Michael Tönnies
| Michael Tönnies | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | December 19, 1959 | |
| place of birth | Essen , Germany | |
| date of death | January 26, 2017 | |
| Place of death | Germany | |
| size | 186 cm | |
| position | Center Forward | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1971-1974 | SpVg Schonnebeck | |
| 1974-1988 | FC Schalke 04 | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1978-1981 | FC Schalke 04 | 7 (0) |
| 1981-1982 | SpVgg Bayreuth | 24 (5) |
| 1982-1985 | 1. FC Bocholt | 64 (46) |
| 1985-1987 | Red and white food | 45 (31) |
| 1987-1992 | MSV Duisburg | 179 (101) |
| 1992-1994 | Wuppertal SV | 45 (17) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1977-1988 | Germany U-18 | 3 (5) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Michael Tönnies (born December 19, 1959 in Essen ; † January 26, 2017 ) was a German football player .
Career
Tönnies began his career at the age of eleven at SpVg Schonnebeck and played in the youth team at FC Schalke 04 from 1974 . He played seven Bundesliga games for FC Schalke 04 (1978 to 1980) and 33 for MSV Duisburg (1991/92), in which he scored 13 goals. In the 2nd Bundesliga he played and shot 140 games for SpVgg Bayreuth (1981/82), Rot-Weiss Essen (1986/87), MSV Duisburg (1989 to 1991) and Wuppertaler SV (1992 to 1994) 62 goals.
Michael Tönnies was top scorer with 29 goals for MSV Duisburg in the second division season 1990/91 and three times in the Oberliga Nordrhein : 1983/84 with 30 goals for 1. FC Bocholt , 1985/86 with 24 goals for RW Essen and 1988/89 with 27 goals for MSV Duisburg.
With MSV Duisburg he was German amateur champion in 1987 and in 1988 and 1989 champion of the Oberliga Nordrhein. He led the zebras to promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1989 and even returned to the 1st Bundesliga in 1991.
On August 27, 1991, in the MSV Duisburg jersey, he scored the fastest to date in a 6-2 draw against Karlsruher SC (with the then largely unknown Oliver Kahn in goal) within five minutes (10th, 12th, 15th) Bundesliga hat trick . He also added the 5: 1 and 6: 2 and scored five goals in one game, only Dieter Müller scored more often in a Bundesliga game.
After his active time he worked as a coach in Essen amateur football. He worked both in the function of a sports director and as an assistant coach at the top division club SpVg Schonnebeck 1910 in Essen-Schonnebeck , his first club in his youth.
National team
Ten days after his 18th birthday, he played for the DFB national youth team on December 29, 1977 at a tournament in Israel to his first of three international matches, in which he scored five goals. In the 8-0 win against Denmark he managed a hat trick in the first half: 1-0 (19th minute of the game), 2-0 (28th), 3-0 (29th); in the second half he scored the 4-0 (54th) and the 6-0 (63rd).
Personal
After the end of his career, Tönnies first opened a restaurant in Essen-Kray in 1994 and became a heavy smoker. A year later, after heavy financial losses, he became an employee in his father's glass and building cleaning company. In 2005 he was diagnosed with end-stage emphysema , so that he was dependent on an organ donation. In April 2013, a lung transplant was successfully carried out at the Hannover Medical School . He was also active as the second stadium announcer at MSV Duisburg from the 2012/13 season.
Michael Tönnies last lived as a pensioner in Essen. He died of a pulmonary embolism on January 26, 2017, at the age of 57 . His final resting place is in the cemetery in the Essen district of Schonnebeck .
literature
- Jan Mohnhaupt: On the brink - The two lives of Michael Tönnies. Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7307-0165-2 .
Web links
- Michael Tönnies in the database of weltfussball.de
- Michael Tönnies in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Michael Tonnies in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Michael Tönnies , Internationales Sportarchiv 51/1991 of December 9, 1991, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Wolfgang Berndsen, Klaus Dings: The MSV players from A to Z. Website msv-archiv.de with statistics on MSV Duisburg.
- Alex Raack: On the death of Michael Tönnies: Tornado. Spiegel Online , January 27, 2017.
- MSV Duisburg: Michael Tönnies died a year ago - we show his eventful life in the video , January 26, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundesliga legend Michael Tönnies is dead . n-tv.de , January 26, 2017, accessed on January 26, 2016.
- ↑ according to RevierSport 64/2011, p. 46
- ^ Matthias Arnhold: Michael Tönnies - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , May 10, 2013, accessed January 26, 2017 .
- Jump up ↑ MSV Duisburg - Karlsruher SC 6: 2 (Bundesliga 1991/1992, 6th matchday) . weltfussball.de, accessed on January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Bundesliga »Statistics» Most goals by a player per game . weltfussball.de, accessed on January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Change of players in the Landesliga, Group 1. (No longer available online.) SpVg Schonnebeck , archived from the original on February 3, 2013 ; accessed on January 26, 2017 (source: Dieter Stein, Lokalsport Bergische Morgenpost Remscheid).
- ↑ Dirk Retzlaff, Thomas Tartemann: The former MSV striker Michael Tönnies was overwhelmed . derwesten.de , May 8, 2012, accessed January 26, 2017.
- ↑ Thomas Tartemann: Ex-MSV striker Michael Tönnies feels "like in a fairy tale" . derwesten.de , April 15, 2013, accessed on January 26, 2017.
- ^ MSV Duisburg: Stadium announcer and MSV legend Tönnies before returning . Rheinische Post , February 28, 2014, accessed on January 26, 2017.
- ↑ A hero is only human tagesspiegel.de from January 26, 2017
- ↑ Thomas Tartemann: Tornado looks on from the sky . RevierSport , January 26, 2017, accessed April 18, 2017.
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Michael Tönnies
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tönnies, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 2017 |