Rainer Scharinger
Rainer Scharinger ( born March 4, 1967 in Karlsruhe ) is a former German football player and current football coach.
Career
Playing career
Scharinger, who comes from the youth of the TSV Spessart, joined in 1987 as a 20 -year-old from ASV Durlach for whom he played in 1986 for Karlsruher SC. He played for the amateur side of the KSC in the Federation League swimming and after the rise in 1989 in the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg. It took until May 5, 1989, before he made his debut in the Bundesliga: In the 2:3 defeat against Bayer 04 Leverkusen he came on in the 52nd minute for Fabrizio Hayer. Since Scharinger were no further operations in the first team under coach Winfried Schaefer, he left the club in 1993. After two years of VfR Mannheim and the 1st FC Pforzheim in 1997, he returned back to Karlsruhe. Here he first played again only in the second team of the Bundesliga, in the second half of the season 1998 /99 - the KSC was now relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga - could Scharinger play in the first team. As table fifth in the Bundesliga 2, the rise was just missed.
However Scharinger joined the 1999/2000 season for SSV Ulm 1846, which were surprising third place and thus ascended to the Bundesliga. Here he became immediately became a regular player, but could not avoid relegation after just one season. In the second division, he remained loyal to the club first, but left this as it was clear in the fifth division Württemberg after the license revocation of the crash.
Scharinger then hired at the Stuttgarter Kickers in the Regionalliga Süd, but he left early in the second season in the direction of SV Sandhausen. During his playing career took Scharinger as coach of SV Sandhausen. Here he was on 18 October 2002 player-coach, a position he held until September 16, 2003. Since 9 November 2003 he was in charge, also as player-coach until the end of the season 2005/2006 the Bahlinger SC. He also earned the 2005 coaching license.
Coaching career
From July 2006 to May 2009 Scharinger worked as an assistant coach Ralf Rangnick at the Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. As of July 2007, he trained there in addition the U-23 team TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, who played in the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg.
On 6 May 2009 Scharinger has four games left in the season head coach of relegation-threatened third division VfR Aalen. The VfR nevertheless rose last but one in the Regionalliga from, and many players left the club then; Scharinger but had already agreed to when he took office in case of a descent into a rebuild and oversaw the VfR in the 2009/10 Regional League season as coach. From the old cadres, he took it with Mario Hohn, Andreas Hofmann and Robert Lechleiter only three players; for the rest of the team he undertook mainly young players from lower leagues, of which he had some already looked at Hoffenheim. The new team had an average age of around 23 years. With eleven points ahead of the second representation of the 1st FC Nuremberg and a goal difference of 51:19 he led the club to direct resurgence; In addition, the team qualified for the DFB - Pokal 2010/11, as they prevailed in the final of the WFV Cup against the FV Illertissen with a 4-1 victory.
At the beginning of the third season, the league - season destination " number 17 " was ( relegation ) and issued a total of 15 new members, again mostly from lower leagues, obliged. However, the majority of them are not proved to be the desired gain; Although the team spent the winter - despite a temporary high phase - after last four defeats in a row with one point ahead of the relegation zone in 16th place in the table, yet the VfR on December 27, 2010, Separation of Scharinger announced.
Having already during crowd Ingers tenure VfR several times rumors of a change to the second division Karlsruher SC had arisen, for which he had already been active as a player, Scharinger took over on 2 March 2011 as coach at Karlsruher SC as successor by Uwe Rapolder with the aim of to avoid relegation to the Second Division - which finally succeeded. For the new season, he took a break of the squad. After initially good start to the season but was followed by a bad run with ten winless league games in a row, why Scharinger was released on October 31, 2011, one day after the 13th Round (after the 5-1 defeat against Dynamo Dresden) at KSC. The club was at this time with 13:29 goals and nine points at the 17th place in the table.
From 1 July 2012 Rainer Scharinger was coach of the Austrian second division side SC Rheindorf Altach, with whom he was to achieve promotion to the Bundesliga. After half a year he was in early January 2013, on leave again during the winter break; the team had already 15 points behind the first place in the table, the rise of rank.