Bodo Illgner

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Bodo Illgner
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Bodo Illgner 2012 in the studio with Markus Lanz
Personnel
birthday April 7, 1967
place of birth Koblenz ,  Germany
size 190 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1973-1983 1. FC Hardtberg
1983-1986 1. FC Cologne
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1996 1. FC Cologne 326 (0)
1996-2001 real Madrid 91 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany youth
1985-1987 Germany U-21 7 (0)
1987-1994 Germany 54 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Bodo Illgner (born April 7, 1967 in Koblenz ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper . During his career he played for 1. FC Köln and Real Madrid . Between 1987 and 1994 he was the German national goalkeeper. With the national team he became world champion in 1990 .

Bodo Illgner at 1. FC Köln in 1995

Beginnings and career at 1. FC Köln

Bodo Illgner was born in Koblenz and then lived in Westerburg before the family moved to Bonn . Illgner started playing soccer at 1. FC Hardtberg when he was six . As a goalkeeper, Illgner played 326 games for 1. FC Köln in the Bundesliga between 1985 and 1996 . 1985/86 was his first season as a substitute goalkeeper. He made his first professional appearance in the Munich Olympic Stadium on February 22nd, 1986, when Toni Schumacher was sent off in the 75th minute for a foul in the penalty area when the score was 2-1 for Bayern Munich . Lothar Matthäus converted the due penalty to make it 3-1. The following week, the then 18-year-old talented goalkeeper convinced in his home debut against VfB Stuttgart . 1. FC Köln won 2-1. At the next away game against FC Schalke 04 in Gelsenkirchen's Park Stadium , Schumacher was again between the posts. In the spring of 1987, when Schumacher was dismissed from FC after his autobiography was published, Illgner became a regular goalkeeper and reached the German runner-up with the Cologne team twice in the 1988/89 and 1989/90 seasons. 1. FC Köln lost to Werder Bremen in goal in the 1991 DFB Cup final on penalties . In the 1995/96 season Bodo Illgner made a significant contribution to saving the billy goats from relegation to the second division. With 35 goals, he received the fewest goals conceded by any Bundesliga club this season.

real Madrid

After four match days had been completed in the 1996/97 Bundesliga season, Illgner surprisingly switched to Real Madrid on August 30, 1996 for the four million DM transfer fee stipulated in his Cologne contract at the request of Fabio Capello . There he signed a three-year contract that brought him two million DM annually. At the beginning of 1999 the contract was extended for a further three years on better terms, it was endowed with a total of almost ten million DM. With Real Madrid Illgner became Spanish champions in 1997 and 2001. He also won the Champions League 1-0 in Amsterdam on May 20, 1998 against Juventus Turin and 3-0 in Paris 2000 against Valencia CF and 2-1 in Tokyo on December 1, 1998 against CR Vasco da Gama the world cup . Due to a complicated and protracted shoulder injury, Illgner lost his regular place at the end of 1999 to Iker Casillas . He saw the 2000 UEFA Champions League final from the bench and the 2001 Spanish championship from the stands. In July 2001, the contract with Real Madrid, which ran until 2002, was terminated by mutual agreement. He ended his professional career at the age of 34. After that he regularly guarded the gate of the veteran team of the Madrilenians.

National team

In the German national soccer team he was used in 54 games from 1987 to 1994. For the first time he was appointed as a substitute goalkeeper for the international match against Italy in the Müngersdorfer Stadium in Cologne on April 18, 1987 in the DFB A squad. He made his international debut in Hamburg's Volkspark Stadium on September 23, 1987 in a 1-0 win against Denmark. Before that, Illgner took part in the military world championship in Italy in June 1987 with the Bundeswehr national team and came second.

After the European Football Championship in Germany in 1988 , he replaced Eike Immel as the goalkeeper at the age of 21 . In 1990, at the age of 23, he guarded the goal of the World Cup in Italy. In the semi-final against England on July 4, Stuart Pearce failed on penalties. When Chris Waddle missed the Englishman's last penalty, the way to the final was clear. There the national team won 1-0 against Argentina in the Olympic Stadium in Rome on July 8th . Illgner has since become the youngest goalkeeper to ever become world champion. At the European Championship finals in Sweden , he reached the final with the national team. The Germans lost this in Gothenburg on June 26, 1992 against Denmark with 0-2. After the quarter-finals against Bulgaria , which Germany lost 2-1 at the World Cup in the USA in the New York Giants Stadium on July 10, 1994, and the criticism of himself, he resigned as a national player.

After Sepp Maier (18 games, World Cup 1970 , 1974 and 1978 ), Manuel Neuer (16 games, World Cup 2010 , 2014 and 2018 ) and Harald "Toni" Schumacher (14 games, World Cup 1982 and 1986 ), Illgner has the fourth most World Cup appearances among the German goalkeepers (12 games, World Cup 1990 and 1994), before u. a. Oliver Kahn (8 games, World Cup 2002 and 2006 ). He was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his achievements - together with the world championship team.

Others

Illgner with his wife Bianca and daughter (1995)

Illgner has been married to his wife Bianca since 1990. The couple has three children; Illgner lives alternately in Boca Raton , Florida or Miami and Spain . Illgner was a co-commentator on football broadcasts on the pay-TV channel Sky Deutschland . In 2004 he wrote the novel Alles with his wife Bianca . The book tells the story of a soccer player and his wife, who is also his manager. In 1989, the publisher Empire published the computer game Bodo Illgner's Super Soccer .

successes

Honors

  • 1989 Germany's goalkeeper of the year
  • 1990 Germany's goalkeeper of the year
  • 1990 to 1993 in the elections for world goalkeeper among the top ten
  • 1991 Germany's goalkeeper of the year
  • 1991 Europe's goalkeeper of the year
  • 1991 Kicker goalkeeper of the year
  • 1992 Germany's goalkeeper of the year
  • 1997 Spain goalkeeper of the year

Web links

Commons : Bodo Illgner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Bodo Illgner - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. September 23, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Bodo Illgner - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. September 23, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ kicker sports magazine. No. 53/26. Wo., June 25, 1987, p. 2
  4. ↑ Thomas Böker: "Many stood around and did nothing" . In: Olympia Verlag GmbH (Hrsg.): Kicker-Sportmagazin . No. 29 . Olympia Verlag GmbH, April 2, 2015, p. 46-47 .
  5. ↑ iffhs.de
personal data
SURNAME Illgner, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz