Michael Rechner

Michael Rechner (* 27. May 1980 in Mosbach, Germany) is a german goalkeeper coach and sport scientist.

Michael Rechner
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-05-27) 27 May 1980
Place of birth Mosbach, Germany
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 TSG Hoffenheim (goalkeeper coach)
Youth career
i.a. SV Schefflenz, SV Waldhof Mannheim
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2001 Hamburger SV II 43 (0)
2001-2002 VfR Mannheim 34 (0)
2002-2003 SV Waldhof Mannheim 7 (0)
2002-2003 SV Waldhof Mannheim II 18 (0)
2003-2004 FC Sachsen Leipzig 25 (0)
2004-2005 FC Schweinfurt 0 (0)
2005-2006 SV Waldhof Mannheim 20 (0)
2006-2008 TSG Weinheim 0 (0)
2008-2009 FC Zuzenhausen 0 (0)
National team
1998–1999 Germany U18 3
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

As an active player Rechner comes from the youth of SV Schefflenz, subsequently he transferred to the youth academy of the well-known SV Waldhof Mannheim. During that time he also completed three games for the youth national team of Germany. His debut was in 1998 in the international match against North Ireland (0:0). In 1999 Rechner signed a contract with Hamburger SV, where he trained with the pro-team (e.g. with the german goalkeeper Legend Hans Jörg Butt) and played for the U-23 team in the Regionalliga North. In 2001 Rechner transferred to the third-tiered team of VfR Mannheim, which also played in the Regionalliga (South).

After 34 games with the VfR Rechner came back again to SV Waldhof in 2002, where he appeared in 7 games in the 2. Bundesliga and 2 times in the DFB-Pokal (German Cup). However the team with the coaches Andy Egli, Walter Pradtand and Stefan Kuntz relegated to the third division after this season.

Rechner affiliated to the ambitioned Regionalliga Team of FC Sachsen Leipzig. He played 25 times, amongst other things he opened the newly built Zentralstadion (for the World Cup 2006) in front of 28.000 spectators against Borussia Dortmund.

In 2004 Rechner decided to end his professional career. He started studying sport science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. At the same time he played semi-professional for 1.FC Schweinfurt 05, SV Waldhof Mannheim and at his last for FC Zuzenhausen. He finished his studies with his master thesis “The requirement profile and the modern training methodology of a goalkeeper”.[1]

In the year of 2008 he has started to work as the Coordinator of Goalkeeping for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, where he is still responsible for the entire goalkeeping department. [2]His responsibilities are the conception, the training and such as scouting of the goalkeepers. He trained the goalkeepers of the U23 and U19 by himself until 2014. Since January 2015 Rechner is the main responsible of the professionals and directs the goalkeeper practice of the Bundesliga team. Moreover he owns the UEFA Coach-A-License. In 2016/2017 he participated in the DFB pilot project “UEFA A-Goalkeeping A-License”.

Since Rechner has been responsible for the first team, Oliver Baumann has played continuously and undisputed as the No. 1 for the German Bundesliga team. In 2020, Baumann was invited to join the German senior national team for the first time. Additionally TSG Hoffenheim generated million profits with selling goalkeepers like Koen Casteels (to VFL Wolfsburg), Marvin Schwäbe (to Bröndby Kopenhagen) and Gregor Kobel (to VfB Stuttgart). The goalkeeper coaches Steffen Krebs (to Borussia Mönchengladbach), Marjan Petkovic (to SV Wehen), Fabian Otte (to FC Burnley) and Dennis Neudahm (1.FC Nürnberg) found their ways to the professional sector through TSG Hoffenheim.

From 2009 to 2018 Rechner was instructor for goalkeeper training at Badischer Fußballverband and since 2010 speaker for Deutscher Fußball-Bund. In the meantime he gives lecture on goalkeeping worldwide.

2011 Rechner started his project “Goalkeeping Development” with developing a goalkeeper-specific software. Since it has been launched to the market in 2015, numerous national and international professional teams such as a lot of amateur and youth goalkeeper coaches are using it. In 2017 Rechner found the Goalkeeping Development GmbH[3] with many further offers concerning the goalkeeper game.

References
  1. Rechner, Michael. "Das technisch-taktische Anforderungsprofil des modernen Fußballtorwarts" (PDF). www.iat.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  2. Hoffenheim, TSG 1899. "Michael Rechner". www.tsg-hoffenheim.de. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  3. "Goalkeeping Development: Software". www.goalkeeping-development.com. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
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