Bernd Schneider (soccer player)

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Bernd Schneider
Bernd Schneider.JPG
Bernd Schneider (2006)
Personnel
birthday 17th November 1973
place of birth JenaGDR
size 176 cm
position Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
1980-1983 BSG structure Jena
1983-1991 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1998 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 158 (20)
1998-1999 Eintracht Frankfurt 33 0(4)
1999-2009 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 263 (35)
2009 Bayer 04 Leverkusen II 8 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany U-18 2 0(0)
1999-2001 Germany A2 4 0(1)
1999-2008 Germany 81 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Bernd "Schnix" Schneider (born November 17, 1973 in Jena ) is a former German soccer player . After his youth in his hometown, he played his first men's games for FC Carl Zeiss Jena in 1991 . After more than 170 games for the team, he moved to the Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt in 1998 , and the following year to league competitor Bayer 04 Leverkusen , for whom he was active for ten years. With the Leverkusen team he was runner-up in the league in the 1999/2000 and 2001/02 seasons , in the latter he also reached the finals of the DFB Cup and the Champions League . In 2009 he ended his career after 296 Bundesliga games in which he scored 39 goals.

For the German national team , for which he was active from 1999 to 2008 took Schneider at the Confederations Cups in 1999 in Mexico and 2005 in their own country , the World Cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea and in 2006 on home soil and the 2004 European Championship in Portugal in part . In 2002 he became vice world champion, in 2005 and 2006 the team reached third place.

In addition to his traditional position in the half right midfield, Schneider was also versatile in positions in the central and defensive midfield as well as in defense. As a strong technician, which is why he was also referred to as the "white Brazilian", he was able to get his teammates into good shooting situations, although he rarely sought the conclusion himself, but did so with success now and then. At Bayer Leverkusen he was one of the most dangerous midfielders in the league in the 2003/04 season with ten goals.

Schneider is in a relationship and has a daughter and a son with his partner.

Club career

Schneider began playing football at the age of six at BSG Aufbau Jena (later SSV Lobeda, withdrawn from gaming in 2007). Three years later he moved to the most famous club in the region, FC Carl Zeiss Jena . There he first played in various youth teams and at the U16 European Championship in 1990 in his home region for the GDR youth national team before he was accepted into the first team squad for the 1991/92 season and made his professional debut on August 13, 1991 at the age of 17 years in the 2nd Bundesliga . In the first three years in the first team squad, Schneider only made occasional appearances. This only changed in the 1994/95 season, when he was used in all games of the season and, with seven goals, played a major role in the direct return of the team to the 2nd Bundesliga. In this year Carl Zeiss Jena was also able to win the Thuringia Cup. Schneider spent the next three years with Jena in the second Bundesliga and he became a permanent fixture in the team structure. After Jena missed relegation in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1997/98, Schneider moved to the Bundesliga for the newly promoted Eintracht Frankfurt .

In Frankfurt Schneider immediately became a regular player and was able to distinguish himself with four goals and seven assists. Only on the last day of the match was Eintracht able to secure their stay in the first professional league in an exciting season finale with a surprising 5-1 win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . Schneider had made a decisive contribution with one goal and one assist. At that time, however, it was already known that the 25-year-old would leave the club at the end of the season and move to Bayer 04 Leverkusen on the Rhine .

Schneider began his first season (1999/2000) at Leverkusen as a regular player, but was unable to maintain this position, especially in the second half of the season, and was therefore increasingly used in a wild card role. Leverkusen missed the championship in the last second of the season and ended up in second place. Schneider scored three goals in the season. Even in his second season at Leverkusen, Schneider did not get beyond the joker role, he scored two goals in the end and Leverkusen finished fourth in the Bundesliga.

In 2001/02 Schneider finally made the leap into the regular formation of the Werkself. At the end of the day, five goals and eleven assists testified to a successful season for the 28-year-old. The joy of this strong season was clouded by the decisive defeats in the Bundesliga (Leverkusen again narrowly missed the championship), in the DFB Cup final and in the Champions League final . The fact that Schneider also finished second with the German national team at the 2002 World Cup was in keeping with the season.

For the 2002/03 season, some important players from previous years had left the club, making Schneider's role in the team even more important. Leverkusen was only able to prevent relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga late in the season. Schneider himself missed the last game of the season due to a suspension for a sending off. 2003/04 was more successful for the national player, with ten goals this season he was able to lead Leverkusen to third place and thus back into international business. In 2004/05, a 6th place was enough to qualify for the UEFA Cup .

The 2005/06 season was initially marred for Schneider by a red card suspension and minor injuries. After Leverkusen was in danger of relegation with 12th place after the first half of the season, the team was able to improve significantly in the second half of the season and achieved qualification for the UEFA Cup with 5th place. Schneider himself was able to contribute to this development with 2 goals and 7 assists in the second half of the season.

After a moderate start to the first half of the 2006/07 season, Leverkusen managed to catch up with the international places during the winter break with 3 wins from the last 4 first round matches with 6th place. Schneider, who came up with 3 assists in the first half of the season, was elected into the first half of the season by both Kicker-Magazin and Sport1.de. On January 28, 2007, he scored his first "double" in a Bundesliga game against Alemannia Aachen. He was able to repeat this success in the game against 1. FC Nürnberg on April 21, 2007. At the end of the season Schneider scored a total of 6 goals and 11 assists, setting his personal best of 17 scorer points from the 2003/04 season. Bayer finished the season in 5th place. In the election for Footballer of the Year , Schneider took 3rd place behind Mario Gómez and Diego .

On the 33rd matchday, Schneider played his only game of the 2008/09 season. A complicated herniated disc forced him to take a break of 398 days. He made his comeback on the pitch in a 5-0 win for Bayer 04 against Borussia Mönchengladbach , to which he contributed a template. This game was also his last Bundesliga game.

Since September 2011 he has been playing in his hometown in the Grasshoppers Jena leisure team.

German national team

Bernd Schneider with the national team (2005)

He made his debut in the German national team on July 28, 1999 in a 2-0 win against New Zealand in Guadalajara during the Confederations Cup in Mexico, but was not considered for the squad for the 2000 European Championship .

Schneider made his breakthrough in the team shortly before the start of the World Cup in Japan and South Korea , after he delivered one of the most convincing performances in the relegation games against Ukraine alongside Michael Ballack . During the World Cup, Schneider was a regular player and only missed a few minutes on the way to the final. In the final against the Brazilian team , Schneider made one of the best games of his career, although it was ultimately not enough to win the world championship.

Two years later, when he took part in the 2004 European Championship in Portugal, Schneider's international career was probably the lowest point, when he played poorly, missed a few big scoring opportunities and was thus instrumental in the early elimination of the German team. From there, however, things went up again. At the Confederations Cup in Germany, Schneider led the German team onto the field as captain for the first time (nine times) in a match against Argentina on June 21, 2005 .

Despite steadily growing competition in his position, Schneider was appointed to the team by national trainer Jürgen Klinsmann for the 2006 World Cup in Germany . There he led the team on June 9, 2006 for the injured Michael Ballack at the opening game of the tournament as captain on the field. In the course of the tournament, Schneider received high praise from coach Klinsmann, who described him as the first player he would sign as coach of Real Madrid . On July 8, 2006 he reached 3rd place with the national team at the World Cup in his own country.

The good cooperation between Klinsmann and Schneider was further confirmed after the tournament, when Schneider initially stated that he would only continue his career in the national team under national coach Klinsmann. Ultimately, however, Schneider declared in August 2006 that he would continue to be available under the new national coach Joachim Loew , as he expected Loew to continue the philosophy of Klinsmann.

Schneider was vice-captain of the national team under Löw. Due to the intervertebral disc operation in April 2008, which ultimately ended his career, he was not available for the 2008 European Championships in Austria and Switzerland. The national team's 3-0 away win against Austria on February 6, 2008 was their 81st and last international match.

End of career

On June 26, 2009 Schneider asked to terminate his contract with Bayer 04 Leverkusen. His back injury suffered in April 2008 made a continuation of the career impossible. His contract with Bayer Leverkusen originally ran until the end of the 2009/10 season.

Schneider was bid farewell on September 5, 2009 in the converted BayArena , where he played his farewell game on May 10, 2010 in front of 20,000 spectators against an all-star selection in which many of his football companions from Jena, Frankfurt, the national team and his last club Bayer Leverkusen have done him the honor. The Allstars team included: Perry Bräutigam (46th Jens Lehmann ) - Uwe Bindewald (27th Marco Gebhardt / 54th Mark Zimmermann ), Jens Nowotny , Boris Živković (61st Schur), Diego Placente (52nd Marko Babić ) - Bernd Schneider (46th Stefan Beinlich ) [Schneider continued to play in the second half at Bayer Leverkusen], Carsten Ramelow (61st Ansgar Brinkmann ), Dietmar Hamann (46th Torsten Ziegner / 66th Michael Ballack ), Zé Roberto - Oliver Neuville (25th Dimitar Berbatow ), Yıldıray Baştürk (31st Ulf Kirsten / 58th Paulo Rink )

Career as a functionary

In the 2009/10 season, Schneider worked in various departments at Bayer 04 Leverkusen, including in the areas of scouting and youth.

successes

National team

National club competitions

  • 2 × German runner-up ( 2000 , 2002 )
  • 2 × German Cup finalist ( 2002 , 2009 )

International club competitions

  • Champions League finalist ( 2002 )
  • 66 European Cup games and 9 goals for Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League (50/5) and UEFA Cup (16/4)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Bernd Schneider  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thuringian football results - news that the SSV Lobeda has withdrawn
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Bernd Schneider - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. December 3, 2015. Accessed December 10, 2015.
  3. Bernd Schneider has not forgotten anything , accessed on September 15, 2012
  4. ^ Roberto Mamrud: Bernd Schneider - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. December 3, 2015. Accessed December 10, 2015.
  5. bayer04.de: Bernd Schneider asks Bayer 04 to terminate the contract , accessed on June 26, 2009
  6. Schnix said goodbye . Bayer Leverkusen website. Retrieved on May 6, 2020 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. Sportschau: Goal of the Month March 2001
  8. Sportschau: Goal of the Month October 2001
  9. Sportschau: Goal of the Month February 2007