The new ESV trainer Heinz Zerres gives his performance a step on the gas: "Playing against Gebensbach has to be the shitty day of the week for every opponent."
Gebensbach - Heinz Zerres is the new trainer of ESV Gebensbach. Alex Aigner, the sports director of the ice hockey district league, introduced the new man to the team in the clubhouse on Sunday morning. And the new coach spoke straight away: "Playing against Gebensbach has to be the shitty day of the week for every opponent".
Born in Landshut, who played in the 1st Bundesliga for twelve years with the EVL as well as Mannheim, Augsburg and Kaufbeuren, he can now look back on over four decades in the coaching business.
Heinz “Zorro” Zerres earned a reputation as a “promotion coach” from Munich to Hamburg - right up to the Bundesliga. The 73-year-old is full of energy. He presented himself like a boy in the ice hockey village.
Bayernligist Pfaffenhofen and the regional league teams from Freising and Bad Aibling were his last coaching positions so far. He broke off his work in the spa town during the 2018/19 season after suffering several strokes of fate in the family environment.
Zerres now lives in Dingolfing, where he volunteers to help head coach Billy Trew with the youth work. But his passion is working with senior teams, and he now feels like it again.
In the coming season, which will probably also be strongly influenced by the corona virus, Zerres will go back to a place of his triumphs: In 2013, he led the EHC Mitterteich from the state league to the Bayern league, which he held as the best promoter.
The Franks are one of four new opponents of the ESV Gebensbach, which was relocated together with the EV Aich, Dorfen 1b and Waldkraiburg 1b to the district league group 1, the former northern group. In addition to Mitterteich, the other new opponents at first glance are ERC Regen, EHC Regensburg and EHC Straubing. But none of them are that new. With Straubing, Regensburg and Mitterteich, the ESV crossed the rackets in the state league before, and Regen was something of a permanent rival in the state and district league. After all, the association has managed to create four equally strong groups with eight teams each.
The competitive game operation is to begin with two cup rounds in October. The point round start is scheduled for Friday, October 30th. The mode remains unchanged. February 14th is the last day of the league, and then the first and second place winners go into the playoffs. That's where the new ESV trainer and his protégés want to go. Now two times a week dry training is announced on the Gebensbacher sports field before it goes on the ice in Dorfen at the beginning of September. Helmut Findelsberger