Rainer Ernst
Rainer Ernst ( born December 31, 1961 in Neustrelitz ) is a former German football player. He played football at the highest classes of the GDR, the DFB, Switzerland and in the second league of France. He was ten times with the BFC Dynamo and once with 1 FC Kaiserslautern champion and twice won the East German soccer cup. Ernst is 56 times the GDR national team.
Football career
Youth
Ernst is the son of football player Joachim Ernst, who played in the 1960s in the GDR Oberliga. Son Rainer was initially interested in athletics and managed as a middle-distance runner recording standard for the Children's and Youth Sports School. In cross-country skiing champion, he became a pupil of the district Neubrandenburg. From 1968, he played football at the native SG Dynamo Neustrelitz him at the age of 14 1975 for the giants of the sport association Dynamo, the Berliner FC Dynamo delegated. There went through all Ernst junior teams up to the juniors. With the junior team he was in 1978 and 1979 DDR champion. During these years he also belonged to the squad of the GDR national junior team for which he played 25 international matches.
DDR - Oberliga
His start in the DDR - Oberliga was Ernst age of 17. Gameday On the 25th of the season 1978/79, 6 June 1979 he was in the game chemistry Bohlen - BFC ( 3:10 ) for 90 minutes in midfield and has already scored his first two league goals. Also on the 26th and last game he came on as a substitute for 33 minutes to use. He belonged to the circle of players who won the first East German championship title for the BFC. During the following nine league titles in a row he had increasingly more significant share. First came Ernst in the following three seasons does not have the status of a replacement player also. Only in the 1983/84 season he made up permanently in the league team foot. Now mustered in attack he denied all 26 point games and had 20 goals with the most accurate shooter and at the same time top scorer in the league. A year later he was able to repeat this success with 24 goals. From the season 1986/87 Ernst was taken back into the midfield, as a new shock striker had come to BFC with Thomas Doll. In addition to his championship titles Ernst came in the years 1988 and 1989 also to two Cup wins in fdgb Football Cup. His last season for the BFC, he played in 1989/90, in which he again graduated as a midfielder 24 league games with five point Torerfolgen. In eleven years he had thus denied 216 league games and scored 91 goals in the process. He also came in 31 European games used.
GDR national
Even with 19 years Ernst already belonged to the squad of the East German national team. Having already denied several matches with the junior national team, he came on 11 November 1981 at the World Cup qualifier DDR - Malta (5:1) as a substitute in the 79th minute for his first senior international. From 1983, he was inducted into considerable regularity in the senior team, but often do not have a full 90 minutes. He played in midfield as both in attack and scored in his 56 international appearances scoring 20 goals. His 20th goal he scored in his last international match on 13 May 1990 in Rio de Janeiro against Brazil ( 3-3 ). Ernst played 20 of his time in the discharged as National Player 31 qualifiers for the European and World Championships. All qualifications have been unsuccessful, so Ernst came as a national player in any significant successes for the GDR. In his last four internationals Ernst was team captain of the national team. In addition to his A- international matches he played for 23 matches with the junior national team.
1 FC Kaiserslautern and abroad
After the political changes of 1989 Ernst used the new freedom to travel and closed for the season 1990/91 a contract with the Bundesliga club 1.FC Kaiserslautern from. It was used from the start in the Bundesliga games and scored in his first game HSV - 1 FCK (1-3 ) his first Bundesliga goal. Overall, he played in 18 league games this season, was called up normally in the midfield and scored two goals. At the end of the season Kaiserslautern won the championship and Ernst his eleventh national title.
Then Ernst shifted its activities in foreign football leagues. In the season 1991/92 he was playing in the French second division for the ex- champions Girondins Bordeaux, completed 24 championship games with seven goals and helped the club to promotion to the Premiere Division. Subsequently joined Ernst to the French second division club AS Cannes. There he was employed in only seven games. He remained without a goal, so he still accepted an offer from the Swiss first division club FC Zurich during the current 1992/93 season. By the end of the season 1993/94 Ernst played 17 National League games in which he scored two goals.
Subsequently, the now 33 -year-old returned to Germany and played from 1994 to 1997 for the third division FSV Salmrohr in the third-rate regional league. After the end of his career as a football player Ernst returned to his hometown Neustrelitz and opened a shop there.