Gábor Gerstenmájer

Gábor Gerstenmájer (* September 13, 1967 in Satu Mare ) is a former Romanian football player and current coach sathmarschwäbischer origin. He played alongside the Romanian Divizia A in the Swiss National League A and was in the 1991/92 season top scorer in Romania. Since summer 2011 he has been an assistant coach at FC Schaffhausen in the Swiss 1st League.

Career as a player

Gerstenmájer began his career in his home town of Satu Mare with Olimpia, where he aufrückte in the squad for the first team in 1987 that played into the second division, the Divizia B. Since he first did not play, he was loaned during the winter break 1987/88 to the league rivals Victoria Carei, with whom he descended, however, at the end of the season. Gerstenmájer returned to Olimpia and was henceforth used more often.

After the climb had been missed repeatedly scarce in the 1989/90 season, he went up by changing clubs in the Divizia A by the FC Braşov joined. There he made with 15 gates attention to themselves, so that in 1991 a change to the top club Dinamo Bucharest came about. With Dinamo Gerstenmájer became an instant champion and Romanian scorer.

During the winter break 1992/93 Gerstenmájor was given the opportunity to move abroad and joined the FC Lucerne on who played in the Swiss National League B by the rise and this also managed to end of the season. After that, he was his goalscoring in Lucerne not prove and came in the 1994/95 season are less in use, so he left Lucerne and again in the National League B - this time to FC Schaffhausen - changed. There, led the attacking midfielder in three seasons at each internal scorers. He also played in 1997 with the club the Auf-/Abstiegsrunde and reached the semifinals of the Swiss Cup, which was lost with 1:2 against former Gerstenmájers club FC Luzern. In summer 1999, after four and a half years left Gerstenmájer Schaffhausen and joined the league rivals FC Winterthur, which he did not succeed in the hoped-for advancement. There he was playmaker and captain during two and a half years. In February 2002, he moved for the promotion round in the National League A to FC Baden and left in the season 2002/ 03 his career at FC Frauenfeld in the first third-rate league finish.

National

Gerstenmájer came in 1992 to three appearances for the Romanian national football team, but remained without a goal. He made his debut on 12 February 1992 against Greece.

Career as a coach

Since the end of his active career Gerstenmájer has worked as manager of unterklassigen Swiss clubs. Initially, he worked in his hometown as a youth coach at FC Wiesendangen. With FC Oberwinterthur he rose from the 2nd league regionally in the fourth- highest division, the second inter-regional league, and was followed by player-coach at FC Bülach. In November 2007, he signed a valid contract from January 1, 2008 as the successor to René Brandenberger at SC Brühl St. Gallen in the 2nd league interregional. After he had done with the club in summer 2010 promotion to the 1st League third-rate, his contract was not renewed and the Dutchman Erik Regtop became his successor. Gerstenmájer, who also worked as a fitness trainer in Winterthur for several years, then tried to get a coaching job at FC Schaffhausen in the Challenge League. A request in the winter of 2010 failed initially, but after the descent of the association in the first league he was in the summer of 2011 coach of the U14 youth and assistant coach Hans Stamm at the first team.

Achievements

• Romanian champions: 1992
• Romanian scorer: 1992

Others

Gerstenmájer is married father. His son Patrick (born 23, 1992) plays since 2010 in the second team of FC Winterthur.