Gerald Ehrmann
Gerry Ehrmann in 2011
Gerald " Gerry " Ehrmann ( born February 18, 1959 in Tauberbischofsheim ) is a former German football player at the position of the goalkeeper.
Ehrmann was in his first professional season 1977/78 as a talented young goalkeeper at the 1 FC Cologne under contract as of the 1st FC Cologne 1978 German champion. Until 1984 he was the backup goalie behind the former goalkeeper of the German national Toni Schumacher. Although he could not prevail against the then superior Schumacher, he developed in the daily training at a world-class goalkeeper. During the seven years at FC Cologne 1 Ehrmann came only two Bundesliga inserts.
Only with the change to 1 FC Kaiserslautern 1984, he was goalkeeper in the Bundesliga. The practicing bodybuilder (nicknamed "Tarzan" ) achieved his greatest success in 1991 when he was with the Lauterern German masters. He also won the DFB-Pokal with the Palatines in 1990 and 1996. Although he has been repeatedly displaced as a goalkeeper during his career, he nevertheless remained the declared favorite of the West Lautrer curve. 1993/94 ensured the fans even with that Ehrmann instead of Claus riding Maier goalkeeper was again. The following season, he was replaced after injuries from newly obligated Andreas Reinke, who was goalkeeper also henceforth.
Ehrmann played until his career end of 1997 a total of 294 times in the first nine Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga. Ehrmanns strengths were his reflexes and one-on- one situations with it the gate approaching attackers. Weaknesses he showed at edges.
Ehrmann Since 1996 (1996 / 97 while still an active goalie) is active as goalkeeping coach at the 1 FC Kaiserslautern, where he also runs a goalie school. 1997/98 he was due to failure of Petr Kouba again in a few Bundesliga games as a substitute goalkeeper on the bench, last on 28 March 1998 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Trained by Ehrmann goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller, Tim Wiese, Florian Fromlowitz, Tobias Sippel, Luis Robles, Kevin Trapp and Marco Pops made it into the professional sector.