Thomas Strunz

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Thomas Strunz
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Thomas Strunz, September 2010
Personnel
birthday April 25, 1968
place of birth Duisburg ,  Germany
size 183 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1977-1981 TuRa 88 Duisburg
1981-1986 MSV Duisburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1989 MSV Duisburg 94 (30)
1989-1992 FC Bayern Munich 59 (12)
1992-1995 VfB Stuttgart 79 0(9)
1995-2001 FC Bayern Munich 97 (11)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990 Germany U-21 2 0(0)
1990-1999 Germany 41 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2009 Red and white food
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Strunz (born April 25, 1968 in Duisburg ) is a former German soccer player . He played mainly in defensive midfield. In the 1996 European Championships , he was with the DFB team European champion .

Career as a player

societies

Before Strunz got his first professional contract, he had the Duisburg local club 88 TuRa and three years at Oberliga side MSV Duisburg played, with whom he 1987 German Amateur championship was and in 1989 in the 2nd Bundesliga rise.

He was never used there, however, because he received a licensed player contract with FC Bayern Munich , for which he was initially used for three seasons. He made his debut on August 31, 1989 (7th matchday) in a 4-0 home win over Hamburger SV , when he came on for Olaf Thon in the 71st minute . He scored his first professional goal on October 27, 1989 (15th matchday) in a 2-0 away win against FC St. Pauli .

After three seasons (1992-1995) for VfB Stuttgart , Strunz returned to Bayern. During the winter break of the 2000/01 season he was retired from coach Ottmar Hitzfeld and his contract was terminated prematurely. Since Strunz could not find another club, he then ended his professional career.

National team

On February 28 (in Alès) and March 14, 1990 (in Simferopol) Strunz was used in the U-21 national team : France was defeated 1-0 and a 1-1 draw was achieved against the Soviet Union.

On October 10, 1990, he played his first game for the senior national team , which defeated Sweden 3-1 goals in a test international match in Stockholm . Strunz took in 1994 at the World Cup in the United States in part. He was also part of the squad that became European champions in England in 1996 ; he scored a goal in the semi-final against England in a penalty shoot-out .

On September 8, 1999, Strunz played in the national jersey for the last time: In the qualifying game for the European Championship 2000 Northern Ireland was defeated in Dortmund with 4-0 goals.

His only goal in 41 international matches he scored on June 7, 1995 in the 3-2 defeat in Sofia in the European Championship qualifier against Bulgaria .

Strunz and the national team received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Herzog in 1996 for winning the European Championship .

successes

Remarks:

Note 1 only active in the first half of the season

Career as a consultant, manager and television expert

Thomas Strunz in the Fernsehmacher studio with Markus Lanz , 2012

After his career as a player, Strunz worked as a players agent for various players.

From January 1 to December 19, 2005, Strunz was the successor to Peter Pander, who resigned on August 24, 2004, as manager and managing director at VfL Wolfsburg . After Eric Gerets was dismissed and the lack of success under the new coach Holger Fach , Strunz also came under fire. After the first half of the 2005/06 season, VfL Wolfsburg dismissed Strunz and the coach Holger Fach he had brought in. Both received severance pay.

Since April 19, 2008 Strunz was the sporting director of the regional league club Rot-Weiss Essen . With a 5-year plan, he wanted to lead the ailing traditional club back into the 2nd Bundesliga. In addition, he has looked after the team as team boss since the 2009/10 season. After a 2-0 defeat on September 11, 2009 against the second team of 1. FC Köln, Strunz was relieved of all duties with immediate effect.

For a long time Strunz worked as an expert for the television channel Sport 1 . He was there alternately in the studio or on site in the stadium. Every Monday evening he analyzed the previous Bundesliga matchday in the Telekom Gameday Analysis program . From 2011 to 2018, Strunz was a regular guest as an expert on the soccer talk show Doppelpass . He replaced the previous expert Udo Lattek . At the end of the 2018 World Cup , Strunz ended his commitment as an expert on one-two. His last appearance was at the Check 24 World Cup one-two on July 15, 2018, where he was bid farewell to his long-term companion (as a player at Bayern Munich and in various sport1 formats) and one-two moderator Thomas Helmer after 7 years.

