Thomas Gansauge

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Thomas Gansauge
Personnel
birthday 4th June 1970
place of birth Bergen on RuegenGDR
size 184 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1984 BSG Empor Saßnitz
1984-1989 FC Hansa Rostock
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988 FC Hansa Rostock at least 2 (0)
1989-1991 FC Hansa Rostock 1 (0)
1989-1990 BSG Motor Stralsund 14 (1)
1991-1993 SV Lurup 29 (0)
1993 Raspo Elmshorn
1993-1995 SV Lurup 28 (2)
1995-1996 Police SV Rostock 31 (3)
1996-1999 FC Hansa Rostock 71 (0)
2000-2001 Arminia Bielefeld 20 (1)
2001-2004 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt 68 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
GDR U-18 1 (?)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Gansauge (born June 4, 1970 in Bergen on Rügen ) is a former German football player.

Athletic career

Club career

Thomas Gansauge that the young of FC Hansa Rostock was formed and the football club as early as the second-rate as a teenager in spring 1988 League for the reserve to the first missions in the Republic of scale of the East German football came debuted in the farewell season 1990/91 the league in the 1st team of the Ostseestädter. In the last independent season of East German football , in which Rostock won the double, he made one first division and two cup appearances. Already in the summer of 1989 he had moved up from the Hansa juniors to Hansa's league squad , but had initially gained more match practice in second division football at BSG Motor Stralsund during the league's turning point in 1989/90 .

Following the merger of East and West German football , the defender played in North German third and fourth division clubs. Among other things, he ran for Raspo Elmshorn and in the third-class regional league for SV Lurup .

In the mid-1990s, Gansauge played football as a sideline at the fourth division PSV Rostock and worked as an independent businessman, for example as the owner of three tanning salons in Rostock. In 1996 he returned to Hansa Rostock. On October 19, 1996 he made his debut in the game of Hansa Rostock at Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 1st Bundesliga , developed into a regular player over the course of the season and completed 71 first division games by the 1999/2000 season.

During the 1999/2000 season he moved to league rivals Arminia Bielefeld , but was only able to play ten Bundesliga games for Arminia due to a persistent injury. Despite relegation, he stayed in Bielefeld and played ten more games in the second division, where he scored the only goal of his professional career. After the season he moved to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt in the Regionalliga Süd , where he ended his career after the 2003/2004 season.

Further career

The former GDR junior national player has lived in Chicago since the beginning of 2007 . Gansauge runs the Hansa Soccer Academy there , a school for promoting young talent. In his spare time he occasionally plays football for Schwaben AC, a club founded in 1926 by German immigrants.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Hansa Soccer Academy
  2. schwabensoccer.com: Thomas Gansauge
  3. schwabensoccer.com: History