Sven Demandt

Sven Demandt ( born February 13, 1965 in Cologne ) is a former German football player and current coach.

Career

Demandt began his career as a striker at TuS Höhenhaus, before moving to Fortuna Dusseldorf 1984. He remained there - apart from 1989 to 1990 during his spell at Bayer 04 Leverkusen -. Then until 1992 he played for Hertha BSC from 1994 to 2001 for the first FSV Mainz 05 After a change to the SCB Viktoria Köln Demandt ended his active playing career in 2003 as a player Cotrainer.

Demandt graduated from Fortuna Dusseldorf and Bayer Leverkusen Bundesliga 139 games in which he scored 27 goals. In the 2nd Bundesliga, he scored 05 121 goals in 317 appearances for Fortuna Dusseldorf, Hertha BSC and the first FSV Mainz and was in the 1988/89 season with 35 goals in 38 games top scorer in the second division. In the same year with Fortuna Dusseldorf he achieved promotion to the Bundesliga.

At the end of his active career Demandt took over as coach at the 1 FC Union Solingen. He left the Union in January 2006 and was then coach of the youth at Rot-Weiss Essen. At the Sports University in Cologne, he acquired the license as a football teacher, classmates were, among others Olaf Thon and Jürgen Klopp. Since summer 2008, he coached youth teams of Borussia Mönchengladbach. On 1 July 2010 he took over with assistant coach Adrian Spyrka the U23 Borussia Mönchengladbach.

His active times, especially in the Fortuna Düsseldorf and Mainz 05, where the " refrigerator " said striker with 55 goals leads the internal second league scoring charts, Demandt cult status enjoyed by his fans because of his seemingly bumbling and stumbling way to play football - not least because he scored many goals despite his supposedly limited technical possibilities.