Henning Bürger

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Henning Bürger
Federal archive picture 183-1990-0407-029, FC Carl Zeiss Jena - FC Berlin 1-1, riots.jpg
Henning Bürger in 1990 with a header (left)
Personnel
birthday 16th December 1969
place of birth ZeulenrodaGDR
size 174 cm
position Defender / midfielder
Juniors
Years station
until 1984 BSG Motor Zeulenroda
1984-1987 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1988 FC Carl Zeiss Jena II 14 (2)
1988 BSG Wismut Gera 15 (2)
1989-1991 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 53 (4)
1991-1992 FC Schalke 04 5 (0)
1992-1995 1. FC Saarbrücken 85 (2)
1996-1999 1. FC Nuremberg 44 (1)
1999-2002 FC St. Pauli 64 (1)
2002-2004 Eintracht Frankfurt 53 (1)
2004-2005 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 24 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1986-1988 GDR U-18 13 (0)
1988 DDR U-20 1 (0)
1989-1990 DDR Olympia 7 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005-2007 FC Carl Zeiss Jena U-19
2007-2008 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
2010-2011 FC Ingolstadt 04 (Co-Tr.)
2011-2018 Eintracht Braunschweig II
2015-2016 Eintracht Braunschweig (Co-Tr.)
2018-2019 VfL Wolfsburg U-17 (Co-Tr.)
2019– VfL Wolfsburg U-19
1 Only league games are given.

Henning Bürger (born December 16, 1969 in Zeulenroda ) is a German soccer coach and former soccer player.

Career as a player

The son of a sports teacher learned to play football at BSG Motor Zeulenroda and FC Carl Zeiss Jena in his youth . After a stopover in the fall of 1988 in the second-rate GDR league , in which he had already played for the second team of the Jenaer, at BSG Wismut Gera , he returned to FC Carl Zeiss in the winter of 1988/89. For the Jena, he completed 53 GDR league games. In the summer of 1989, Bürger was appointed to the GDR's Olympic soccer team, for which the FCC midfielder played seven test matches up to April 1990. Even before the start of the qualifying games for the 1992 Olympics, the team was withdrawn in the course of German reunification .

He then played in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga and the regional league . Stations were Schalke 04 , 1. FC Saarbrücken , 1. FC Nürnberg , FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Frankfurt . In the 1st Bundesliga, Bürger was on the field 99 times and scored two goals. There are also 176 second division games with three hits. As a second division player, he was involved in promotion to the first division three times: 1998 with 1. FC Nürnberg, 2001 with FC St. Pauli and 2003 with Eintracht Frankfurt. In his last season as an active player (2004/05) the defensive player played in his home in Thuringia for the second division club FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt .

Career as a coach

After he had finished his career, he became coach of the A-Juniors of FC Carl Zeiss Jena. Due to the sporting misery of FC Carl Zeiss, he was chosen on December 22, 2007 to succeed the unsuccessful Valdas Ivanauskas . Under his direction, Jena reached the semi-finals of the DFB Cup 2007/08 in the spring of 2008 (and beat the reigning cup winners 1. FC Nürnberg and the reigning champions VfB Stuttgart ); However, it could not be prevented that the club was relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga after two years and thus belonged to the founding teams of the new 3rd League .

On September 14, 2008, Bürger was relieved of his position as a coach after Jena had lost its sixth game in the third division on its own pitch 6-0 against VfB Stuttgart II.

From January 2010, Bürger worked as an assistant coach for third division club FC Ingolstadt 04 . He signed a contract until the summer of 2011. After five months and a successful promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, he left the club. According to his own statement, the reason was differences with head coach Michael Wiesinger. Since July 1st 2011 citizen coach of the U23 of Eintracht Braunschweig . During the 2015/16 season he also represented Darius Scholtysik as assistant coach for the first team at Eintracht. After the second team had to relegate to the Lower Saxony Oberliga due to the descent of the professionals to the 3rd division , Bürger left the club on June 30, 2018. He then worked for over a year at Steffen Brauer's side as an assistant coach of the B. -Youth of VfL Wolfsburg , before he took over the A-youth of the club in September 2019 after the departure of Thomas Reis .

Others

Henning Bürger is married to Mrs. Kirstin and has two sons, one of whom is Leon Bürger and also a soccer player.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 82.
  • Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 56.

Web links

Commons : Henning Bürger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Citizen assists Wiesinger. In: kicker online. December 21, 2009.
  2. Darius Scholtysik is training to be a football teacher. on: eintracht.com June 11, 2015
  3. Deniz Dogan to be the new U23 coach , eintracht.com, June 7, 2018, accessed on June 8, 2018.
  4. Henning Bürger will be the new U19 coach at VfL Wolfsburg , accessed on April 16, 2020
  5. PROFILE Henning Bürger (PDF; 245 kB)