Holger Janz

Holger Janz (born September 11, 1966 ) is a former German soccer player . The striker played primarily for clubs in Baden and played for SC Freiburg in the 2nd Bundesliga .

Athletic career

Janz started playing football at FV St. Georgen before playing for a year at FC 08 Villingen in the youth team. After his return to his hometown club, he was already a regular in the adult sector as an A-youth and scored 30 goals in the then fifth-class Landesliga Südbaden . Then FC 08 Villingen brought him back into their ranks in the summer of 1985, for whose competition team the teenager then made his debut in the third-class Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . After a coach change from Hans Cieslarczyk to Nikolaus Semlitsch , he established himself as a regular player at the club in relegation battle and scored ten goals this season in 22 league games. This was not enough to keep the league at the end of the 1985/86 season , but he had drawn the attention of the southern Baden league rivals Freiburg FC . With the former German champion, who found him an apprenticeship as a banker after graduating from high school , he was supposed to contribute to the medium-term return to the 2nd Bundesliga as part of a rejuvenated team in which Reinhard Binder was the only one over 30 years old at the start of the season .

In the team, which was reinforced with Aleksandar Abutovic and Frank Wormuth , Janz was a regular player right away and ultimately the club's top scorer with 14 goals this season in front of the ten-time successful Henry Schüler , the eKlub trained by Uli Bruder , however, only ranked fourth in the table with four points at the end of the season Behind league champions SV Sandhausen . Although in the season 1987/88 with eight goals this season within the club now ranked behind Michael Winkler , he played with the club in a duel with FV 09 Weinheim for the championship. After a 3-0 defeat on the fourth from last matchday against last year's Sandhausen champions, the club lost the lead in the standings, which was not regained after another away defeat on the penultimate matchday at SC Geislingen despite a 4-1 home win at the end of the season against Offenburger FV . As runner-up, the club took part in the German amateur championship , but retired despite a 2-1 away win at Eintracht Trier with a 3-0 defeat in the second leg. Janz was not involved. Then there was another upheaval at the indebted club, as a result of which the team did not call off constant performance and found themselves in the middle of the table. Here, however, stood out Janz, who scored 25 goals in 31 games of the season and thus placed second behind the once more successful Volker Rudel on the league scorer list.

In 1989, Janz moved within Freiburg to local rivals SC Freiburg. Here he was initially only a supplementary player and was primarily used as a "joker". He succeeded between the sixth and tenth game day of the second division season 1989/90 in five consecutive games each a hit as a substitute. He then played his way into the starting line-up for a while before moving back out of the squad. On the last day of the match he scored three goals in a 6-1 win over SV Meppen , so that he had a total of eleven goals in his first second league season. At the beginning of his second season he was again a regular player under the new coach Eckhard Krautzun before he moved back into the second line in the second half of the season. When Volker Finke took over as coach in the summer of 1991, he was sorted out and joined VfR Mannheim after 51 second division games and 16 second division goals .

In the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg Janz was again a regular goal scorer, while his Mannheim club finished the 1991/92 season in tenth place in the table, with 17 goals this season he was the second best goalscorer behind Fredi Bobic from TSF Ditzingen, who were placed directly before . In the following season he led the team around ex-professionals such as Wolfgang Wolf , Aaron Biagioli and Frank Haun with 14 goals to fourth place in the table, before his ten goals this season in the 1993/94 season to third place and thus qualify for the third-class regional league South ranged. Here he was still active until the summer of 1996, when he was runner-up in the 1995/96 season behind the Stuttgarter Kickers , and he said goodbye to higher-class football.

Janz's son also played for Freiburg FC at times. During his time in Mannheim he studied organizational management at the University of Mannheim , later he became managing partner of a food manufacturer.

Web links

• https://www.transfermarkt.de/holger-janz/profil/player/96417

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ffc-history.de: "1986/87 season - Amateur Oberliga Baden-Württemberg"
2. ↑ fupa.net: "Reunion of longtime storm partner at the kick of the sons"