Matthias Scherz
Matthias Scherz ( born December 14, 1971 in Rotenburg / Wümme ) is a former German football player.
Career
The right winger, who distinguished himself by his quickness, played until 1994 at the amateur club Rot-Weiss Scheessel until he joined at the age of 22 years for FC St. Pauli. In the first two years he played for the local amateur division. In the 1996/97 season, he managed to jump in the Bundesliga team FC St. Pauli. After descending to the 2nd Bundesliga to joke established in the following two seasons as a regular player.
In the season 1999/2000 kidding joined the then second division side FC Cologne 1, there was also a regular player and went to the club to the Bundesliga. In the season 2002/ 03, which led to the Bundesliga to a rebirth, he succeeded with a yield of 18 hits for triple its far conventional strike rate more than.
This was followed in the Bundesliga season 2003/ 04 the renewed descent. In the following season 2004/ 05 of resurgence after he was Lukas Podolski with 11 hits second top scorer.
After completing the 1st FC Cologne descent into second-rate after the 2005/06 season again, extended his contract joke for another two years.
On February 25, 2007 in the game against SC Paderborn 07 joke retired to a plan of Syndesmosebands in the right leg and therefore fell for the rest of the season. Despite the serious injury was the most successful joke joker scorer of the season ( 7 goals in 13 substitutions ).
On July 24, 2009 During the stripping game for Lukas Podolski against Bayern Munich, Matthias Scherz has completed its last mission for the 1.FC Köln.
Joke was at the 1 FC Cologne until the end of the 2010/2011 season in charge at youth level with the task of player development and career planning. As part of a restructuring of the club under the new sporting director Volker Finke his expiring contract was not renewed. In response, joking with the labor court Cologne filed a complaint (case 6 Ca 4142/11 ) on reinstatement. Joke lawyer argued that the ex-pro after twelve years at FC Cologne 1 have the status of a permanent employee. Therefore joke would receive a settlement. End of November 2011 was the dispute between jest and 1.FC Cologne to close. Club and former players agreed out of court.
From January 2012, Matthias Scherz wrote for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger the column " page break 2.0". Since August 2012, he was assisted in the weekly change of Herbert Neumann. Content, set the column with current events apart at the 1 FC Cologne.
In December 2012, the SC Fortuna Köln Matthias Scherz committed as a player, the guest student at this time for several weeks at the Fortuna in the course of his coaching education. His work as a columnist for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger finished joke after the start of its commitment to Fortuna Köln. Herbert Neumann wrote the column since then alone again, until it was completely discontinued in February 2013.
In the summer of 2013 he ended his active career final.