Andreas Koepke

Andreas Koepke
Andreas Köpke (2018)
Personnel
birthday	March 12, 1962
place of birth	Kiel ,  Germany
size	182 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
1967-1979	Holstein Kiel
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1983	Holstein Kiel	72 (0)
1983-1984	SC Charlottenburg	38 (0)
1984-1986	Hertha BSC	81 (0)
1986-1994	1. FC Nuremberg	262 (2)
1994-1996	Eintracht Frankfurt	66 (0)
1996-1998	Olympique Marseille	68 (0)
1998-2001	1. FC Nuremberg	74 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1987-1988	Germany Olympia	8 (0)
1987-1998	Germany	59 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2004–	Germany (goalkeeping coach)
2019	Hertha BSC (goalkeeping coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Andreas "Andy" Köpke (born March 12, 1962 in Kiel ) is a former German soccer player and since October 2004 goalkeeping coach of the German national soccer team .

His greatest successes as a player were the titles at the European Championship in 1996 (as a regular goalkeeper) and at the World Cup in 1990 (as the third goalkeeper). As a goalkeeping coach, he won the 2014 World Cup in Brazil .

Player career

society

Holstein Kiel

Andreas Köpke started as a right winger at Holstein Kiel . In his youth he was retrained as a goalkeeper and played for Holstein Kiel from the 1979/80 season in the 2nd Bundesliga North. On the 38th day of the same season, May 30, 1980, he came to his first professional use. In the 7-1 win against VfL Osnabrück he was in the starting line-up for the then number 1 Manfred Ludwig and was replaced in the 73rd minute for the actual number 2 Martin Burmeister . In the following year Köpke came - as a substitute goalkeeper behind the new goalkeeper Thomas Richter and Manfred Ludwig - to five mandatory games in the second division. At the end of the season, twelve teams were relegated due to the merger of the 2nd Bundesliga North and South. Köpke's team took 19th place and had to play in the major league next season.

SC Charlottenburg

After the descent of Kiel, he moved to the Berlin club SC Charlottenburg , where he initially trained in the youth team. For the 1983/84 season he was the goalkeeper in the team of coach Bernd Erdmann , who played in the 2nd Bundesliga. Köpke played all 38 games together with striker Jörg Gaedke . He stayed four times without conceding a goal. Despite winning a total of 10 games and an 8-1 win against 1. FC Saarbrücken on the penultimate game day, which was the greatest success of the entire second division season, the club was relegated at the end of the season. For this reason, Köpke decided to change clubs and signed with local rivals Hertha BSC , who played in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Hertha BSC

At Hertha he was signed as the successor to Gregor Quasten and was a regular player straight away. He stayed at the capital club for two years. After their relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga , he moved in 1986 to Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg .

1. FC Nürnberg - Part 1

Even before the start of the league, Nuremberg goalkeeper Herbert Heider was seriously injured. So Köpke moved up and made his debut in Germany's top football league on August 9, 1986, when the 24-year-old was in goal in the away game at Werder Bremen . At halftime, his team led 2-0. After the break, the Bremen attacker Manfred Burgsmüller met three times and thus initiated the victory for the Hanseatic League . In the second leg on February 21, 1987, the Nürnberger retaliated with a 5-1 success.

Up until his descent in 1993/94, Köpke experienced a mixed, successful period with the Franks. His best placement with the team was in the 1987/88 season , when FCN finished fifth and Köpke had to accept the third fewest goals. Only Oliver Reck from champions Werder Bremen and Bodo Illgner from 1. FC Köln received fewer goals.

On the 12th match day of the championship of 1992/93 against 1. FC Köln, with a score of 0: 1, the club was awarded a penalty. Köpke ran out of his goal into the opponent's penalty area and took the ball. He successfully hit the goal that was guarded by his long-time national team colleague and competitor Bodo Illgner. Another goal from Percy Olivares turned the game around and won. Also in the following year he scored from the point. In the 3-0 win against Dynamo Dresden on October 8, 1993, Köpke transformed to the final score in the 88th minute of the game.

On matchday 32, 1993/94 , when the club was in a relegation battle and FC Bayern Munich was playing for the championship, the two teams met. The decisive factor was a phantom goal , which decided the championship and relegation: Köpke had to allow Thomas Helmer to score an alleged goal, although Helmer hadn't hit the goal. In the 26th minute of the game, after a corner, the Bayern defender tried to get the ball into Köpke's goal from close range, but poked the ball past the goalkeeper and goal out of bounds. This could be proven by the television cameras installed. To the great horror of Nuremberg, the assistant referee Jablonski decided on goal and convinced the referee Hans-Joachim Osmers , who in turn recognized the goal as valid. In the end, Munich won 2-1 and Nuremberg protested. The DFB accepted the objection and started a replay. This ended 0: 5 from the perspective of Nuremberg, and the relegation was confirmed.

Eintracht Frankfurt

After the relegation of the Nuremberg Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt signed the goalkeeper. There Köpke replaced Uli Stein as regular goalkeeper. With Oka Nikolov came a young talent from the Frankfurt youth department who became number 2 behind Köpke. Under coach Jupp Heynckes , the Frankfurters fell short of expectations, so that in April 1995 Charly Körbel took over the office. Köpke was the undisputed number 1 among the two head coaches and was the only player to complete all league games for Eintracht. In the following year, Köpke had the most appearances among the players, but could not prevent his fifth relegation with the fifth professional club. With 68 goals conceded, the opposing players scored more goals than any other team.

Olympique Marseille

After the 1996 European Football Championship, which was very successful for him - Köpke became European champion with the national team, played all the games and received top international reviews - Köpke was introduced as a newcomer to VfB Stuttgart and was officially presented in the Swabian jersey.

A short time later he announced a move to FC Barcelona . But this change failed because Barcelona used the release clause signed by both sides due to the legally unclear situation with VfB one day before the expiry and instead signed Portugal's national goalkeeper Vítor Baía . Köpke then accused the DFB of being to blame for his failed move to Barcelona.

Thus, Köpke was initially without a club before he signed with Olympique Marseille. As with the clubs before, Köpke was the goalkeeper here. In his first year with the French, he was tenth, a year later fourth in Ligue 1 , with Marseille having the best defense in the league with 27 goals. During the winter break of the 1998/99 season, Köpke decided to return to the Bundesliga after losing his regular place early in the season to the then 25-year-old Stéphane Porato .

1. FC Nürnberg - Part 2

In Germany, he rejoined his old club Nuremberg, which played in the 1st Bundesliga. This was at this point (winter break) on a relegation zone and received the second most goals against in the Bundesliga by matchday 18. Köpke replaced the then number 1 Andreas Hilfiker . With him, the Nuremberg team made it to 12th place by the 33rd matchday. Due to a 1: 2 defeat against the direct relegation competitor SC Freiburg and the victories of the other endangered teams, the renewed relegation with the Nuremberg was certain. The decisive factor here were the fewer goals scored against Eintracht Frankfurt .

At an advanced age as a footballer, Köpke went into the second division and stood there for the Nuremberg team for the next two years. In 1999/2000 the direct resurgence with 4th place was missed, the following year secured with 1st place. Nevertheless, Köpke decided to end his career and said goodbye to active professional football with the rise. He was succeeded by Darius Kampa , who was 15 years his junior .

On June 15, 2001, Köpke was said goodbye to 40,000 fans in a farewell game in the sold-out Nuremberg stadium.

Köpke made 346 appearances (2 goals) in the 1st Bundesliga, 173 appearances (0 goals) in the 2nd Bundesliga and 68 appearances (0 goals) in the French Ligue 1 .

In 2010 he was voted the goalkeeper legend of the century by an internet vote on the 1. FC Nürnberg website fcn.de.

National team

Köpke as part of the staff of the national team (2006)

In 1988 Köpke was the regular goalkeeper of the German Olympic team , but an inner ligament tore prevented his participation in the Summer Olympics in Seoul , where the German team took third place.

In the national team , he played 59 international matches from 1990 to 1998 and took part in three soccer world championships.

The highlights of his career were winning the 1990 soccer World Cup in Italy without being used as the third goalkeeper behind regular goalkeeper Bodo Illgner and Raimond Aumann (number 2) and winning the 1996 European Soccer Championship in England as a regular player. During the tournament he saved two penalties. Köpke saved the first shot in the group game against Italy (0-0), which meant the elimination of the then vice world champion. He saved the second shot in the penalty shootout of the semifinals against the English defender Gareth Southgate and thus secured the German team the final.

Köpke made his debut in the DFB dress on May 30, 1990 in preparation for the World Cup against the Danish team when he was substituted on at half time against Aumann. After Bodo Illgner resigned from the national team after leaving the quarter-finals of the soccer world championship in 1994 , Köpke advanced to become the new goalkeeper. After being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 1998 World Cup against Croatia , Köpke decided to end his career in the national team.

Köpke remained clean in 28 of 59 international matches. For a while he had the best rate of all goalkeepers with at least 20 appearances. In the meantime (as of February 2009) he is in second place behind Jens Lehmann . With an average of 0.76 goals per international match, Köpke has the best rate of all goalkeepers with more than 20 appearances.

Rivalry with Bodo Illgner

With Bodo Illgner, Andreas Köpke had an ongoing rivalry for the position in the goal of the German national team. Bodo Illgner was supposed to move to 1. FC Nürnberg as early as 1987, but became indispensable for 1. FC Köln after the scandal surrounding Toni Schumacher's book kick-off - the move failed. Since 1992 there has been a bitter sporting duel between Illgner and Köpke for the regular place in the goal of the German national team, after Köpke had shown outstanding performances over a long period and Illgner had repeatedly acted unsuccessfully. On the 12th matchday of the 1992/93 season , Köpke converted a penalty against Bodo Illgner in the game against 1. FC Köln and thus contributed to the 2-1 success over the Domstadt team. In doing so, Köpke also revived the tradition of goalkeepers who shoot from penalties.

In 1992, Andreas Köpke recorded a maxi CD with TT-Fresh with the title number 1 (Jacrabet Records, AHO-CD 1302).

After the active career

From 2001 to 2004 he worked for Ufa, the marketing company of 1. FC Nürnberg. Köpke, a trained car mechanic, has been giving company lectures and management seminars on topics such as team spirit, motivation, success, leadership and communication since 2002. He gives salespeople and executives his recipes for success from his career as a national goalkeeper and as an assistant coach for the national team.

On October 21, 2004, Köpke was the goalkeeping coach of the German national team under the national coach Jürgen Klinsmann . His predecessor Sepp Maier had been released a few days earlier. Under Klinsmann and Köpke, Jens Lehmann was declared the goalkeeper at the 2006 World Cup, ahead of Oliver Kahn . After the World Cup, Köpke remained in the coaching staff under Klinsmann's previous assistant coach and successor Joachim Löw . As a goalkeeping coach, he took part in the 2008 European Championship and the 2010 World Championship , since Manuel Neuer is number 1 . After the European Championships in 2012 , Germany became world champions at the 2014 World Championships. In the following, Köpke was also responsible as goalkeeping coach at the 2016 European Championship and the 2018 World Championship . His contract with the DFB runs until the 2022 World Cup.

In late November 2019 Kopke by the DFB until the end of the year released to under Jurgen Klinsmann as goalkeeper coach of Bundesliga side Hertha BSC to work. At the beginning of 2020 he left Hertha again and continued his work for the national team. At Hertha, Köpke met his son Pascal .

Others

His son Pascal (* 1995) is under contract as a striker with Hertha BSC . His sisters are four and twelve years older.

