Arne Friedrich

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Arne Friedrich
Arne Friedrich - Hertha BSC Berlin (1) .jpg
Arne Friedrich (2009)
Personnel
birthday May 29, 1979
place of birth Bad Oeynhausen ,  Germany
size 185 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1985-1987 FC Bad Oeynhausen
1987-1992 TuS Lohe
1992-1995 SC Herford
1995-1999 FC Gütersloh
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2000 SC Verl 31 0(0)
2000-2002 Arminia Bielefeld 47 0(1)
2002-2010 Hertha BSC 231 (14)
2010-2011 VfL Wolfsburg 15 0(0)
2012-2013 Chicago Fire 24 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2000-2001 Germany U21 5 0(0)
2002 Team 2006 1 0(0)
2002-2011 Germany 82 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2014-2015 Germany U18 (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Arne Friedrich (born May 29, 1979 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a former German soccer player and today's coach and functionary . He is currently the sports director of Hertha BSC .

Friedrich was the captain of Hertha BSC for a few years before they were relegated to the second division in the 2009/10 season. From the 2010/11 season to mid-September 2011 he played for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg . Most recently he was under contract with Chicago Fire in the MLS . He also played for the German national team from 2002 to 2011 , with which he became vice European champion in 2008 and third place at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups. His preferred position was center-back, but he was also used as a right-back.

Life

Friedrich grew up in Bad Oeynhausen, where he attended the Rehme-Oberbecksen elementary school , the Realschule Süd and, from 1995, the vocational school for business and administration. In the summer of 1997 he began training as an industrial clerk at the kitchen manufacturer SieMatic , which he completed in 1999 together with the technical college entrance qualification. He then did 13 months of community service at the Heart and Diabetes Center in North Rhine-Westphalia in Bad Oeynhausen until June 30, 2000. After that, he concentrated entirely on his football career.

Career

societies

Friedrich (left) in the Chicago Fire jersey

For the 2000/01 season Arne Friedrich got his first professional contract as a footballer. The former coach of Arminia Bielefeld , Hermann Gerland , discovered him during his time in the regional league at SC Verl . Due to convincing performances, Gerland brought Friedrich to Arminia, where he became a regular player immediately.

Friedrich played for Bielefeld in the 2nd Bundesliga for two years. Then in February 2002 he accepted an offer from Berlin and moved to the capital club Hertha BSC . Shortly after signing the contract, he tore a tendon canal in his right foot in a match against Eintracht Frankfurt on February 18, 2002 . He was therefore unable to play a game in the second half of the season. Friedrich won the DFB League Cup with Hertha in 2002 .

After taking part in the 2004 European Championship in Portugal , he was diagnosed with patellar tendinitis on August 16, 2004 ; only on October 2, 2004 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern could he be used again.

In the 2004/05 season , Friedrich was appointed team captain by then coach Falko Götz . He held this position until the end of his time in Berlin. He extended his contract with Hertha BSC twice. He ran for the capital club in 231 games in the top German division.

After Hertha was relegated, Friedrich moved to VfL Wolfsburg . There he signed a three-year contract. However, his debut in the Lower Saxony jersey was delayed. A herniated disc that made an operation necessary cost him the entire first half of the season. It was not until December 22, 2010 that he was able to compete for the first time in a short stint in the DFB Cup against Energie Cottbus , which VfL lost 3-1. By then, the club was already in a relegation battle. In the second half of the season, in which he only missed two games due to a suspension, he strengthened VfL's central defense and secured the team with the team on the last day of the class.

Due to constant intervertebral disc problems, Friedrich missed the preparation and the start of the 2011/12 season. On September 19, 2011, the existing licensed player contract with VfL Wolfsburg was terminated at Friedrich's request.

In March 2012 he moved to Chicago Fire in the United States in Major League Soccer . There he received a one-year contract, which was extended for another year on October 7, 2012.

In June 2013 he ended his football career after persistent back problems.

