Christian Rahn

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Christian Rahn
Christian Rahn - Day of Legends 2016 02.jpg
Christian Rahn, 2016
Personnel
birthday June 15, 1979
place of birth HamburgGermany
size 185 cm
position Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years station
1984-1994 Altona 93
1994-1998 FC St. Pauli
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997-2002 FC St. Pauli amateurs 87 (9)
1997-2002 FC St. Pauli 79 (4)
2002-2004 Hamburger SV 45 (8)
2002-2003 Hamburger SV amateurs 9 (1)
2005-2006 1. FC Cologne 26 (1)
2005-2006 1. FC Cologne II 3 (0)
2006-2008 Hansa Rostock 66 (9)
2008 Hansa Rostock II 1 (0)
2009–2012 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 35 (0)
2011 SpVgg Greuther Fürth II 12 (2)
2012-2013 SSV Jahn Regensburg 21 (3)
2013-2015 FC St. Pauli II 35 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2000-2001 Germany U-21 13 (2)
2002-2004 Germany 5 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2014-2015 FC St. Pauli II (assistant coach)
2015 Hamburger SV U16 – U19 (defensive coach)
2015-2016 Hamburger SV II (assistant coach)
2016-2020 Hamburger SV Youth (technical trainer)
2018-2020 Hamburger SV III
2020– Hamburger SV II (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Christian Rahn (born June 15, 1979 in Hamburg - Altona ) is a former German soccer player and today's soccer coach .

Career as a player

Beginnings in Hamburg

Rahn, who can play both in the left midfield position and as a full-back on the left in the back four , began playing football at Altona 93 at home and moved to FC St. Pauli as a youth in 1994 . There he went through the youth teams until he came to his first two short appearances in the Bundesliga at the end of the 1996/97 season . Rahn fought for a permanent place in the team during the 1999/2000 season . In the following season 2000/01 he rose to the Bundesliga with FC St. Pauli. This was followed by a season as a regular player in the Bundesliga, which, however, ended in another relegation. The highlight of this season was the win on February 6, 2002 against the then World Cup winner FC Bayern Munich ("World Cup Winner-Conqueror"). At St. Pauli, Christian Rahn also became a senior international .

He then moved to Hamburg's local rivals HSV in 2002 . After a protracted knee injury, the left-footed man was unable to prevail. In the first season he came only to nine missions. In the second season he became a regular player during the second half of the season. In 22 appearances this season, Rahn scored seven goals, four of them with a free kick. Thus, Rahn played back briefly in the national team. However, he could not maintain this level and was therefore permanently removed from the starting line-up by HSV coach Thomas Doll during the 2004/05 season .

Via Cologne to Rostock

In January 2005, Rahn left Hamburger SV and went to 1. FC Köln in the 2. Bundesliga for a transfer fee of 150,000 euros , with which he was promoted to the Bundesliga. In contrast to the promotion season, he played in the defensive department of the team now trained by Uwe Rapolder and had at times fought for a regular position as a left defender. Nevertheless, 1. FC Köln and Rahn went their separate ways after the 2005/06 season .

On June 26, 2006, he completed a trial training at the second division TSV 1860 Munich , to which he said he wanted to switch. Apparently, however, this change failed because of Rahn's salary expectations. He then did the season preparation at Hansa Rostock . Frank Pagelsdorf , his former coach at Hamburger SV , complied with the player's request and also used him in friendly matches. Although a commitment was initially ruled out both by the club and by Rahn, FC Hansa announced the conclusion of a contract on July 28, 2006, after which Rahn was initially committed to the Baltic coast for two years . There he convinced again with good performances in the left midfield position and contributed to Hansa Rostock remaining unbeaten for the entire first half of the season. He also made promotion with Hansa Rostock and contributed to it with two free-kick goals in the last two games. In the following season, however, he was immediately relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga with Rostock. After Rostock was in danger of relegation again during the first half of the 2008/09 season , Rahn was deleted as one of four players from the Ostseestädter squad for the winter break.

Rahn at Greuther Fürth and Jahn Regensburg

In early January 2009, Rahn signed a contract with SpVgg Greuther Fürth until 2011 , which was not extended after the 2011/12 season. He then took part in the training camp of the association of contract football players and signed a one-year contract on August 2, 2012 with the second division promoted SSV Jahn Regensburg . After the season he went back to FC St. Pauli, for whom he played in the U-23 team in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons.

National team

On May 9, 2002, Rahn made his debut in a 7-0 victory in a friendly game as part of the preparation for the 2002 World Cup in the Dreisam Stadium in Freiburg im Breisgau against Kuwait in the German national team . He was not nominated for the squad for the World Cup . On March 31, 2004 he came to his fifth and last appearance for the national team in the 3-0 win at Sportpark Müngersdorf in Cologne against Belgium , where he came on in the 84th minute for Michael Ballack . Rahn was a candidate for a place in the German squad for the 2004 European Football Championship , but he was injured at short notice and dropped out.

Career as a coach

For the 2015/16 season, Rahn returned to HSV as a youth coach for the defensive area (age groups U16 to U19). Before that, he had also worked as an assistant coach for the second team at FC St. Pauli. After Josef Zinnbauer left the coaching position of the second team of Hamburger SV and his assistant coach Soner Uysal took over this task, Rahn took over his assistant until the end of the 2015/16 season in September 2015 .

For the 2016/17 season, Rahn became the technical trainer for the HSV youth teams. In October 2017 he also took over as head coach of the third HSV men's team , which, however, is part of the popular sports program. At the end of season 2017/18 he went with the team from the fünftklassigen Oberliga Hamburg in the division Hamburg from. Under Rahn, the third managed a direct return to the league, in which she was in 7th place after 24 games in the 2019/20 season at the time of the cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The team included the former HSV professionals Marcell Jansen and Piotr Trochowski . Born in Hamburg, he has been completing his training as a football teacher at the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy since 2019 and passed it at the beginning of August 2020.

After receiving his football instructor license, Rahn became Co-trainer of Pit Reimers for the second team of HSV, which plays in the fourth-class Regionalliga Nord , for the 2020/21 season .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Christian Rahn - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . September 27, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  2. Jahn gets ex-national player Rahn ( memento from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on ssv-jahn.de, August 2, 2012
  3. ^ Return to the Millerntor , club website of FC St. Pauli from June 28, 2013
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Christian Rahn - International Appearances . RSSSF . September 27, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  5. Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): Bierofka and Rahn still there. In: kicker online. May 15, 2002, accessed October 17, 2014 .
  6. Alex Raack: When Christian Rahn wanted to conquer the world of football. In: 11 friends. 11FREUNDE Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, October 31, 2011, accessed on October 17, 2014 .
  7. Hamburger Morgenpost: From St. Pauli to HSV: Youth Coach: Christian Rahn will be Rothose again , accessed on June 25, 2015
  8. Hamburger Abendblatt: Christian Rahn will be Uysal's assistant coach at the U23 , accessed on September 21, 2015
  9. 23 new soccer teachers and one new soccer teacher , kicker.de, August 4, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020.
  10. Young coaches have been confirmed - Pit Reimers will take over U21 , hsv.de, August 7, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020.