Sven Ratke
Sven Ratke ( born January 3, 1972 in Niesky ) is a former German football player and current coach. With Dynamo Dresden in 1990 he was champion in the DDR - Oberliga and fdgb Cup winner.
Career
Sven Ratkes career began at the SG Dynamo Görlitz, later he moved to BSG Motor Niesky. From 1984 he played in the youth of Dynamo Dresden. In 1988 he was East German youth champion. On 17 March 1990, the then 18 -year-old came to its first use in the GDR Oberliga. In the rest of the season he still came to some applications, mostly as a substitute. On the final day, he scored his first goal for Dresden in the big leagues. It was the 3-1 final score in the match against Lok Leipzig, which meant the championship. In the same year it was also fdgb Cup winner. In the final Ratke came on in the 74th minute for Matthias Döschner. The following season Ratke approached with his club in the European Cup of Champions. He played five times in this competition and scored a goal. It was eliminated in the quarterfinals. In the League Dynamo finished second and qualified for the football league, as the leagues of the former German Democratic Republic were dissolved. By 1995 Ratke played 48 times for Dresden in the Bundesliga, 32 times as " Joker" and scored a goal.
For the 1995/96 season he moved to SV Lurup in the Regionalliga Nord. In the winter he left the club and went to VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga 2. He succeeded his coach Willi Reimann, who started already in October 1995 at VfL Wolfsburg and previously coached the SV Lurup. VfL Ratke initially served a regular place, but this lost 1996/97 again. In 1997 he joined with Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga. On the final day there had been 05 ( 4th place) to rise final between Wolfsburg (3rd place) and 1 FSV Mainz. Ratke, who had previously been only 12 times in the season to use, came on in the 68th minute by Willi Reimann, upping the score 5-3 in the 76th minute. The game ended 5-4 gates after Sven Demandt in the 88th minute once again had to shorten. This Wolfsburg had risen. After the first Bundesliga year Ratke received in 1998 a new contract. He was then reported as access to FC Energie Cottbus, the team left but before the first training again and eventually joined for a season the unterklassigen VfB Hellerau -Klotzsche to.
From 1999 he was active for the Dresdner SC in the Regionalliga Nord. After the merger of the North and Northeast Ratke seasons played with the DSC in the Regionalliga Nord. The qualifying for this league, eleven teams up 1999/ 00 in the league from that reached the Dresdner SC with a second place, Ratke had its share as a regular player. After a season in mid-table from the club was relegated in 2001/ 02 and Ratke moved to his former club Dynamo Dresden. At this time Ratke suffered cartilage damage in the knee joint and could deny no play three quarters of a year. On 9 October 2002, he appeared as a substitute in Sachsenpokal thus abandoning his comeback, but the two minutes ended with a dismissal. After climbing dynamo in the 2nd Bundesliga 2004 he ended his career because of knee problems. He then worked as an assistant coach of the second team, and as a youth coach in SGD.