Christian Eichner

Christian Eichner
Christian Eichner at the start of training in 2009/10
Personnel
birthday	November 24, 1982
place of birth	Sinsheim ,  Germany
size	183 cm
position	External defense (left)
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1996	FVS Sulzfeld
1996-2001	Karlsruher SC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2001-2005	Karlsruher SC II	108 (3)
2005-2009	Karlsruher SC	128 (3)
2009-2010	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	29 (1)
2011-2013	1. FC Cologne	63 (0)
2014	MSV Duisburg	10 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2016-2017	Karlsruher SC U17 (assistant coach)
2017-2020	Karlsruher SC (Co-Trainer)
2017	→ Karlsruher SC (interim)
2020–	Karlsruher SC
1 Only league games are given.

Christian Eichner (born November 24, 1982 in Sinsheim ) is a German soccer coach and former player .

Career

player

The defender played until the C-youth at FVS Sulzfeld and then moved to Karlsruher SC . There he went through the youth teams until he was promoted to the professional squad in 2005. In the 2005/06 season , Eichner was in the starting line-up in all 34 second division games and only missed 40 minutes of his first professional season. In the following season he was an equally important part of the team and rose to the Bundesliga at the end of the season . Eichner scored his first competitive goal for KSC in September 2007 at the Bundesliga match in Wolfsburg . His longstanding loyalty to the club and his willingness to run and fight made him one of the crowd favorites at Karlsruher SC. When he was relegated from the Bundesliga with KSC in the 2008/09 season, he left the club for free thanks to a contractual clause.

On May 27, 2009 Eichner signed a contract dated until June 2011 with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . He scored his only goal for TSG on matchday 10 of the 2009/10 season against 1. FC Nürnberg to make it 1-0 (final score: 3-0). In January 2011 he moved to 1. FC Köln . There he signed a contract dated June 30, 2011, which he extended in April 2011 to 2013. After his contract expired after the 2012/13 season , he left the club. After a failed return to his hometown club Karlsruher SC in the summer of 2013, he was initially without a club and kept fit with the upper division TSV Grunbach .

After half a year he joined MSV Duisburg in the third division on February 1, 2014 . His contract, which ran until the summer of 2014 , was not extended due to a serious meniscus injury . He retired because of this injury in January 2015.

Trainer

In April 2017, Eichner became assistant coach of the Karlsruher SC under Marc-Patrick Meister , after he had previously been the assistant coach of the KSC U-17. On August 20, 2017, Eichner took over the post of head coach together with Zlatan Bajramović on an interim basis, after which he remained assistant coach under Alois Schwartz .

After his release in February 2020, Eichner took over the position of head coach. At this point, the second division team was in 17th place with 20 points after the 20th matchday of the 2019/20 season . Before the last match day, the KSC was on the relegation place and achieved through a victory still the direct relegation. Following the season, Eichner received a head coach contract valid until June 2022.

Private

Eichner has been studying mathematics , ethics and geography at the Karlsruhe University of Education since 2005 , completing basic studies and doing all the necessary internships. He was unable to pursue this through his football career. For some time now, Eichner has been doing a distance learning course in sports management.

Eichner has been married to a teacher since 2011 and has a daughter.

successes

• 2007 - Promotion to the Bundesliga with Karlsruher SC

Web links

• Christian Eichner in the database of weltfussball.de
• Christian Eichner in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Change perfect: Eichner becomes Cologne. (December 30, 2010)
2. ↑ 1. FC Köln confirms contract extension (accessed on April 21, 2011).
3. ↑ Eichner will leave the FC
4. ↑ Professional Eichner keeps fit in Grunbach ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (October 28, 2013)
5. ↑ Eichner gets a zebra report on kicker.de from February 1, 2014, accessed on February 1, 2014
6. ↑ Ex-KSC professional Christian Eichner: "Karlsruhe actually has to rise" ( Memento from March 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), in: pz-news.de (Pforzheimer Zeitung)
7. ↑ René Dankert: After Schwartz was kicked out: The new coach at KSC should be more than just a temporary worker. In: Bnn.de. February 3, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 . 
8. ↑ After relegation: KSC promotes Eichner to head coach , kicker.de, accessed on July 8, 2020
9. ↑ "My wife did a great job", Interview in: Kicker No. 13 from February 6, 2014, p. 40
10. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/startseite/599124/artikel_eichner_meine-frau-hat-tolles-gelezte.html
11. ↑ http://www.t-online.de/sport/fussball/id_66813302/ploetzlich-arbeitslos-christian-eichner-erlebt-die-haerteste-zeit-seiner-profi-karriere.html