On November 10, 2010, Köpke received the Bambi in the “Jury Prize of Honor” category, and Mesut Özil gave the laudation .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

• World Champion 1990 (without commitment)
• European champion 1996
• German footballer of the year 1993
• Germany's goalkeeper of the year 1988, 1993, 1995, 1996
• World goalkeeper of the year 1996
• Best goalkeeper in the 1996 European Championship
• Classification as world class in the ranking of German football : winter 1992/93 , summer 1993 , summer 1996 , winter 1996/97 , summer 1997 , winter 1997/98
• Kicker Goalkeeper of the Year: 1987, 1993, 1995, 1996

As goalkeeper coach of the German national soccer team

• World Champion : 2014
• Confederation Cup winner : 2017
• Third in the world championship: 2006 , 2010
• Second in the European Championship : 2008
• European Championship semi-finals 2012 and 2016
• Third in the Confederation Cup : 2005

See also

• List of German national soccer goalkeepers

Web links

Commons : Andreas Köpke  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Andreas Köpke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Andreas Köpke
• Andreas Köpke in the database of weltfussball.de
• Andreas Köpke in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Andreas Köpke in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Trainer portrait on the homepage of the DFB

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match statistics Holstein Kiel - VfL Osnabrück 7: 1 (3: 1) from May 30, 1980 on fussballdaten.de
2. ↑ Hertha BSC and SC Charlottenburg Berlin 1982 to 1986 ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on andreas-koepke.de
3. ↑ Match statistics SC Charlottenburg - 1. FC Saarbrücken 8: 1 (2: 1) from May 19, 1984 on fussballdaten.de
4. ↑ Match statistics SV Werder Bremen - 1. FC Nürnberg 5: 3 (0: 2) from August 9, 1986 on fussballdaten.de
5. ↑ Match statistics 1. FC Nürnberg - SV Werder Bremen 5: 1 (0: 0) from February 21, 1987 on fussballdaten.de
6. ↑ Table of the Bundesliga 1987/1988 on fussballdaten.de
7. ↑ Match statistics 1. FC Nürnberg - 1. FC Köln 2: 1 (1: 1) from October 31, 1992 on fussballdaten.de
8. ↑ Match statistics 1. FC Nürnberg - Dynamo Dresden 3: 0 (2: 0) from October 8, 1993 on fussballdaten.de
9. ↑ Phantom Gate / Gate or Not?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on andreas koepke.de  
10. ↑ Eintracht Frankfurt: Der Kader 1994/1995 ( Memento from December 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de
11. ^ The games of the Bundesliga 1995/1996 on the 34th matchday on fussballdaten.de
12. ↑ Shock for Köpke from October 20, 1998 on welt.de
13. ↑ An own goal - or withdrawal in installments from November 11, 1996 on berliner-zeitung.de
14. ↑ Andreas Köpke is about to move to Olympique Marseille on July 20, 1996 on welt.de
15. ↑ Table of the 1998/1999 Bundesliga on matchday 18 on fussballdaten.de
16. ↑ Table of the 1998/1999 Bundesliga on matchday 33 on fussballdaten.de
17. ↑ Uli Digmayer: Mintal dreams of scoring a strike. Club idol is looking forward to his farewell game against Dortmund. In: nordbayern.de. Verlag Nürnberger Presse Druckhaus Nürnberg GmbH & Co. KG, July 20, 2012, accessed on October 3, 2017 : “On June 15, 2001 goalkeeper idol Andreas Köpke asked a prominent selection of former DFB stars in front of 40,000 spectators in the Nuremberg stadium like Jürgen Klinsmann, Rudi Völler and Karl-Heinz Riedle for a friendly duel with the 1.FCN. " 
18. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Andreas Köpke - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 26, 2012. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
19. ↑ Who is your Goalkeeper Legend of the Century? (fcn.de)
20. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Andreas Köpke - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. November 2, 2012. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
21. ↑ Match statistics Germany - Denmark 1: 0 (1: 0) from May 30, 1990 on fussballdaten.de
22. ^ "Birthdays", Sport-Bild from March 10, 1993, p. 65
23. ↑ DFB extended with sporty minds. Retrieved November 27, 2019 . 
24. ↑ DFB releases Köpke for commitment to Hertha BSC until the end of the year , dfb.de, November 27, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019.
25. ↑ Max Steinborn takes over the position of goalkeeping coach from Andy Köpke , herthabsc.de, accessed on December 22, 2019
26. ↑ Köpke: I would like to be bigger berliner-kurier.de from June 14, 1998, accessed on November 13, 2016