne, 1983, ISBN 0-949390-03-8
• Ulrich Pfisterer: Peers-Video, P.E. and Integration, 1993
• Ulrich Pfisterer: Methods of Teaching Blind Football, NPC-Germany and Sepp-Herberger Stiftung, 2008

External links

• Official Website