Thomas Hengen

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Thomas Hengen
Personnel
birthday September 22, 1974
place of birth Landau in the Palatinate ,  Germany
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
SV Rülzheim
0000-1989 Phoenix Bellheim
1989-1992 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1996 1. FC Kaiserslautern 59 (5)
1996-1998 Karlsruher SC 60 (1)
1998-1999 Borussia Dortmund 13 (0)
1999 →  Beşiktaş Istanbul  (loan)
1999-2001 VfL Wolfsburg 39 (1)
2001-2004 1. FC Kaiserslautern 53 (0)
2004-2006 Alemannia Aachen 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-1996 Germany U-21 13 (0)
1999 Germany A2 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2007-2008 Alemannia Aachen II
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Hengen (born September 22, 1974 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a former German football player and coach and now works as a sports director for Alemannia Aachen .

The defender was active in the amateur field for SV Rülzheim and Phönix Bellheim before he moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 1989 and won the German championship in 1992 with the FCK A youth team. As a youth national player, he completed a total of 13 international matches in the U16 and U18 teams, and later another 13 games for the U21 national team.

In the 1992/93 season he completed his first Bundesliga game for FCK, but could not fight for a regular place until 1996, as the libero position with Miroslav Kadlec and Andreas Brehme was firmly assigned. In his last game for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, he won the German Cup in Berlin in May 1996.

He then accepted the offer from Karlsruher SC , who was looking for a new head of defense after Jens Nowotny left . In his first season at KSC in 1996/97, he fitted seamlessly into the team and played 30 of 34 games. In the following season, however, the KSC rose from the Bundesliga, whereupon Hengen moved to Borussia Dortmund . At BVB he had no regular seat and was awarded to Beşiktaş Istanbul for the 1999/2000 season . In December 1999 there was a second loan, this time to VfL Wolfsburg . A purchase option was agreed that was drawn by VfL Wolfsburg at the end of the season. Hengen was part of the permanent staff in Wolfsburg.

For the 2001/02 season he moved back to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He was named team captain and proved to be a reinforcement in the defense in the first season. In the 2002/03 season Hengen had to undergo three knee operations and so came to only 10 missions. In January 2004 it was announced that the contract with Hengen, which expired at the end of the season, would not be extended. In the course of the month Hengen was finally suspended together with Markus Anfang and Steffen Freund . In March 2004, Hengen sued the suspension. Ultimately, the club and the players came to an agreement out of court. Hengen emphasized the fact that the suspension was due to sporting reasons and not due to a breach of labor law . However, the exact reasons are still unknown - Hengen's performances in his last league games were not below the level of the team, which was already in crisis at the time.

He played a total of 224 Bundesliga games and scored seven goals.

In 2004 he moved to the 2nd Bundesliga at Alemannia Aachen , but was no longer used there due to chronic hip arthrosis . After the rehabilitation was unsuccessful, he gave up his career in early 2006. From 2006 to 2007 he was head of the youth training center of TSV Alemannia Aachen and took over the training of its second team in the 2007/08 season.

Since 2009 he has worked for FC Everton, Hamburger SV, West Ham United, and PSV Eindhoven as a scout; since March 2020 he has been employed as sports director at Alemannia Aachen.

successes

  • German runner-up in 1994 with 1. FC Kaiserslautern
  • Winning the DFB Cup in 1996 with 1. FC Kaiserslautern
  • Reached the final in the 2003 DFB Cup with 1. FC Kaiserslautern

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kicker.de: VfL borrows Thomas Hengen
  2. ↑ der-betze-brennt.de: FCK from now on without Hengen, beginning and friend
  3. ↑ Hengen is suing for suspension
  4. ↑ der-betze-brennt.de: Hengen and FCK agree out of court
  5. ↑ Kicker : "Aachen clarifies Emmerling's successor - Hengen gets very young squad" June 14, 2007
  6. ^ Alemannia Aachen : Thomas Hengen leaves Alemannia at the end of the season ( memento from April 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), March 31, 2008
  7. ^ Aachener Zeitung : "Ex-Alemanne Thomas Hengen: From Tivoli to the Premier League"
personal data
SURNAME Hengen, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate