Gottlieb Göller (31 May 1935 – 27 August 2004) was a German

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player and manager. Göller commenced his playing career between 1953 and 1955 with first division side 1. FC Nürnberg. However, he did not find use in official matches there. He continued to play until 1963 for the second division clubs

Bayern Hof SpVgg Bayern Hof is a German association football club based in Hof, Bavaria. The club was founded on 1 June 1910 as ''Ballspielclub Hof'', but within a year was renamed ''Britannia Hof''. In 1913, they merged with ''FC Roland Hof'' and ''FC ...

, VfL Neustadt,

Wormatia Worms VfR Wormatia 08 Worms is a German association football club that plays in Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club and its historical predecessors were regular participants in regional first-division football competition until the formation of the ...

and

FK Pirmasens FK Pirmasens is a German association football club in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team was formed as the football section of the gymnastics and sports club TV Pirminia Pirmasens in 1903 and became independent in 1914. They took on thei ...

. After this he worked as an engineer. When working in

Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the le ...

in 1970 he was given responsibility over the national football team there through mediation of the German ambassador. He took the side to the

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of 1972, the country's first participation in an international competition. Later in the 1970s he had a stint with the Nigerian club Julius Berger F.C. and in 1981 he managed the Nigerian national side for one game.http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/soccerstar/2007/jan/16/soccerstar-16-01-2007-002.htm Vogts becomes Eagles' 23rd foreign handler After a short time in Moçambique he returned to Togo where he took on the national team on three more occasions, on taking it to the African Nations Cup tournaments of 1984, 1998 and 2000. At all of Togo's participations the team exited after the first round.

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* 1935 births 2004 deaths Footballers from Nuremberg German men's footballers Men's association football forwards German football managers 1972 African Cup of Nations managers 1984 African Cup of Nations managers 2000 African Cup of Nations managers FK Pirmasens players Togo national football team managers Nigeria national football team managers West German expatriate sportspeople in Nigeria West German expatriate sportspeople in Togo German expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Togo Expatriate football managers in Nigeria 1. FC Nürnberg players SpVgg Bayern Hof players Wormatia Worms players Oberliga (football) players West German football managers West German men's footballers West German expatriate football managers {{Germany-footy-forward-1930s-stub