Karsten Heine

Karsten Heine ( born April 6, 1955 in Berlin ) is a former German football player and current coach of the Chemnitz FC in the third division.

Playing career

Heine began in 1963 in the domestic GSG Köpenick playing football. From there he moved in 1969 in the youth of the first FC Union Berlin, where he was four years later also the leap into the first men's team came when he came to FC Carl Zeiss Jena on the final day of the 1972/73 season are used. In the following seasons in the DDR -Liga he became the regular at the "Iron " and was able in 1976 to celebrate the return to the Oberliga.

There, Heine and the team held for four years, where he played 99 league games of 104 possible. From the 1980/81 season the Unioner reappeared in the GDR league, but missed its chances of promotion. In the following season, although managed to return, but Heine was involved in it with seven inserts. For the new premier league season 1982/83 Heine was indeed nominated as a midfielder, but was no longer used because he was already moved in September 1982 for three months for Reservists use in the army.

Then Heine did not return to the first FC Union but joined the East German league team Steel Brandenburg. There he was alternately used at the beginning of the season 1982/83 as a midfielder or striker and was missing until the end of the season only one point game. In the season 1983/84 Heine was the set midfield and played all league games and all eight games in the promotion round of the league. After the league was succeeded in the following year steel, he returned after 22 league games for the start of the 1985/86 season again at 1 FC Union Berlin back who played again in the DDR -Liga. Due to injury he played only six league games for the Köpenick and finally ended in December 1986, his career as a football player.

Teams managed

Heine's first as a coach was from January 1987, the BSG WBK Berlin (now SV Construction Union Berlin ), where he spent a year working as a player-coach and reached the ascent of the county to the county class. Before the start of the premier league second round 1987/88 he then returned again to the first FC Union back to take over the office of the head coach of Karl Schäffner. Under his leadership, the team succeeded in literally the last minute nor the league. This missed the team but then a year later and had in 1989/90 to start again in the league. As the following season in the league was not successful and Union increasingly lost the connection to leaders FC Vorwärts Frankfurt, he was released early in April 1990.

After that he joined at the beginning of the season 1990/91 the German Bundesliga Hertha BSC as an assistant coach at. With the leaders Hertha Heine experienced a disastrous season that culminated in relegation from the Bundesliga. He oversaw the team for the last games of the season after before him in succession Werner Fuchs, Pál Csernai and Peter Neururer the descent had been unable to prevent. The following season Heine moved back to the assistant coach position. This he held until October 1993 when he had to give the sporty line with the then head coach Günter Sebert. He also oversaw the amateur team of the club, with the he had a sensational in the DFB Cup competition of the 1992/93 season, when they reached the final in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, and then only barely 0-1 failed to Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

In March 1994 he was again appointed the head coach of Hertha, after they had fallen into the 2nd Bundesliga relegation woes. Heine was able to keep the class and also survived the following season with the Berliners in the second division. When he again clashed with Hertha in the 1995/96 season in danger of relegation, he was following the end of the first round replaced by Jürgen Röber. Just four months later returned (for the time being the last time ) to the Unionern back to coach the team in the Regionalliga Nord. His second term in Köpenick was overshadowed by the severe financial difficulties, which led the club to the brink of insolvency. So one after another left many good players like Marko Rehmer, Ervin Skela or Jörg Schwanke the club until finally Heine resigned his appointment in September 1997.

A month later he took over the coach office at Regional competitors SV Babelsberg 03 He was soon followed by former colleagues who the crisis-ridden first FC Union also direction Babelsberg left, including Jörg Schwanke, Nico Patschinski or Tom Persich and his co- coach Frank Vogel. But even in Babelsberg, there were financial problems and as it looked in the 1999/2000 season, that one can not achieve the qualification for the new double-track Regional, had to go Heine and his assistant bird.

After Heine moved back for the time being from the coach business and worked among others as a scout for a player agency. At the start of the second half of the season 2003/ 04 he returned to Hertha and took over the second team in the Oberliga NOFV- Nord. With Hertha II, he managed to climb into the Regional and the victory in the Berlin State Cup. After two years he was able to compete in the third division and formed this player as Ashkan Dejagah, the Boateng brothers Kevin -Prince and Jerome and Patrick Ebert from.

In April 2007 he was promoted to the third time to the position of head coach of the first team after the Bundesliga team had fallen into relegation worries under his predecessor Falko Goetz. He achieved the hoped-for relegation and then he went back to the amateur team that was relegated under his representatives Jochem Ziegert in the league. After a year Hertha II managed with Heine 's return to the Regionalliga.

On 28 September 2009 Heine took over after the dismissal of Lucien Favre and to the obligation of Friedhelm flicker for about a week again on an interim basis as coach at the first team of Hertha.

On October 8, 2013 Heine signed a contract until 2015 at the Chemnitz FC, where he succeeded the retiring Gerd Harmful.

Private

Heine is married and has three sons. Oliver Heine was also a football player and a former club in Heine's Union and the Köpenick SC. Today he works in the youth field Hertha BSC as a coach.

Achievements

As a player:

Rise in the GDR Oberliga: 1976 ( with the first FC Union Berlin) and 1984 ( with the BSG Stahl Brandenburg )
106 inserts (9 goals ) in the DDR Oberliga for the first FC Union

As manager:

DFB Cup finalists 1993 ( with Hertha BSC II)
Winner of the Berlin State Cup: 1992 and 2004 ( with Hertha BSC II)
Winner of the Brandenburg State Cup: 1999 ( with SV Babelsberg 03)

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