Tom Persich
Persich the Brandenburg State Cup Final 2009
Tom Persich ( born September 25, 1971 in Weissenfels ) is a former German football player.
Career
Beginnings at Halle FC
Born in Weissenfels Persich began in the neighboring hall at HFC Chemie, whose youth team he joined in 1976, playing football. When Oberliga he also achieved a leap in the first men's team. After the turn of the defender played with the now renamed Hallescher FC club for one season (1991/1992) in the Second Bundesliga, where he also made his pro debut. It remained in this season but only for one game. But he came into this season in the UEFA Cup for use. From the following season he played with the relegated Hallensern in NOFV- Oberliga Mitte, but missed the chance to re-emergence after the first FC Union Berlin just barely. After another disappointing season for the HFC in which you could not qualify for the newly created Regional Northeast, Persich transferred to 1 FC Union.
At first FC Union Berlin
In the "Iron " he quickly established himself as a regular player and was with the team ( played beside him later Bundesliga players like Marko Rehmer, Christian Beeck or Ervin Skela ) always represented in the upper third of the table. Since the club but had severe financial problems and was on the verge of bankruptcy, changed successively many players to other clubs. In November 1997, Persich Union left and followed his - also recently exchanged - Coach Karsten Heine for SV Babelsberg 03 Shortly thereafter, still followed by further ex- Unioner as Nico Patschinski or Jörg Schwanke.
Since there but also in Babelsberg were financial difficulties and seemed also saved through the economic activity of Michael Kölmel again Union, Persich returned in August 1998 in a package with Schwanke for 50 to 80 thousand DM to Köpenick back. Then it was gradually upward. The 2000 very narrowly missing out on promotion to the relegation, it worked a year later finally. In addition, the team reached the finals surprising in the DFB Cup, which was indeed lost 0:2 against FC Schalke 04, still secured a place in the UEFA Cup.
In the second division Persich played three seasons with the Union before the club relegated again. Especially the first year was a sixth place finish and a long struggle for the promotion to the Bundesliga very successful. In addition Persich, who was named by the fans as " Wild Boar" with Union in the UEFA Cup second round reached. The following season was mixed. So Union came again to single digit place in the table, but changed during the season the coach from. The previous game leader Georgi Vassilev followed Mirko Votava, under the Persich initially had a difficult position. Nevertheless, he remained the Unionern faithful, even when the club in the next two disastrous seasons twice descended and landed in the Oberliga Nordost.
The Unioner were able to celebrate the resurgence of the Regionalliga in the season 2005/2006. Persich itself, however, experienced a mixed season, in which he was often injured and therefore played only 14 league games. In addition, he has also been scrapped by new coach Christian Schreier front end of the season along with the returned Jörg Schwanke and Tobias Kurbjuweit and then retired after a total of 321 official matches ( in which he scored 16 goals) in the battle of his long-time association.
In Germania Schöneiche
Then he joined as already some Unioner before him (eg Uwe Borchardt ) the Berlin suburb club Germania 90 Schoeneiche to where his ex-colleague Jens Härtel now working as a coach. With the beautiful Eichern he plays from 2006 to 2011 in the Oberliga West and belonged at that time to the permanent employees of the team. At the beginning of the season 2011/2012 Persich ended his playing career and moved to the second team Germanías to continue working there as a coach.