Michael Skibbe

Michael Skibbe
Michael Skibbe (2007)
Personnel
Surname	Michael Heinz Skibbe
birthday	4th August 1965
place of birth	Gelsenkirchen ,  Germany
size	180 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1975-1982	SG Wattenscheid 09
1982-1984	FC Schalke 04
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1984-1986	FC Schalke 04	15 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1982-1983	Germany U18	18 (8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1987-1989	FC Schalke 04 U17
1994-1997	Borussia Dortmund U19
1997-1998	Borussia Dortmund amateurs
1998-2000	Borussia Dortmund
2000-2004	Germany (assistant coach)
2004-2005	Germany U18
2005	Germany U20
2005-2008	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
2008-2009	Galatasaray Istanbul
2009-2011	Eintracht Frankfurt
2011	Eskişehirspor
2012	Hertha BSC
2012	Kardemir Karabükspor
2013-2015	Grasshopper Club Zurich
2015	Eskişehirspor
2015-2018	Greece
2019-2020	Borussia Dortmund U19
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Heinz Skibbe (born August 4, 1965 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German soccer coach and former soccer player . Most recently he was employed by Borussia Dortmund as a junior coach.

Career

As a player

In his youth, Skibbe played at SG Wattenscheid 09 . With her he became German B youth champion in 1982. He then moved to FC Schalke 04 . Between 1984 and 1986 he played 14 Bundesliga games for the club until his career came to an abrupt end with two cruciate ligament tears . In the 1983/84 season he ran once for Schalke in the 2nd Bundesliga. At the end of this season, Schalke rose.

In 1983 he was part of the German squad at the U-18 European Championship in England, where he formed the midfield with Herbert Hoos and Manfred Pomp . At times, Skibbe belonged to two youth national teams at the same time.

As a trainer

Schalke and Dortmund

At the age of 22, he became a sports disability and began a career as a coach in the youth field Schalke 04 by a request from Rudi Assauer was Skibbe coach of the B-youth of Schalke and replaced the previous coach Günther Thon, the father of Olaf Thon , from. In 1989 he became youth coordinator at Borussia Dortmund , where he coached the senior youth team in 1994 and the amateur team in 1997. In 1998 he took over the post of head coach of the Bundesliga team at short notice as the successor to Nevio Scala . Skibbe led the club to fourth place in its first season. After a year and a half and a series of 16 games with only two wins, Skibbe was dismissed as head coach after the 18th matchday of the 1999/2000 season and returned to the position of junior coordinator.

DFB

He gave up the post of youth coordinator for BVB when he received an offer from the DFB to lead the national soccer team. Together with Rudi Völler , who himself did not have a coaching license, he formed a double top in the DFB team from 2000 to 2004 . In terms of the public image, he was the “second man”, and Völler took over responsibility for the team. After the elimination of the national team in the preliminary round of the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal , Skibbe and Völler resigned as national coach on June 24, 2004. Skibbe then acted from August 24, 2004 to October 9, 2005 as DFB youth coordinator and coach of the U-18 national team. In summer 2005 he was in charge of the German U-20 team at the World Cup in the Netherlands.

Bayer Leverkusen

Skibbe during his time in Leverkusen (2007)

From October 9, 2005 to May 21, 2008, Skibbe was the head coach of Bayer 04 Leverkusen , where his former colleague Rudi Völler was again the sports director. A good first half of the 2007/08 season was followed by a bad second half , in which the Champions League was gambled away first and the UEFA Cup on the last matchday . For this reason, the works club decided to terminate the contract with Skibbe early. Skibbe was the first Leverkusen coach since the club's first participation in the competition in the 1997/98 season who did not make it into the UEFA Champions League (apart from interim coaches who were only briefly active).

Skibbe's greatest success in Leverkusen was a winning streak of seven Bundesliga games in a row in the second half of his first season.

Galatasaray Istanbul

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , Skibbe took over Galatasaray Istanbul with a one-year contract plus option . Last year the club was trained by Karl-Heinz Feldkamp . The club split from the latter six match days before the end and assistant Cevat Güler led the club to the championship. So Galatasaray went as the defending champion under the new head coach Michael Skibbe in his first season.

Shortly before the start of the league, he won the first title of his career: In the final of the Turkish Supercup , his team beat Kayserispor 2-1 . After narrowly missing the Champions League against Steaua Bucharest , he was in public criticism and was dismissed on February 23, 2009 after a 2-5 defeat on the 21st matchday against the promoted Kocaelispor . Galatasaray was in fifth place at the time. Bülent Korkmaz took over Skibbe's position until the end of the season, but couldn't change anything on fifth place, although he managed to expand the gap to first place from eight to ten points.

Eintracht Frankfurt

On June 5, 2009, he became the successor to the retired Friedhelm Funkel at Eintracht Frankfurt . On March 22, 2011, he was dismissed, although his team had succeeded in the first back round victory after his team fell into the relegation ranks after a very successful first half of the season (7th place) in the second half with only five points from ten games. Christoph Daum became his successor . Under Skibbe, Eintracht remained without a goal for 793 minutes in a row.

Eskişehirspor

On July 17, 2011 Michael Skibbe agreed with the Turkish first division club Eskişehirspor on a three-year contract. He made his debut on the sideline on September 10, 2011 in the game against Beşiktaş Istanbul , which ended with a 2-1 win. In the first half of the season Skibbe scored 30 points in 17 games and led the team to fourth place in the table. Eskisehirspor was named Team of the Year, and the ex-Dortmund Brazilian Dedê , who he brought to the club , was recognized as a player in the first half of the season. Skibbe - like many players and employees - was not paid by the club for months because there was obviously no financial basis. He decided to turn on FIFA, sue the club and leave it.

Hertha BSC

On December 22, 2011, Hertha BSC introduced Skibbe as the club's new head coach. Skibbe made use of his release clause on December 31, 2011 at Eskişehirspor and signed a two-and-a-half-year contract in Berlin until June 30, 2014. After three Bundesliga defeats in a row, he was out of the DFB Cup. After Hertha also lost the Bundesliga game 5-0 at VfB Stuttgart , he was dismissed after only five competitive games and fifty days in office, not being able to score a single point. Both in terms of the length of the term of office and the number of competitive games, this was one of the fastest dismissals in the history of a coach that was actually planned as a long-term solution. Skibbe had a contract with Hertha until 2014, which, according to the BILD newspaper on February 13, 2012, earned him a severance payment of 500,000 euros (plus 150,000 euros already earned salary). The BILD put the income resulting from the employment relationship at around 15,000 euros per day that he worked in Berlin, with which he also wrote a piece of Bundesliga history. Skibbe himself describes the contract in Berlin as a mistake, because he could not have recognized the true situation of the club in advance.

Kardemir Karabükspor

In May 2012, the Turkish first division club Kardemir Karabükspor signed Skibbe. He signed a contract for two years until June 30, 2014. Skibbe was released after the 10th match day of the 2012/13 season . His team won only two league games and slipped to 16th place in the table with nine points from ten games.

Grasshopper Club Zurich

On June 15, 2013, the Swiss runner-up, Grasshopper Club Zurich, confirmed Michael Skibbe's commitment. He signed a contract for one season; if successful, the contract should automatically be extended for another year. In January 2014, his contract was extended to June 30, 2015. In January 2015, the Zurich company announced the mutual separation of Skibbe, as he wanted to "reorient himself professionally".

Eskişehirspor

On January 9, 2015 Eskişehirspor signed Skibbe again. After four defeats in a row in the 2015/16 Süper Lig season, the club parted ways with Skibbe on October 11, 2015.

