Manuel Wilhelm

Manuel Wilhelm (born 15 December 1980 in Ludwigsburg)[1] is a German international rugby union player, playing for the RG Heidelberg in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

Manuel Wilhelm
Birth nameManuel Wilhelm
Date of birth (1980-12-15) 15 December 1980
Place of birthLudwigsburg, Germany
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight108 kg (17 st 0 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
RGH
SCN
Valencia
RGH		 ()
Correct as of 21 March 2010
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2003- Germany 40
Correct as of 4 December 2013

Manuel Wilhelm plays rugby since 1986, first for RG Heidelberg, later he spent one season with league rival SC Neuenheim, before he went back to his club of origin RG Heidelberg. After his military service Wilhelm played one season for CAU Valencia in the first Spanish division, before returning to RG Heidelberg. He won two German championships (15s) with the later, in 2006 and 2007, five 7s-championships in 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009 and the German cup in 2004. He also plays beach rugby for The Romantics B.R.F.C..[2]

He was first called up for the German national team in 2000 but could not play because of injury and did not make his debut for Germany until 2003, in a game against Sweden.[3]

He is the founder of Germany's biggest rugby website, TotalRugby.de.[4]

In 2012, Wilhelm proposed a reform of the German league system which was approved at the Deutsche Rugby Tag, the annual general meeting of the DRV, in mid-July 2012. The new system will see the number of clubs in the Bundesliga increased from ten to 24, the league divided into four regional divisions of six clubs each and the finals series expanded from four to eight teams.[5][6]

Wilhelm's father is from Ghana while his mother is German.[3]

Honours

Club
  • German rugby union championship
    • Champions: 2006, 2007
    • Runners up: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008
  • German rugby union cup
    • Winners: 2004

National team
  • European Nations Cup - Division 2
    • Champions: 2008

Stats

Manuel Wilhelm's personal statistics in club and international rugby:[2]

Club
Year Club Division Games Tries Con Pen DG Place
2007-08 RG Heidelberg Rugby-Bundesliga 13 2 0 0 0 2nd — Runners-up
2008-09 13 4 0 0 0 5th
2009-10 14 5 0 0 0 2nd — Semi-finals
2010-11 7 0 0 0 0 4th — Semi-finals
2011-12 12 0 0 0 0 6th
2012-13 4th — Semi finals
2013-14
  • As of 4 December 2013

National team

European Nations Cup
Year Team Competition Games Points Place
2006-2008 Germany European Nations Cup Second Division 7 0 Champions
2008-2010 Germany European Nations Cup First Division 10 0 6th — Relegated
2010–2012 Germany European Nations Cup Division 1B 1 0 4th
2012–2014 Germany European Nations Cup Division 1B 7 15 ongoing

Friendlies & other competitions
Year Team Competition Games Points
2008 Germany Friendly 1 0
2009 1 0
  • As of 4 December 2013
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gollark: So I guess if you consider license costs our terrestrial TV is *not* free and costs a bit more than Netflix and stuff. Oops.
gollark: - it funds the BBC, but you have to pay it if you watch *any* live TV, or watch BBC content online- it's per property, not per person, so if you have a license, and go somewhere without a license, and watch TV on some of your stuff, you are breaking the law (unless your thing is running entirely on battery power and not mains-connected?)- it costs about twice as much as online subscription service things- there are still black and white licenses which cost a third of the priceBut the enforcement of it is even weirder than that:- there are "TV detector vans". The BBC refuses to explain how they actually work in much detail. With modern TVs I don't think this is actually possible, and they probably can't detect iPlayer use, unless you're stupid enough to sign up with your postcode (they started requiring accounts some years ago).- enforcement is apparently done by some organization with almost no actual legal power (they can visit you and complain, but not *do* anything without a search warrant, which is hard to get)- so they make up for it by sending threatening and misleading letters to try and get people to pay money
gollark: Hold on, I wrote a summary ages ago.
gollark: TV licenses aren't EXACTLY that, they're weirder.

References
  1. Manuel Wilhelm profile at scrum.com accessed: 28 February 2010
  2. Manuel Wilhelm profile totalrugby.de (in German) accessed: 28 February 2010
  3. Deutschland vs. Schweden: Rugby-Nationalspieler Manuel Wilhelm im Porträt (in German) published: 3 April 2013, accessed: 27 April 2013
  4. Olympic rugby Expert opinions: Germany olympic-rugby.org, Interview with Manuel Wilhelm, accessed: 28 February 2010
  5. DRT 2012: Ligareform kommt / Vertrag mit DRV-Vermarkter wird überprüft (in German) totalrugby.de, published: 16 July 2012, accessed: 24 July 2012
  6. DRT (in German) DRV website, published: 16 July 2012, accessed: 24 July 2012
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