Stefan Lorenz

Stefan Lorenz (born 19 September 1981, in Berlin) is a German football manager and former footballer.[1] He is currently a player-head coach at FC Blau-Gelb Überruhr.

Stefan Lorenz
Personal information
Date of birth (1981-09-19) 19 September 1981
Place of birth East Berlin, East Germany
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Blau-Gelb Überruhr (player-coach)
Youth career
0000–1998 BFC Dynamo
1998–2000 VfL Wolfsburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2005 VfL Wolfsburg II 147 (5)
2002–2005 VfL Wolfsburg 1 (0)
2005–2009 Rot-Weiss Essen 85 (2)
2009 SV Schermbeck 1 (0)
2009–2012 Wuppertaler SV 38 (2)
2014–2015 TuS Essen-West 25 (0)
2015 TuS Essen-West II 2 (0)
2017 VfB Frohnhausen II 2 (0)
2017–2018 SV Vonderort II 5 (2)
2018–2019 SV Vonderort 21 (8)
2019– Blau-Gelb Überruhr 4 (0)
Teams managed
2010–2012 SV Vonderort (U15)
2012–2014 SV Rhenania (U19)
2014 TuS Essen-West (player-assistant)
2014–2015 TuS Essen-West (player-coach)
2015–2016 Rot-Weiss Essen (assistant)
2018– Blau-Gelb Überruhr (player-coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Lorenz was the team captain of Rot-Weiss Essen and spent two seasons in the Bundesliga with VfL Wolfsburg.

Career

Lorenz' career began with the Berliner FC Dynamo. He then moved to VfL Wolfsburg, where he was mainly used in the amateur team in the Oberliga and Regionalliga. He only played one Bundesliga game at VfL.

In 2005 Lorenz went to Rot-Weiss Essen where he was the captain team captain. He played until the summer 2009, where his contract wasn't extended. He played 94 games for RWE and scored two goals.

Coaching and later career

On October 22, 2009 it was announced that he would move to the 3. Liga club Wuppertaler SV. In September 2010, he was also working as a youth coach at SV Bottrop-Vonderort 1949, working together with his brother Michael Lorenz, beside his playing career at Wuppertaler.[2] He ended his football career in the summer 2012 due to long-term knee problems.

On 1 July 2012, Lorenz left SV Bottrop-Vonderort 1949 and became U19 head coach at SV Rhenania Bottrop.[3] Beside that, he also worked in the office of Rot-Weiss Essen, completing an apprenticeship as an event manager.[4]

In 2014 Lorenz took over the position of player-assistant coach at TuS Essen-West.[5] In 22 October 2014, he was promoted as player-head coach on an interim basis, which was made permanent in mid-December 2014.[6] Loren managed to secure promotion the Landesliga.

In the summer 2015, he was appointed assistant coach at Rot-Weiss Essen.[4] On July 1, 2016, he left the position to work in the sales department of the Jacob Stauder private brewery in Essen.[7]

He returned to football in December 2016, joining VfB Frohnhausen as a team-manager.[8] He also played a few games for the club's reserve team. In December 2017, he returned to SV Vonderort[9] where he played until the summer 2019 (21 games and 8 goals for the club's first team, and 5 games for the reserve team). Beside that, he was appointed head coach of FC Blau-Gelb Überruhr at the end of December 2018.[10] From the summer 2019, he also began playing games for the club.

Personal

His brother Michael Lorenz is also a professional footballer.

References
  1. "Lorenz, Stefan" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
  2. Stefan Lorenz übernimmt Traineramt in Vonderort, aufmplatz.info, 10 September 2010
  3. Stefan Lorenz als A-Jugend Trainer vorgestellt, rhenaniabottrop.com, 20 March 2012
  4. Stefan Lorenz neuer Co-Trainer, rot-weiss-essen.de
  5. Ex-RWE-Profi Stefan Lorenz kommt, reviersport.de, 23 June 2014
  6. Stefan Lorenz wird Cheftrainer beim Bezirksligisten TuS West 81, waz.de, 10 December 2014
  7. Fanliebling Stefan Lorenz verlässt die Hafenstraße, waz.de, 1 July 2016
  8. Stefan Lorenz hat einen neuen Verein, reviersport.de, 16 December 2016
  9. Von Ex-Profis und ungelernten Torhütern, waz.de, 8 January 2018
  10. Ex-RWE-Profi Stefan Lorenz übernimmt bei Blau-Gelb Überruhr, media-sportservice.de, 29 December 2018
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