Steffen Menze

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Steffen Menze
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Steffen Menze in June 2011
Personnel
birthday January 28, 1969
place of birth PlauenGDR
size 189 cm
position Defense / midfield
Juniors
Years station
BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt
0000-1987 FC Forward Frankfurt / O.
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1989 FC Forward Frankfurt / O. II at least 21 0(5)
1989-1990 FC Forward Frankfurt / O. 9 0(0)
1990-1991 Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl 10 0(3)
1991 Siófoki Bányász SE 8 0(0)
1991-1992 FC St. Pauli 3 0(0)
1992-1993 1. FC Pforzheim 34 0(2)
1993-1994 VfR Pforzheim 31 0(3)
1994-1996 Hannover 96 40 0(3)
1996 Eintracht Frankfurt 10 0(1)
1997-1998 FSV Zwickau 52 0(4)
1998-2003 1. FC Union Berlin 149 (37)
2003-2004 Kickers Offenbach 13 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2004-2006 Kickers Offenbach II
2006 Kickers Offenbach (interim)
2006-2007 SV Waldhof Mannheim
2008-2009 Kickers Offenbach II
2009 Kickers Offenbach (Assistant Trainer)
2009-2010 Kickers Offenbach
2012 Dynamo Dresden (interim)
2013 Dynamo Dresden (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Steffen Menze (born January 28, 1969 in Plauen ) is a former German soccer player who continued his sporting career as a coach and most recently worked as a sports director at Dynamo Dresden .

Player career

Menze initially played in the youth departments of BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt and FC Vorwärts Frankfurt (FCV) . In the 1987/1988 season he was part of the squad of the second team of FCV, which played in the second-rate GDR league . Of the 34 league games Menze played as a midfielder 21 games in which he scored five goals. With the relegation of the first team from the top division after the major league season 1987/88 , FCV II was downgraded to the district league . In the following season Menze was still part of the squad of the second representation in the third class Frankfurt district league , which, despite a very good 2nd place, similar to the second of SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde (14th place), stopped playing in the summer of 1989. In the league season 1989/90 he played nine point games in the first team, so also made his part in the return of the army club to the House of Lords.

In the summer of 1990 he returned to Eisenhüttenstadt , where his former company sports association (BSG) had recently restructured into the Stahl soccer club and was tackling the second league season in a row. However, it was not until March 16, 1991 that he could play his first league game. In the match between FC Stahl and FC Sachsen Leipzig (3-0) he was used as a midfielder. In this position he played ten times in the league in the 1990/91 season and scored three goals. He also starred with his team as a left midfielder in the last cup final of the German Democratic Republic , which with 0: 1 against champions Hansa Rostock was lost.

He then followed the call of Eduard Geyer and moved to Siófoki Bányász SE in Hungary . Due to the club's financial difficulties, he stayed there only half a season and switched to the 2nd Bundesliga for FC St. Pauli during the 1991/1992 winter break . In the second half of the season he was only used three times for Hamburg. He then went to Pforzheim, where he played successively for the first division club 1. FC and VfR . In 1994 he was transferred to Hannover 96 as a defender . In the 2nd Bundesliga he played 40 games (3 goals) for Lower Saxony and after relegation in 1996 he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt . After he completed another ten second division games (one goal) there, Gerd Schädlich brought him to FSV Zwickau the following winter . In the West Saxony he was used again as a midfielder. He stayed until relegation in 1997/98 and then moved to the regional league for 1. FC Union Berlin .

In the Wuhlheide , Menze became a leading player, team captain , goalscorer (30 goals in 90 regional league games) and darling of the public. But he was also the tragic figure of the promotion relegation in the 1999/2000 season when he missed his penalty in a penalty shoot-out against VfL Osnabrück . Then the Union fans developed the phrase “Menze is to blame” if something went wrong. In the following year, Union and Menze were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga and entered the DFB Cup final against Schalke 04 . At the end of his playing career, he went to Kickers Offenbach for a year in 2003 .

During his time at Union, Steffen Menze was nicknamed “Achim” because of the similarity to entertainer Achim Mentzel , who had also sung a fan song about the club.

Coaching career

After the end of his career, he moved up to the Offenbach coaching staff and looked after the 2nd team of the OFC until 2006. After Hans-Jürgen Boysen's dismissal , he acted as interim coach of the second division team for two days before Wolfgang Frank was committed. From the 2006/07 season he coached the traditional club SV Waldhof Mannheim in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg , but was dismissed in September 2007 due to continued unsuccessfulness. In the 2008/09 season Menze was again under contract with Kickers Offenbach, first as coach of the second team and from January 2009 as assistant coach of the first team. After the resignation of coach Boysen in October 2009, Menze took over the team as the responsible trainer. Due to a lack of sporting success, the collaboration was ended on February 8, 2010.

On March 9, 2011 Menze was introduced as the new sports director at Dynamo Dresden . In May 2011 he went with his new team for the relegation matches against VfL Osnabruck in the 2. Bundesliga on. After Ralf Loose's leave of absence in December 2012 and Peter Pacult's leave of absence in August 2013, Menze took over the interim coaching position at Dynamo Dresden. In January 2014, the club announced that Menze would not extend his contract, which expired on June 30, 2014, and would instead look for a new challenge. Then a week later he was released from Dynamo Dresden until his contract expired.

Private

In addition to his playing career, Menze completed a commercial training as well as further training as a sports specialist . He is married and has a son.

statistics

  • Cup finalist with Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt (1991) and Union Berlin (2001)
  • 4 UEFA Cup appearances for Union Berlin (2001)
  • 10 GDR league games (3 goals) for Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt
  • 164 second division games (15 goals) for St. Pauli, Hannover 96, Eintracht Frankfurt, FSV Zwickau and Union Berlin
  • 103 regional league games (32 goals) for Union Berlin and Kickers Offenbach

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The SG Dynamo Dresden is on leave of absence from Ralf Loose . dynamo-dresden.de. December 9, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  2. The SG Dynamo Dresden leaves Peter Pacult on leave . dynamo-dresden.de. August 18, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
  3. Steffen Menze leaves Dynamo in the summer . dynamo-dresden.de. January 28, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
  4. Ralf Minge becomes managing director . dynamo-dresden.de. February 3, 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
  5. Steffen Menze - Dynamo's new sports director is a Saxon