Career
From 1971 to 1984 he was one of the moderators of the sports program Obermann was contracted players at Concordia Hamburg. In 1961 he went to the United States of America, where he was the first German professional in the United States.
He played in New York at South Carolina Elizabeth the 1st German-American Soccer League.
His journalist career began with an internship at the Hamburger Morgenpost. Later, he was an editor and foreign correspondent for the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, head of a German radio station and staff of the American television American Broadcasting Company in Miami.
After his return to Germany in 1966, he was a senior editor at television the Hessischer Rundfunk, later head of the editorial Television Sports currently at South German Radio. Here he commented football games for Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator. Holger Obermann has been involved for many years in the sport-related development assistance in crisis areas.
His work as a "sports development expert" led him on behalf of the German Football Association and the National Olympic Committees around 30 locations, including East Timor, Cameroon, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
Several times he was honored for his commitment. He was a senior adviser of the Afghanistan football project sponsored by Fédération internationale de football association. Since January until March 2003 he led the Afghanistan national football team After the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, he was named by Fédération internationale de football association as technical consultant for the reconstruction program in Sri Lanka, where he worked directly on site.