Christian Saba

Christian Saba
as a player of FC Bayern Munich II (2010)
Personnel
birthday	December 29, 1978
place of birth	Accra ,  Ghana
size	180 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
	King Harrison Accra
0000-1995	Hearts of Oak
1995-1996	FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1996-2011	FC Bayern Munich amateurs / II	337 (12)
1997-1998	FC Bayern Munich	0 0(0)
1999	→  Hertha BSC  (loan)	1 0(0)
1999-2000	→  Arminia Bielefeld  (loan)	0 0(0)
2012-2014	SpVgg 1906 Haidhausen	16 0(0)
2014-2016	FC Wacker Munich	11 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Ghana U23	23 0(0)
1996	Olympic team	4 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2015-2019	FC Bayern Munich U16 (assistant coach)
2019–	FC Bayern Munich U19 (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Christian Saba , rarely Christian Sabah , (born December 29, 1978 in Accra ) is a former Ghanaian football player . He spent a large part of his career with the amateurs of FC Bayern Munich . Since the end of his playing career, he has been a member of the FC Bayern youth coaching staff.

Career

societies

Having grown up with King Harrison Accra (footballing) and emerging from the youth of Hearts of Oak , Saba joined the youth department of FC Bayern Munich in 1995 after winning the U17 world championship title with the Ghanaian U17 national team in Ecuador in 1995 ; with him his teammate Emanuel Bentil was committed. Saba was a member of Bayern's professional squad from the 1997/98 season , but did not play a competitive game there and switched to league rivals Hertha BSC as part of a loan deal during the winter break of the 1998/99 season . He played his only Bundesliga game on May 24, 1999 (34th matchday) - on substitute for Anthony Sanneh in the 80th minute - in a 6-1 home win against Hamburger SV . By another loan deal Saba for the 1999/2000 season at the Bundesliga was aufsteiger Arminia Bielefeld made, but with which he as Tabellensiebzehnter in the 2. Bundesliga relegation and there according to the contract to 31 December 2000 - but without obligation stake - remained.

Saba played with the Bayern amateurs several times in the DFB Cup against higher-class teams: On August 31, 2002 ( 1st main round ) he lost with the Regionalliga team 1: 2 to FC Schalke 04 , on August 2, 2004 ( 1st round ) you won against the pros from Borussia Mönchengladbach 7: 6 on penalties (whereby he contributed one goal), on September 22, 2004 ( 2nd round ) the game against Alemannia Aachen was 2: 1, on 9. November 2004 ( round of 16 ) won against Eintracht Braunschweig 3-2 and on March 1st 2005 ( quarter-finals ) they lost 3-0 against Werder Bremen .

Due to personnel shortages in the defense area Saba returned in the 2006/07 season to the circle of the professional squad and sat on the bench in several games. In the 2007/08 season he was part of the expanded professional squad as a contract player. After 16 years he left FC Bayern Munich and ended his professional career in the summer of 2011.

From November 1, 2012 to June 30, 2014 he was active for the Munich amateurs of SpVgg 1906 Haidhausen ( district league Munich 3), then he played for FC Wacker Munich (district league Munich 4) until 2016

Trainer

From 2015 to 2019 Saba was assistant trainer at the U16 of FC Bayern Munich , since then he has worked in the same role in the U19 of FC Bayern.

National team

Saba completed 23 junior international games for Ghana and was a member (with Samuel Kuffour, among others ) of the Olympic team that was defeated by Brazil 2: 4 goals in the 1996 Olympic soccer tournament in Atlanta only in the quarter-finals . He scored his two goals on July 23, 1996 in Washington in the second group game in a 3-2 victory over Italy.

successes

• U17 world champion 1995
• DFL league cup winner 1997
• DFB Cup winner 1998

Web links

• Christian Saba on Fussballdaten.de
• Article on spiegel .de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saba's performance data 2006/07 on transfermarkt.de
2. ↑ FC Bayern Munich: Official Yearbook 2007/08, p. 91.