Torsten Lieberknecht

Dear Torsten Knecht ( born August 1, 1973 in Bad Durkheim ) is a former German football player and current football coach.

Career as a player

Dear servant played in the youth for the FV 1921 Haßloch ( where he is now an honorary member ), 1 FC 08 Haßloch and VfL Neustadt. Since 1990, he played in the youth for the first FC Kaiserslautern. He has been with the club in 1992 A Youth Champion and 1992 received a contract for the 1st Bundesliga. With the Red Devils 1994 he became vice-champion in the Bundesliga. In the season 1994/95 he was in the 2nd Bundesliga for SV Waldhof Mannheim and from 1995 to 2002 for the first FSV Mainz 05 in use. In the season 2002/ 03 he played for the first FC Saarbrücken. From 2003 up to end of his career after the 2006/07 season he played with Eintracht Braunschweig.

Dear Torsten Knecht graduated 13 Bundesliga games in which he scored a goal, 152 second-division games with four goals, 48 Regional games (one goal ), eight league games and an amateur league game ( one goal). He denied three students internationals, 16 B- youth matches (1 goal ), 11 A youth internationals and three U-19 internationals. On March 8, 1994, he debuted in the German U -21 national football team in the match against Hungary in Baunatal. Until 22 August 1995, he came to nine U -21 internationals. He had his last mission in the 0-4 defeat to Belgium in Liege.

Career as a coach

For the 2007 /08 season Dear servant worked as a junior coordinator and female youth coach at Eintracht Braunschweig. On 3 December 2007 he was elected at the Annual General Meeting as a trustee of football in the Bureau of Eintracht Braunschweig. Following the resignation of coach Benno Möhlmann on 12 May 2008, he took over the training of the first team for the last three games of the 2007/08 season and the season 2008/09. Under him, the team still managed the almost -lost skill for newly founded 3rd Liga, level on points 1 FC Magdeburg in 11th place, together with the club's management and the new sporting director Marc Arnold came in the sequence for a shift of association policy Eintracht Braunschweig. They sat from now on staff continuity and a consolidation and austerity measures, which also led to the club to passed to require most talented young players from lower leagues.

In addition, he successfully completed a coaching course in Cologne in order to gain his coaching A license. Topic of his thesis was The tricky balancing act between tradition and future at Eintracht Braunschweig. In the season 2010/11 Dear servant extended his contract with Eintracht until 2013, during the summer break 2012 again until 2015. He led his team to promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga already six games left in the season. The season ended with 26 wins, 85 points and 81 goals. For the second year in the 2nd Bundesliga, he was with the Eintracht winter champions and had the first place only after the matchday 23 Hertha BSC passed. At the end of the season he went with his team on to the 1st Bundesliga. On February 28, 2014 he extended his contract in Brunswick ahead to 2017.