René Rydlewicz (born 18 July 1973) is a German professional

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manager and a former player who played as a

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Playing career

Rydlewicz was born in

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. He started his career as a youth team player for Chemie Döbern and went on to play with

FC Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons in ...

Berliner FC Dynamo Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V., commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo () or BFC (), alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin, is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Berli ...

, and

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, t ...

in his later youth years. He signed his first professional contract at the age of 16 with BFC Dynamo and stayed with the club until 1990 when he signed for

. He stayed at Leverkusen for two years and made 15 appearances for the club. In the summer of 1994 he moved to

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played 28 games and two years later made the move back to Bayer 04 Leverkusen. In 1997, he was once again on the move, this time to

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club

Arminia Bielefeld DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (), also known as ''Die Arminen'' or ''Die Blauen'' ), or just Arminia (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of ...

. He quickly established himself at the club and became the captain. He stayed with Bielefeld for three years and played 70 games for them before moving on to

F.C. Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the forme ...

in the summer of 2000, where he played almost 200 games until 2008. He retired after playing one year for

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Managerial career

In July 2008, Rydlewicz joined

as a director of football. On 1 March 2009, he took over the job as general manager of

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. He was sacked in May 2010 due to lack of success. He was interim manager for

Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus ( Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...

. He took over on 8 May 2014 and lost the sole match in–charge. He again took over on 20 September 2015, and again, lost the sole match in charge. On 7 May 2016, he was named new manager of his former club

BFC Dynamo Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V., commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo () or BFC (), alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin, is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Berli ...

. He was sacked in December 2018.

Managerial record

References

1973 births Living people Sportspeople from Forst (Lausitz) People from Bezirk Cottbus German men's footballers Footballers from Brandenburg Men's association football forwards Germany men's under-21 international footballers Berliner FC Dynamo players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players Bayer 04 Leverkusen II players TSV 1860 Munich players Arminia Bielefeld players FC Hansa Rostock players FC Anker Wismar players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players DDR-Oberliga players 3. Liga managers German football managers Berliner FC Dynamo managers {{Germany-footy-forward-1970s-stub