In addition, he was again active as a player consultant in TS Sports OHG in Düsseldorf as a managing partner. However, this was bought in June 2018 by the arena11 sports group GmbH from Grünwald near Munich.

Private life

Strunz hit the headlines when his former teammate Stefan Effenberg started a relationship with his wife Claudia . Strunz was married to her for the second time from 1997 to 2002; they have a daughter and a son. He also has a son with his first wife Beate. In 2006 he had another daughter from his current partner, Stephanie.

Popular culture

Giovanni Trapattoni , then coach of Bayern Munich, had an outburst of anger at a press conference in 1998 and also railed against his player Strunz: "What do Strunz allow ?!"

This was followed by the title of the TV magazine Was allow Strunz with Claus Strunz , which ran on N24 from 2004 to 2010 .

Trapattoni criticized Strunz's frequent injury-related sideline ("Is always injured!"). Trapattoni actually wanted to pillory Strunz 'teammates Mario Basler and Mehmet Scholl , who had previously criticized Trapattoni publicly. While Basler and Scholl were also briefly criticized in Trapattoni's three-and-a-half-minute speech, Strunz - who had not criticized Trapattoni at all - suddenly found himself, surprisingly, at the center of Trapattoni's criticism.

Strunz himself later explained: "Giovanni put all three names that were given to him in a sack and patted them."

Years later, Trapattoni apologized for the criticism of Strunz: "Thomas was basically innocent and that's why everything went so unhappy."

While the angry speech was initially "unpleasant", Strunz can now laugh about it.

The level of awareness of Strunz was also increased through Trapattoni's angry speech. Strunz once stated: “But it actually made my name more popular. When I was on the ball, people would shout 'Struuunz'. I had my trademark. "

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Strunz - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Bayernstar ends professional career. ShortNews . February 26, 2001. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Thomas Strunz - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Federal President Roman Herzog awards the players of the national team the silver laurel leaf for winning the 1996 European Football Championship
  5. ↑ a b Alexander Krei: Farewell to the 50th birthday - Thomas Strunz stops as a "double pass" expert. dwdl.de, April 24, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Strunz stops at CHECK24 one-two. sport1.de, April 24, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Strunz: Philipp Lahm is applying as Bierhoff's successor - Strunz: Löw could step down. sport1.de, July 15, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Strunz on World Cup 2018, DFB, Scholl and Löw - Farewell to the CHECK24 one-two-pass Strunz: Scholl can help the DFB. sport1.de, July 14, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Revier-Sport 58/2011, p. 11.
  10. ↑ What does Thomas Strunz actually do? manschaftsbus.de from April 19, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2018
  11. ↑ Strunz: 4th child with the 3rd woman bild.de of March 8, 2006, accessed on May 8, 2018
  12. ↑ Angry speech. What do Strunz allow? Stern.de . January 29, 2004, accessed June 14, 2017.
  13. ↑ 5 years "Was allow Strunz" / Interview with moderator Claus Strunz / N24-Talk celebrates its anniversary on March 23, 2009 at 11:30 pm on N24. Presseportal.de. March 19, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  14. ↑ Talked out. N 24 discontinues “Was allow Strunz”. The daily mirror . August 6, 2010, accessed June 14, 2017.
  15. ↑ Trapattoni's angry speech ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ a b c d e Martin Volkmar: Giovanni Trapattoni at FC Bayern: The story behind the angry speech 20 years ago. sport1.de, March 9, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Peter Müller: 20 years later: Strunz also benefited from Trapattoni's angry speech. derwesten.de, March 9, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Strunz, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg