Holger Gaißmayer

Holger Gaißmayer ( born July 2, 1970 in Essen) is a former German football player. Today he is active as a coach.

Career

The first successes came for Holger Gaißmayer one at the former Oberliga Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. Together with his RWO strike partner Marko Schröder ( 25 goals ), he secured in 1994/95 with 26 goals top scorer of the Oberliga Nordrhein and made ​​sure that RWO, rising to become league champions in the Regionalliga West / Southwest. Thus, the first FC Cologne noticed him and signed him as a young striker. The striker hit a very fast and had a fairly successful time at the 1 FC Cologne. In the 1995/96 season he saved the Billy Goats with his goal on the last game against Hansa Rostock in the league in the 1st Bundesliga. After he left the FC in 1999, he tried his luck at various clubs. He was top scorer in the Oberliga Nordrhein among others Adler Osterfeld and the Wuppertal SV Borussia.

However, he became more widely known because of its less often described as elegant little game art than by a saying of his former coach Bernd Schuster at the Annual Meeting 1998 of the 1st FC Cologne. This designated Gaißmayer as "stumbling King ", it was " for every striker the maximum penalty, to play alongside him." Gaißmayer countered in a 2007 interview: " Schuster as coach was a good one, but a human catastrophe. "

After his professional career, he joined the Wuppertal amateur club FSV Vohwinkel, the Holger Gaißmayer shot with 41 competitive game hits in the 2006/07 season in the national league the Lower Rhine. From October 2008 he was active as a player-coach at FSV, from the 2010/11 season, he focused exclusively on as coach and was occasionally as a stand -by players. For the FSV Vohwinkel Holger Gaißmayer scored a total of 101 goals. In September 2013, he handed over as coach and was athletic director in Vohwinkel.

Holger Gaißmayer is married and has two children.