Manfred Amerell
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| Born |
25 February 1947 Munich, Germany | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Died |
between 6 - 11 December 2012 (aged 65) Munich, Germany | ||
| Domestic | |||
| Years | League | Role | |
| 1987–1994 | Bundesliga | Referee | |
| 1984–1994 | 2. Bundesliga | Referee | |
Manfred Amerell (born 25 February 1947 in Munich; died between the 6[1] and 11 December 2012)[2] was a German football Official and Referee. From 1986 to 1994, he refereed 66 games of the Bundesliga; his full-time career was hotelier.
Manfred Amerell was a Landesliga player for TSV Milbertshofen. He was then managing director from 1970 to 1975 for TSV 1860 München, then from 1975 to 1979 for FC Augsburg, and from 1979 to 1984 for Karlsruher SC. At the same time, he directed soccer games in the youth and amateur divisions, where he was able to qualify for higher positions. In the 1984–85 season he made his debut in the 2. Bundesliga. On 28 March 1987, he refereed his first game in the Bundesliga. In 1991 and 1994 he directed DFL-Supercup games. A highlight of his career was directing the 1994 DFB-Pokal between SV Werder Bremen and Rot-Weiss Essen. Since ending his career as referee, Amerell has worked as an official of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund, most recently as a referee spokesman for the more than 80,000 active referees in the Deutscher Fußball-Bund. In this position, he repeatedly criticized the player's lack of respect for referee decisions[3] and what he believed to be inappropriate behaviour by club officials on the side lines, to which he spoke of "hypocrites on the bench" who would contribute to a "brutalization" of soccer.[4] For the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, Amerell commented on current referee decisions in the "Nach-Spiel" column.[5] He ran a hotel until November 2010, in Haunstetten, a district of Augsburg. Amerell was married and had two adult twin daughters.[6] He lived separated from his wife.[7] He was found dead in his Munich apartment on 11 December 2012.[8] After an autopsy was completed, the cause of death was labelled as a heart attack. The burial took place on 20 December 2012 in Westfriedhof (Munich).[9]
