Bernhard Trares

Bernhard Trares (born August 18, 1965 in Bensheim) is a German former professional footballer. In 2008, he is a football manager working as head coach with German Oberliga team Wormatia Worms.

Career

Having played in his youth for SV Kirschhausen, as an adolescent Trares joined Eintracht Frankfurt in 1982. His professional career started in 1985 in the second division at SV Darmstadt 98. During four seasons the midfielder made 126 appearances for the "lilies", scoring 28 goals. In 1989 he joined Alemannia Aachen, who were relegated in his first season there. He then played for TSV 1860 München. With the Munich team, he again was relegated to the Oberliga. The team, however, then succeeded in being promoted two seasons in a row right into the Bundesliga. After three years in the first division he left Munich to join SV Werder Bremen, where he became an important player in the team's defence, not the least so in the DFB Pokal matches in 1999 with Werder winning the cup. At age 35, he left Bremen in 2001 for a season at second division team SV Waldhof Mannheim, after which he joined Karlsruher SC for another two years in the 2. Bundesliga.

Altogether, Trares made 183 appearances in the Bundesliga scoring 16 goals; 281 times he appeared in the 2. Bundesliga scoring 46 goals. He was selected two times for the German U-21-squad.

As an assistent coach he worked for his former club 1860 München from December 2004 through April 2006. In January 2007, Wormatia Worms hired him as head coach. In his first season with Wormatia, he lead the team to become winner of the Südwest-Pokal (the cup of the Südwestdeutscher Fußballverband, i.e. south-west German football association), thus qualifiying for the first round of the DFB-Pokal.

External links

Trares' Profile on the Wormatia Worms website (German)