Jörg Sievers
Jörg Sievers as Goalkeeper Coach (2010)
Jörg Sievers ( born September 22, 1965 in Römstedt ) is a former German football goalkeeper and current coach. Since 2003 he has been goalkeeper coach of Bundesliga club Hannover 96
Career
Club career
As a goalkeeper he played in the 1988/89 season for VfL Wolfsburg in the Football Oberliga Nord, where he reached the 3rd place. In 1989 he moved to SV Hannover 96, who was descended from the 1st to the 2nd Bundesliga Bundesliga. He played from 1989 to 2003 for Hannover 96 in the Football League North, the 2nd and 1st Bundesliga. For Hanover, he played 384 league games. Previous positions as players were the Lüneburg SK and SV Eddelstorf.
The highlight of his career was winning the DFB Cup in 1992 with the then second division club Hannover 96, where he had as the goalkeeper in a penalty shoot decisive role. He transformed the semi-final against Werder Bremen in a penalty shoot himself the last penalty for Hannover and held the subsequent last of Marco Bode Bremer shot penalty. In the Cup final against Borussia Mönchengladbach he saved two penalty kicks. Since then, he is in the Hanoverian media as " the Cup hero." In the 2000 /01 season Sievers was also voted the best goalkeeper second division.
His only appearance at the international level he had when Erstrundenaus in the European Cup winners of the 1992/93 season, at the Hanover hit just the only other German team, the defending champions Werder Bremen. Here, the 2-1 second leg victory of the Hanoverian was not enough to equalize the 3-1 win in the first leg of the Bremen.
2003 ended Jörg Sievers his career as a player in the Bundesliga with Hannover 96 Subsequently, he was goalkeeping coach at Hannover 96 in the Bundesliga season 2005/ 06 he sat again for a game on the bench, as 96 goalkeeper Robert Enke and substitute Frank Juric were injured goalkeeper Morten Jensen and the third stood between the posts. In the second team Hannover 96, he jumped even later occasionally as a goalkeeper, most recently at the age of 44 years, on March 6, 2010 at the Regional game against Tennis Borussia Berlin.
In September 2012, he was again reactivated at the age of 46 years for the trained by his brother Ralf country division Teutonia Uelzen to represent their rotgesperrten goalkeeper. He had a first point bet on September 9, 2012
Statistics
Jörg Sievers played for Hannover 96 1989-2003 17 games in the Bundesliga as well as 367 games in the second division. Overall, Sievers played (including the DFB Cup and Regional ) 450 games for Hannover and thus occupied by Peter Anders 2nd place in the eternal List of Most games for Hannover 96
Achievements
- DFB Cup winners 1992
- Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga: 1998
- Promotion to the Bundesliga: 2002
- Lower Saxony's Footballer of the Year 1997
- Best goalkeeper in the second division season 2000/ 01
Others
He was one of the most consistent players and with Carsten Linke one of the few role models in the rather weak phase of the overall society in the 1990s. Over several years was "Colt ", as he was by the fans in reference to the main character in the film A Fall Guy, Colt Seavers, named, Team Captain. In 1997 he was also elected to the Lower Saxony Footballer of the Year. After the resurgence of 2002, he was as 37 -year-old first -choice goalkeeper a Bundesliga team.
Ventegis Jörg Sievers founded in 2000 together with Olaf Eggers the VICTORY KG, a company that specializes in insurance coverage and financial planning. On this occasion, he trained as an insurance professional in the summer of 2002.
The Hanover-based rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse dedicated to the Hanover Goalkeeper idol rather unfriendly song Jörg Sievers Blues, generalizes its actually rather rare goalkeeper error.
Private
Sievers now lives in Lüdersen near Hanover. His brother Ralf played as a professional footballer at Eintracht Frankfurt and FC St. Pauli.