Thomas Brunner (soccer player)

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Thomas Brunner
Personnel
birthday August 10, 1962
place of birth Blaibach ,  Germany
size 180 cm
position Defense , midfield , storm
Juniors
Years station
1970-1976 TSV Blaibach
1976-1988 ASV Cham
1978-1980 1. FC Nuremberg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1996 1. FC Nuremberg 402 (25)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977-1988 Germany U-15 7 0(7)
1978-1979 Germany U-16 4 0(0)
1979-1980 Germany U-17 3 0(0)
1979-1981 Germany U-18 19 0(2)
1980-1981 Germany U-19 6 0(0)
1981-1983 Germany U-21 9 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1996-2003 1. FC Nürnberg (assistant coach)
1998 1. FC Nuremberg
2000 1. FC Nuremberg
2004-2005 SpVgg Weiden
2006-2009 1. FC Schnaittach
2010 FC Holzheim
2011-2013 DJK Limes 09
2013-2015 1. FC Nürnberg U-15 (assistant coach)
2015-2019 SV Pölling
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Brunner (born August 10, 1962 in Blaibach ) is a former German soccer player and coach .

Player career

Thomas Brunner played a total of 402 times (25 goals) for 1. FC Nürnberg from 1980 to 1996 . With 328 appearances (18 goals) in the Bundesliga , he was the club's Bundesliga record player. He was used 74 times (7 goals) in the 2nd Bundesliga .

The versatile player began his career as a midfielder , became a striker as a young professional and played primarily as a central defender in the 1990s . Before that, he had learned to play football as a youth from 1970 to 1976 for TSV Blaibach and then until 1978 at ASV Cham .

In August 1977 he made his debut in the national student team ( U 15 ). He scored 4 goals in two international matches against France. In July 1978, when he was 15, he played at the U-16 Nordland tournament in Denmark with the older age group. On September 23, 1978 he was used in the same class in the U-17 junior national team. As a 16-year-old he went to the 1979 UEFA tournament in Austria, where the DFB youth were eliminated in the preliminary round. He was not taken into account for the 1980 UEFA tournament in the GDR because coach Dietrich Weise noticed that he was overburdened by vocational training / school, training in the club / Bayern selection / DFB youth team. Brunner had played 11 soccer games in 17 days. In his second participation in a Junior European Championship in Germany in 1981, he won the title with his team. Thomas Brunner played a total of 33 international youth matches (U15 to U18).

On September 27, 1980 he made his debut in the Bundesliga . He was substituted on on the 8th matchday in the away game at 1. FC Köln in the 73rd minute of the game. As an A-youth he made 20 Bundesliga games and scored 4 goals. At that time he was considered to be the great young talent of German football and in 1981 he became world champion with the German U-20 national football team . He played his first missions for the U-21s in 1982. He became vice European champion in a team that also later included world champions such as Rudi Völler and Pierre Littbarski .

In 1982 he was with 1. FC Nürnberg in the DFB Cup final , which was lost to FC Bayern Munich 2: 4 . After relegation from the 1st Bundesliga in 1984, Thomas Brunner stayed at 1. FC Nürnberg. He was one of the five players who were dismissed because of a player revolt against the then coach Heinz Höher . He was the only one to withdraw his notice after a discussion with Heinz Höher. He scored his most important goal on the last day of the 1984/85 season with a 2-0 win against KSV Hessen Kassel . This Bundesliga ( Günther Koch ) sealed the promotion of 1. FC Nürnberg, while Kassel was still displaced by a promotion place.

In 1988, Thomas Brunner was the longest-serving player in a young team with which 1. FC Nürnberg qualified for the UEFA Cup . Although the club eliminated in the first round against AS Roma to Rudi Voeller from the 2: 1 but first-leg victory in Rome was the last major highlight in the career of Thomas Brunner. In 1994 he experienced his second relegation from the Bundesliga, in 1996 even relegation to the regional league . Then he ended his playing career.

Coaching career

Thomas Brunner worked as assistant coach at 1. FC Nürnberg from 1996 to February 2003. In December 1997, after Willi Reimann's dismissal, he was temporarily head coach for three games. From 2003 to 2004 he was assistant coach for the amateurs at 1. FC Nürnberg. In autumn 2004 he took over the coaching position at SpVgg Weiden in the fourth-class Bayern division . As a result, he trained from January 9, 2006, the district top division club 1. FC Schnaittach and from January to June 2010, the district division club FC Holzheim . From 2011 he was coach of the regional league club DJK Limes 09 and was active as an assistant coach for the U15 of 1. FC Nürnberg in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 season.

On May 25, 2015 it was announced that Thomas Brunner will coach the district league club SV Pölling from the 2015/16 season . On April 25, 2019, Brunner resigned from his position at what was now the district division.

various

In a game against SV Darmstadt 98 in the 1984/85 season, when Thomas Brunner shot on goal, it was not the ball but his shoe that flew into the goal.

Thomas Brunner is not related to Hans-Jürgen Brunner , who played from 1985 to 1990 also for the "Club" in the Bundesliga, but Paul Brunner, the Alliance 90 / The Greens since 1996 in the county council of the administrative district of Middle Franconia represents is his Brothers.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFB: Statistics of all international matches of the German U-21 national football team
  2. ↑ DFB: International match statistics of the German U-21s in 1982
  3. ↑ Ex-cluber Thomas Brunner trains FC Holzheim , Nürnberger Zeitung online, accessed on February 4, 2010
  4. ↑ Thomas Brunner takes over SV Pölling
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Blaibach , Germany