Martin Kree

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Martin Kree
Personnel
birthday January 27, 1965
place of birth Wickede (Ruhr)Germany
size 185 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1981 TuS Wickede
1981-1983 VfL Bochum
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1984 VfL Bochum amateurs
1984-1989 VfL Bochum 164 (28)
1989-1994 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 156 (22)
1994-1998 Borussia Dortmund 81 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1985 Germany U-21 5 0(0)
1986 Germany B 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Martin Kree (born January 27, 1965 in Wickede (Ruhr) ) is a former German football player .

Career

The defender began his career at TuS Wickede . For the 1983/84 season Kree moved together with Frank Heinemann from the A-youth of VfL Bochum to the amateur team in the Oberliga Westfalen .

On April 21, 1984, Kree began his Bundesliga career at VfL Bochum in the second round match against VfB Stuttgart . By 1989 he played 164 games for VfL and scored 28 goals. From 1989 he was active for Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He played for Leverkusen until 1994 and then moved to Borussia Dortmund . Kree played in Dortmund until 1998 and won the Champions League and the World Cup in 1997 . Other successes in his career were the German championships in 1995 and 1996 with BVB and winning the DFB Cup in 1993 with Bayer 04 Leverkusen. With VfL Bochum, Kree was in the final of the DFB Cup in 1988 .

Overall, Kree played 401 times in the Bundesliga and scored 51 goals. He was particularly known for his shooting power in long-range shots and set pieces. He also played five times in the German U-21 national team in 1984 and 1985; In 1986 he was used in the B national team .

successes

  • Champions League winner: 1997
  • World Cup Winner: 1997
  • German champion: 1995, 1996
  • DFB Cup winner: 1993
  • DFB Cup finalist: 1988

After the career

Immediately after his career, Kree began to work in the Cologne branch of a Liechtenstein marketing agency. Today, Kree works in the computer industry after opening an IT training center (New Horizons) in Holzwickede in August 2004 . He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of VfL Bochum since July 2012 .

Special

During his time at VfL Bochum, Kree had the hardest shot in the Bundesliga, as was determined in the Bundesliga show kick-off on RTL . A ball speed of 137 km / h was measured, more than any other Bundesliga player of his time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Without Gerland he would have become Armine ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vfl-bochum.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . VfL Bochum, August 11, 2009.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Martin Kree - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. May 22, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  3. Kicker Almanac 2008 . Copress-Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7679-0905-2 , pp. 143 and 169.
  4. Martin Kree in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)