Markus Babbel

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Markus Babbel
Markus Babbel - Day of Legends 2016 01.jpg
Markus Babbel, 2016
Personnel
birthday September 8, 1972
place of birth Munich ,  Germany
size 190 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1979-1981 TSV Gilching-Argelsried
1981-1991 FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-2000 FC Bayern Munich 182 (9)
1992-1994 →  Hamburger SV  (loan) 60 (1)
2000-2004 Liverpool FC 42 (3)
2003-2004 →  Blackburn Rovers  (loan) 25 (3)
2004-2007 VfB Stuttgart 46 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991 Germany U-20 2 (0)
1992-1993 Germany U-21 12 (0)
1995-2000 Germany 51 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2007-2008 VfB Stuttgart (assistant coach)
2008-2009 VfB Stuttgart ( Team Principal )
2010-2011 Hertha BSC
2012 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2014-2018 FC Luzern
2018-2020 Western Sydney Wanderers
1 Only league games are given.

Markus Babbel (born September 8, 1972 in Munich ) is a former German soccer player and today's soccer coach . Most recently he was the head coach of the Western Sydney Wanderers . With the German national soccer team he became European champion in 1996 .

Player career

society

Markus Babbel began his football career at TSV Gilching -Argelsried. He then played in the youth teams of FC Bayern Munich and was also internationally active for the youth team of the DFB . Babbel got a professional contract with Bayern Munich in 1991 and then played in the Bundesliga as a defender for his club. In 1992 he played on loan for two years as a regular at Hamburger SV . After returning to Munich in 1994, he also prevailed at Bayern and won the German championship four times, the DFB Cup twice and the UEFA Cup once .

In 2000 Babbel left the Bundesliga and moved to England for first division club Liverpool , with whom he also won the 2001 UEFA Cup. His career was temporarily interrupted by a nervous disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome . After his recovery, he was loaned to Blackburn Rovers from Liverpool in 2003 .

In the summer of 2004 Babbel moved back to the Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart to succeed Marcelo Bordon as central defender. In the 2005/06 season Babbel was initially hardly considered in the system of coach Giovanni Trapattoni , later he became a regular again. He was rarely used under Trapattoni's successor Armin Veh . At the end of his active career, he won the German championship with VfB in summer 2007. The 2007 DFB Cup final against 1. FC Nürnberg was lost.

In the highest leagues in Germany and England, Markus Babbel played a total of 355 games and scored 18 goals. In the European Cup he was used in 77 games.

National team

Babbel made his debut in the national jersey on January 29, 1991 in the U-20s in the 3-0 win over Portugal in Maspalomas. On February 1, they lost 2-1 to Spain in Las Palmas. On April 21, 1992 he made his debut in the U-21s , which came in Pilsen against the Czech selection to a 1-1 draw. He played his last game on December 14, 1993 in Córdoba in a 3-1 loss to Spain. In 1993, Babbel also took part in the military world championship in Morocco with the Bundeswehr national team and finished third.

For the senior team , he played 51 games in which he scored a goal (on September 6, 1995 in a 4-1 win against Georgia). He made his debut on February 22, 1995 in Jerez de la Frontera in a 0-0 draw against Spain . Babbel participated in the 1996 European Championship , replaced the injured Jürgen Kohler as central defender at this tournament and was part of the team that defeated the Czech Republic with 2-1 goals after extra time in the final .

In 1996, Federal President Roman Herzog awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf for winning the European Football Championship .

He also took part in the 1998 World Cup in France . After the 0-1 defeat on June 17, 2000 against England in the group game of the European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands, in which the German team was eliminated in the preliminary round, Babbel resigned as a national player.

Coaching career

VfB Stuttgart

Markus Babbel became assistant coach at VfB Stuttgart after the end of his career as a player . From July 1, 2007 to November 22, 2008 he was Armin Veh's assistant trainer . After his release on November 23, 2008, Babbel was promoted to team boss at VfB Stuttgart. Due to the lack of a football instructor license, Babbel would only have been allowed to train the team with a special permit limited to June 30, 2009, but due to a reform of the coaching course by the DFB, Babbel was also allowed to supervise VfB beyond that.

On May 6, 2009 Babbel signed a contract dated until the end of June 2011 as head coach at VfB Stuttgart .

Under Babbel's leadership, VfB played the second-best second half of all teams in the 2008/09 season and had a chance of winning the championship until the last matchday. At the end of the season, the club occupied third place in the table, which entitles them to participate in the qualifying games for the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League .

After just two wins from the first 15 games of the 2009/10 season and one win in five Champions League games, Babbel was given leave of absence on December 6, 2009 in Stuttgart. His successor was the Swiss coach Christian Gross , who had previously coached FC Basel . Babbel's critical reflection on the football business in connection with his leave of absence was praised by many commentators as accurate and accurate.

In April 2010, Babbel obtained the football teacher diploma at the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy of the German Sport University Cologne.

Hertha BSC

For the 2010/11 season Babbel was coach at Hertha BSC in the 2nd Bundesliga. The contract was extended on April 25, 2011 due to promotion to the Bundesliga according to a clause until 2012. Three game days before the end of the season, Hertha could no longer be displaced by a direct promotion place with twelve points ahead of third place in the table.

In the first half of 2011, the club under Babbel ranked in the middle of the table.

Markus Babbel planned to quit his job at Hertha BSC at the end of the season. According to his own statement , he had informed manager Michael Preetz about this at the beginning of November. However, he stressed that he had never had such a conversation with Babbel and described Babbel's statement as "simply wrong". Thereupon Hertha President Werner Gegenbauer accused Babbel of lying (quote: “Now you shouldn't come up with Baron Münchhausen stories”). In his opinion, people had only known about it since December 13th. The next day, Babbel was given immediate leave. On December 22, 2011, Hertha BSC announced that the dispute with Babbel had been resolved.

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

On February 10, 2012, Babbel became the new head coach at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . He signed a contract until 2014. From March to September 2012 he was also the club's manager. On December 3, 2012, Babbel was relieved of his job as head coach in Hoffenheim, because the club, which had started the season with ambitions for a place that was eligible for international competitions, after 15 matchdays with nine defeats and three wins the relegation place.

FC Luzern

In October 2014, Babbel took over the relegation-threatened Swiss first division club FC Luzern as the successor to Carlos Bernegger . His debut in the Super League ended on October 19, 2014 (12th matchday) 0-0 against FC Vaduz . Despite two wins and two draws, Babbel and his team wintered in tenth and last place, two points behind FC Sion . The second half of the season brought in 5th place in the final table due to ten wins, four draws and four defeats. On February 12, 2016, Babbel prematurely extended his contract by two years until the end of June 2018. Due to differences with the club's management, Markus Babbel announced his resignation at the end of the 2017/18 season on January 3, 2018. The club's management responded two days later with the immediate release of Markus Babbel.

Western Sydney Wanderers

In May 2018, Babbel became the new head coach of the Australian club Western Sydney Wanderers. In January 2020, he was fired after three consecutive defeats.

Successes or titles

player

  • With VfB Stuttgart:
    • 2007 German champion
  • With the Bundeswehr national team
    • 1994 World Cup third

Trainer

  • With VfB Stuttgart:
    • 2009 third in the championship (Bundesliga) - qualification for the Champions League
  • With Hertha BSC:

Personal

Babbel is married for the third time. He has two children each from his first and second marriage, and his fifth child was born in 2016. The girl's mother is his third wife, the presenter Tina Ries.

He wears the coats of arms of his previous clubs as a player and coach as a tattoo on his right upper arm.

Web links

Commons : Markus Babbel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Markus Babbel - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. June 25, 2015. Accessed July 1, 2015.
  2. ↑ Marcel Haisma: Markus Babbel - Matches in European Cups . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 31, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kicker-Sportmagazin No. 47 (23rd week), 10./11. June 1993, page 21.
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Markus Babbel - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. June 25, 2015. Accessed July 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ Ullstein Bild Blog 1996: blog.ullsteinbild.de/gallery/2016-2/1996/
  6. ↑ At the end of the season it should be over. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung ( dpa ). December 16, 2008, archived from the original on April 22, 2009 ; Retrieved December 3, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Babbel is doing his coaching license from June. In: Focus ( sid ). April 10, 2009, accessed December 3, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Babbel extended at VfB
  9. ↑ VfB dismisses Markus Babbel
  10. ↑ Babbel's emotional farewell in full. In: Rheinische Post . December 7, 2009, accessed December 3, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Babbel's speech in full. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. 2009, archived from the original on December 8, 2009 ; Retrieved September 27, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Benedikt Voigt: A farewell that remains. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 8, 2009, accessed December 3, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Oliver Schäfer on target. In: Die Rheinpfalz , April 3, 2010.
  14. ↑ Babbel confirms departure from Hertha. In: Kicker sports magazine. December 17, 2011, accessed December 3, 2012 .
  15. ↑ Hertha BSC sinks into coach chaos. In: Focus (dpa). December 17, 2011, accessed December 3, 2012 .
  16. ↑ Markus Babbel on leave ( Memento from January 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/news/2011-12/22/fussball-hertha-verkuendet-streit-mit-babbel-beigelegt-22133202
  18. ↑ Markus Babbel becomes the new head coach of 1899 Hoffenheim
  19. ↑ Ernst Tanner no longer manager of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
  20. ↑ Andreas Müller is the new Sports Manager at TSG Hoffenheim
  21. ↑ 1899 Hoffenheim separates from coach Babbel. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung (dpa). December 3, 2012, accessed December 3, 2012 .
  22. ↑ 1899 Hoffenheim: Babbel wants to enter the Champions League. In: Focus ( sid ). May 3, 2012, accessed December 4, 2012 .
  23. ^ After being kicked out of Hoffenheim - Markus Babbel: "Mouth too full". In: Focus (pw / dpa). December 4, 2012, accessed December 4, 2012 .
  24. ↑ Markus Babbel new FCL head coach fcl.ch, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  25. ↑ Switzerland: Disappointing debut for Babbel (t-online.de on October 19, 2014)
  26. ↑ Markus Babbel at FC Luzern fcl.ch until 2018 , February 12, 2016.
  27. ↑ sas / sda: Babbel near Lucerne dismissed with immediate effect . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . ( srf.ch [accessed on January 5, 2018]).
  28. ↑ Also released from Babbel in Australia
  29. ↑ A stroke of fate could not defeat Babbel. In: welt.de. Die Welt , accessed on January 11, 2018 .
  30. ↑ https://www.blick.ch/sport/fussball/superleague/trauung-in-bad-duerkheim-fcl-babbel-hat-ja-gesagt-id6804384.html
  31. ↑ "I've never paid for a club tattoo". In: welt.de. Die Welt , accessed on January 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Babbel, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich