Gerhard Poschner
Gerhard Poschner ( born September 23, 1969 in Dumitra, district Bistrita-Nasaud, Romania ) is a former German football player. His greatest achievement was winning the DFB Cup with VfB Stuttgart in 1997., Plus the three European finals in the UEFA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup, which he reached with VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund.
Playing career
VfB Stuttgart
Gerhard Poschner introduced in 1974 with his family to Bietigheim- Bissingen, where he began his career in the youth E SpVgg Bissingen before he moved to the youth of VfB Stuttgart with 13. In 1987 he was 17 years old professional with VfB. On the 3rd Round of the 1987/88 season he announced on August 15, 1987 his debut in the Bundesliga. In the 6-0 victory against Borussia Mönchengladbach Poschner came on in the 88th minute for Jürgen Hartmann. In the course of the season was followed by other short assignments. On September 2, 1987, at the meeting with Werder Bremen, the defensive player was in the starting lineup for the first time. With Maurizio Gaudino, Karl Allgöwer and the aforementioned Jürgen Hartmann had Poschner great competition in the middle of Swabia. Being located in the following season the situation is not much improved and more competitors could sit up by players like Rainer Schütterle, Michael Schroeder and Ásgeir Sigurvinsson to Poschner decided in the summer of 1990 to a switch to Borussia Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund
BVB he made the final breakthrough and trained with Michael Rummenigge Michael Zorc the backbone in the middle of black and yellow. 1992/93 he moved with the team to the final of the UEFA Cup. After return game this was, however, lost to Juventus Turin 1:6. Poschner played in two games over the full season. Already 1988/89 he stood with VfB Stuttgart in the final of this competition. But even then you could against SSC Napoli, in which Diego Maradona scored a controversial equalizer, not win. However Poschner could be regarded only as spectators this defeat, since it was not included at this time. After four years at BVB and the runner-up in 1991/92 he moved to midfield for the season 1994/95 back to Stuttgart.
VfB Stuttgart
For the next four years Poschner was one of the main pillars of the team. With 32 league appearances in his comeback season, he had only one less than Eike Immel goalkeeper. By the end of the 1997/98 season Poschner never completed less than 28 league bets. He won here in 1997 the DFB Cup against Energie Cottbus and 1998 moved into the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup one, who lost his club against Chelsea. Only in the new season went downhill for the defensive player. Seven years younger Hungarian Krisztián Lisztes made Poschner the place in dispute and that watched the happenings of his team and more frequently from the bank.
More career
Already the winter break, he looked for a new club and signed with the Italian club AC Venice. This step was in retrospect not very successful, since Poschner in the first game for Venice drew upon a broken metatarsal and long failed. In addition, the game was canceled shortly after leaving because of fog. So Poschner came at the very last game of the season Venetians to his first and only evaluated use in Serie A. After six months they parted again both parties. Poschner it moved to Spain where Rayo Vallecano securing the player's services. When promoted to the Primera División found Poschner back to its former strength, and they reached a respectable ninth. The following year, it was enough just to place fourteen, but this meant the new league. In June 2001, he was obliged by the Austrian club Rapid Vienna, but after half a year went back to Spain and joined the then second division side Deportivo Poli Ejido. During the winter break of the season 2003/ 04 TSV 1860 Munich lured him again for half a year after Germany in the Bundesliga. There he came to four games for the Lions. His last professional game Poschner completed on 21 February 2004 against VfL Wolfsburg.
In the Bundesliga, the midfielder completed a total of 290 games and scored 22 goals.
After the active career
Poschner worked after retirement as a player observer and player consultant. He oversaw former Bundesliga players like Marko Babić or Ewerthon. From 8 August 2009 to May 22, 2010 Gerhard Poschner was general manager at the Spanish side Real Zaragoza. Even before he became the club as an external consultant. Among his first tasks was to expand the cadre of the club and make it more competitive. Here, get him in advance of the 2009/10 season the obligations of Jermaine Pennant, Ikechukwu Uche and Juan Pablo Carrizo.
Find out more
- 17 January 2009 Poschner participants was the TV total Eisfußball Cup. He played together with Fredi Bobic, Guido Cantz, Joey Kelly, Jens Keller, Franz Wohlfahrt and Guido Buchwald team VfB Stuttgart. In the final, the team sat down 1-0 against St. Pauli.
- Under the name The tragic Triangle Poschner adopted in 1997 along with Fredi Bobic and Marco Haber the song standing on. A music video was also filmed.