Thomas Berthold

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Thomas Berthold
Thomas Berthold - Day of Legends 2016 01.jpg
Thomas Berthold, 2016
Personnel
birthday November 12, 1964
place of birth Hanau ,  Germany
size 185 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1974-1976 KEWA guard book
1976-1988 SG Hochstadt-Wachenbuchen
1978-1982 Eintracht Frankfurt
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1982-1987 Eintracht Frankfurt 111 (17)
1987-1989 Hellas Verona 52 0(2)
1989-1991 AS Roma 62 0(3)
1991-1993 FC Bayern Munich 30 0(1)
1993-2000 VfB Stuttgart 191 0(4)
2001 Adanaspor 5 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1981 Germany U-18 1 0(0)
1984-1986 Germany U-21 5 0(0)
1985-1994 Germany 62 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Berthold (born November 12, 1964 in Hanau ) is a former German soccer player . He began his professional career with Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and played for five other first division clubs in Italy, Germany and Turkey. The defender also played a total of 62 international matches for the German national team between 1985 and 1994 and became soccer world champion in 1990 .

Career

societies

Berthold learned to play football at the local club KEWA Wachenbuchen , as a teenager he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt and finally received a licensed player contract with the professionals for the 1982/83 season . He made his Bundesliga debut on March 12, 1983 (24th matchday) in the 3-0 defeat in the away game against Hamburger SV when he came on for Martin Trieb in the 71st minute . He scored his first goal on June 4, 1983 (34th matchday) in the 1: 5 defeat in Düsseldorf with the goal at 1: 3 half-time. After four more seasons for Hessen , Berthold moved to Italy . From 1987 to 1989 he played first for first division club Hellas Verona , then for two seasons with league competitor AS Roma , with whom he won the national club cup in 1991 (in the two finals against Sampdoria Genoa ) and in the first leg on May 30th in Rome, at 3 : 1 win, contributed one goal.

In 1991 Berthold returned to Germany . At first he played for FC Bayern Munich , but soon after differences of opinion with his coach Erich Ribbeck he was released from training and was given the ironic designation "best paid German golf professional after Bernhard Langer " by treasurer Kurt Hegerich . In 1993 he moved to VfB Stuttgart , where he was sent off a total of five times and still holds the club's internal record. In 1997 he won the DFB Cup with the Swabians . On April 8, 2000 (28th matchday), he played his last Bundesliga game in a 5-2 home defeat against VfL Wolfsburg . In the German elite class he was active in a total of 332 games and scored 22 goals.

From January 15, 2001 to the end of the 2000/01 season he played in Turkey for the first division side Adanaspor . When the club took the last (18th) place in the table and relegated, Berthold ended his career as an active player.

National team

On September 10, 1981, Berthold came in Stolberg in the 1-1 draw against France for his only international match for the U-18 national team .

Berthold played five times for the U-21 national team ; first on March 27, 1984 in Osnabrück in the 1-1 draw against the Soviet Union , last time on March 11, 1986 in Koblenz in the 0-0 draw against the senior national team of South Korea .

On January 29, 1985, Berthold was appointed to the senior national team for the first time . In the friendly against Hungary - the game was lost 1-0 - he came on for Matthias Herget in the 80th minute . His only goal in 62 international matches he scored on April 30, 1985 in the World Cup qualifier in a 5-1 away win against Czechoslovakia . Berthold took part in three World Cups and a European part and was in the World Cup 1990 in Italy champion . The number of international matches is comparatively low when you consider that he was a regular player in three World Cup finals and played a total of 18 World Cup games.

He was known on the football field as a tough but tech-savvy defender. At the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , he saw the red card in the quarter-finals against the hosts after a revenge foul , but was back in the starting line-up after being suspended in the final against Argentina . In the run-up to the 1994 World Cup , he returned to the national team after an almost three-year absence and played in the finals in the USA from the first to the last minute.

For his sporting successes he received - together with the world championship team - the silver laurel leaf from the Federal President.

Berthold always expressed his own opinion outside of the field. This also led to the fact that he was no longer called up to the national team after a critical interview in the Spiegel , which he gave at the end of 1994.

see also:

successes

Away from career

Berthold graduated from high school in Hanau in 1983 .

From July 1, 2003 to March 14, 2005, Berthold was a manager at Fortuna Düsseldorf .

He organized and planned fan trips and arrangements for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. Berthold was in action for Eurosport at the Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup. As part of the 2013 European Women's Football Championship in Sweden , he moderated some of the tournament's games as a commentator.

For several years he has been playing with Karlheinz Förster , Guido Buchwald and other former soccer professionals for the Swabian Allstars . As part of this project, donations are collected for aid to Mexico and the street children project "Pan de Vida". At the end of April 2012, Berthold wanted to get the racing license for the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup and had an accident in a training session on April 29th at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben . When he hit the wall, he broke three ribs and bruised his lungs.

Since the 2015/16 season, Berthold has appeared regularly as an expert on the Sport1 football talk show Doppelpass . Since the 2015/16 season he has been part of the Deutsche Welle sports team as a columnist with the weekly format "Berthold's Bundesliga".

Berthold is vegan and is critical of the use of pain medication in competitive sports.

References to conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism

In June 1999 an advertisement appeared on the website buecher.de in which Berthold advertised the book “Secret Societies and Their Power in the 20th Century” by the anti-Semitic author Jan van Helsing as his “favorite specialist book” . The book was at this time because of sedition but already indexed. The advertising was sharply criticized by the organizations Aktion Kinder des Holocaust and the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime .

On August 8, 2020, Berthold took part in the corona-skeptical demonstration called "lateral thinking" in Stuttgart and was one of the speakers on the stage. He rejected measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic , such as wearing an everyday mask . "Society is being tainted with speculations by one or two scientists or representatives of the RKI, " said Berthold. He distanced himself from right-wing populists and conspiracy theorists and proposed the establishment of a new party.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Berthold - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 2, 2015. Accessed July 16, 2015.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Berthold - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 2, 2015. Accessed July 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ Interview in Spiegel 51/1994
  4. ^ Thomas Berthold: Thomas Berthold . In: Barbara Bingel: We were students at the High State School. What they are, what they remember . Hanau 1989. ISBN 3-7684-0915-5 , p. 99 f.
  5. ↑ Note in: RevierSport 10/2013, p. 24/25
  6. ↑ Eurosport relies on Thomas Berthold
  7. ↑ Eurosport : Women's Football - EM: Berthold moderates for Eurosport ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2014 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. dated July 4, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.eurosport.yahoo.com
  8. ↑ Football world champion suffers serious racing accident: Thomas Berthold crashes his car into a concrete wall , accessed on April 30, 2012
  9. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Thomas Berthold new sports columnist | Press releases | DW.COM | 09/15/2015. In: DW.COM. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Footballer Thomas Berthold goes VEGAN FOR FIT , accessed on July 6, 2013
  11. ↑ Bomedus: press releases. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Joint press release of July 23, 1999 , on akdh.com
  13. ^ Stuttgart: "Hygiene" demo moves through the city center. In: Der Spiegel. August 8, 2020, accessed August 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Thomas Berthold demonstrates against Corona measures and criticizes "political leadership" on ran.de
personal data
SURNAME Berthold, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau