Frank Türr

Frank Türr ( born September 16, 1970 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a former German football player.

Playing career

Teenage years and first Bundesliga air

Frank Türr began in a neighboring village at FC Nuremberg Stone playing football. The high school moved in 1984 to the youth of the 1st FC Nuremberg. The talented striker has always been one of the best in his class and went through not only the youth teams of the club, but also all German youth national teams from U -15 to U- 18th In particular, in the U -16 he performed brilliantly with 13 goals in twelve inserts. So it was logical that he at age 18 was as a contract Amateur fourth striker in the Bundesliga squad of the former UEFA Cup participant from Nuremberg in 1988, in which he, however, clearly stood in the shadow of the set Dieter Eckstein and Souleymane Sane, and Rudi Stenzel. On the 3rd Round of the 1988/89 season he made his Bundesliga debut in the 2:3 defeat at Bayer Uerdingen. After surprising change Dieter Eckstein to Frankfurt during the current Preliminary moved Frank Türr in the striker hierarchy initially, but could be divided into two preliminary round inserts are not so convincing that coach Hermann Gerland sat on him. Instead, undertook the club during the winter break Reiner Wirsching as a new striker. Türr itself only came on Matchday 29 back into use, for the first time allowed to complete 31 on game day from the start a full game and eventually scored on the 32nd Round on as a substitute in the 2-2 draw with Hannover 96 his first Bundesliga goal.

Forward number three at the 1 FC Nuremberg

The trained Speditionskaufmann then got to the 1989/90 season a contract as a professional. For Türr followed his best season in the first division. In 26 games, nine of them from the start, he scored six goals and was thus at the end behind Wirsching two most successful along with Sane scorer. In particular, his 2-0 4-0 victory over Bayern Munich on November 25, when he played from the beginning, the club fans will remember. Despite this good performance, the new coach Arie Haan planned in the 1990/91 season not with him in the starting eleven. Nevertheless, towards the end of the preliminary round Türr conquered a place in the starting eleven, as he always was in the starting from the 11th until the 16th game day. However, in the second round he was again only the substitute from the service, but could its two preliminary round matches not add another goal.

Hapless years in Bochum and Braunschweig

After three years at the 1st FC Nuremberg Frank Türr joined the 1991/92 season to VfL Bochum. There, after the departure of Stefan Kohn and Uwe Leifeld the competition for places in attack was open. Frank Türr was set to the first match days, but quickly lost his starting place in the first team. In the end, he was successful in 17 games twice for the VfL ​​. After a disappointing first round with five brief appearances he moved during the winter break of the 1992/93 season in the 2nd Bundesliga for the relegation-threatened Eintracht Braunschweig. He was the first instance to starting eleven, but only scored one goal and lost his place end of the season.

Successful times for SpVgg Greuther Fürth

After the descent of the Brunswick Türr returned to his Frankish homeland in order to focus on his training as a police officer. When SpVgg Bayreuth in Bavaria at that time third-rate league, he met 30 games nine times, after which the SpVgg Fürth in 1994 took him to the start of the Regionalliga Süd under contract. In Fürth, it ran for the striker finally really good. He was the undisputed master player and has been in eight years, five time top scorer of the team. In the season 1996/97 he managed with SpVgg promotion to the second Bundesliga, to which he contributed 25 goals as top scorer in the Regionalliga Süd. It was particularly piquant that he scored all three goals against his former club in the 3-1 victory over the then also third-rate 1 FC Nuremberg. Also in the second Bundesliga Frank Türr was the constant of Fürth, who played in the storm long with a variety of strikers like Milan Kerbr, Arie van Lent or Petr Ruman together. It was not until the 2001/02 season repressed him Ioannis Amanatidis and Francis Kioyo from the starting eleven. After a total of 228 league games and 86 league goals, he finished in 2002 his footballing career.

Achievements

• Scorer in the Regionalliga Süd 1996/97
• DFB Hall Cup winners 2000

More careers

After the retirement of Frank Türr went to his service in 2002 in the Bavarian police. He had taken after his return to Franconia mid-1990s the training. The parallel training cost him his Fürth times two weekly workouts. Türr is for the Support Command Nuremberg, has the responsibility of securing the Bundesliga home games of the 1st FC Nuremberg is, works. Parallel is Frank Türr also coach of the Bavarian police selection.