Michael Gurski

{{short description|German football coach and player (born 1979)}}

{{About|the primarily-21st-century German football player and coach|the 20th-century Polish skier|Michał Górski}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Michael Gurski

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|03|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tübingen, West Germany

| height = 1.89 m

| position = Goalkeeper

| currentclub = SpVgg Unterhaching (GK coach)

| clubnumber =

| youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–1993

| youthclubs1 = SF Dußlingen

| youthyears2 = 1993–1996

| youthclubs2 = Stuttgarter Kickers

| youthyears3 = 1996–1998

| youthclubs3 = SSV Reutlingen

| years1 = 1998–2001

| clubs1 = SSV Reutlingen

| caps1 = 3

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2001–2003

| clubs2 = SpVgg Unterhaching

| caps2 = 10

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 2004

| clubs3 = Borussia Fulda

| caps3 =

| goals3 =

| years4 = 2004–2008

| clubs4 = TuS Koblenz

| caps4 = 69

| goals4 = 0

| years5 = 2008–2010

| clubs5 = SV Sandhausen

| caps5 = 55

| goals5 = 0

| years6 = 2010–2014

| clubs6 = SV Wehen Wiesbaden

| caps6 = 122

| goals6 = 0

| years7 = 2014–2015

| clubs7 = SSV Reutlingen

| caps7 = 17

| goals7 = 0

| years8 = 2015

| clubs8 = Arminia Bielefeld

| caps8 = 0

| goals8 = 0

| years9 = 2016

| clubs9 = Sonnenhof Großaspach

| caps9 = 0

| goals9 = 0

| years10 = 2017–2018

| clubs10 = VfB Eichstätt

| caps10 = 9

| goals10 = 0

| years11 = 2018–2022

| clubs11 = SpVgg Unterhaching

| caps11 = 0

| goals11 = 0

| manageryears1 = 2015–2017 | managerclubs1 = Sonnenhof Großaspach (GK coach)

| manageryears2 = 2021– | managerclubs2 = SpVgg Unterhaching (GK coach)

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Michael Gurski (born 21 March 1979) is a German football coach who played as a goalkeeper. He works as a goalkeeping coach with SpVgg Unterhaching.

Career

Born in Tübingen, Gurski started his senior career with Stuttgarter Kickers, then SSV Reutlingen 05. Between 2001 and December 2003, he played for Kickers Offenbach, two games in the 2. Bundesliga and 10 in the Regionalliga Süd. He could not beat keeper Philipp Heerwagen to the number one spot, and moved to Borussia Fulda in January 2004.

After half a year in Fulda, he moved to TuS Koblenz where he played until summer 2008. In 2006, he was in the team that got promoted to the 2. Bundesliga. Eventually he lost his number one spot, and he was released on a free transfer. On 1 July 2008, he signed for SV Sandhausen. He moved to SSV Reutlingen in 2014.

In summer 2018 Gurski left VfB Eichstätt for SpVgg Unterhaching.{{cite news |title=Eichstätt: Schmerzvoller Verlust - Kurz vor dem Saisonstart hat der VfB Eichstätt noch keinen Ersatz für Keeper Michael Gurski gefunden - Wechsel Teil II |url=https://www.donaukurier.de/sport/lokalsport/eichstaett/Schmerzvoller-Verlust;art1722,3844020 |access-date=26 November 2020 |work=Eichstätter Kurier |date=10 July 2018 |language=German}} In 2019, aged 40, he agreed a two-year contract extension with Unterhaching.{{cite news |last1=Epp |first1=Marius |title=SpVgg Unterhaching: Bei Michael Gurski ist mit 40 noch kein Ende in Sicht |url=https://www.merkur.de/sport/amateur-fussball/landkreis-muenchen/spvgg-unterhaching-bei-michael-gurski-ist-mit-40-noch-kein-ende-in-sicht-12722261.html |access-date=26 November 2020 |work=Merkur |date=27 June 2019 |language=German}}

After retiring

After retiring in the summer 2015, Gurski signed with SG Sonnenhof Großaspach as goalkeeper coach.{{cite web | url = http://www.fussball-in-bw.de/news-detailansicht/artikel/michael-gurski-wird-neuer-torwart-trainer-1.html | title = Michael Gurski word neuer torwart-trainer | language = German | publisher = fussball-in-bw.de | accessdate = 17 June 2015 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150624062310/http://www.fussball-in-bw.de/news-detailansicht/artikel/michael-gurski-wird-neuer-torwart-trainer-1.html | archivedate = 24 June 2015 | df = dmy-all }}