Andreas Sassen
| Andreas Sassen | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | January 14, 1968 | |
| place of birth | Essen , Germany | |
| date of death | October 17, 2004 | |
| Place of death | Essen , Germany | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -1986 | BV Altenessen 06 | |
| 1986-1987 | Black and white food | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1987-1990 | Black and white food | |
| 1990-1993 | Bayer 05 Uerdingen | 66 (12) |
| 1993-1994 | Hamburger SV | 38 (1) |
| 1994-1995 | Dynamo Dresden | 6 (0) |
| 1995 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 11 (0) |
| 1995 | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 10 (1) |
| Black and white food | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Andreas "Andy" Sassen (born January 14, 1968 in Essen ; † October 17, 2004 there ) was a German football player .
Career
Andreas Sassen began in black and white food with the football at the club. On November 20, 1990, he moved to Bayer 05 Uerdingen , where he was only signed as a contract amateur. In the 1990/91 season Sassen made his debut in the 1st Bundesliga . For the Krefeld he played 66 championship matches, in which he scored 12 goals. Of these, 35 games (5 goals) were in the 1st Bundesliga and 31 games (7 goals) in the 2nd Bundesliga .
In 1993, Andreas Sassen signed a contract with the traditional North German club Hamburger SV , where he played until November 1994. The big breakthrough did not come with the Rothosen (38 Bundesliga games / 1 goal). In the 1993/94 season he was a permanent member of the Hamburg team, but the following season HSV let the midfielder move to Dresden for a transfer fee of 700,000 Deutschmarks. He played six games (no goal) in the 1994/95 season for 1. FC Dynamo Dresden , who was the last of the 1. Bundesliga to be relegated from the upper house, and after the withdrawal of his license for the 2. Bundesliga in the regional league found again.
Sassen tried his luck in Ukraine near the Dnieper Dnipropetrovsk . He played in the highest Ukrainian league for the team from Dnepropetrovsk in eleven games (no goal). In the 1995/96 season he was active in German professional football for the last time. For SG Wattenscheid 09 he played ten games in the 2nd Bundesliga, in which Sassen hit the opposing goal once. The midfielder then briefly kicked amateur football at his home club Schwarz-Weiß Essen before his career ended due to the problems off the field. In total, he played 79 games (6 goals) in the 1st Bundesliga and 41 games (8 hits) in the 2nd division.
death
In the last years of his life, Sassen was employed as an auxiliary gardener at the green space department of the city of Essen. He died of a stroke at the age of 36 .
reception
Sassen was considered one of the greatest talents in German football, but had significant alcohol problems, which not only cost him his driver's license several times, but also led to the termination of his employment contract several times.
Web links
- Andreas Sassen in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Cult kicker: Andreas Sassen
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bundesligalegenden.de/andreas-sassen.html
- ^ Agreement between Schwarz-Weiß Essen and Bayer 05 Uerdingen on ( Memento from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sven Geisler: "Raise your cups, Mr. Sassen!" In: Sächsische Zeitung . April 6, 2020.
- ↑ Klaus Hoeltzenbein: With talent for midfield . sueddeutsche.de , accessed on August 24, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sassen, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sassen, Andy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1968 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 2004 |
| Place of death | eat |