Thomas Meggle

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Thomas Meggle
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Thomas Meggle at the Day of Legends 2014
Personnel
birthday February 22, 1975
place of birth Munich ,  Germany
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1981-1988 SF Harteck Munich
1988-1991 TSV 1860 Munich
1992 FC Wacker Munich
until 1993 FC Augsburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1994 TSV Schwaben Augsburg
1994-1997 FC Starnberg
1997-1999 FC St. Pauli 36 0(2)
1999-2000 TSV 1860 Munich 0 0(0)
2000-2002 FC St. Pauli 63 (23)
2002-2005 FC Hansa Rostock 44 0(1)
2005-2010 FC St. Pauli 75 (19)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2010-2013 FC St. Pauli (assistant coach)
2012 → FC St. Pauli (interim)
2013-2014 FC St. Pauli II
2014 FC St. Pauli
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Meggle (born February 22, 1975 in Munich ) is a former German soccer player and today's coach and sports functionary . Most recently he was Managing Director Sport at FC St. Pauli until November 1, 2016 . This contract was terminated on April 1, 2017.

Meggle played for TSV 1860 Munich , FC St. Pauli and Hansa Rostock in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga and in the Regionalliga Nord (3rd division). In addition to 75 first division games (11 goals), he played 92 games in the 2nd Bundesliga (18 goals) and 51 regional league matches (16 goals). He had his greatest successes as an active player at FC St. Pauli, with whom he was promoted twice to the 1st Bundesliga and once to the 2nd Bundesliga, as well as reaching the semi-finals of the DFB Cup in 2005/06 . Most recently he played for FC St. Pauli in the central midfield since the 2005/06 season and ended his active professional career there after the 2009/10 season . In 2010, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the club, he was elected to the 100th eleven of FC St. Pauli.

Player career

Meggle, who grew up in Munich , began playing football with Sportfreunde Harteck at the age of six and played there for seven years in the F, E, D and C youth. He then moved to TSV 1860 Munich for three and a half years in the C-Youth. With FC Augsburg he became German A youth champion in 1993. He played for three years at FC Starnberg and in 1997 moved to the professional team of FC St. Pauli for the first time. In the 1999/2000 season he made no game for TSV 1860, which qualified for the Champions League this season, because he sustained a cruciate ligament injury in late summer.

In the 2000/01 season he contributed as a playmaker to the promotion of FC St. Pauli to the 1st Bundesliga. With 70 goals, FC St. Pauli was the most dangerous team in German professional football this season. Meggle contributed 13 hits, which was only surpassed by Marcel Rath in the internal goalscorer statistics of FC St. Pauli . In the following season 2001/02 he was the most dangerous player at FC St. Pauli with ten goals and four assists. These goals also include his 1-0 goal in the World Cup winner's game (final score 2: 1) against FC Bayern Munich .

After 1997 to 1999 and 2000 to 2002, Meggle played for FC St. Pauli for the third time since the start of the 2005/06 season, after having been under contract with Hansa Rostock for 3 years . In 2007 he rose to the 2nd Bundesliga with St. Pauli . At the end of the 2009/10 season he ended his active career at the age of 35 with renewed promotion to the Bundesliga and the celebration of 100 years of club history.

Trainer and functionary career

Meggle acquired the A license in 2010 and worked as an assistant coach for his former club FC St. Pauli, where he began to set up a video analysis department. Initially under Holger Stanislawski ( 2010/2011 ), with the start of the 2011/2012 season under André Schubert . After André Schubert's leave of absence, Meggle took over the interim management of the professional team at FC St. Pauli from September 26 to October 7, 2012, together with assistant coach Timo Schultz and goalkeeping coach Mathias Hain . He then worked again as an assistant coach under Michael Frontzeck .

On March 27, 2013, as one of 22 graduates, he received his football instructor license from DFB training manager Frank Wormuth . Meggle was the second best of the year with an overall grade of 1.0.

