Torsten Ziegner
Torsten Ziegner ( born November 9, 1977 in Neuhaus am Rennweg ) is a former German football player and current coach.
Career
As a player
Ziegner played until 1991 at the BSG microelectronics Neuhaus. After he had listened to the FC Carl Zeiss Jena since 1991, he competed in the 1995/96 season his first second league game for the Thuringian. In a total of three second-league seasons, he came up with 20 inserts. In summer 1998, he moved to FSV Zwickau and a half years later to the Stuttgarter Kickers. By the end of the season 2000/ 01 he ran 37 times on the Kickers.
Then he went back to Thuringia to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. In two years, he completed 69 Regional games and scored nine goals. In 2003, he transferred to 1 FSV Mainz 05 In the first team (2nd Bundesliga) but he did not play. Instead, he played 30 times for the amateurs in the Regionalliga Süd, scoring three goals.
2004 Ziegner finally returned to FC Carl Zeiss Jena. In the first season he was with the club champions of the Oberliga Nordost (season south) and was promoted to the Regionalliga. In the season 2005/ 06 he was among the top performers of the team and his share in this walkover in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the season 2006/ 07 threw him in the first round a broken leg back. On 2 March 2007, he made his comeback in the away match against SpVgg Unterhaching.
After descending 2008 he stayed with the Thuringians and went with the newly founded 3rd Liga. For negative Ziegner made headlines when he misconduct Kingsley Onuegbu after a rough sportsmanship of Brown Schweiger designated in the away game of the Jena at Eintracht Braunschweig as the "black pig". Ziegner apologized immediately at Onuegbu and it was banned by the DFB for five games.
In May 2009 Ziegner extended his contract with FC Carl Zeiss to 2011. 3 May 2011 Ziegner was suspended and he left when his contract expires, the Jena third division team. He chose to end of June 2011 to continue his sports career and moved to FSV Zwickau. Ziegner ended his career at 30 June 2012.
As coach
Ziegner since 1 July 2012, head coach of FSV Zwickau.