Giovane Elber

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Giovane Elber
2010-09-Giovane Elber 7247-800.jpg
during the opening of the
“UEFA Champions League Trophy Tour”
on September 15, 2010
Personnel
Surname Elber de Souza
birthday July 23, 1972
place of birth Londrina ,  Brazil
size 182 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1989-1990 Londrina EC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1991 AC Milan 0 0(0)
1991-1994 Grasshopper Club Zurich 69 (41)
1994-1997 VfB Stuttgart 87 (41)
1997-2003 FC Bayern Munich 169 (92)
2003-2004 Olympique Lyon 30 (11)
2005 Borussia Monchengladbach 4 0(0)
2006 Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte 32 (16)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998-2001 Brazil 15 0(7)
1 Only league games are given.

Giovane Élber (born July 23, 1972 in Londrina ; real life Élber de Souza ) is a former Brazilian soccer player . The striker played 260 times for VfB Stuttgart , FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga and is the third best foreign scorer in league history with 133 goals behind Robert Lewandowski and Claudio Pizarro . The Bundesliga top scorer in 2003 was with FC Bayern four times German champions and DFB Cup winners as well as the 2001 Champions League winners . Élber also played 15 times for the Brazilian national team between 1998 and 2001 , but did not take part in any World Cup due to the high level of competition in the storm .

Career

societies

AC Milan and Grasshoppers Zurich

In 1990 AC Milan signed Elber from his hometown club Londrina EC from the state of Paraná , for which he had played a year earlier. After a season in Italy , where he only came to one use in the cup competition, Élber moved to Switzerland, initially on loan to Grasshoppers Zurich , with whom he was cup winner and top scorer of the National League A in 1994 .

VfB Stuttgart

For the 1994/95 season he moved to the Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart , for which he was active for three seasons and with Fredi Bobic and Krassimir Balakow formed the so-called magic triangle . At the end of the club membership he won the DFB Cup in 1997 , scoring both goals in the final in a 2-0 win over Energie Cottbus .

Bayern Munich

From the summer of 1997, there followed six seasons at FC Bayern Munich , which were crowned by numerous successes - including winning the World Cup and the Champions League . In his last season at Bayern, he was the top scorer in 2003 with 21 goals (together with Thomas Christiansen from VfL Bochum ) . Élber scored a total of 133 goals in the Bundesliga, including that of February 27, 1999 in the game in Rostock , which was transformed from the corner flag to goal of the month and later to goal of the year. He was also the Brazilian footballer with the most (260) Bundesliga appearances when he was replaced by Dedê on August 18, 2007 . On August 8, 2006, Élber received his farewell game in the Allianz Arena : FC Bayern lost 3-0 in front of 69,000 spectators against TSV 1860 Munich.

Olympique Lyon and Borussia Mönchengladbach

Giovane Élber (2005)

At the age of 31, he moved to France in August 2003 for the first division club Olympique Lyon , with whom he won the championship and the Supercup in 2004. Differences with his club allowed him to return to the Bundesliga in January 2005 for free. For Borussia Mönchengladbach , however, he was only used sporadically due to an ongoing injury misery. After repeated public criticism of coach Horst Köppel and a fine imposed by the club in the amount of 10,000 euros, Borussia and Giovane Élber separated on December 3, 2005 by mutual agreement.

Belo Horizonte

From January 2, 2006 he played - now returned to Brazil - 32 times for the first division club Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte , for whom he scored 16 times and with whom he became national champion of Minas Gerais . Elber played his last game on September 24, 2006 against Fortaleza . On October 18, he announced the end of his career at a specially convened press conference, mainly because of chronic pain in his right ankle. After the death of his father on November 18, 2006, he prematurely terminated his contract with Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte, which was valid until the end of 2006.

National team

Giovane Élber was runner-up in 1991 with the Brazilian U-20 team at the Junior World Cup in Portugal. In the course of the tournament, he contributed four goals to the final (only Serhiy Shcherbakov scored one more goal), where the hosts lost 4-2 on penalties. In the period from February 5, 1998 to September 5, 2001, he came for the Seleção , despite great competition in the person of the strikers Ronaldo and Rivaldo , to 15 missions in which he scored seven goals. At the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup , in which Brazil finished third, Élber played four games and scored two goals in the game against El Salvador , although he was only substituted on in the 80th minute.

After the active career

From September 2007 to September 2010, Élber worked as a scout for his former club Bayern Munich.

successes

society

National team

Awards

Others

Giovane Élber tapping. (Munich, September 18, 2010)
  • Élber's well-known artist name Giovane Élber originated in Germany from his Italian nickname Il giòvane Elber (German the young Elber )
  • Until October 23, 2010, Élber was the most successful foreign goalscorer in Bundesliga history with 133 goals in 260 games. He was replaced by Claudio Pizarro .
  • Since 1994, Élber has been the first chairman of the “Giovane Elber Foundation ” named after him , an association that supports street children in his hometown of Londrina . For this commitment, he was awarded the honorary Martinsmantel prize of the Sankt Michaelsbund in autumn 2005 .
  • From May 14, 2007 to June 30, 2007 he took part in the second season of the RTL dance show Let's Dance . His partner was the reigning German Champion of the Professionals Standard Isabel Edvardsson , who had already won the previous season. In the end, the dancing couple took third place.
  • In 2008 Giovane Élber presented the Do Brazil dinner show in Munich , which has since been discontinued due to the operator's high debt burden.
  • Élber works sporadically as a TV expert, for example for Premiere during the 1998 World Cup and for Eurosport during the 2010 World Cup. At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he was a permanent member of the ARD reporting team.
  • Élber lives with his family in his home country of Brazil and runs his own cattle farm there.

Web links

Commons : Giovane Élber  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on Goal.com.
  2. ↑ Goal of the month on sportschau .de
  3. ↑ Goal of the month on sportschau.de
  4. ↑ Goal of the year on sportschau.de
  5. ↑ Article on sueddeutsche .de (by Christina Warta)
personal data
SURNAME Elber, Giovane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Souza, Élber de (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Londrina , Brazil