Henning Bürger
Henning Bürger ( born December 16, 1969 in Zeulenroda ) is a German football coach and former football player.
Career as a player
The son of a physical education teacher learned in youth football his craft at the BSG Motor Zeulenroda and FC Carl Zeiss Jena. After a stopover in the second-rate DDR -Liga in bismuth Gera, he returned to FC Carl Zeiss. For the Jena he completed 53 DDR - Oberliga games. 1989 citizens was appointed to the football Olympic team of the GDR, with whom he performed in several test games. Even before the start of the qualifiers for the Olympic Games 1992, the team was withdrawn in the wake of German reunification.
Then he played in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga as well as in the regional. Stations were Schalke 04, 1.FC Saarbrücken, 1.FC Nürnberg FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Frankfurt. In the 1st Bundesliga was 99 times citizens on the court, scoring two goals. In addition, 176 second-division games come with three hits. As a second division player he was involved three times a promotion to the 1st League: 1998 with the 1st FC Nuremberg, 2001 with the FC St. Pauli and Eintracht Frankfurt in 2003. In his last season as an active player (2004/ 05) the defensive player Rot-Weiß Erfurt, Thuringia, ran on in his home for the second division FC.
Career as a coach
After he finished his career, he was coach of A-Juniors FC Carl Zeiss Jena. Because of sporting misery of FC Carl Zeiss, he was appointed on 22 December 2007 on the successor to the unsuccessful Valdas Ivanauskas. Under his direction, Jena reached in the spring of 2008, the semi-finals of the DFB - Pokal 2007/ 08 ( and beating out among others the reigning Cup winner 1st FC Nuremberg and the reigning champions VfB Stuttgart); However, we were unable to prevent the club again relegated after two years from the 2nd Bundesliga and as one of the founding teams of the new 3rd Liga.
14 September 2008 citizens was relieved of his post as coach after Jena had lost its sixth game in the third league on its own course with 0:6 against VfB Stuttgart II.
From January 2010, was a citizen at third division FC Ingolstadt 04 as an assistant coach. He signed a contract until the summer of 2011. After five months and the successful promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, he left the club but again. In his own words were basic differences with head coach Michael Wiesinger. Citizen has signed a contract with Eintracht Braunschweig, which runs from 1 July 2011. There he will train as a successor of Christian Benbennek the U23.
Henning Bürger is married to wife Kirstin and is the father of two sons. His sons Luca and Leon are also active as a football player and played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena.