Michael Sternkopf

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Michael Sternkopf
Personnel
birthday April 21, 1970
place of birth Karlsruhe ,  Germany
size 177 cm
position Midfield / storm
Juniors
Years station
1975-1981 SV Northwest Karlsruhe
1981-1988 Karlsruher SC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1990 Karlsruher SC 33 (4)
1990-1995 FC Bayern Munich 94 (4)
1995-1996 Borussia Monchengladbach 34 (5)
1997 Sc freiburg 16 (0)
1997-2003 Arminia Bielefeld 80 (3)
2004 Kickers Offenbach 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989-1990 Germany U-21 7 (2)
1990 Olympic team 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Sternkopf (born April 21, 1970 in Karlsruhe ) is a former German soccer player .

Career

societies

Sternkopf started playing soccer at SV Nordwest Karlsruhe at the age of five, moved to the youth department of Karlsruher SC at the age of 11 and moved up to the Bundesliga team at the age of 18 - with a licensed player contract . In his first professional season he was used in the last four games of the 1988/89 season and scored two goals. He crowned his Bundesliga debut on May 25, 1989 (31st match day) in a 3-2 defeat at home against Bayer 04 Leverkusen with his first goal, the 1-0 goal in the 6th minute.

In 1990 , Sternkopf, who was one of the greatest talents in the Bundesliga at the time, moved to FC Bayern Munich for 3.4 million DM . He played there for five years and won the only title of his professional career in 1994 when the team became German champions . He was also used five times in the DFB-Pokal competition and ten times in the international cup competitions.

In 1995 he moved to league rivals Borussia Mönchengladbach , played there 32 times, scored five goals and was only used twice in the following season. He then switched to league rivals SC Freiburg during the winter break for DM 300,000 , which he left after the end of the 1996/97 season and 16 goalless league games.

From 1997 to 2003 - his longest time with a club - he played for Arminia Bielefeld , for whom he was also active in the 2nd Bundesliga for three years and was not used in the last season (after repeated promotion). The star head, which is very popular with Arminia fans, sustained a serious injury from which he would never fully recover. According to his own statement, the re- promotions ( 1999 and 2002 ) in the Bundesliga were among his greatest successes in Bielefeld.

Sternkopf moved to the end of his active career in February 2004 in the Regionalliga Süd to Kickers Offenbach , for which he played  his only game on March 6 - in the 1: 2 defeat at home to SV Wehen . With the substitution in the 70th minute for Ole Budtz , his active football career ended at the same time, as he was part of the squad in the following season, but was no longer used until December 31, 2004.

Sternkopf played a total of 210 Bundesliga (15 goals), 47 second division games (one goal) and one game in the Regionalliga Süd .

National team

Sternkopf played seven times for the U-21 national team . He played his first international match - in the 71st minute for Oliver Bierhoff - on September 5, 1989 in a 1-1 draw against Czechoslovakia in Příbram . On February 28, 1990, the U-21 selection in Alès won with his (first) goal 1-0 against the selection of France and also on October 9, 1990 his team won with a goal of him in a 2-1 victory against the selection of Sweden in Uppsala . He played his last game in the national jersey on October 30, 1990 in a 3-0 win against the host Luxembourg . In addition, he was called up once, on August 28, 1990, in the Olympic team, which scored a 1-1 draw against Portugal in Amadora .

Others

In summer 2006 he was appointed one of the Hessian ambassadors for the 2006 World Cup . Michael Sternkopf regularly takes part in charity soccer games (e.g. all-star team of FC Bayern Munich), the profits of which go to charitable organizations.

After retiring from his career, Sternkopf worked at Kickers Offenbach as marketing manager until summer 2011, then as organization manager. His area of ​​responsibility included the complete organization of the professional department of OFC GmbH including the contract negotiations with players. In October 2011, Sternkopf resigned from his position at Kickers Offenbach and sought medical treatment for a burn-out syndrome .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heribert Faßbender : Fußball-Jahrbuch 90 , Falken-Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-8068-4489-5 , p. 60
  2. ↑ OFC presents new sports concept - Ramon Berndroth and Michael Sternkopf take over ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Michael Sternkopf is out for an indefinite period ( memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sternkopf, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe