Thomas Epp

Thomas Epp ( born April 7, 1968 in Bietigheim ) is a former German football player and current football coach. He is currently a director of sport football, youth coordinator and head coach of the first team at SC Dreieich Hessen eV worked.

Playing career

Thomas Epp began to club football with his hometown club Germania Bietigheim. At the age of 17 he joined the youth team of VfB Stuttgart.

For the 1987 season, he moved to the then Bundesliga side VfL ​​Bochum and scored his first Bundesliga goal. When the striker in the 1988/89 season and in the first half of the 1989/90 season (only 2 inserts here ) remained without a goal, he was loaned for the return series to the first FC Saarbrücken in the 2nd Bundesliga and just missed the rise in the Bundesliga, as they failed in the crucial relegation matches in his later Eintracht Frankfurt (although it was not used in these games ), instead rushed for Saarbrücken players Anthony Yeboah, Michael Nushöhr and Reiner Geyer.

In the following two seasons, he tried his luck again at VfL Bochum, but could not prevail again. For the season 1992/1993 Epp joined the Stuttgarter Kickers and score in his first full division 2 season 14 results. Of SV Waldhof Mannheim became aware of him through this compelling performance and signed him for the subsequent season. In the following three seasons, he tapped his SV Waldhof repeatedly at the gate to the Bundesliga, but he rose at the end of the 1996/1997 season surprise in the Regionalliga from.

Epp now adhered to the call of the unrecognized football professionals. However, he was obliged Eintracht Frankfurt and wore as a regular player major contribution that the team led by coach Horst Ehrmantraut entirely surprisingly managed to climb, as the team from the Main at best regarded as a secret for the ascent. But in his first Bundesliga season after more than six years, he could not defend his place in the storm and could achieve only one goal in nine appearances. In the season 1999/2000 he was no longer used, so he left the club in November 1999 after Austria towards Admira Wacker Wien.

However, he moved to the end of the season the club again and AEL Limassol joined in the Cypriot league. However, he felt uncomfortable there and also left this club again in December 2000, after he got an offer from the TV Rüsselsheim Haßloch. But even here, he thought it was only three months since he got in April 2001 an offer from VfR Kesselstadt as player-coach and this also accepted.

Coaching career

For the season 2002/ 03 he became a coach in the fourth-rate Oberliga Hessen to the established SV Erzhausen and reached in his first season on the 9th Place. This was his first full season as coach. After another good table seats (2003/ 04: 4th place, 2004/ 05: 8th place, 2005/ 06: 12th place ), he left however, the SV Erzhausen after the club had voluntarily withdrawn in the national league South. He hired then on at FC Viktoria 09 Urberach, which he led to the rise in the Hessen League in the 2007/ 08 season. Epp resigned in March 2013 from his position after the club had given the planned withdrawal in the fifth division Hesse known.

The former Bundesliga player Thomas Epp is 1 January 2014 Director of Sport football at SC Hesse Dreieich eV and is designed to promote the development of the A-, B- and C- youth teams at SC Hesse Dreieich and youth coordination of partner associations from Dreieich. In addition, it is to lead as a coach the first team in the medium term to the rise in the Hessen League.

Other / Odd

  • Thomas Epp, in collaboration with the Association SSG Langen " Thomas Epp football school ".
  • Epp came off the bench in the DFB Cup final in 1988 against his later club Eintracht Frankfurt and caused by a foul Janusz Turowski a free-kick, the Lajos Détári turned a 1-0 victory.

Successes as a player

  • Master of the 2nd Bundesliga and ascent with Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga in 1997/98
  • DFB Cup final match in 1988 with VfL Bochum
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