National team

Arne Friedrich and the senior national team qualified for the 2010 World Cup on October 10, 2009
Arne Friedrich in his last international match against Austria on June 3, 2011

Friedrich completed a total of five games for the U21 national team before he could no longer participate for reasons of age. He also played a game for the perspective team " Team 2006 ".

On August 21, 2002 Friedrich made his debut for the senior national team, which played in Sofia 2-2 in the international test match against Bulgaria . He took part in his first major tournament in June 2004 when he played all three group matches at the European Championship in Portugal as a regular player. The German national team was eliminated after the group stage.

In the 5-1 victory over Thailand in Bangkok on December 21, 2004 , he led the DFB team onto the field for the first time as team captain; five more international matches as team captain followed, most recently on March 29, 2011 against Australia .

As the host of the 2006 World Cup , the German team also qualified for the 2005 Confederations Cup . In this tournament Friedrich rotated with Andreas Hinkel on the right-back position; Germany won the game for third place against Mexico 4-3 after extra time. At the 2006 World Cup, Friedrich was part of the 23-man squad of the DFB team. In the tournament in which the German team finished third, he played all games over 90 minutes, with the exception of the game for third place against Portugal due to an injury. At the European Championships in 2008 , Friedrich was again among the 23-man squad of the DFB . At the beginning of the tournament, however, he was only a substitute. Only in the last group game against Austria he was in the starting line-up; Germany won the game 1-0 and reached the quarter-finals. There Friedrich showed one of his best internationals in the game against Portugal . He took the entire game over Cristiano Ronaldo from the game, Germany won 3-2. The German team finished the tournament in second place.

In March 2009, national coach Joachim Löw announced that he was planning to work with Friedrich in central defense from now on. Before that, he had mainly played in the position of right full-back. In April 2009, Friedrich suffered a muscle injury that forced him to cancel the World Cup qualifiers against Liechtenstein and Wales.

In the meantime, Arne Friedrich (among the field players) was the national player with the most international appearances without scoring. With his 67th international match against South Africa on September 5, 2009 (final score: 2-0), he replaced Christian Wörns and Willi Schulz as record holders, who also failed to score in 66 international matches. Friedrich ultimately remained in 76 international matches without scoring.

On June 1, 2010 he was appointed to the final squad for the 2010 World Cup by national coach Löw . In the course of the tournament he played all games. In the 4-0 win in the quarter-finals against Argentina , he scored his only international goal with the goal to make it 3-0 in his 77th international match . During the entire World Cup, Friedrich and Per Mertesacker from Bremen formed the central defense of the German team, stood on the field for 630 minutes and did not miss a single minute of the game.

On January 27, 2011, Friedrich announced that he would end his national team career after the Euro 2012 .
He scored an own goal in the European Championship qualifier against Austria on June 3, 2011. It was his last international match as he was not nominated for the German EM squad . In an interview with Spiegel Online in June 2012, he admitted that with his decision to move to the USA, he had accepted that he would no longer play in the national team.

Friedrich completed 82 international matches (52 wins, 15 draws, 15 defeats), in which he scored one goal and gave four assists. In all of his missions he was never expelled from the field, but was warned twelve times with a yellow card.

Trainer and functionary career

Arne Friedrich (2019)

In 2014 Friedrich completed a DFB coaching course at the Kaiserau sports school and received the B license. The A license followed later. Under Guido Streichsbier and later Meikel Schönweitz , Friedrich was assistant coach of the German U18 national team from August 28, 2014 to the end of 2015 .

At the end of November 2019, at the request of the new head coach Jürgen Klinsmann, under the sports director Michael Preetz , Friedrich became the performance manager at Hertha BSC. There he was initially to act as a link between the team and management until the end of Klinsmann's tenure at the end of the 2019/20 season . After separating from Klinsmann, Hertha hired Bruno Labbadia , but Friedrich remained in office. For the 2020/21 season he was appointed sports director under Preetz .

Sporting successes

Awards

Others

Together with the chef Ralf Zacherl , Friedrich wrote the cookbook Foodball. Cooking like the world champions published in February 2006.

