Thomas Schaaf

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Thomas Schaaf
Thomas Schaaf 2012.JPG
Thomas Schaaf (2012)
Personnel
birthday April 30, 1961
place of birth Mannheim ,  Germany
size 178 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1972 BBV Union Bremen
1972-1988 Werder Bremen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1980 Werder Bremen amateurs 59 0(0)
1978-1995 Werder Bremen 281 (14)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987 Germany U21 2 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1988-1995 Werder Bremen Youth
1995-1999 Werder Bremen amateurs
1999-2013 Werder Bremen
2014-2015 Eintracht Frankfurt
2016 Hannover 96
2019– Werder Bremen II (assistant coach; interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Schaaf (born April 30, 1961 in Mannheim ) is a former German football player and today's trainer and functional . From his childhood between 1972 and 2013 he was active as a player, youth coach and finally head coach for over 40 years at Werder Bremen . As a player and coach, Schaaf won three German championships with the club , five times the DFB Cup and in 1992 the European Cup Winners' Cup . After a year break, he took over another club for the first time and worked as a trainer for Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2014/15 season . In the 2015/16 season, Schaaf coached Bundesliga club Hannover 96 for ten games . Schaaf has been working as Technical Director at Werder Bremen since July 2018.

biography

Schaaf lost his father at an early age. In 1965 his mother moved with him and his brother to Bremen. They lived on Brommy-Platz within sight of the Weser Stadium . In 1972 he became a member of SV Werder Bremen .

He has a technical college entrance qualification and has completed training as a football teacher at the German Sport University in Cologne . He is married and has a daughter.

Schaaf has been an ambassador for the center for grieving children and young people in Bremen since 2004. In addition, Schaaf was in 2008 for the Bremen-based German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) in action as a "boatman".

Player career

Schaaf has been a member of Werder Bremen since July 1, 1972 ; until 1979 as a youth player, then until 1995 as a professional. He played 262 Bundesliga and 19 second division games in the Werder jersey , won the German championship twice ( 1988 and 1993 ), the DFB Cup twice ( 1991 and 1994 ) and the European Cup Winners' Cup ( 1992 ). At 17 years and 353 days, Schaaf was the youngest player to play in the Bundesliga for SV Werder Bremen. In 2020 he was replaced by Nick Woltemade , who was one day younger .

Trainer and functionary career

Werder Bremen

In addition to his role as a player, Schaaf also worked as a youth coach at Werder Bremen from 1988 to 1995 and later rose to become the coach of the amateur team.

On May 10, 1999, Schaaf was coach of the professional team to prevent the threatened relegation, which he succeeded. He also led her a month later against FC Bayern Munich on penalties surprisingly to win the DFB Cup. For FC Bayern, which shortly before had missed the Champions League title , it was only the second defeat in the DFB Cup. With this cup victory, Schaaf was the third coach after Ludwig Janda and Aki Schmidt , who had already won the cup as a player. After that, Schaaf should become a successful coach. The pairing of the final in the DFB-Pokal was repeated the following year, but this time it went 3-0 for Bayern. With the win of the " double ", ie the German championship and the DFB Cup in one season, the 2003/04 season under Schaaf was the most successful year in the club history of Werder Bremen.

Thomas Schaaf and Klaus Allofs in 2009 with the DFB Cup
Bremen, handprint in the Lloyd-Passage

In the following years, Schaaf consistently took part in the UEFA Champions League with SV Werder : 2004/05, 2006/07 and 2009/10 as third place in the Bundesliga, 2005/06 and 2007/08 as runner-up. In the 2008/09 season Schaaf reached the final of the UEFA Cup with Werder , which was lost 2-1 to Shakhtar Donetsk . In addition, he managed to win the DFB Cup for the third time , which means (shared) coaching record and which means Werder qualified for the newly created UEFA Europa League in the following season, but was eliminated as last year's finalist in the round of 16.

There followed less successful seasons in the Bundesliga for Werder Bremen. When the injury-plagued club came to the brink of relegation battle in the 2010/11 season due to a negative series, a public discussion about the coach arose, but the club expressed their trust several times. The long-time manager of SV Werder, Klaus Allofs , rejected demands for a replacement: You will not commit the mistake of other clubs just to "have a psychological effect for maybe two weeks" by changing coach.

In the 2012/13 season there was another coaching discussion after Werder Bremen got deeper and deeper into the relegation battle in the spring. The new manager Thomas Eichin , who had been in office for a few months after Allofs' move to VfL Wolfsburg , initially stood in front of Schaaf. Schaaf himself first indirectly offered his resignation on April 20. Although Werder had secured relegation shortly before under Thomas Schaaf on the 33rd matchday, he and Werder Bremen parted ways on May 14th with immediate effect. Schaaf's contract would have expired in 2014 and would have meant a club record before Otto Rehhagel within a few months .

