Otmar Rösch

Otmar Rösch (born August 26, 1961 ) is a former soccer player and current coach. He works primarily as a trainer assistant specializing in rehab and fitness training at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim .

Career

Rösch began his career at TSV Blaubeuren and SV Zainingen . Between 1981 and 1985 he studied sports science at the German Sport University in Cologne . From 1985 he was under contract for SSV Reutlingen 05 in the third-class Oberliga Baden-Württemberg , where he was on the field in 33 season games. He made the league competitor SSV Ulm 1846 attention, who committed him in the summer of 1986 after winning the league championship and the subsequent promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga . Under Werner Nickel he ran in 17 games in the second highest division, with the promoted team he finished 13th in the table.

After only one season, Rösch returned to SSV Reutlingen 05, where he won the WFV Cup for the first time in the club's history under Lorenz-Günther Köstner in 1988 and after 34 season appearances at the end of the Oberliga season in 1988/89 after a playoff against opponents with equal points 1. FC Pforzheim won the third division championship in the Frankenstadion Heilbronn . After three wins and three defeats, he and the team behind KSV Hessen Kassel and SpVgg Unterhaching missed promotion to the second division by one point. Also in the following year - this time under coach Jürgen Strack - there was a kind of final for the league championship, when on the last day of the match the Reutlingen team as leaders met the amateur team of the Karlsruher SC . After a 2-0 home defeat, the team then only finished second because the amateur team was not eligible to participate, but the team from the Kreuzeiche moved back into the promotion round. Although the team scored seven points this time, they only ended up in third place behind 1. FSV Mainz 05 and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 . With the renewed win of the WFV Cup, however, he recorded a successful event with the club in 1990, a year later he ended his active career after a third place in the league table.

In 2005, coach Peter Starzmann brought Rösch back to SSV Reutlingen 05 as an assistant coach, where he was promoted to the third- tier Regionalliga Süd in 2006 as a league champion . After the qualification for the 3rd division was missed in 2008 , the club separated from the coaching team. Rösch then signed on as Markus Gisdol's assistant at his ex-club SSV Ulm in 1846, and with the Regionalliga promoted team he reached seventh place in the table. After only one season, the coaching team moved on to the second team of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , which played in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. In March 2011, Rösch took over the post of head coach until the end of the season after Gisdol had switched to FC Schalke 04 as Ralf Rangnick's assistant . He then moved back to the second ranks under Frank Kramer , who he briefly represented in December 2012 when he was coaching the professional team on an interim basis after Markus Babbel had resigned. In March 2013 he moved up again when Kramer was poached by SpVgg Greuther Fürth .

Under Gisdol, Rösch moved up to the coaching staff of the professional team in the summer of 2013, where he also worked under his successors Huub Stevens , Julian Nagelsmann , Alfred Schreuder and Sebastian Hoeneß .

Web links

• https://www.achtzehn99.de/aktuelles/news/2017/11/otmaer-rosch-ein-spezialist-der-hoffnung-macht/