Dirk Helmig

Dirk Helmig (born May 3, 1965 in Essen ), nicknamed Putsche , is a former German soccer player and today's soccer coach .

career

During his active time as an attacking midfielder, he played mainly for Rot-Weiss Essen (1983 to 1991 and 1994 to 1999), where he scored a total of 86 goals in 340 games. In the intervening years, he was also active in the Bundesliga for VfL Bochum , and he was also the second division champion with VfL in the 1993/94 season . In the summer of 1999, Dirk Helmig moved from Rot-Weiss Essen to the North Rhine-Westphalian league club 1. FC Bocholt .

The following year he began his coaching career here, but was fired in December 2000. In January 2007 he took over the coaching position at SG Wattenscheid 09 in the Oberliga Westfalen. In this season, the "09ers" were relegated to the association league. Only one season later (2007/08) the SG Wattenscheid 09 under the leadership of Helmig, however, managed to climb into the newly founded NRW League. He was released on April 17, 2009 and took over as coach at Schwarz-Weiß Essen for the 2009/10 season . In May 2010 he won the Niederrhein Cup with the ETB (2-1 at Rot-Weiss Essen ) and qualified with the club for the first main round of the DFB Cup. In the 2013/14 season he was the coach of the second team of Rot-Weiss Essen in the Oberliga Niederrhein. He has been the junior head coach at Rot-Weiss Essen since the 2014/15 season.

He played a total of 31 Bundesliga games (5 goals) and 195 second division games (40 goals).

Helmig runs a football school under the company name Helmig & Margref GbR in Duisburg together with ex- professional footballer Jürgen Margref .

Web links

• Dirk Helmig in the database of weltfussball.de
• Dirk Helmig in the database of fussballdaten.de
• VfL Legends - Dirk Helmig at VfL Bochum