At the time of his departure, Schaaf was by far the longest-serving coach of a Bundesliga soccer team; In the history of German professional football, he is one of the coaches who has worked for a club for the longest uninterrupted period (14 years and 5 days). He is regarded as a very factual and competent coach who, from 1999, formed a team from an insecure team that played at a high level for years and was at times an opponent of Bayern Munich for the championship.

On September 7, 2013 was Schaaf at the farewell match of Torsten Frings in the Weserstadion coach of the "Werder Allstars". In October he worked for UEFA on a coach training course in Nyon (Switzerland).

Eintracht Frankfurt

On May 21, 2014, Schaaf became the new coach of the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt for the 2014/15 season as the successor to the outgoing Armin Veh from July 2014 , changing the club for the first time after 41 years and a year off. At the end of the season he reached 9th place with Eintracht. The contract ran until June 30, 2016. By October 2014, he had played in over 750 Bundesliga games as a player and coach. On May 26, 2015, Thomas Schaaf resigned as trainer from Eintracht Frankfurt. He justified this with a lack of support from parts of the supervisory board.

Hannover 96

For the second half of the 2015/16 season , Schaaf took over the Bundesliga team from Hanover 96, which was in 17th place in the table, from the resigned Michael Frontzeck . He received a contract dated June 30, 2017, which was only valid for the Bundesliga. After just one win and nine defeats from ten games and falling to the bottom of the table with ten points behind the relegation place, Schaaf and the club agreed on a definitive end to their cooperation in the event of relegation. After the tenth game under Schaaf's direction had been lost three days later, he was relieved of his duties and replaced by the coach of the U19s, Daniel Stendel .

Return to Bremen

For the season 2018/19 returned to Werder Bremen Schaaf and took over the function of Technical Director. In October 2019, he joined the regional league team's coaching team on an interim basis with head coach Konrad Fünfstück as a replacement for the injured assistant coach Björn Dreyer .

UEFA

Schaaf has also been working for the European football association UEFA since 2011 . At the European Championships in France in 2016 , he was employed as a "Technical Observer" and observed all preliminary round matches. UEFA published the overall evaluation by Schaaf and his 12 colleagues in its Technical Report in September 2016 .

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Honors

  • In 2004, after winning the championship and winning the DFB Cup with Werder Bremen, was elected coach of the year and named man of the year and kicker coach of the year in German football by the trade journal kicker
  • 2008 Admission to the Mall of Fame in Bremen (handprint)
  • Since 2010 honorary member of SV Werder Bremen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Schaaf is to develop Werder Bremen. In: The world. Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Weser-Kurier of April 27, 2011, p. 3.
  3. ↑ trauernd-kinder.de ( Memento from August 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ - ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Thomas Schaaf as an ambassador of the DGzRS.
  5. ^ SV Werder Bremen - Youngest and oldest players used. In: transfermarkt.de. transfermarkt.de , accessed on October 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ »Are you still okay? Werder played so badly in Cologne (again) that the coach question automatically arises « ; Weser Kurier, January 24, 2011.
  7. ↑ Eichin must protect Schaaf: "Keeping a cool head" , Westfälische Nachrichten of March 4, 2013.
  8. ^ Schaaf offers to resign, Weser Kurier, April 21, 2013
  9. ↑ SV Werder and Thomas Schaaf split up ( Memento from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), SV Werder Bremen homepage on May 15, 2013.
  10. ↑ Werder Bremen : Contract extension for Klaus Allofs and Thomas Schaaf ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), December 19, 2011.
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Schaaf becomes the new Eintracht trainer Eintracht.de, accessed on May 12, 2017.
  13. Jump up ↑ Since 1979: Thomas Schaaf in front of the 750th Bundesliga game rp-online.de, accessed on October 26, 2014.
  14. ↑ Schaaf's resignation disappointed Bruchhagen Spiegel Online, May 26, 2015, accessed on May 26, 2015.
  15. ↑ Hannover 96 signs Thomas Schaaf as the new head coach , hannover96.de, December 28, 2015, accessed on December 28, 2015.
  16. ↑ Schaaf takes over at Hanover , kicker.de, December 28, 2015, accessed on December 28, 2015.
  17. ↑ Hannover 96: New coach in case of relegation , March 30, 2016, accessed on April 5, 2016.
  18. ↑ Hannover 96 on leave Schaaf , website of Hannover 96, accessed on April 3, 2016.
  19. ↑ Thomas Schaaf returns to Werder-Bank , weltfussball.de, accessed on October 20, 2019
  20. ↑ Thomas Schaaf in action for UEFA. In: www.radiobremen.de. June 24, 2016, archived from the original on June 24, 2016 ; Retrieved June 25, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schaaf, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , Germany