Thomas Helmer

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Thomas Helmer
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Thomas Helmer in September 2010
Personnel
birthday April 21, 1965 (age 55)
place of birth Herford ,  Germany
size 185 cm
position Central defense , Libero
Juniors
Years station
SC Bad Salzuflen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1986 Arminia Bielefeld 39 0(5)
1986-1992 Borussia Dortmund 190 (16)
1992-1999 FC Bayern Munich 191 (24)
1999-2000 Sunderland FC 2 0(0)
1999 →  Hertha BSC  (loan) 5 0(1)
2002 SV Seligenporten 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-1998 Germany 68 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Helmer (born April 21, 1965 in Herford ) is a former German soccer player and current sports presenter . In his active sporting days, Helmer's greatest international success was his triumph at the 1996 European Championships in England .

Career

societies

Helmer started his career at SC Bad Salzuflen and switched to Arminia Bielefeld as a professional in 1984 . There he was on 23 March 1985 (24th matchday) against FC Schalke 04 to his Bundesliga debut. With a 3-0 defeat, he missed a good debut in Germany's top division. After he had been on the field for the full 90 minutes in his first game, he only made three other short appearances in the further course. As 16th, the team relegated to the second division at the end of the season . After the departure of regular employees such as Dirk Hupe and Detlef Schnier , Helmer pushed into the starting line-up in East Westphalia in 1985/86 and was finally able to prevail. On November 2, 1985, the defender scored his first second division goal. Against Tennis Borussia Berlin , he brought his team 1-0 lead and thus initiated the 2-0 success. With a total of five goals, he and Uwe Haas were the second best goalscorer for Bielefeld this season . With fourth place, the team missed the immediate return to the Bundesliga.

Nevertheless, Helmer should play first class in the following season. Borussia Dortmund secured the services of the then young talent in the summer of 1986. In Dortmund Helmer immediately prevailed and became a regular player. In the first few years mostly in defensive midfield and later in central defense, Helmer was one of the most important pillars of the Dortmund game for six years. He had to wait until the 1987/88 season for his first Bundesliga goal and premier goal for the Black and Yellows . On November 7, 1987, in a 2-2 draw against VfB Stuttgart , Helmer first equalized the deficit and shortly afterwards brought his team into the lead. But it wasn't enough to win. On June 26, 1989, the defensive player celebrated his first national title. The Dortmund team reached the final of the DFB Cup and met Werder Bremen . The team around Helmer prevailed 4-1.

In 1992, Helmer moved to FC Bayern Munich in what was the most expensive transfer in the history of the Bundesliga for 7.5 million DM . On the 32nd matchday of the 1993/94 Bundesliga season, FC Bayern Munich won 2-1 against 1. FC Nürnberg with the “ phantom goal ” they scored . The game was rescheduled, Bayern Munich won the replay 5-0 and secured the championship before 1. FC Kaiserslautern . At the end of his time in Bavaria, Helmer was captain for two years. With Bayern Munich, he won three championships (1994, 1997 and 1999), the 1998 German Cup and the 1996 UEFA Cup when they Girondins Bordeaux with 2: 0 and 3: 1 defeated. Helmer experienced the bitterest moment in 1999 when he reached the Champions League final with Munich and only lost 2-1 to Manchester United after conceding two goals in stoppage time . However, he himself was not used. At the end of his career he then moved to England to Sunderland and was loaned to Hertha BSC for a short time . After the official end of his career, the ex-professional played another competitive game in 2002 for the then Bavarian district division club SV Seligenporten .

National team

In 1987, Helmer took part in the military world championship in Italy with the Bundeswehr national team and was runner-up in the world championship. Helmer was a national team player for the DFB between 1990 and 1998 and was European champion in 1996 .

For winning the European Football Championship in 1996, he and the winning team received the Silver Laurel Leaf from Federal President Herzog in 1996 .

He made his debut on October 10, 1990 against Sweden . National coach Berti Vogts brought the international player over the full 90 minutes. After the 1998 World Cup , Helmer resigned from the national team due to injury. The defender played his last game on June 29, 1998 in a 2-1 win over Mexico. In the 38th minute of the current game, Helmer had to be substituted for Christian Ziege .

Career as a football official

From July 19, 2011 to December 15, 2015, Helmer was a member of the Supervisory Board of Arminia Bielefeld.

successes

Award

Television engagement

Helmer was a live reporter for Sat.1 at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea . During the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal and the 2006 World Cup , he reported daily from the German team's warehouse for DSF .

Helmer works as a presenter and sports journalist for the German private broadcaster Sport1 (formerly DSF). In the past he moderated the Monday evening game of the 2nd Bundesliga live on Hattrick , and from 2009 to 2013 Hattrick - The 2nd Bundesliga . In the Telekom matchday analysis, Helmer moderates the analysis of significant and controversial scenes from the previous Bundesliga matchday by Thomas Strunz and another expert. In addition, from 2011 to 2015 he was Udo Lattek's successor as an expert and represented as a moderator in Doppelpass . In August 2015 he took over the show as the successor to Jörg Wontorra . Since 2012 he has moderated the Fantalk , in which he discusses and analyzes the games live with his guests on Champions League Tuesdays, among other things, which are only broadcast on pay TV .

Helmer was a commentator on several titles from the PlayStation 2 series This Is Football .

On June 4, 2016 Helmer took on ProSieben for Team Germany in the mission of the international game ProSieben part . On May 8, 2020, we visited the Comedy - quiz show Luke! The school and me - VIPs versus kids .

Private life

Thomas Helmer lives in Hamburg and has been married to actress Yasmina Filali since 2005 , with whom he has a daughter and a son. Helmer also has two sons from his first marriage.

In addition to his commitment as an ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages - in 2004 he and his wife sponsored the children's village in Dong Hoi (Vietnam) - Thomas Helmer supports the Dunkelziffer e. V. and the Placebo Kickers Hamburg e. V. Since 2008 he also regularly participates in charity match kicking with heart part of the team of Hamburg Allstars. He is a member of the traditional Borussia Dortmund team .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Helmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match statistics FC Schalke 04 - Arminia Bielefeld 3: 0 (1: 0) from March 23, 1985 on fussballdaten.de.
  2. ^ The games of the Bundesliga 1984/1985 for Arminia Bielefeld on fussballdaten.de.
  3. ↑ Match statistics Arminia Bielefeld - Tennis Borussia Berlin 2: 0 (0: 0) from November 2, 1985 on fussballdaten.de.
  4. ↑ Arminia Bielefeld: Der Kader 1985/1986 ( Memento from January 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de.
  5. ↑ Match statistics Borussia Dortmund - VfB Stuttgart 2: 2 (0: 1) from November 7, 1987 on fussballdaten.de.
  6. ↑ Match statistics Borussia Dortmund - SV Werder Bremen 4: 1 (1: 1) from June 24, 1989 ( Memento from November 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de.
  7. ↑ Personal details: Dr. Gerd Niebaum at www.bvb.de.
  8. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Helmer - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. September 23, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  9. ↑ kicker sports magazine No. 53/26. Wo., June 25, 1987, p. 2.
  10. ↑ 1996-ullsteun picture blog. blog.ullsteinbild.de/gallery/2016-2/1996/
  11. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Helmer - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. September 23, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  12. ↑ Match statistics Sweden - Germany 1: 3 (0: 3) from October 10, 1990 on fussballdaten.de.
  13. ↑ Match statistics Germany - Mexico 2: 1 (0: 0) from June 29, 1998 on fussballdaten.de.
  14. ↑ Thomas Helmer elected to Arminia's supervisory board , nw-news.de of July 19, 2011.
  15. ↑ bodies arminia-bielefeld.de
  16. ↑ Thomas Helmer ends his work on the Supervisory Board of Arminia Bielefeld sport1.de on December 15, 2015
  17. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/thomas-helmer-uebernehmen-doppelpass-kuenftig-ohne-joerg-wontorra/11007406.html
  18. ↑ The ProSieben international game - three European champions for Germany. May 19, 2016, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  19. ↑ BRAINPOOL Artist & Content Services GmbH- info.bacs@brainpool.de: LUKE! The school and me - full episodes here in the stream for free Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  20. ↑ http://www.placebo-kickers.de/
  21. ↑ kickenmitherz.de
  22. ↑ http://www.bvb.de/Mannschaften/Tradition/Traditionsmannschaft , from August 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Helmer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford , Germany