Ralf Minge

Minge 2009 as sports director of Dynamo Dresden

Ralf Minge ( born October 8, 1960 in Elsterwerda ) is a sports official, football coach and former football player of the DDR Oberliga for Dynamo Dresden. He played 36 A- international matches for the East German national team.

Career as a player

Youth and former youth players

Minge began playing organized football as a nine- year-old in his hometown Prösen in the BSG steel. In 1972 he joined the young TSG Groeditz to him at the end of 1977/ 78 - more than 17 -year-old - took over in their DDR - league team. After another league season that ended in relegation, Minge played one more year with the TSG in the third-class district league and then became the 1980/81 season to the Oberliga and DDR - runner Dynamo Dresden delegated.

League players

His league debut was the 1.85 m wide Minge on October 25, 1980 in the meeting of the 9th game day chemistry Bohlen -. Dynamo Dresden he came on in the 73rd minute. At the beginning of 1981, he benefited from the dismissal of center forward Peter Kotte, the position he took over and established itself as a regular player. From 1981 to 1988 Minge was the standard center forward for Dynamo Dresden. In five seasons he was the top scorer of the Dresden. Already in his second season with Dynamo, he won his first title on 1 May 1982 he was the Dresden Centre Forward in the GDR Cup final that Dresdner won on penalties against Berliner FC Dynamo. After 1984, 1985 and 1990, Minge was involved in a total of four East German Cup victories. Twice he was with Dynamo Dresden East German champion, 1988/89 he was 18 and 1989/90 holds a six point stakes. From the season 1988 /89 he came predominantly in the midfield to use, 1989/90 he played only the first six league matches of. 21 times he played in his last league season 1990/91, and his last official match he played on 25 May 1991. Thus he came to 222 league games within twelve years. With his 103 -point game gates Minge is the ranking of Dynamo Dresden in third place behind Hans -Jürgen Kreische and Torsten Gütschow. While Minges time in Dresden Dynamo played 44 European games, Minge was used in 34 games in which he came to scoring nine times.

National players

1981 Minge was included in the squad of the East German junior national team, for whom he played eleven matches until 1983. During this time he had developed in the big leagues at a prolific player, and he was appointed to the levy of the senior national team in early 1983. On April 13, 1983 he played his first senior international game when he 's friendly GDR - was brought on Bulgaria in the 46th minute. Despite its exceptional position at Dynamo Dresden he came in most of his 36 internationals do not have the status of a replacement player addition, four times he came off the bench 17 times more replaced. During his time in the senior team, he played his last game on April 12, 1989, the GDR completed 20 qualifiers for Europe or the World Cup. Of Minge played 13 matches. In total, he scored eight goals for the A- selection. Between 1983 and 1984, he came in seven qualifying matches of the GDR Olympic team used. Because of the Olympic boycott the GDR Minge was denied participation in the 1984 Olympics.

After playing career

Following his playing career Minge was to become the managing director trained at Dynamo Dresden, but took over in 1992, the training of the second team. On April 21, 1993, he the post of head coach of the first team was transferred for two months instead of the dismissed Klaus Sammer. He then was an assistant coach again, to be head coach at Dynamo again on 24 March 1995. After Minge until the end of the season could not prevent relegation, has been laid off back to 30 June 1995. On 1 July 1995 he served as head coach for FC Erzgebirge Aue, where he was released before the end of the season on 26 April 1996.

For the 1998/99 season Minge was an assistant coach at Fortuna Cologne under the former national goalkeeper Harald Schumacher. As Schumacher was released in mid-December 1999 Minge coached the team in his place until the end of the year and announced thereafter by itself

From 1 July 2000 to 30 September 2005 Ralf Minge was in a variety of positions at Bayer 04 Leverkusen active. First, he was coach of the second team, then as an assistant coach the professional team under Klaus Toppmöller and later Thomas Hörster. As an assistant coach he experienced in the 2001/ 02 season, a place in the DFB Cup final ( 2:4 against Schalke 04) and in the final of the Champions League ( 1-2 against Real Madrid). With the Bayer 04 amateurs, he managed the 2005 promotion to the Regionalliga Nord. He was then head of the 2005 junior - power center of Bayer Leverkusen until 30 September.

Minge returned to Dresden and began on 1 October 2005, a study psychology, but he dropped out again after half a year after he had signed a contract as an assistant coach Klaus Toppmöller with the national team of Georgia on 9 January 2006. Although the contract ran until 31 December 2007, he was elected to the Board of Dynamo Dresden already on 21 September 2006 and was active there for the development of the sporting area. This included mainly the presentation, preparation and monitoring of concepts that should keep the club permanently in professional football. On 1 July 2007 it the post of Managing Director (Sports Director ) was transferred at Dynamo. On March 1, 2010 Minge received a two-year contract with the DFB as coach of the German U - 19 national junior team. 27 April 2011 Minge, however, was released from sides of the DFB of his duties. His successor was Christian goat. Reasons different content views were called.

For the 2012/13 season, he returned as head coach for the amateurs of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. On February 3, 2014 Dynamo Dresden announced that Ralf Minge is now new sporting director of the club and receives a contract until 30 June 2016. For this purpose, he shall be indemnified against Bayer Leverkusen.

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