Steffen Karl

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Steffen Karl
Personnel
birthday 3rd February 1970
place of birth Hohenmölsen ,  GDR
size 182 cm
position Defense / midfield
Juniors
Years station
Medicine Halle-Nietleben
Up the hall
1982-1988 HFC chemistry
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1989 HFC chemistry 31 (2)
1989-1990 Stahl Hettstedt
1990-1994 Borussia Dortmund 72 (2)
1994 →  Manchester City  (loan) 6 (1)
1994-1995 FC Sion 24 (5)
1995-1998 Hertha BSC 90 (2)
1998-2000 FC St. Pauli 31 (0)
2000-2001 Vålerenga Oslo 10 (2)
2001-2003 Sofia locomotive 16 (1)
2003-2005 Chemnitzer FC 51 (2)
2005-2008 VfB Fortuna Chemnitz
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1985-1989 DDR-U-16 to U-20 31 (?)
1991 Germany U-21 1 (0)
1992 Germany Olympia 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Steffen Karl (born February 3, 1970 in Hohenmölsen ) is a former German soccer player. Among other things, he played first division football for Halleschen FC Chemie , Borussia Dortmund and Hertha BSC .

Athletic career

The 12-year-old Steffen Karl came to the Halle football focus Hallescher FC Chemie (HFC) in 1982 through the company sports associations (BSG) Medicine Halle-Nietleben and Empor Halle. Already at the age of 15 he was discovered for the U-16 team of the GDR and by 1989 he had completed 31 international matches for the various young national teams. With the U-18 team, he was third in the European Junior Championship in 1988 and at the U-20 World Championship he played all three preliminary round games of the GDR selection, which was then eliminated from the competition. At HFC he played in the junior team until 1988 and completed an apprenticeship as an electrician. For the 1988/89 season he was officially included in the first men's team. In the second half of the 1987/88 season, Karl made his first appearances in the GDR league . He made his debut in the GDR elite league on April 2, 1988 in the match on the 19th match day between HFC and 1. FC Lok Leipzig. While he was still a substitute there, he was in the starting line-up five times as a midfielder in his other games until the end of the season. In the following season 1988/89 he was already a regular player in Halle with 25 appearances in 26 point games as a midfielder. In the summer of 1989 his plans to escape from the GDR became known, which resulted in his immediate expulsion from the HFC and transfer to the third-class BSG steel rolling mill in Hettstedt . In November 1989 he was called up for military service.

In the turmoil of the political turnaround of 1989, he left the army in January 1990, left the still existing GDR, first completed a trial training session at Borussia Mönchengladbach , but then signed a contract with Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. There he played two Bundesliga appearances in March and April 1990. In the 1990/91 season, Karl was only used by coach Horst Köppel from the 18th matchday on. After being in the starting eleven as a midfielder seven times, he was only called up as a substitute. It was only under Ottmar Hitzfeld that Karl managed to establish himself as a midfielder in the regular team in 1991/92. In the following two seasons, however, he fell back into the status of a substitute player. At the end of 1993, Karl left Borussia. Of the 140 point games during his time in Dortmund, Karl played 72 games in which he scored two goals.

For the rest of the season, Karl was loaned to the English first division club Manchester City , for which he played six point games and scored one goal. For the 1994/95 season he moved to Switzerland for a year at FC Sion , until he returned to Germany in 1995 for Hertha BSC in the 2nd Bundesliga . In Berlin he became a regular player and rose to the Bundesliga with Hertha in the summer of 1997. After a year in the Bundesliga, Karl returned to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1998 for FC St. Pauli. After two years in Hamburg, Karl first moved to Vålerenga Oslo in Norway and a year later to Bulgaria to Lokomotiv Sofia . Couldn't gain a foothold there and went back to Germany in 2003 to join the regional division Chemnitzer FC . In Chemnitz he was dismissed in the wake of the soccer scandal in May 2005 and joined the national division VfB Fortuna Chemnitz in the summer , where he ended his career as a competitive athlete at the end of the 2007/08 season. As a recreational footballer, he then played in the lower class at Viktoria Einsiedel .

Between 1990 and 1998, the midfielder played a total of 99 Bundesliga games for Dortmund and Hertha BSC. His greatest successes were the runner-up in 1992 and reaching the UEFA Cup final in 1993 with Borussia Dortmund . In the final game, which was lost to Juventus Turin , Karl was used in both the first leg and the second leg. For Hertha BSC and FC St. Pauli he played 94 games in the 2nd Bundesliga. Between 2003 and 2005 Karl played 51 times for Chemnitzer FC in the regional league .

Style of play

Steffen Karl was known for his enormous shot (full span). He was preferably used as a goalkeeper in indoor soccer tournaments. In addition to his talent in this position, the team had the advantage of another field player who, if he was cleared accordingly, could set his notorious shots on goal. Because of his firing power and his surname, he was called "Eisen-Karl" within the team, based on an Obi advertisement known in the 1990s .

Involvement in the soccer betting scandal in 2005

In March 2005, Steffen Karl was arrested in Chemnitz following an arrest warrant from the Berlin-Tiergarten public prosecutor's office . In connection with the football betting scandal in 2005 he was accused, on the final day of the 2003/04 season, the then keeper of Energie Cottbus , Georg Koch to have phone offered 18,000 euros, that this game against SSV Jahn Regensburg "one, two balls ”into the goal. Koch refused, however, and was also only on the bench in this game, which ended 3-0 for Cottbus.

Furthermore, Steffen Karl was supposed to cause a penalty in the Regionalliga game of SC Paderborn 07 against Chemnitzer FC in order to manipulate the game directed by Robert Hoyzer . The game ended 4-0, with Paderborn having two penalties. However, no manipulation could be proven to Karl, as the two penalties were caused by other players.

After three days of pre-trial detention, he was released from prison. As a consequence, Chemnitzer FC dissolved Steffen Karl's contract on May 22, 2005 with immediate effect. During the legal proceedings against him, Karl confessed to attempts to manipulate two games. He was sentenced to nine months in prison on December 8, 2005, with a four-year suspended sentence.

In 2010, Karl was banned from football for one year because, as president of the district league club Viktoria Einsiedeln , he was supposed to have been the mastermind behind a 9-2 win against BSC Rapid Chemnitz II .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note in: Borussia - The Members' Magazine, Issue 114 of October 14, 2016, p. 23
  2. ↑ Note in: Borussia - The Members' Magazine, Issue 114 of October 14, 2016, p. 23
  3. ↑ Note in: Borussia - The Members' Magazine, Issue 114 of October 14, 2016, p. 23
  4. ↑ reviersport.de of June 23, 2010: Manipulation: Two cases of beer and 150 euros , accessed on December 14, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Karl, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenmölsen