Andreas Thom (soccer player)
Andreas Thom | ||
Thom after the
transfer to Leverkusen was announced, 1989 |
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Personnel | ||
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birthday | September 7, 1965 | |
place of birth | Rüdersdorf near Berlin , GDR | |
size | 178 cm | |
position | Storm | |
Juniors | ||
Years | station | |
1971-1974 | TSG Herzfelde | |
1974-1983 | BFC Dynamo | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1983-1990 | BFC Dynamo | 158 (77) |
1990-1995 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 161 (36) |
1995-1998 | Celtic Glasgow | 71 (14) |
1998-2001 | Hertha BSC | 51 | (5)
2000-2001 | Hertha BSC amateurs | 16 | (3)
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
DDR U21 | 3 | (0)|
1984-1990 | GDR | 51 (16) |
1990-1994 | Germany | 10 | (2)
Stations as a trainer | ||
Years | station | |
2001-2002 | Hertha BSC Amateurs (Assistant Trainer) | |
2002 | Hertha BSC (assistant coach) | |
2002-2003 | Hertha BSC Amateurs (Assistant Trainer) | |
2003 | Hertha BSC (interim) | |
2003-2007 | Hertha BSC (assistant coach) | |
2009-2010 | Holstein Kiel (assistant coach) | |
2010-2015 | Hertha BSC U17 | |
2015-2016 | Hertha BSC U19 | |
2016– | Hertha BSC U17 (assistant coach) | |
1 Only league games are given. |
Andreas Thom (born September 7, 1965 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin ) is a former German soccer player and current coach .
Career as a player
The son of a locksmith first played in the local gymnastics and sports community (TSG) Herzfelde , attended the children's and youth sports school (KJS) in East Berlin and in 1987 began studying sports at the German University of Physical Culture (DHFK) in Leipzig. In September 1985 he was accepted as a candidate in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In the German People's Police he had the rank of sub-lieutenant of the VP.
Thom played for BFC Dynamo in the GDR league and was with the East Berliners under coach Jürgen Bogs from 1984 to 1988 five times in a row GDR champions. The striker also won the FDGB Cup in 1988 and 1989 . In 1988 he was elected top scorer in the GDR league and also footballer of the year . In the GDR national team , he played 51 times between 1984 and 1990 and scored 16 goals.
The 18-year-old Thom made his first international appearance in November 1983 in the European Cup game at Partizan Belgrade , after his future coaching colleague from Hertha BSC , Falko Götz , broke away from the team and therefore a place in the storm became free.
As the first player in the GDR Oberliga, Andreas Thom moved to the Bundesliga in January 1990 . For a transfer fee of 2.5 million Deutschmarks, he went from the GDR record champions to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He made his debut for Leverkusen on February 17, 1990, when he was used in a catch-up game against Homburg. Here he also scored the goal to make it 1-0. He played for Leverkusen until 1995 and together with Ulf Kirsten , who also moved to the Bundesliga early on from Dynamo Dresden, formed a very successful storm duo (161 Bundesliga games, 37 goals). With Leverkusen he won the 1993 DFB Cup in Berlin against the amateurs of Hertha BSC. In the summer of 1995 Thom moved despite offers from Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund for a transfer fee of £ 2.2 million to Scotland to Celtic Glasgow . In his first season at Celtic , Thom was first used as a striker before he acted as a so-called tens at the end of the season behind the striker consisting of Pierre van Hooijdonk and Jorge Cadete . At the end of the season, Thom, now a fan favorite, was voted Player of the Season by the Celtic fans, and he also won the most Man of the Match awards of all Bhoys players . In the 1996/97 season he played in a withdrawn midfield role as a six at the side of Paul McStay . In January 1998 he returned to Berlin to Hertha BSC after losing his regular place under the new Celtic coach Wim Jansen in the season 1997/98 . Although Thom only played for three years in Glasgow , he is still considered one of the club's cult players.
For the German national soccer team he played ten international matches until 1994, scoring two goals. He shot one of them a few seconds after being substituted on in his debut game against Switzerland in December 1990, which was also the first game of the “all-German” team after reunification. In 1992 he was runner- up with the team at the European Championships in Sweden.
Career as a coach
After Huub Stevens was replaced at Hertha BSC, Thom was briefly head coach before Hans Meyer replaced him and Hertha saved him from relegation. Thom remained an assistant coach and also held this position under the new coach Falko Götz. On April 10, 2007 he and Götz were dismissed due to continued unsuccessfulness.
On December 15, 2008 it was announced that from January 5, 2009 Thom would become assistant coach at the regional league Holstein Kiel under Falko Götz. In 2009 he was promoted to the 3rd division as champions of the Regionalliga Nord . After Götz's dismissal, Thom remained loyal to the club under the new coach Christian Wück .
On February 15, 2010, Holstein Kiel parted ways with Andreas Thom. The club cited a disturbed relationship of trust between the former soccer player and the team as the reason.
He has been in charge of Hertha BSC's U17 team since the 2010/11 season.
supporting documents
- ↑ Footballer of the Year. Andreas Thom - who else? In: New Time . August 12, 1988, p. 6.
- ↑ BFC intern. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 23, 1985, p. 5.
- ↑ Ten times master and now a hot potato. In: Berliner Zeitung. January 19, 1990, p. 6.
- ↑ Axel Hesse: How was it actually ... Andreas Thom? Ed .: Sport Bild . No. 51/52 , December 19, 2012 (interview with Andreas Thom).
- ↑ a b c d e f Andreas Thom. thecelticwiki.com, accessed July 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Götz and Thom to Kiel! December 15, 2008 on kicker.de
- ↑ Heemsoth replaces Thom January 15, 2010 on kicker.de
literature
- Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies. 2nd updated edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-538-4 , pp. 567-568.
- Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann: Thom, Andreas . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Andreas Thom in the database of the German Football Association
- The A-international matches and goals for DFV and DFB and the league matches and goals season after season by Andreas Thom in the RSSSF archive
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Thom, Andreas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rüdersdorf near Berlin |