Thomas Häßler

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Thomas Häßler
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Thomas Häßler in 2015
Personnel
Surname Thomas Jürgen Häßler
birthday May 30, 1966
place of birth West Berlin ,  Germany
size 166 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
0000-1979 Meteor 06 Berlin
1979-1984 Reinickendorfer foxes
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1990 1. FC Cologne 149 (17)
1990-1991 Juventus Turin 32 0(1)
1991-1994 AS Roma 88 (11)
1994-1998 Karlsruher SC 118 (28)
1998-1999 Borussia Dortmund 18 0(2)
1999-2003 TSV 1860 Munich 115 (21)
2003-2004 SV Austria Salzburg 19 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1986 Germany U-21 1 0(0)
1987-1988 Olympic team 12 0(0)
1988-2000 Germany 101 (11)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006-2009 1. FC Köln (technical trainer)
2007 Nigeria (assistant coach)
2009-2010 1. FC Köln Youth (technical trainer)
2010-2011 1. FC Köln (technical trainer)
2016-2019 Club Italia 80 / Berlin United
2019– BFC Prussia
1 Only league games are given.
Thomas Häßler in action as a technical trainer for 1. FC Köln (2008)

Thomas Jürgen "Icke" Häßler (born May 30, 1966 in West Berlin ) is a German soccer coach and former player . The midfielder's greatest successes were the 1990 world title and the 1996 European title .

Player career

At club level

Häßler, who started playing soccer at Meteor 06 Berlin , switched to Reinickendorfer Füchsen in 1979 and to 1. FC Köln in 1984 . For the Rhinelander he had completed 149 games (17 goals) before he was signed by Juventus Turin after the 1990 World Cup in Italy for a transfer fee of 15 million marks . After only one year he moved to AS Roma in the Italian capital for the equivalent of 14 million marks .

In 1994 he returned to the Bundesliga for Karlsruher SC for a transfer fee of seven million marks , making it the KSC's record entry. With him, the club was able to maintain itself in the top third of the table for years, but in 1998 the KSC was relegated.

After 118 games and 28 goals for KSC, Häßler moved to Borussia Dortmund . There was usually only one place left for him on the bench, as his position was already occupied by Andreas Möller and he fell out with the then Dortmund coach Michael Skibbe .

From 1999 he played for TSV 1860 Munich . With Häßler, the Munich team took fourth place in the 1999/2000 Bundesliga season , but then failed in qualifying for the Champions League. In 115 league games for 1860 Munich, Häßler scored 21 goals and prepared 32 more. In 2003, his contract was not extended for cost reasons.

After a long period without a club, Häßler last played at SV Austria Salzburg in Austria. He ended his career as an active footballer on August 22, 2005 with a farewell game in Cologne. Toni Schumacher , Jürgen Kohler , Hans-Peter Lehnhoff , Lothar Matthäus , Thomas Berthold and Birgit Prinz played in an all-star team . In his Bundesliga time, Häßler made 400 appearances, scoring 68 goals.

National team

In 1987 he took part in the military world championship in Italy with the national armed forces team and finished second. In the German national team , Häßler played 101 times between August 1988 and June 2000 and scored eleven goals.

Because of his achievements in the European Championship in 1992 , Häßler was voted Germany's Footballer of the Year . In 1996 he was used in all six games of Germany's European Championship triumph.

He scored his most important goal on November 15, 1989 in qualifying for the 1990 World Cup to 2-1 against Wales in the Müngersdorfer Stadium . This goal paved the way for participation in the World Cup and thus enabled the national team to win the world championship; he was also used for the full playing time in the final in Rome.

Thomas Häßler was also used at the 1994 World Cup . A scene in the quarter-finals caused a stir when Häßler lost a flying header duel against the Bulgarian offensive player Yordan Letchkov , which led to the 2-1 winning goal for Bulgaria and the tournament for the Germans. The photo of this scene now has cult status, not least because of the significant difference in size between the two players.

With 101 international matches, Häßler is one of the few players who have played 100 or more games for the DFB . Together with Jürgen Klinsmann, he was the record player in Germany at European Championships (13 games each) until Philipp Lahm surpassed him with 14 games at Euro 2012.

Coaching career

From October 2006 to October 2009, Häßler was the technical trainer for the professional team of 1. FC Köln , after which he worked in the club's youth division. From February to November 2007 he was also Berti Vogts' assistant coach in the Nigerian national team . After Ümit Özat left as a technical trainer at 1. FC Köln, Häßler returned to the FC professionals' training ground in this position in February 2010. With the commitment of Ståle Solbakken , the contractual relationship was terminated at the end of the 2010/11 season.

On June 5, 2014, Häßler signed a one-year contract with Padideh Maschad in the Iranian Pro League as the assistant coach of Alireza Marzban . Press reports that he was to become the national coach of Lebanon from May 2015 turned out to be false.

In February 2016, Häßler signed a contract as head coach of Club Italia 80 in Berlin until June 30, 2018. He took over the club of the Berlin district league (season 1) for the 2016/17 season and immediately made it to the seventh-class regional football league in Berlin . Club Italia 80 has been called Berlin United since 2018. In the 2018/19 season, Häßler was promoted to the Berlin League with Berlin United, and the club split up with Häßler immediately afterwards. For the 2019/20 season, Häßler took over the coaching position at the Berlin regional division BFC Preussen .

Others

Due to his origin in Berlin, Häßler was nicknamed Icke ( Berlin dialect : I).

His marriage made headlines when manager Edgar Geenen was dismissed at 1860 Munich because he had a relationship with Häßler's wife Angela. Thomas and Angela Häßler, who have three children together, separated at the end of 1999.

Andreas Häßler, the older brother who also wanted to become a professional footballer, died of leukemia in 1980 at the age of 17 . His younger brother Sascha played in the amateur field for 1. FC Köln.

Häßler is a co-founder of the Munich music label "MTM Music".

At times he was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Youth Football Foundation. The foundation was established in 2000 by Jürgen Klinsmann , other national players and the lecturers of the football teacher special course.

In addition, Häßler is a consultant for the Kölner Sport Humanagement GmbH.

In February 2016, Häßler took part in the show Ewige Helden on the TV station VOX with other former athletes ; he was the first to drop out. From March 2016 he was a celebrity candidate for the RTL show Let's Dance . Together with his dance partner Regina Luca , he dropped out after the fifth round. During the European Football Championship 2016, Thomas Häßler took part in the “SWR1 My European Champion” campaign. In January 2017, he participated in season 11, I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here! part and took fourth place.

successes

As a national player

With the club

Personal awards

Web links

Commons : Thomas Häßler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Häßler - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 26, 2012. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  2. ↑ kicker sports magazine No. 53/26. Wo., June 25, 1987, p. 2
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Häßler - Century of International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. February 1, 2006. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  4. ↑ Letchkov's legendary diving header sends defending champions Germany home . FIFA.com. April 20, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel : Thomas Häßler: World Champion becomes a coach in Iran
  6. ↑ Thomas Häßler joins Padideh Khorasan. Retrieved October 28, 2017 (American English).
  7. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost : "Icke" Häßler is now the national coach of Lebanon (accessed on February 5, 2016)
  8. ↑ inFranken.de: Thomas Häßler is waiting for the right offer (accessed on October 28, 2016)
  9. ↑ Thomas Häßler is the new head coach ( Memento from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 5, 2016)
  10. ↑ This is how Berlin football reacts to the return of Häßler . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on October 28, 2017]).
  11. ↑ With coach Thomas Häßler. Club Italia celebrates promotion to the seventh division. Berliner Zeitung , May 21, 2017, accessed on June 1, 2017 .
  12. ↑ https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin-sport/mehr-berlin-sport/club-italia-gracht-mit-neuem-namen- re- ganz- neu-an
  13. ↑ berlinerfussball.com: Thomas Häßler no longer coach of Berlin United (June 3, 2019) , accessed on July 22, 2019
  14. ↑ berlinerfussball.com: Thomas Häßler will be the new coach at BFC Preussen (June 12, 2019) , accessed on July 22, 2019
  15. ↑ This is how emotionally Thomas Häßler spoke about the death of his brother . In: stern.de . February 10, 2016 ( stern.de [accessed October 28, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Sport Humanagement GmbH [1] (accessed on September 27, 2018)
  17. ↑ VOX: Eternal Heroes: Thomas Häßler "Icke" was in the Bundesliga more than 400 times (accessed on February 5, 2016)
  18. ↑ Express : Guess what "Icke" Häßler will be doing this summer ... (accessed on February 5, 2016)
  19. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung January 21, 2017 (p. 37): In the Club of Lost Souls ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Häßler, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Häßler, Thomas Jürgen (full name); Häßler, Icke (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and today's coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin , Germany