Klaus Thomforde

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Klaus Thomforde
Thomforde, Klaus 10-11 WP.JPG
Klaus Thomforde, 2010
Personnel
birthday December 1, 1962
place of birth Minstedt ,  Germany
size 191 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
Bremervörder SC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1999 FC St. Pauli 359 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2001-2003 FC St. Pauli (assistant coach)
2003-2004 1. FC Union Berlin (assistant coach)
2004-2006 Holstein Kiel (goalkeeping coach)
2006 Holstein Kiel
2005-2008 Lithuania (goalkeeping coach)
2008-2010 Holstein Kiel (goalkeeping coach)
2012 Germania Schnelsen
2013– Germany U 21 (goalkeeping coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Klaus Thomforde (born December 1, 1962 in Bremervörde- Minstedt ) is a German soccer coach and former soccer goalkeeper . Thomforde was known as the goalkeeper of FC St. Pauli from 1983 to 1999 under the nickname “Das Tier im Tor”.

Player career

For the 1983/84 season, the tax officer Thomforde came without a transfer from Bremervörder SC to FC St. Pauli, then playing in the Oberliga Nord , where he worked as a goalkeeper and coach for almost 20 years. Initially still “second man” behind Uwe Bonik , from 1985 he was the undisputed regular goalkeeper in the upper and 2nd Bundesliga , before Volker Ippig replaced him in November 1987 . From the beginning of 1990 to the end of the 1992/93 season and again from 1994 to the end of 1998 Thomforde took over this role again. In the period in between, Andreas Reinke played in his place .

He made a total of 317 appearances in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga by the beginning of 1999, including exactly 100 first division appearances for FC St. Pauli. Thomforde ended his career as an active player because of a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee during a training game on February 11, 1999 . The club honored the goalkeeper in 2001 with a farewell game.

Coaching

He then moved to St. Pauli's coaching staff, from 2001/02 as an assistant coach . In 2003 he left at his own request. The following season he was employed as co-trainer for the then second division club 1. FC Union Berlin . After the relegation of Union, Klaus Thomforde moved to the regional league team Holstein Kiel , where he worked as a goalkeeper coach since the beginning of the 2004/05 season; After Frank Neubarth left , he was briefly head coach there in October 2006 until Stefan Böger took over the position. From 2005 on, Thomforde worked for the Lithuanian national team as a goalkeeping coach. In December 2007, he acquired his football instructor license at the Sports University in Cologne . From January 2008 he worked again as a goalkeeping coach at Holstein Kiel.

On January 15, 2010, he was released from Holstein Kiel. The reason given by the club was a lack of trust between Thomforde and the team.

In the second half of the 2011/12 season, Thomforde trained the Hamburg upper division Germania Schnelsen together with his former St. Pauli team-mate Juri Sawitschew .

For his old club, FC St. Pauli, Klaus Thomforde worked as a goalkeeping coach in the U16 to U19 area.

Since October 9, 2013, he has been the goalkeeping coach of the German U21 team . He also trains the 1st A youth team at TSV Sasel .

Worth mentioning

Thomforde, who is extraordinarily committed on the field, became known nationwide - hence his nickname “Das Tier im Tor” - when he said into the television reporter's microphone immediately after the final whistle of one of his first Bundesliga games: “It's just incredibly awesome in the Bundesliga To hold balls. I miss one! "

Since 2008 Thomforde has been playing regularly in the FC St. Pauli Hamburg Allstars team as part of the charity game Kicken mit Herz, which has been taking place annually in the Hoheluft Stadium in Hamburg since 2008, against the medical team of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf , the Placebo Kickers Hamburg, of which he is also an honorary member is. With this event, the children's heart station of the UKE is supported.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heemsoth replaces Thom. In: Kicker sports magazine . February 15, 2010, accessed October 31, 2013 .
  2. ↑ A spectacular debut in Schnelsen for trainer Klaus Thomforde. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 20, 2012, accessed October 31, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Team U16 FC St. Pauli on Fcstpauli.com
  4. ↑ Thomforde new coach of the U21 goalkeepers. In: dfb.de. October 9, 2013, accessed October 9, 2013 .
  5. ↑ 1. A Youth 1996/97/98
  6. ↑ kickenmitherz.de
personal data
SURNAME Thomforde, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach and former soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Minstedt , Germany