Stefan Krämer

Stefan Kramer ( born March 23, 1967 in Mainz ) is a German football coach, qualified sports teacher and former football player.

Playing career

Chandler played as an active player doing FV Bad Honnef in the previous Oberliga Nordrhein on the left wing. The mid 1990s moved Krämer at that fourth division FV Rheinbrohl, where he was captain. After a knee ligament injury he had to end his playing career with his early thirties.

Coaching career

Chandler was from 2002 to 2011 for nine years without interruption coach at SV Rossbach / Verscheid, which he formed in his tenure, a regular fixture in the Oberliga West. Previously, he had been active as a coach for the FV Rheinbrohl, the SV Neuwied Neuwied and the SG / Irlich / shell mountain. After Kramer had existed in fourth in his class in March 2011 at the Hennes Weisweiler Academy his exam for football coach, he shared in the summer of 2011, his departure from the SV Rossbach / Verscheid with in order to Arminia Bielefeld under head coach Markus von Ahlen Co to join trainer. This shopkeeper had previously met 04 Leverkusen at the training observations O youth of Bayer, had been employed by the von Ahlen as a coach.

After being laid off after the tenth round of the 2011/12 season due to failure of Ahlen, Chandler was appointed interim coach of Arminia. Already with the second match under his leadership, scored the first win of the season. After another win and a draw Krämer was finally appointed on 3 November 2011 as the head coach of Arminia. The 2012/13 season was for merchants and Arminia into a success story. After the first two games were considered a draw, the team established after several victories in the top tier of the table and was regularly on a climb or relegation place. When it became clear that Arminia to the rise would be able to play along, there was speculation in the media about a possible departure of the successful trainer. Finally, however, the club announced on March 7, 2013, announced two days before the prestigious home game against Preußen Münster, the independent league contract extension with Krämer 2015. After the Arminia had lost only one game from December 2012 to May 2013, Chandler celebrated with his team in the penultimate round, with a 1-0 victory over VfL Osnabrück, the rise in the 2nd Bundesliga.

The season in the 2nd Bundesliga first began unexpectedly successful. After eight matchdays Kramer was with the Arminia on the third place. Following this, however, was followed by a series of seven defeats in a row, the shopkeeper clearly put under pressure, with the support among the followers remained large. Although these negative series could be broken through with a win against FSV Frankfurt, but not succeeded Arminia in the following weeks, to get out of the basement table. After defeats to local rivals SC Paderborn 07 and FC Ingolstadt 04 Chandler was released on February 23, 2014 as head coach.

Career

Chandler studied at the Cologne Sports College to become a teacher. After his studies, he was just a scientific assistant. After that he worked until his involvement with Arminia Bielefeld fulltime for nine years for an insurance company.

Trivia

• Private is Chandler fan of the 1st FC Cologne and Hamburg SV.
• His example as a football coach is Valeri Lobanovsky.
• While studying at the Sports University in Cologne, he worked as a DJ on in pubs.
• As of 15 October 2011, the date of the first victory of Arminia Bielefeld in the 2011/12 season, wore Stefan Krämer, regardless of weather conditions and temperatures, good luck in all competitions Arminia Bielefeld always a short-sleeved shirt trainer. This he carried until 21 January 2012, when the Arminia suffered the first of Chandler's view, fair defeat since the first win of the season. Meanwhile, the North Rhine -Westphalia had with FC Carl Zeiss Jena, after three contentious penalty decisions, lost.
• At the beginning of his involvement as a coach at Arminia Bielefeld Chandler took a bet that he would get stung a tattoo of the club logo in the 2nd league in case of ascent. As the rise then was actually made perfect in 2013, Chandler sparked a betting this promise by having a Arminiafahne with the date of Ascension, May 11, 2013, could be stand on the left chest.