Thomas Tuchel

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Thomas Tuchel
Tuchel as coach of PSG (2019)
Personalia
birthday Aug. 29, 1973
place of birth Krumbach ,  Germany
size 190 cm
position defense
juniors
years station
1979-1988 TSV Krumbach
1988-1992 FC Augsburg
Men's
years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1994 Stuttgart kickers 8 (0)
1994-1998 SSV Ulm 1846 69 (3)
National team
years selection games (goals)
Germany U18 3 (0)
stations as a coach
years station
2000-2004 VfB Stuttgart Youth
2005-2006 VfB Stuttgart U19 (assistant coach)
2006 FC Augsburg U19
2007-2008 FC Augsburg II
2008-2009 1.FSV Mainz 05 U19
2009-2014 1.FSV Mainz 05
2015-2017 Borussia Dortmund
2018-2020 Paris Saint Germain
2021– Chelsea FC
1 Only league games are shown.

Thomas Tuchel (born August 29, 1973 in Krumbach ) is a German football coach and former football player . The former defender worked successfully as a youth coach for several years and was promoted to head coach of 1. FSV Mainz 05 in August 2009 . After that he was head coach of Borussia Dortmund for two years until May 2017 and won the 2017 DFB-Pokal . From July 2018 to late December 2020, he was head coach at Paris Saint-Germain , winning the French Championship twice , the French Cup onceand once the French League Cup . He has been Chelsea FC manager since January 2021 and celebrated the greatest success of his coaching career in May 2021 by winning the UEFA Champions League , for which he was voted FIFA World Coach of the Year .

career

player

Under the guidance of his father, Tuchel began playing football at TSV Krumbach and in 1988 switched to the youth team of FC Augsburg . On the side of Harald Gfreiter , he won the DFB-Jugend-Kicker-Pokal in 1991 and 1992 with FC Augsburg . In 1992 he joined the Stuttgarter Kickers and came to eight games in the 2nd Bundesliga . After he was no longer used in the first team in the following season, he left the club from Degerloch in the direction of Ulm. In the following years, Tuchel played for SSV Ulm 1846 in the Regionalliga Süd . After three years of being a regular part of the defensive line under coach Ralf Rangnick , he had to end his active career prematurely in 1998, the year he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga, due to a cartilage injury.

Trainer

Beginnings in youth teams

Tuchel switched to the coaching bench in 2000. At VfB Stuttgart he coached the U-15 team and in 2004 he became an assistant coach for the VfB U-19 team. With the team he won the 2005 A-Junior Bundesliga title . He then returned to FC Augsburg, where he also worked as a coach and head of the youth academy in youth work.

In 2006, Tuchel completed his training as a football coach, which he completed with an overall grade of 1.4. On July 1, 2008, he moved to the youth academy of 1. FSV Mainz 05 to replace Jürgen Kramny , who had moved up to the professionals as an assistant coach . In 2009 he won the A-Junior title with the youth team.

First Bundesliga station at Mainz 05

Tuchel as Mainz coach at a Bundesliga game (2014)

From August 3, 2009, Tuchel was the coach of the professional team from Mainz 05, which had previously been promoted to the Bundesliga. His predecessor Jørn Andersen was released after being eliminated in the first round of the DFB Cup and internal disagreements. In the 2010/11 season , Tuchel and his team equaled the Bundesliga start record of seven wins in a row. With Mainz, Tuchel caused a sensation with modern, fast-paced and attacking football.

Immediately after the last game of the 2013/14 season , it was announced that Tuchel would be leaving the club a year before the end of his contract. However, his contract was not terminated, which would only allow Tuchel to move to another club if a fee was paid. The contract was suspended from June 15, 2014 to June 30, 2015. During this time, Tuchel did not receive any salary.

Borussia Dortmund

Tuchel as BVB coach (2016)

During his sabbatical year , Tuchel canceled possible engagements with RB Leipzig or Hamburger SV after his contract in Mainz ended. On 19 April 2015, Borussia Dortmund signed him for the 2015–16 season to succeed Jürgen Klopp , who had resigned . Tuchel received a contract with BVB that runs until June 30, 2018. On May 30, 2017, Tuchel announced the separation from the club at the end of the season in mid-2017. Although he had done a successful job with Borussia directly qualifying for the Champions League and winning the cup, the collaboration ended prematurely. Various differences with the club leadership were given as the reason; Among other things, there were different opinions between the coach and BVB Managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke on the question of whether the Champions League game against AS Monaco would have been played just one day after the bomb attack on the BVB team bus in April 2017 may. In addition, a tense relationship between Tuchel and parts of the team is said to have been the reason for the separation.

Paris Saint Germain

For the 2018/19 season , Tuchel took over the team from French champions Paris Saint-Germain . He signed a two-year contract in May 2018. Under his leadership, the side won their first 14 league games and set a new Ligue 1 starting record . When PSG again prematurely won the championship five games before the end of the season - Tuchel's first national championship title - his contract period was extended until June 2021. PSG lost the final of the 2018/19 Coupe de France to Stade Rennes on penalties and were eliminated in the Champions League in the round of 16.

The 2019/20 season was canceled at the end of April 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and leaders PSG were declared champions. In July of that year, Tuchel won the 2019/20 Coupe de France with PSG . He also won the final of the last French League Cup . PSG lost the 2019/20 Champions League final to Bayern Munich.

