Martin Max

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Martin Max
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Max 2018
Personnel
birthday 7th August 1968
place of birth Tarnowskie Góry ,  Poland
size 182 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1982 Rodło Górniki Bytom
1982-1985 Blue White Post Recklinghausen
1985-1987 1. FC Recklinghausen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1989 1. FC Recklinghausen
1989-1995 Borussia Monchengladbach 142 (22)
1995-1999 FC Schalke 04 109 (33)
1999-2003 TSV 1860 Munich 112 (51)
2003-2004 Hansa Rostock 33 (20)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002 Germany 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2007-2010 TSV Grafing
1 Only league games are given.

Martin Max (born August 7, 1968 in Tarnowskie Góry , Poland ) is a former German football player . In his career he was the UEFA Cup winner and twice top scorer in the Bundesliga.

biography

Childhood and youth

Max was born in Tarnowskie Góry and started playing football in the youth team of Rodło Górniki Bytom from Bytom . At the end of the 1970s he and his Upper Silesian family moved to Germany as an emigrant and played for Blau Weiß Post Recklinghausen . There was Kurt Meyer , his first coach. From 1985 he played for the youth and later for the association league team of 1. FC Recklinghausen .

First years as a professional

The first professional station was Borussia Mönchengladbach , for which Max was active between 1989 and 1995. The striker made his debut on the first match day of the 1989/90 season , July 28, 1989, against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He was in the starting line-up of his team and completed the full season. Max was always part of the starting eleven until matchday four. Only in the course of the season did he find himself on the bench more often. Max played a total of eleven games in his first year as a professional, and was substituted on or off ten times. For the place next to Hans-Jörg Criens , who was seeded in the storm, Max competed with Igor Belanow , Oliver Bierhoff and Christoph Budde .

Max made his breakthrough in the following year at Borussia. On the 6th matchday of the 1990/91 season he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 1-1 draw against Eintracht Frankfurt . With 30 matches he had more than any other Borussia striker. He scored seven goals and was the second best scorer on his team.

The greatest success of his time in Gladbach was winning the DFB Cup in 1995 . In the final game as well as in the course of the competition and the league, Max was no longer the first choice. He did not score a single goal throughout the season. Instead, players like Heiko Herrlich , Martin Dahlin and Bachirou Salou contested the place.

FC Schalke 04

In the summer of 1995, Max therefore decided to move to FC Schalke 04 . Here he won the 1997 UEFA Cup . In his first two years at Schalke he played together with Youri Mulder in the storm center and was the Gelsenkirchen team's top scorer. When he won the UEFA Cup, Max played against Inter Milan in both finals . After he was substituted on in the 1-0 first leg win only in the 65th minute, he was in the second leg on May 21, 1997 in the starting line-up. In the penalty shootout, Max scored 3-1 before Marc Wilmots converted the decisive penalty.

Top scorer in Munich and career finale in Rostock

After Max had not been so accurate in the following two years, he moved to TSV 1860 Munich in 1999 and was the top scorer there in 2000 and 2002. In the 2002/03 season he lost his regular place to Benjamin Lauth .

In the summer of 2003 he moved to Hansa Rostock and was the best German goalscorer in the 2003/04 season with 20 goals in 33 Bundesliga games. After the 2003/04 season, he ended his career.

Between 1989 and 2004 Max made 396 Bundesliga appearances and scored 126 goals.

National team

As top scorer in the Bundesliga, he was media for the levy of the national team of Germany for the 2002 FIFA World Cup demanded. Max made his debut for the DFB selection on April 17, 2002 when he came on for Torsten Frings in the 1-0 defeat at the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart against Argentina eight minutes before the end . Despite this commitment, and even after he became the top scorer in the Bundesliga, Max was not nominated for the World Cup by the then team boss Rudi Völler . After he was the most successful German attacker in 2003/04, there were renewed discussions about the 36-year-old, whether he should be nominated for the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal . Since Völler hadn't taken him into account in 2002, Max refused a comeback in the national team.

Success as a player

society

Individually

  • Top scorer in the 1st Bundesliga: 2000, 2002

After the active career

Today Martin Max is committed to youth football in his Martin Max Camp. He is also the deputy head of the traditional Schalke team behind Olaf Thon .

Coaching career

From November 2007 to 2010, Martin Max and Daniel Hoffmann coached the TSV Grafing district division.

In the summer of 2010 he got his trainer A license .

Others

In Germany, Max completed an apprenticeship as a fitter at a colliery . He is married, has one son and lives in Haltern am See . Max's wife also played soccer and played in the Westphalia selection. His son Philipp (* 1993) is also a soccer player and plays for FC Augsburg .

See also

Web links

Commons : Martin Max  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Martin Max in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Martin Max in the database of fussballdaten.de
  • Martin Max in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Urban : Black eagles, white eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-775-8 , p. 161.
  2. ↑ Detlev Seyb: The sports box: withered away again. In: derwesten.de. November 18, 2008, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Match statistics 1. FC Kaiserslautern against Borussia Mönchengladbach 2: 1 (2: 0) - Bundesliga 1989/1990 - The first matchday. In: fussballdaten.de. July 28, 1989. Retrieved June 3, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Martin Max - player at Borussia Mönchengladbach - Bundesliga 1989/1990. In: fussballdaten.de. August 7, 1968. Retrieved June 3, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Borussia Mönchengladbach - Bundesliga 1990/1991. (No longer available online.) In: fussballdaten.de. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fussballdaten.de
  6. ↑ Borussia Mönchengladbach - Bundesliga 1994/1995. (No longer available online.) In: fussballdaten.de. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fussballdaten.de
  7. ↑ FC Schalke 04 - Bundesliga 1995/1996. (No longer available online.) In: fussballdaten.de. Archived from the original on August 29, 2010 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fussballdaten.de
  8. ↑ FC Schalke 04 - Bundesliga 1996/1997. (No longer available online.) In: fussballdaten.de. Archived from the original on January 29, 2010 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fussballdaten.de
  9. ↑ Match statistics Inter Milan against FC Schalke 04 1: 4 i. E. - UEFA Cup 1996/1997 - Finals - Final. In: fussballdaten.de. May 21, 1997, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Hansa Rostock: Striker Martin Max is coming. In: Spiegel Online . June 6, 2003, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  11. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Martin Max - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 1, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  12. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Martin Max - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 1, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  13. ↑ Germany - Argentina 0: 1 (friendship 2002, April). In: weltfussball.de. April 17, 2002, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Martin Max: 'Does Skibbe still have all the cups in the cupboard?' (No longer available online.) Stern.de , May 6, 2004, archived from the original on May 22, 2015 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  15. ↑ Schalke 04 - traditional team. (No longer available online.) In: schalke04.de. Archived from the original on May 17, 2015 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schalke04.de
  16. ↑ Ex-lions set the tone in Grafing - Ebersberg district. merkur-online.de, October 10, 2008, accessed on June 3, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Fabian Hollenhorst: The goal scorer - ex-professional Martin Max back in Recklinghausen. In: derwesten.de. November 9, 2010, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Peter Müller: Schalke talent Max is fighting for the next big step. derwesten.de, April 3, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  19. ↑ Stefan Bunse: Royal blue "Baby Troop" with quality. In: RevierSport. RevierSport online GmbH, July 18, 2010, accessed on May 22, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Fabian Hollenhorst: The gatekeeper. In: WAZ (The West). FUNKE MEDIEN NRW GmbH (formerly FUNKE MEDIEN DIGITAL GmbH & Co. KG), November 9, 2010, accessed on May 22, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Heiko Ostendorp: Max: Life as a celebrity son is so difficult . In: Axel Springer Verlag SE (Hrsg.): Sport Bild . August 12, 2014, p. 46-47 .
personal data
SURNAME Max, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnowskie Góry , Poland