Greek national team

From October 2015 to October 2018, Skibbe was the head coach of the Greek national team . In the qualifying group for the 2018 World Cup, Skibbe reached second place with the Greeks and thus moved into the play-offs, where the team failed against Croatia. Skibbe then extended his contract until the end of 2019. Skibbe had succeeded in "making a team out of a wild bunch against which any other team could win," said association boss Evangelos Grammenos. On October 25, 2018, the Greek association announced its dismissal after defeat in the C-League of the Nations League against Hungary and Finland. The 65-year-old Angelos Anastasiades was appointed as his successor.

Return to BVB

For the 2019/20 season , Skibbe took over the A-youth (U19) from Borussia Dortmund , who plays in the Bundesliga West , and at the same time became chief trainer of the youth teams at BVB. At the beginning of May 2020, the club announced that it would use Skibbe for the following season as trainer for the second team, which he had already looked after until 1998. Their previous coach Mike Tullberg , however, should take over the A-youth.

At the end of May 2020, however, the association parted with its employee, whose contract had been extended until 2022. He was accused of having a “lax work ethic” and other personal reasons that “shook the relationship of trust”.

Sporting successes

As a player

• German B youth champion with SG Wattenscheid 09 (1982)

As a trainer

with the national team

• World Championship : Final 2002 (Vice World Champion)

in club football

• Turkish Supercup winner 2008 with Galatasaray Istanbul

Private

Michael Skibbe is married to Lydia and has four daughters.

Web links

Commons : Michael Skibbe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael Skibbe in the database of weltfussball.de
• Michael Skibbe in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Trainer profile at tff.org , the website of the Turkish Football Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kicker Sportmagazin, No. 53 of June 29, 1995, p. 21
2. ↑ ^{a b c} "I have to earn the chance again" - Interview with Skibbe in: RevierSport 29/2013, p. 28f.
3. ↑ "Galatasaray fires Skibbe" (kicker.de)
4. ↑ "Michael Skibbe is the new Eintracht trainer". Report from the association, June 4, 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Eintracht puts trainer Michael Skibbe on leave. News from the club, March 22, 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. 
6. ↑ Tzavellas ends Frankfurt's goallessness from 73 meters
7. ↑ Skibbe new Hertha trainer ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Michael Skibbe ile 2 Yıllık Anlaşma Sağlanmıştır ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The 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. 
9. ↑ Back in the Süperlig: Skibbe trains in Karabük
10. ↑ ntvspor.net: Skibbe ile yollar ayrılıyor (accessed November 4, 2012)
11. ↑ Turkish first division team Karabükspor dismisses coach Skibbe
12. ↑ GC confirms Skibbe as the new trainer , bazonline.ch, accessed on June 15, 2013
13. ↑ gcz.ch: Early contract extension with head coach Michael Skibbe , accessed on February 20, 2014
14. ↑ Michael Skibbe is leaving the Grasshopper Club Zurich , official website of the Grasshopper Club Zurich, accessed and published on January 8, 2015
15. ↑ ntvspor.net: "Es-Es'te Skibbe dönemi!" (accessed on January 9, 2015)
16. ↑ kicker.de: "Skibbe extends the Hellenes" (accessed December 30, 2017)
17. ↑ Skibbe fired as Greek national coach t-online.de, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018
18. ↑ Michael Skibbe and Otto Addo return to Borussia Dortmund , bvb.de, April 17, 2019, accessed on April 17, 2019.
19. ↑ Borussia - your member magazine, issue 161 of August 10, 2019, p. 53
20. ↑ "We want to be surprised by whether this is the better option" , kicker.de, accessed on May 6, 2020
21. ↑ Borussia Dortmund separates from Michael Skibbe , kicker.de, accessed on May 29, 2020
22. ↑ Now it's official: Borussia Dortmund is separating from Michael Skibbe , ruhrnachrichten.de, accessed on May 29, 2020
23. ^ Wedding - Lydia and Michael Skibbe in Düsseldorf / Langenfeld. In: hannakonda.de. Retrieved May 24, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Skibbe flies in daughter against HSV. In: bz-berlin.de. BZ , January 24, 2012, accessed May 24, 2018 .