Rico Schmitt

Rico Schmitt 2009

Rico Schmitt ( born September 27, 1968 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a German football coach. Currently he trains the third division Kickers Offenbach.

Sports career

Player

Rico Schmitt began his career in 1975 at FC Karl- Marx-Stadt and went through all the youth teams of the power center. However, the jump in the league squad FCK failed Rico Schmitt, so that he for DDR -division club BSG Greifswald NPP changed in 1988. After a serious knee injury Schmitt had to end his playing career prematurely.

From 1993, Schmitt played back at the county level at FSV Gruena 08 or FSV module Chemnitz in Chemnitz local football.

Coach

During later Altchemnitzer BSC acted Schmitt 1999 initially as player-coach and led the club in a short period to the division of Saxony.

After three successive ascents were made Schmitt left the club from the Fritz- Heckert area and moved to VfB Fortuna Chemnitz, who played at that time in the Oberliga Nordost. With the VfB the then relatively unknown trainer was consistently in the relegation battle, 2003 rose Schmitt together with Lausitz Hoyerswerda and Wacker Gotha again in the national league range from.

2005 Schmitt signed with the second representation of the FC Erzgebirge Aue, with which he made ​​the Saxon League in the Oberliga Nordost rise again in 2008. With the dismissal of Roland Seitz Schmitt rose in April 2008 as an assistant coach Heiko Weber's on the first team. After his dismissal Rico Schmitt served from June 2009 as head coach of the Erzgebirge. In his first season as head coach, he managed to climb to the 2nd Bundesliga. The first season in the Football House of 2010/11 was finally ended after the fall championship under his direction with the fifth place in the standings.

On February 21, 2012 Schmitt was suspended due to a lack of sporting success in Aue. After exactly one year, in February 2013, he succeeds by Arie van Lent at Kickers Offenbach.