Karsten Neitzel
Karsten Neitzel, left, 1988
Karsten Neitzel ( born December 17, 1967 in Dresden ) is a retired German football player. He played league football with Dynamo Dresden, the Halle FC chemistry and SC Freiburg. Neitzel is a multiple DDR junior national team.
Sports career
Youth players
Neitzel first played football until 1980 in the Saxon Radeberg, near Dresden, where he started nine years at the BSG Robotron, the Sports Association of the local televisions work with the football. 1980 delegated him the BSG to Dresden Dynamo Dresden football stronghold. A year later, Neitzel students Dresdner Children and Youth Sports School Artur Becker. In 1984 he was admitted as a midfielder in the junior league team Dynamo Dresden, in 1985 he was with the GDR champion and 1985 and 1986 Junior Cup Winners' Cup. In 1982 he also became a member of the East German junior national team for which he played 60 international matches until 1987 and with whom he each as a sweeper in 1986 after a 3-1 victory over Italy U-19 European champion, and 1987 third in the Junior World Championship ( 5-4 on penalties against Chile) was. In both tournaments, he was captain of the team. 1986 Karsten Neitzel was elected to the European Championships Juniors selection to DDR - Athlete of the Year.
DDR - Oberliga with Dynamo Dresden
Even as the nominal junior player denied Neitzel on November 23, 1985 his first game in the DDR - Oberliga. In the encounter of the 11th match day of the season 1985/86 FC Carl Zeiss Jena - Dynamo Dresden ( 2-0) it was used as a midfielder. By the end of the season he reached a total of six league bets. For the 1986/87 season he was first nominated for the DDR - Oberliga squad as a defender, but played only three times between the 1st and 9th game day in the big leagues. Instead, he played for the 2nd team 21 point games in the second-rate DDR -Liga. In the seasons 1987/88 and 1988/89 was Neitzel with 24 or 23 events a regular player of the second team, and played only in the second half 1988/89 a league match as a substitute. He also went into the statistics as a player Dresdner champion team 1988/89. In early 1989, Neitzel was accepted as a second division player in the squad of the GDR junior national team, with whom he played seven matches as a midfielder or defender during the year. At the end of the 1988/89 season Neitzel left after nine years of Dynamo Dresden, where ten league games without scoring and had completed 68 DDR - league games with five goals.
Between Halle and Freiburg
For the 1989/90 season there were between Dynamo Dresden and the league rivals FC Hall shear chemistry to a player exchange, Dresden was Neitzel against the previous Halle Libero Andreas carriage house from. Neitzel took first in the hall Libero position, but changed in the winter of 1990 in the midfield. With 23 games, he had immediately conquered a permanent place in chemistry. This he could, mainly on the midfield play, defend and 1990/91. With fourth place in the last GDR Oberliga - season Hall qualified for the 2nd Bundesliga. In the over 32 rounds this season 1991/92 Neitzel played 23 league games, alternately in defense and midfield play. The Halle FC could not be maintained in the second Bundesliga and rose after a season in the Regionalliga from. Neitzel then moved up to the 1992/93 season to the second division side Stuttgarter Kickers. He remained there for two seasons and played as a defender 79 of 84 point games. 1994 also increased Kickers from the 2nd Bundesliga from, and Neitzel ventured with the change to SC Freiburg to jump to the 1st Bundesliga. The Freiburgers he stood up to the summer of 1997 under contract, but did not go beyond the role of the substitute score. He played in three seasons only 18 Bundesliga games including only two encounters over the full duration. After the end of the 1996/97 season Neitzel finished his career as a competitive athlete.
Coach
Immediately after the end of his playing career at SC Freiburg Neitzel began to work as a coach of the amateur team and was at the same time assistant coach of the first team under Volker Finke. This dual role, he came ten years after (1997 to 2007). Since 2001, Neitzel is in possession of the DFB soccer coach license. After saying goodbye to Finke in 2007, he was responsible only for the amateur team until December 2008 at his own request. 1998 Neitzel went with the team on directly to the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg. He was dressing cup winner in 2001 and entered the first round of the DFB Cup, in which he was beaten with his amateurs 0:1 against FC Schalke 04. In 2008 he was champion in the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg and qualified directly for the newly created three-pronged Regional. The pros he rose as an assistant coach at this time twice in the league (1998 and 2003) and qualified in 2001 after a fifth place in the Bundesliga for the UEFA Cup. There, the SC reached the third round and was eliminated by eventual Cup winners Feyenoord Rotterdam. Many players who had II through the eleven and a half years at SC Freiburg his training group, were later regular at various Bundesliga ( Daniel Schwaab Ömer Toprak of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Dennis Aogo at Hamburger SV, Sascha Riether at the 1 FC Cologne, Karim Matmour at Eintracht Frankfurt, Daniel Caligiuri at SC Freiburg, Daniel Williams at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, Daniel Pavlovic with Grasshoppers Zurich )
In early 2009 he went along with Volker Finke and Ibrahim Tanko to the Asian Champions League winners 2007 Urawa Red Diamonds. There he served two seasons as an assistant coach. In September 2011, he was assistant coach of VfL Bochum Andreas Bergmann. In November 2012, he took over the post of head coaches at second division VfL Bochum. After sporting failure, he was relieved of his duties on April 8, 2013.
On June 18, 2013 Holstein Kiel gave newly promoted to the 3rd Bundesliga, the obligation Neitzel known. He gets there a dated to 30 June 2015, two-year contract.