At the end of December 2020, his contract and that of his coaching team with PSG were terminated. The background was a rift between Tuchel and sports director Leonardo .

Chelsea FC

At the end of January 2021 - around a month after leaving PSG - Tuchel took charge of Chelsea 's Premier League side , who were 9th with 29 points after 19 games of the 2020/21 season, as Frank Lampard 's successor . The 47-year-old signed a contract that initially runs until June 30, 2022 with an option to extend it. He finished the season fourth with his team and won the Champions League final against Manchester City . At the beginning of June, his contract term was extended by two years to 2024. On 11 August 2021, he also won the UEFA Super Cup with Chelsea FC after beating 2021 UEFA Europa League winners Villarreal FC 6-5 on penalties. For his achievements in 2021, he was voted FIFA World Coach of the Year .

achievements as a player

FC Augsburg

SSV Ulm 1846

achievements as a coach

VfB Stuttgart

1.FSV Mainz 05

Borussia Dortmund

Paris Saint Germain

Chelsea FC

awards

engagement

In 2011, Tuchel was awarded the 10,000 euro coaching prize of the German Football Association (DFB). The prize recognizes the outstanding achievements of a coach in the game and in youth work. It can also be awarded for special social commitment in the context of coaching.

As an ambassador, Tuchel supports the Respect! No place for racism .

personal

After Tuchel had temporarily started vocational training as a physiotherapist parallel to his football career and studied sports science and English up to the intermediate exam, but could not keep up this double burden, he completed a degree in business administration at the Stuttgart University of Cooperative Education after retiring from active football , which he completed with the Diploma completed.

In March 2009, shortly after the death of football coach Hermann Badstuber (father of footballer Holger Badstuber ), who died at the age of 53, Tuchel said that he had been his mentor .

trivia

Due to his meticulous way of working and his love of tactical detail, Tuchel is also ironically called “Taktik T-Rex ”, based on his initials.

web links

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

itemizations

  1. ↑ a b "Thomas Tuchel coaches the A-Juniors in the Bundesliga" , kigges.de, retrieved on August 3, 2009.
  2. ↑ Dimitri Taube: A-Jugend FSV Mainz 05: The sweet future of Mainz 05. In: fr-online.de . 29 June 2009, retrieved 19 December 2014 .
  3. ↑ "Tuchel replaces Andersen!" , sport1.de, retrieved on August 3, 2009.
  4. ↑ Starting record – Magical Mainzers write history. In: welt.de . 2 October 2010, retrieved 19 December 2014 .
  5. ↑ Sabbath year? Tuchel in Guardiola's footsteps – Bundesliga. In: kicker.de . 10 May 2014, retrieved 19 December 2014 .
  6. ↑ Contract suspended - agreement between Mainz 05 and Thomas Tuchel , mainz05.de, retrieved on January 30, 2021 (archived version)
  7. ↑ Perfect! Tuchel succeeds Klopp at BVB – Bundesliga. In: kicker.de . 19 April 2015, retrieved 16 December 2015 .
  8. ↑ Borussia Dortmund sign Thomas Tuchel. In: bvb.de. 19 April 2015, retrieved 16 December 2015 .
  9. ↑ Tuchel confirms: separation from BVB completed , sportbild.bild.de, retrieved on May 30, 2017.
  10. ↑ Tuchel confirms separation from BVB , sportschau.de, retrieved on May 30, 2017.
  11. ↑ Thomas Tuchel devient le nouvel entraîneur du Paris Saint-Germain. Retrieved May 14, 2018 (French).
  12. ↑ Thomas Tuchel: Ex-BVB coach breaks ancient record from 1936 - and still has a big problem. In: derwesten.de. 1 October 2018, retrieved 30 October 2018 .
  13. ↑ Thomas Tuchel prolonge jusqu'au 30 juin 2021 , psg.fr, accessed May 25, 2019 (French).
  14. ↑ Communication from the French League. Retrieved April 30, 2020 (French).
  15. ↑ Départ de Thomas Tuchel du Paris Saint-Germain on psg.fr, accessed December 29, 2020 (French).
  16. ↑ Oliver Meiler: PSG: This is how Thomas Tuchel was kicked out. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved February 17, 2021 .
  17. ↑ "Let's be honest": Tuchel assistant Löw gives real reason for being kicked out at PSG. In: sportbuzzer.de. Retrieved February 17, 2021 .
  18. ↑ Tuchel joins Chelsea , chelseafc.com, 26 January 2021, accessed 26 January 2021.
  19. ↑ Contract extension for Thomas Tuchel | Official Site | Chelsea Football Club. In: chelseafc.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021 (English).
  20. ↑ "As agreed": Tuchel receives new contract at Chelsea. In: kicker.de. Retrieved 4 June 2021 .
  21. ↑ Thomas Tuchel. (No longer available online.) In: respect.tv. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; retrieved December 16, 2015 .
  22. ↑ a b His death is a terrible loss. In: spox.com. September 21, 2009, retrieved December 16, 2015 .
  23. ^ Mainz coach Tuchel in an interview: "I wasn't an easy player". In: fr-online.de . August 21, 2009, retrieved December 16, 2015 .
  24. ↑ schwaebische.de
  25. ↑ XXL BEST OF THOMAS TUCHEL CLIPS by Matze Knop , YouTube, accessed May 30, 2021
personal data
SURNAME Tuchel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
BIRTH DATE Aug. 29, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Krumbach , Germany