Holger Hieronymus

Holger Hieronymus ( born February 22, 1959 in Hamburg ) is a former German football player.

Career

After his youth at TuS Hamburg 1880 and FC St. Pauli in 1979, he moved to local rivals Hamburger SV. In the Bundesliga he played from 1979 to 1984 121 times for Hamburger SV. With the HSV he became German champion in 1982 and 1983, was in the 1982 UEFA Cup Final and won the 1983 European Champion Clubs' Cup (1-0 against Juventus Turin).

In the German national team, he played in 1981 and 1982 a total of three times and was at the 1982 World Cup squad of the Vice World Champion teams, but was not in Spain for use. After a serious injury due to a foul by Fritz Walter Jerome had to prematurely end his career as a player in 1984.

From June 1998 until 31 August 2002, Jerome was sports director at Hamburger SV and took over in 2001 for two games and the post of interim head coach. From 1 February 2005 to 31 December 2012, he was Managing Director of the German Football League. He is succeeded by Andreas Rettig.

See also: Germany at the 1982 World Cup in Spain

On 16 April 2010 Jerome suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Frankfurt and was thereafter treated in the intensive care unit of a hospital. Just five weeks later, he began with the early rehabilitation.