From 2001 he was in a relationship with graphic designer Linn Rödenbeck. She went public in October 2011 when rumors were circulating on the Internet that her boyfriend was gay . Among other things, she said in an open letter that "Arne is not gay" and "he would be the last one who would not stand by it". In 2016, the couple separated by mutual agreement.

In April 2009 it became known that Friedrich had been blackmailed. He called the police and his blackmailer was caught. In spring 2009, Arne Friedrich was one of the four “ testimonials ” of the Berlin Pro-Reli popular initiative. In addition, Arne Friedrich, together with the moderator Marco Schreyl and the handball world champion Dominik Klein, is committed to helping people with cystic fibrosis . He was honored as "Guardian Angel 2006" for his commitment to research into the disease by Mukoviszidose eV .

Friedrich is a Christian and prayed before every game.

Friedrich has been an expert for the Chinese television sports broadcaster Now Sports since 2014 . For this channel he commented on the German games together with Jens Nowotny during the 2014 World Cup .

In May 2016, he took part in an episode of the show Schlag die Star , he won 100,000 euros against singer Johannes Strate , which he donated to a good cause.

In the 14th episode of the comedy television series Jerks. he played himself in 2018.

Web links

Commons : Arne Friedrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Bosssaller: "We now have a different reputation". In: der Tagesspiegel. Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, December 3, 2008, accessed on May 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Arne Friedrich - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. September 2, 2015. Accessed September 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Cottbus plays Wolfsburg on the wall in parts: Super GAU in Wolfsburg ; Report on kicker.de from December 22, 2010.
  4. ↑ Arne Friedrich: “Think carefully about how to proceed” ; Article at sportbild.bild.de, accessed on September 21, 2014
  5. ↑ Termination of the contract ( Memento from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); Announcement on Arne Friedrich's website from September 19, 2011
  6. ↑ Arne Friedrich switches to Chicago Fire Report on kicker.de from March 7, 2012 (accessed on March 7, 2012, 6:45 pm)
  7. ↑ Friedrich extends Chicago Fire report on bild.de from October 7, 2012
  8. ^ Friedrich ended his career at Sport1.de on June 23, 2013
  9. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Arne Friedrich - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. September 19, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  10. ↑ Wolfsburg dreams of the EM title - Friedrich: After the EM 2012 it's over! spox press release of January 27, 2011
  11. ^ [1] international match Austria-Germany from June 3, 2011 on the website of the DFB and [2] player information Friedrich on the website of the DFB
  12. ^ Spiegel Online, June 9, 2012
  13. ↑ http://www.fussballdaten.de/ Spieler/friedricharne/2012 /
  14. ↑ expressi.de: Ex-national player and Alfonso Rubio Doblas now in possession of the DFB-B license ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), March 21, 2014
  15. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: Arne Friedrich: "I did not trust the Pal Dardai". In: morgenpost.de. February 16, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  16. ↑ fifa.com: Ex-national player Friedrich assistant coach of the U-18 juniors ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), August 28, 2014
  17. ↑ Transfermarkt.de GmbH & Co. KG (ed.): Arne Friedrich. In: transfermarkt.de. Retrieved November 26, 2016 .
  18. ↑ See this tweet from Hertha BSC on November 27, 2019.
  19. ↑ Arne Friedrich becomes sports director at Hertha BSC , herthabsc.de, accessed on June 28, 2020
  20. ↑ Arne Friedrich: Secret separation after 15 years on Bunte.de
  21. ↑ Information on cystic fibrosis on Arne Friedrich's website ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ Article in Die Zeit [3] , February 25, 2013
  23. ↑ 2014 World Cup: Arne Friedrich, on the ball for China
  24. ^ Ballack for America, Arne Friedrich for China
  25. ↑ Berliner Zeitung : Arne Friedrich, for China am Ball , May 6, 2014
  26. ↑ focus.de: Arne Friedrich wins in Schlag die Star
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oeynhausen , Germany