For the 2013/14 season Meggle took over the second team (U-23) of FC St. Pauli from Jörn Großkopf , and on September 3, 2014, the professional team took over as the successor to Roland Vrabec , who was on leave . On December 16, 2014, the team was last in the table. As a result, sports director Rachid Azzouzi was given leave of absence. Meggle took his place; Ewald Lienen became the new head coach . On November 1, 2016, Meggle was released from the post of Head of Sports.

Entrepreneurial activities

In 2007 Thomas Meggle founded the newspaper publisher "SfH Sportverlag Hamburg GmbH & Co. KG", which since 2008 has published the weekly Hamburg amateur soccer newspaper "Fussball HAMBURG". After the print edition was discontinued in summer 2010, the property continued to exist as an independent online portal “fussballhamburg.de”, which the Transfermarkt Group is now responsible for.

In the summer of 2010 Meggle founded the publishing house "Tom2m - Thomas Meggle Medien GmbH & Co. KG" with several business partners. a. launched the Pauli Comix 2010–11 calendar by the draftsman Guido Schröter and the book “Fischbach mein Fischbach” by Hermann Schmidt.

In 2011 Meggle founded the holding company for craft businesses "DMB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH" and the painting company "DMH Handwerksdienstleistungen GmbH".

In 2014 DMB bought the refrigeration technology company "Jürgen Hupe Kältetechnik GmbH".

Private

Thomas Meggle graduated from the Lion-Feuchtwanger-Gymnasium in Munich in 1996. From 2009 to 2011 he successfully completed a distance learning course to become a qualified sports manager.

Since 2009 Thomas Meggle has been taking part regularly in the charity game in favor of children with heart disease in the FC St. Pauli Allstars team against the “Placebo Kickers” medical team at the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital .

Meggle has been married since 2007 and has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BILD: "Meggle talks about his eviction from St. Pauli" from May 10, 2017, accessed on May 11, 2017
  2. ↑ Transfermarkt.de: Performance data Thomas Meggle , accessed on May 7, 2017
  3. ↑ Thomas Meggle career data , accessed on May 7, 2017
  4. ↑ League sider: Meggle ends his career on May 6, 2010, accessed on May 7, 2017
  5. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost: This is St. Pauli's eleven of the century , accessed on May 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ kicker.de: Second division table 2000/01 on kicker.de
  7. ↑ kicker.de: First division table 2000-1
  8. ↑ Goal scorer statistics 2000-1 on kicker.de
  9. ↑ Top scorer statistics 2001-2 on kicker.de
  10. ↑ Fussballdaten.de: Match report & statistics FC St. Pauli vs. FC Bayern Munich from February 6, 2002, accessed on May 7, 2017
  11. ↑ Transfermarkt.de: Trainer profile of Thomas Meggle
  12. ↑ WELT.de: "Kramer with top marks in football teacher training" from March 27, 2013, accessed on May 8, 2017
  13. ↑ FC St. Pauli: Thomas Meggle is the new U23 coach
  14. ↑ FC St. Pauli: FC St. Pauli is on leave of absence from Roland Vrabec , accessed on September 3, 2014
  15. ↑ FC St. Pauli: Meggle new sports director - Lienen new head coach , December 16, 2014, accessed on December 16, 2014
  16. ↑ FC St. Pauli: FC St. Pauli released Thomas Meggle from November 1, 2016, accessed on May 8, 2017
  17. ^ SZ: "Mein Platz, mein Blatt" from September 23, 2009, accessed on May 8, 2017.
  18. ↑ Imprint of Fußball-Hamburg
  19. ↑ business entry of Tom2M-Thomas Meggle Medien GmbH & Co. KG
  20. ^ Company information about the company DMB Beteiligungs-GmbH
  21. ↑ DMH handicrafts services Thomas Meggle
  22. ↑ Imprint of Hupe Kältetechnik
  23. ↑ kickenmitherz.de


personal data
SURNAME Meggle, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meggi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany