Pierre Littbarski

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Pierre Littbarski
Pierre Littbarski 2006 (cropped) .jpg
Personnel
Surname Pierre Michael Littbarski
birthday April 16, 1960
place of birth West BerlinGermany
size 168 cm
position Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
1967-1976 VfL Schöneberg
1976-1988 Hertha Zehlendorf
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1986 1. FC Cologne 234 (89)
1986-1987 Racing Club Paris 34 0(4)
1987-1993 1. FC Cologne 172 (27)
1993-1995 JEF United Chiba 63 (10)
1996-1997 Brummell Sendai 29 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1979-1982 Germany U21 21 (18)
1980 Germany B 1 0(0)
1981-1990 Germany 73 (18)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999-2000 Yokohama FC
2001 Bayer 04 Leverkusen (assistant coach)
2001-2002 MSV Duisburg
2003-2004 Yokohama FC
2005-2006 Sydney FC
2007-2008 Avispa Fukuoka
2008 Saipa Tehran
2008-2010 FC Vaduz
2010–2012 VfL Wolfsburg (assistant coach)
2011 VfL Wolfsburg (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Pierre Michael "Litti" Littbarski (born April 16, 1960 in West Berlin ) is a former German soccer player and later soccer coach . With the national team he became world champion in Italy in 1990 . He spent most of his professional career at 1. FC Köln . In 1993 he was one of the first foreign players in the newly formed Japanese J. League .

Career as a player

Club career

Born in Berlin, Littbarski, who mostly grew up with his grandparents, came to football very late. As the son of a finance advisor, he initially aspired to a career as a tax officer and initially only played club football at VfL Schöneberg . In 1974, during the 1974 World Cup, he was the ball boy at the clash between the GDR team and the Chilean national team in the Berlin Olympic Stadium . In 1976, as a teenager, he moved to the higher-class Hertha Zehlendorf . As a Berlin A-Junior Champion, he took part with the team in the German A-Junior Championship in 1977/78 . On the way to the final, the Berliners prevailed in the summer of 1978 with two wins against the A-Juniors of 1. FC Köln. Hertha Zehlendorf lost the final against MSV Duisburg 2: 5, with Littbarski scoring the two goals for his team.

Shortly thereafter, Littbarski was signed by the Bundesliga club and reigning champions 1. FC Cologne after negotiations with manager Karl-Heinz Thielen ; The coach was Hennes Weisweiler . As a transfer fee, FC paid 13,000  D-Marks to the Berliners; Littbarski then broke off his previously started training as a tax officer . In Cologne he competed for the place in the storm with Roger van Gool , who a few times earlier was the most expensive transfer in Bundesliga history with a transfer fee of one million marks . Littbarski played his first Bundesliga game for the reigning champions on August 26, 1978 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on the Betzenberg . After 16 Bundesliga games and four goals this season as well as three games in the 1978/79 European Cup , in which 1. FC Köln failed in the semifinals at the later titleholder Nottingham Forest , he became a regular in both the club and the club in the 1979/80 season U21 national team .

In the summer of 1980, Littbarski was in the starting line-up for the DFB Cup final against local rivals Fortuna Düsseldorf , despite a 1-0 lead by Bernd Cullmann after a 2-1 defeat , the title went to Düsseldorf. In the cup final, the Cologne interim coach Karl-Heinz Heddergott sat on the bench, he represented Weisweiler, who had resigned shortly before the end of the season after a dispute with the club management. Coach Rinus Michels was signed for the next season . Under his leadership, the club ended the 1980/81 season as eighth in the 1980/81 UEFA Cup , the semi-finals were reached. Opponent was the later title holder Ipswich Town , both semi-finals lost the Cologne. In the 1981/82 season Littbarski achieved the breakthrough, with 15 goals this season he was instrumental in the runner-up. In the following years the offensive player regularly scored double-digit goals until 1986. 1983 Littbarski won his first national title when he and his team in the domestic Mungerdorferstadion in the city derby against Fortuna Cologne the German Cup in 1983 won. In a game in which the second division and thus the supposed outsider Fortuna Cologne dominated over long stretches with attacking football, Littbarski scored the decisive goal with the goal to make it 1-0.

From 1984 Hannes Löhr was coach at 1. FC Köln and led the club in its first season as third in the table again in the UEFA Cup . After the team was in acute danger of relegation in the 1985/86 season , also because Littbarski had been injured at times, the club changed coaches and passed responsibility to Georg Keßler . Under his leadership, the club, which was in 13th place in the Bundesliga at the end of the season, reached the finals of the 1985/86 UEFA Cup against Real Madrid . In the first leg in Madrid Littbarski was taken off the field after 84 minutes when the score was 1: 3 and replaced by Norbert Dickel ; Real Madrid conceded two more goals in the final minutes to make it 1: 5. In the second leg, which was played in the semifinals at KSV Waregem in Berlin's Olympic Stadium because of previous riots by Cologne supporters , Uwe Bein and Ralf Geilenkirchen scored the goals for Cologne's 2-0 second leg success .

After the 1986 World Cup , Littbarski moved to France to Racing Paris , where the industrialist Jean-Luc Lagardère invested in building a team with internationally known players; in addition to Littbarski, among others, Enzo Francescoli and Rabah Madjer were committed. For Racing Paris, Littbarski played 32 games in Division 1 and scored four goals. In his second season, Littbarski played two point games there before returning to 1. FC Köln in August 1987. To handle his transfer, he made a loan available to 1. FC Köln. In May 1993 he moved to JEF United Ichihara in the newly formed Japanese J. League . His last position as an active player was Brummell Sendai in 1996 .

In 1985, Littbarski was named goal scorer of the year by viewers of the ARD sports show .

statistics

Competition (s) Calls Gates
1st National League 406 116
Division 1 (France) 034 004th
DFB Cup 043 012
European Champion Clubs' Cup ; European Cup Winners' Cup ; UEFA Cup 055 016
J1 League 092 015th
total 538 148

National team

From 1980 to 1982 Littbarski played 21 times for the U21 national team , whose record scorer he is with 18 goals and with whom he became vice-European champion in 1982 together with Rudi Völler .

From 1981 to 1990 he wore the jersey of the German national team 73 times and scored 18 goals, including three goals in a World Cup. He took part in three world championships ( 1982 in Spain , 1986 in Mexico and 1990 in Italy ) and two European championships ( 1984 in France and 1988 in Germany). The highlight of his career was winning the world title in Italy in 1990. Littbarski was one of the team that defeated Argentina 1-0 in the final. For winning the World Cup in 1990 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

Title and achievements as a player

  • 1983 DFB Cup winner
  • 1990 world champion

Coaching career

His coaching career began Littbarski in Japan, where he received a Class S license in 1997, which allowed the coaching of J. League clubs. From 1999 to 2000 he coached the J. League club Yokohama FC , with whom he won the championship in both years. He then worked as assistant coach to Berti Vogts at Bayer 04 Leverkusen . Later he was responsible for the MSV Duisburg team in the 2nd Bundesliga . From 2004 he coached Sydney FC in the newly formed Australian A-League , with which he won the championship title in March 2006. Because of disputes over a contract extension, he left the club on May 3, 2006. In December 2006, he signed a one-year contract with the Japanese first division relegated Avispa Fukuoka . In July 2008 he was released after a contract extension to January 2009 had been agreed in February.

A few weeks later, Littbarski was presented as the new coach of the Iranian club Saipa Tehran , on October 21, 2008, Littbarski separated again. On November 4, 2008, the Liechtenstein club, playing in the Swiss Axpo Super League , signed FC Vaduz Littbarski as the successor to the previous coach, Heinz Hermann . On April 12, 2010, he was released from FC Vaduz.

From the 2010/11 season Littbarski was assistant coach of the Bundesliga team at VfL Wolfsburg . After head coach Steve McClaren's leave of absence on February 7, 2011, Littbarski was interim coach at VfL, for whom he was on the sidelines in five games, four of which were lost. Littbarski was replaced on March 18, 2011 by Felix Magath , under whom he then became assistant coach again. From 2012 to 2018 he headed the “Player Monitoring and Development” department at VfL, and has been a brand ambassador since then.

After the active time

During the Football World Cup 2006 , Pierre Littbarski worked as a co-commentator on live broadcasts from RTL .

Littbarski is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Youth Football Foundation. The foundation was established in 2000 by Littbarski, Klinsmann and other successful national players as well as lecturers of the football teacher special course.

Private life

Littbarski's first marriage (until 1994) has two daughters. In his second marriage he is married to a Japanese woman, with her he has two sons. The university professor Sigurd Littbarski is his uncle.

In 1994 he published his autobiography Litti - Meine Geschichte at Hoffmann und Campe . In February 2005, his first wife had the "Littbarski Collection" auctioned on the Internet, including a golden camera , various football awards and trophies, as well as souvenir photos, sunglasses and items of clothing for the footballer.

During his time in Cologne and the world championship title, Littbarski lived in Großvernich and Weilerswist .

Others

Littbarski was appointed in 1989 by the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU to re-elect Richard von Weizsäcker as Federal President in the Federal Assembly .

Littbarski appears as a character in the Japanese textbook Japanese in the Sauseschritt under his nickname "Litti".

On June 10, 2018, he had a guest appearance in the comedy series Dittsche and on August 9, 2018 in Genial beseben - Das Quiz .

Web links

Commons : Pierre Littbarski  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Pierre Littbarski - from Cologne to Wolfsburg around the world. In: www.europapokal.de. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  2. https://11freunde.de/artikel/in-japan-wurde-ich-neugeboren/583101?position=seiteninhalt&komplettansicht=#seiteninhalt
  3. 11freunde.de: "» In Japan I was reborn «" (accessed on March 7, 2018)
  4. nytimes.com: "The Sensational Rise and Expensive Fall of a Paris Superclub"
  5. a b Avispa Fukuoka Players Profile: littbarski. (No longer available online.) Avispa Fukuoka, archived from the original on May 31, 2008 ; Retrieved November 27, 2010 (Japanese).
  6. International: Littbarski takes over as coach at FC Vaduz . FOCUS Online. November 4, 2008. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  7. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/intligen/startseite/523573/artikel_Orie-ersetzt-Littbarski.html Orie replaces Littbarski
  8. VfL separates from Steve McClaren / Pierre Littbarski takes over from February 7, 2011 on vfl-wolfsburg.de
  9. Felix Magath new VfL head coach from March 18, 2011 on vfl-wolfsburg.de
  10. ^ New assignment for Littbarski , accessed on March 13, 2013
  11. Littbarski is the Wolves brand ambassador. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  12. Pierre Littbarski: I only have one bow leg . At: bild.de , November 11, 2013
  13. Information from the German National Library (accessed on July 31, 2019).
  14. Balla, Balla . At: welt.de , May 8, 2003
  15. Lothar Berndorff, Tobias Friedrich: The 100 greatest football dramas: Crashes, bankruptcies and ruin, Edel: Books, 2011 [1]
  16. 30 years ago no free beer at "Litti" reception , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, from July 27, 2012
  17. ^ Littbarski interview with the world
  18. World championship visit to "Dittsche". (No longer available online.) In: Heilbronner Voice . June 8, 2018, archived from the original on June 13, 2018 ; accessed on June 13, 2018 .
  19. Ingeniously next to it - the quiz. In: Fernsehserien.de . August 9, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .