Marcel Rath

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Marcel Rath
Personnel
birthday 3rd September 1975
place of birth Frankfurt (Oder) ,  GDR
size 179 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Forward Frankfurt / Oder
Chemistry PCK Schwedt
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1995 Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl 53 (19)
1995-1997 Hertha BSC 28 0(5)
1998-2000 Energy Cottbus 59 0(8)
2000-2002 FC St. Pauli 58 (19)
2002-2004 LR Ahlen 38 0(6)
2005 1. FC Union Berlin 14 0(2)
2005-2006 SV Waldhof Mannheim 27 0(7)
2006-2007 Digenis Akritas Morphou 13 0(2)
2007-2011 FC Sylt ? 0(?)
2012– Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl 1 0
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1996 Germany U-21 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Marcel Rath (born September 3, 1975 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a former German football player . He played 31 Bundesliga games for FC St. Pauli and played for FC Sylt in the Schleswig-Holstein League until 2011 . On March 30, 2012 he returned to his home club Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl in the Brandenburgliga .

Career

Rath, who went through the youth departments at Vorwärts Frankfurt / Oder and Chemie PCK Schwedt , moved in 1995 from Eisenhüttenstadt FC Stahl to Hertha BSC in the 2nd Bundesliga . At Hertha, the brawny striker made 20 appearances in his first professional season (but only two of them over the entire season) and scored two goals. In the promotion season 1996/97, his missions were significantly less frequent, before he was no longer used in the first half of the 1997/98 Bundesliga season. Rath could not prevail against competitors Michael Preetz , Bryan Roy , Axel Kruse and Alphonse Tchami , and so he switched to the second division Energie Cottbus during the winter break .

At Cottbus, Rath came to nine missions in the second half of the season before he was able to fight for a regular place with the Lausitzers in the 1998/99 season and scored five goals in 28 games. When Cottbus was surprisingly promoted to the Bundesliga in the 1999/2000 season, Rath was again only a substitute player. Although he played 21 games for the Lausitzer, 14 of them as a substitute. With no future prospects at Cottbus, he looked for a new club and switched to FC St. Pauli to replace Marcus Marin .

Rath made his breakthrough at St. Pauli in his first season. Harry, the fighting pig , as the fans liked to call him, scored 15 goals in 27 games and thus had a considerable share in the rise of the Kiezkicker, who were relegated before the season. He earned his reputation as a fighter this season at the latest. His teammate Holger Stanislawski expressed Rath's lack of technical skills after his three goals on April 21, 2001 in a 4-1 win against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen as follows:

“During training he goes out for hours, hits the goal, hits the pond somewhere in the back or shoots birds. That it worked better today must have been due to the bad turf, from which the ball happily jumped onto his foot. "

- Holger Stanislawski, April 21, 2001

After his third promotion to the 1st Bundesliga, Rath was finally granted his first appearances in the elite class. But despite 31 appearances, Rath only scored four goals and at the end of the season St. Pauli was relegated, as expected by almost all experts, with a clear margin.

Rath then moved to LR Ahlen on a free transfer . At Ahlen, Rath could not fulfill the hopes placed in him, he only scored six goals in 38 games, but received 15 yellow cards loyal to his reputation. When he lost his place in the Ahlen squad after an injury in the first half of the 2004/05 season, he dissolved his contract and played in the second half of the season at 1. FC Union Berlin , which was in danger of relegation . Rath only scored two goals in 14 games, and after relegating the Iron to SV Waldhof Mannheim in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . There, too, Rath was more noticeable through hard work than through goals, and so the paths of Rath and Mannheim parted after only one season.

For the 2006/07 season Rath moved to the first Cypriot division to Digenis Akritas Morphou . After only one year and relegation with Digenis Morphou, he returned to Germany and played for four years until 2011 in the fifth-class Schleswig-Holstein league at FC Sylt . On March 30, 2012, he made his comeback at his home club Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl (Brandenburgliga).

Private

Marcel Rath is the son of the former league player and current soccer coach Harry Rath .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veterans ahead at EFC In: moz.de from April 4, 2012 (accessed on July 14, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Rath, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)