Matthias Sammer

Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer (2013)
Personnel
birthday	5th September 1967
place of birth	Dresden ,  GDR
size	180 cm
position	Libero / Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1976-1985	SG Dynamo Dresden
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1985-1990	SG Dynamo Dresden	102 (39)
1990-1992	VfB Stuttgart	66 (21)
1992	Inter Milan	11 0(4)
1993-1998	Borussia Dortmund	115 (21)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1982-1983	DDR U-16	8 0(7)
1984-1986	GDR U-18	22 (16)
1986	DDR U-19	3 0(1)
1987	DDR U-20	6 0(7)
1987-1988	DDR U-20	2 0(0)
1988	DDR Olympia	3 0(0)
1986-1990	GDR	23 0(6)
1990-1997	Germany	51 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2000	Borussia Dortmund (assistant coach)
2000-2004	Borussia Dortmund
2004-2005	VfB Stuttgart
1 Only league games are given.

Matthias Sammer (born September 5, 1967 in Dresden ) is a German football official , former football player and football coach .

As an active football player, Sammer was a national player from 1986 to 1997, first in the GDR , and after German reunification in the German national team. He played for the clubs SG Dynamo Dresden , VfB Stuttgart , Inter Milan and Borussia Dortmund .

In his playing career in the 1990s, Sammer won almost every major title in European football. He was a Champions League winner , world cup winner and three times German champion . With the German national team he became European champion in 1996 . As a football coach, he won the German championship with Borussia Dortmund in 2002 as the youngest coach ever. Sammer is also one of seven players in the history of the Bundesliga who became German football champions both as a player and as a coach.

Matthias Sammer was the sports manager of the German Football Association from 2006 to 2012 . From July 2, 2012 to July 10, 2016, he was director of sports at FC Bayern München AG and was responsible for coordinating young talent and promoting talent.

Career as a player

Early years at Dynamo Dresden

Sammer (light jersey) 1988 in the game Dynamo Dresden against BFC Dynamo

Sammer 1990 at Dynamo Dresden

Matthias Sammer began playing soccer in the SG Dynamo Dresden children's team when he was nine in 1976 . He continued the tradition of his father Klaus Sammer , who had also played for Dynamo Dresden from 1965 to 1975. By 1985 Matthias Sammer played in all of Dresden's youth teams, most recently he played for Dynamo Dresden in the junior league. In 1985 he was East German champion and cup winner with the Dynamo junior team. He made his debut in the men's league team when he was just under 18 in the 1985/86 season. On the 2nd match day of the top division of the GDR Football Association , August 24, 1985, he was used under his father as a coach in the match 1. FC Magdeburg - Dynamo Dresden (2: 3) in the last eight minutes. During this season he was used in 18 league point games, but only completed six games over the full 90 minutes. Nevertheless, he was always used as a striker, with eight goals, the second best goalscorer of his team behind Ralf Minge (9).

In 1986 he joined the "Feliks Dzierzynski" guard regiment of the Ministry for State Security , whose boss Erich Mielke was chairman of the Dynamo sports association . The actual service performed was limited to the day of dressing and that of the lining, which allowed Sammer to continue his playing career, while this would not have been possible for him if he had performed military service in the National People's Army . As part of his service, he was never called into the MfS-typical spying service, but was, to a small extent, the subject of observation. On March 19, 1986, he was part of the Dresden team in the European Cup game against Bayer 05 Uerdingen (now KFC Uerdingen ) - known as the Wunder von der Grotenburg and later voted the greatest football game of all time by the specialist magazine 11 Freunde - (Result: 7: 3 for Uerdingen ). In 1986/87 Sammer, now under coach Eduard Geyer , had already fought for a regular place as a left winger with 20 league appearances, this time seven goals were enough for the top scorer in Dresden. In the course of the 1987/88 season Sammer was ordered back by coach Geyer in midfield, which did not prevent him from continuing to belong to Dynamo's top scorers with eight goals. With 25 appearances, Sammer completed his most league game of his career in the 1988/89 season and won his first men's title with the GDR championship.

His most successful GDR league season and his last in the GDR game operations completed Sammer 1989/90. He won the double , championship and cup with Dynamo Dresden . During his five seasons in the GDR league he came there on 102 missions and scored 39 goals. His biggest international success with Dynamo was his advance into the UEFA Cup semi-finals of the 1988/89 season . Sammer played a total of 20 European Cup games for SG Dynamo Dresden, in which he scored two goals.

Club career in Stuttgart, Milan and Dortmund

As part of the political change, Sammer left the now renamed 1. FC Dynamo Dresden in the summer of 1990 and moved to VfB Stuttgart . He previously had a preliminary contract with Bayer 04 Leverkusen , but it was terminated. At VfB, he played 63 Bundesliga games (20 goals), three European Cup games (one goal) and was German champion in 1992 with coach Christoph Daum's team .

Sammer played for a few months in the 1992/93 season for the Italian club Inter Milan . In eleven games he scored four goals in Serie A , but was not happy there and therefore accepted an offer from Borussia Dortmund that brought him back to the German Bundesliga during the winter break of this season.

There he started in his typical playing position as a midfielder. He played his first game for Borussia Dortmund on February 20, 1993 against VfL Bochum, in which he scored the winning goal to make it 1-0. In the following season 1993/94 Sammer was increasingly used by coach Ottmar Hitzfeld in the role of Libero . This variant, which initially appeared to be a stopgap, turned out to be very successful thanks to Sammers' strength in duels and anticipation. The Brazilian Julio Cesar , who was actually committed to the position of libero for the 1994/95 season, was used as a left defender after a few unconvincing games in this position, and Sammer returned to the libero position, on which he also played in the national team from 1996 .

His time at Borussia Dortmund (115 first division games / 21 goals and 27 European Cup games without a goal) was very successful. Under coach Ottmar Hitzfeld , he won two more championships (1995 and 1996), the UEFA Champions League in 1997 after a 3-1 final victory over Juventus Turin in the Munich Olympic Stadium and the World Cup in the same year after a victory against Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte .

National teams

Even as a youth player, Sammer was a member of the GDR youth team and went through all age groups from the U16 to the U23 national team. With the U-18 team he became European champion in 1986 after a 3-1 victory over Italy. He brought his team in the 42nd minute with 2-1 for the first time in the lead. A year later he reached the 3rd place with the U-20 selection at the Junior World Cup in Chile in 1987 after a 3-1 victory over the hosts.

In the senior national team of the GDR he made his debut on November 19, 1986 in the central stadium in the European Championship qualifier against France (0-0), in which he was substituted on in the 77th minute. Sammer remained a substitute in the national team until 1988, and only then did he fight for a regular place. In addition to the 1986 European Championship qualifier, he also played seven of the eight World Cup qualifiers in 1988 and 1989. By 1990 he was in the GDR national team 23 times and was successful with six goals. He was one of the few regular players who played the GDR national team's last international match on September 12, 1990 . As team captain, he scored both goals in a 2-0 friendly against Belgium in Brussels.

In 1988, Sammer played two qualifying games against Portugal (3-0) and Iceland (3-0) with the GDR's Olympic selection , after the GDR had already gambled away qualifying for Seoul in 1988.

As the first player from the GDR, he was appointed to the all-German national team under Berti Vogts . His first game was on December 19, 1990 against Switzerland in Stuttgart (4: 0), his last game on June 7, 1997 in Kiev against Ukraine as part of the World Cup qualification (0: 0). He scored eight goals in 51 games for the DFB , his greatest successes being winning the 1996 European championship in England and the 1992 European runner-up in Sweden.

In 1996 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Herzog for his sporting achievements.

Honors

Outstanding performances at Borussia Dortmund and at the 1996 European Championship earned Sammer the title of European Footballer of the Year 1996 . Since 1956, he has been one of only four defensive players who have received this award, alongside Franz Beckenbauer , Fabio Cannavaro and Virgil van Dijk . His other personal honors include being voted Germany's Footballer of the Year twice in 1995 and 1996.

• 2018: Admission to the first team of the " Hall of Fame of German Football " at the German Football Museum .

End of career

Due to a bacterial infection with MRSA germs, which he contracted during a knee operation on October 13, 1997 and which cost him participation in the 1998 World Cup in France , Matthias Sammer ended his career as a player in 1999. He played his last Bundesliga game on October 4, 1997. Sammers record amounts to 291 top division games (84 goals) in the GDR, the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy as well as 50 European Cup games (three goals). The number of his international matches - DFV and DFB added up - is 74 (14 goals).

1990: GDR Cup winner

Success as a player

International

• U-18 European Champion : 1986 (DFV)
• European Champion : 1996 (DFB)
• UEFA Champions League winner : 1997 (Borussia Dortmund)
• World Cup Winner : 1997 (Borussia Dortmund)

Germany

• GDR champions: 1989, 1990 (Dynamo Dresden)
• GDR Cup Winner: 1990 (Dynamo Dresden)
• German champion : 1992 (VfB Stuttgart), 1995, 1996 (Borussia Dortmund)
• DFB Supercup : 1995, 1996 (Borussia Dortmund)

Individual awards

• Germany's footballer of the year : 1995, 1996
• Ballon d'Or : 1996
• Best Player of the European Championship : 1996
• European Championship All-Star Team : 1996
• Europe's footballer of the year 1996
• Classification as world class in the ranking of German football : winter 1994/95 , summer 1995 , winter 1995/96 , summer 1996

Coaching career

Borussia Dortmund

Sammer, who had acquired his coaching license in 2000 in a shortened DFB special course for former national players, became the head coach of Borussia Dortmund in the same year . He replaced Udo Lattek , whom he had previously temporarily assisted. In the first year under Sammer, the team reached third place in the Bundesliga and qualified for the Champions League. In the second year, Sammer was - as before as a player - German champion and thus also the youngest master coach in the history of the Bundesliga. In the same year, 2002, he reached the final of the UEFA Cup against Feyenoord Rotterdam with the team , in which Dortmund lost 3-2. After that, however, the success waned: The team could not defend the championship title in the following season 2002/03 and reached third place. She was also eliminated in the 2003 Champions League in the second round. In the 2003/04 season, the team did not qualify for the Champions League and had to play in the UEFA Cup. There she was eliminated in the second round and finished sixth in the Bundesliga. For this reason, the coaching contract between Sammer and Borussia, which actually ran until 2006, was terminated prematurely on June 30, 2004 by “mutual agreement”.

VfB Stuttgart

On May 31, 2004 Matthias Sammer signed a contract until 2007 with his former club VfB Stuttgart , with whom he reached the next season's European Cup at the end of the 2004/05 season. Despite this performance, critical voices demanded his dismissal in May 2005 because the qualification for the Champions League had been frivolously gambled away. On June 3, 2005, VfB and Sammer agreed to terminate the contract early.

Success as a trainer

• German champion : 2002 (Borussia Dortmund)
• UEFA Cup finalist: 2002 (Borussia Dortmund)

official

DFB sports manager from 2006 to 2012

Since April 1, 2006, Sammer has been the sports manager of the German Football Association (DFB). When filling the then newly created post he was given preference over the former national hockey coach Bernhard Peters , who was favored by the then national coach Jürgen Klinsmann . In addition, Sammer has been responsible for the development of talent promotion on the part of the DFB since 2010.

In January 2011, Sammer was courted by the Hamburger SV supervisory board for the post of sports director. A negotiated contract is said to have been presented to Sammer. However, Sammer decided to fulfill his contract with the DFB. The contract with the DFB, which was terminated prematurely in July 2012, originally ran until March 31, 2016.

Sports director at FC Bayern Munich (2012-2016)

On July 2, 2012, Sammer took up the post of board member for licensed player matters at FC Bayern Munich . After FC Bayern's second season without a title in a row, he replaced the previous sports director Christian Nerlinger . Because of the upcoming European Football Championship 2012 , it was agreed that the decision would only be announced after the tournament. The DFB gave Sammer a corresponding approval. In its first season with Bayern, the club won the triple of the German championship, DFB Cup and UEFA Champions League . In March 2014, Sammer came under fire after accusing the competing clubs in the Bundesliga with poor training.

On July 10, 2016, Sammer's contract as a sports director at FC Bayern Munich, which ran until 2018, was terminated with immediate effect at his request.

Sammer had previously had to take a break from the end of April 2016 due to a minor stroke . For this reason, Sammer repeatedly ruled out a return to the operational business of the Bundesliga. Sammer said in an interview that he “doesn't want this intensity anymore”.

External consultant at Borussia Dortmund (since 2018)

At the end of March 2018 it was announced that Sammer had been hired as an external consultant at his former club Borussia Dortmund with immediate effect. As such, he advises the club management around Hans-Joachim Watzke and sports director Michael Zorc on important sporting issues without interfering with the operational business. Sammer, according to Watzke, stands for "unvarnished analyzes" and "an uncomfortable, but trusting discussion culture". During his time as sports director at FC Bayern, Sammer had a tense relationship with Borussia Dortmund officials; Watzke emphasized, however, that "you can now talk about content with confidence again".

Others

Sammer has been an expert for Bundesliga games at Eurosport 2 HD Xtra since the 2017/18 season . He continues to pursue this role after starting his work as an external consultant at Borussia Dortmund at the end of March 2018.

Since September 2018, Sammer has also been advising the Cologne startup Gokixx, which operates a digital platform for young footballers in Germany.

He is an ambassador for kids to life .

Private

Matthias Sammer is the son of the GDR national player Klaus Sammer . The trained machine and system fitter is married, has three children and lives with his family in Grünwald near Munich .

Trivia

Matthias Sammer is the namesake of the Game Boy game Matthias Sammer Soccer .

literature

• Bernd Rohr , Günter Simon : Football Lexicon . Verlag Copress, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7679-0410-1 , page 364.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Hohlfeld: Soccer selection player of the GDR. The lexicon . Sportverlag Berlin , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00875-6 , page 148/149.
• Tom Bender, Ulrich Kühne-Hellmessen: Matthias Sammer, Der Feuerkopf. Sportverlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-328-00884-5 .
• Michael Peter: The way to the west. A contribution to the German-German (soccer) understanding. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-176-2 , pages 261-269.
• Andreas Baingo , Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 .
• Michael Horn, Gottfried Weise : The great lexicon of GDR football. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-536-8 , pages 293-295.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 .
• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 427/428.
• Michael Peter: Ballack, Sammer & Co. How football Germany benefited from reunification . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-398-1 , page 336/337.
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , pages 432-434.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Jan Wielgohs:  Sammer, Matthias . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Matthias Sammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Matthias Sammer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Matthias Sammer in the database of weltfussball.de
• Matthias Sammer in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Matthias Sammer (player profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Matthias Sammer (Trainer Profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Matthias Sammer in the database of the German Football Association
• Matthias Sammer in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Portrait: Who is Matthias Sammer? , Article from the Tagesspiegel from February 12, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Matthias Sammer is leaving FC Bayern at his own request, press release of the club, July 10, 2016
2. ↑ Sammer was subordinate to the Stasi as a dynamo professional , Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 22, 2017
3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Matthias Sammer - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 26, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
4. ↑ Christian Falk: Matthias learned ambition early on . Ed .: Sport Bild . No. 51/52 , December 19, 2012, football, p. 26 (interview with Klaus Sammer).
5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Matthias Sammer - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 3, 2004. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
6. ↑ 1996-ullstein picture blog: blog.ullsteinbild.de/gallery/2016-2/1996/
7. ↑ Eleven football legends and a coach icon ( Memento from November 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ How Sammer Became an Invalid , BZ, April 17, 2010
9. ^ Trainer's license for Babbel: Klinsmann attacks DFB sports director Sammer In: spiegel.de from December 12, 2008
10. ↑ Kicker from January 21, 2011
11. ↑ tz .de: Sammer becomes Bayern sports director , accessed on March 25, 2014
12. ↑ fcbayern.telekom.de: Matthias Sammer will be the new 'Sports Director' July 2, 2012
13. ↑ gm / mxm / thi: taunts against the Bayern competition: Matthias Sammer: "Is training meticulously elsewhere?" In: Focus Online . March 7, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
14. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/sport/fussball/bundesliga/matthias-sammer-regt-juergen-klopp-auf-du-kannst-dir-ja-nicht-alles-anhoeren-aid-1.4090237
15. ↑ Sammer leaves FC Bayern: "I'm saying goodbye for the moment," br.de, July 10, 2016
16. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Witt: How a "grazing shot" changed Sammers life. welt.de, February 2, 2017, accessed April 5, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Don't close your eyes - the Sammer case focuses on the widespread disease. tz.de, July 10, 2016, accessed April 5, 2018 . 
18. ↑ With Sammer and Kehl - This is how the new power center works. bild.de, April 4, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018 . 
19. ↑ ^{a b c} Matthias Sammer reveals how he came back. welt.de, March 31, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018 . 
20. ^ ^{A b} "External consultant" - Funke media group: Sammer becomes BVB consultant. waz.de, April 1, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018 . 
21. ↑ "External consultant" - Zorc: Sammer becomes a consultant - Kehl is to lead licensed players. waz.de, April 2, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Eurosport and BVB job: This is how Matthias Sammer defines his future. eurosport.de, April 1, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018 . 
23. ↑ www.kicker.de from August 27, 2018
24. ↑ Matthias Sammer at chronikderwende.de