Gerd Zeise

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Gerd Zeise
Personal information
Full name Gerd Friedrich Horst Zeise
Date of birth (1952-09-06) 6 September 1952 (age 70)
Team information
Current team
Yangon United
Managerial career
YearsTeam
1981–1983 & 1986–1987 Berliner Fußball-Verband
1992–1994 Rot-Weiss Essen
1994–1997 FC 08 Homburg
1997–1998 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
1998–1999 Wuppertaler SV
1999–2000 KRC Harelbeke
2006–2007 SHB Đà Nẵng
2007–2009 New Radiant SC
2011–2015 Myanmar U-19
2015–2018 Myanmar
2023- Yangon United

Gerd Friedrich Horst Zeise (born 6 September 1952) [1] is a German football manager, currently the head coach of Yangon United in Myanmar National League. He is best known for coaching the Myanmar national team from 2015 to 2018.

Since the beginning of his engagement in Myanmar's football landscape in 2011, he was responsible for coaching the U-19, U-20, U-21 and U-23 teams and led them through various tournaments. In 2015, Zeise was appointed head coach of the Myanmar national team after the departure of Radojko Avramović.

One of the most remarkable achievements during his time in Myanmar is the 2011 BIDC Cup, held in Cambodia [2] with Myanmar’s U-21 team. In the same tournament, in 2013, the Burmese team finished as runners-up. [3] among a field of U-23 teams. Furthermore, Zeise won the 2014 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy tournament in Brunei with Myanmar’s participating U-19 team among all U-21 teams of South East Asia.

In 2015, Zeise made history after leading the Myanmar under-20 team to the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. [4] The following year, he coached Myanmar during the 2016 AFF Championship which the country co-hosted. [5] After 12 long years, the Chinthe reached the semi-finals for the first time, where they were beaten by their fellow co-hosts Thailand. Zeise left by mutual consent in March 2018, after the team was beaten by Kyrgyzstan and failed to qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. [6]

Zeise started his career in several clubs in Germany, such as Rot-Weiss Essen, FC 08 Homburg, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Wuppertaler SV. After that he coached the first division KRC Harelbeke and also managed SHB Đà Nẵng in Vietnam and New Radiant SC in the Maldives.

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References

  1. "FIFA U-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015 - Myanmar". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2018.
  2. "Top marks to the Burmese". Kingdom of Football. 16 October 2011.
  3. "Thailand lift 2013 BIDC Cup". The Phnom Penh Post. 11 November 2013.
  4. "Raddy out, Gerd in". Myanmar Times. 19 October 2015.
  5. "Profil Tim Piala AFF 2016: Myanmar" (in Indonesian). FourFourTwo Indonesia. 13 November 2016.
  6. "Gerd left". Myanmar Times. 26 March 2018.