Thorsten Fink

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Thorsten Fink
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Fink as coach of FK Austria Wien (2016)
Personnel
birthday October 29, 1967
place of birth Dortmund-Marten ,  Germany
size 181 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1976-1983 SV Roland Marten
1983-1986 Borussia Dortmund
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1989 Borussia Dortmund amateurs
1989-1994 SG Wattenscheid 09 162 (26)
1994-1997 Karlsruher SC 92 (11)
1997-2004 FC Bayern Munich 150 0(4)
2003-2006 FC Bayern Munich amateurs / II 86 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989 Germany U21 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006-2007 Red Bull Juniors
2007-2008 FC Red Bull Salzburg (assistant coach)
2008-2009 FC Ingolstadt 04
2009-2011 FC Basel
2011-2013 Hamburger SV
2015 APOEL Nicosia
2015-2018 FK Austria Vienna
2018-2019 Grasshopper Club Zurich
2019– Vissel Kobe
1 Only league games are given.

Thorsten Fink (born October 29, 1967 in Dortmund-Marten ) is a German football coach and former player .

Career as a player

societies

Thorsten Fink grew up as the son of a steel worker in Dortmund-Marten.

He started playing soccer at SV Roland Marten and moved to Borussia Dortmund in 1983 as a teenager . For Borussia he was active in youth and in the amateur team until 1989. As a 21-year-old he signed with the second division club SG Wattenscheid 09 . The defensive midfielder made his professional debut for the club on July 29, 1989 (1st matchday) in a 4-1 win at home against SpVgg Bayreuth . He scored his first goal with the opening goal for the 3-0 away win at Hannover 96 on August 16, 1989 (4th matchday). From 1990 - the SG was promoted to the Bundesliga - until 1994 he played 125 games (25 goals) in the Bundesliga for SG Wattenscheid, which is a club record to this day.

After relegation in 1994, he moved to league rivals Karlsruher SC , and in 1997 he signed a contract with Bayern Munich . Despite great competition, Fink prevailed in Munich and achieved his greatest sporting success when he won the Champions League under coach Ottmar Hitzfeld . With the club he was also four times German champion, three times cup winner and won the 2001 World Cup in the final against the Boca Juniors . Over time, Fink became more and more of a supplementary player, but accepted this role without complaint and was valued for his loyalty.

Fink had played a total of 150 Bundesliga games for Bayern Munich before he played for the second team of Munich in the then Regionalliga Süd from 2003 ; in the 2003/04 season he was a standby player in the professional squad. There he was team captain until a cartilage damage in his knee forced him to end his career. He played his last game on April 2, 2006.

Fink scored 40 goals in 367 first division games, one goal in 37 second division games and six goals in 86 third division games.

National team

He played his only international game for the U21 national team in a 1-1 draw in Yaoundé against Cameroon's senior national team .

Career as a coach

Thorsten Fink supported the regional league team under Hermann Gerland after his active time in the first team of FC Bayern Munich and at the same time completed an apprenticeship as a football teacher at the Cologne Sports University by the end of 2005 .

FC Red Bull Salzburg

From September 5, 2006 to June 16, 2007 Thorsten Fink coached the amateur team of the Austrian soccer club FC Red Bull Salzburg . With this he became champion of the Regionalliga West and rose to the first league (second highest league in Austria). He then trained as assistant to Giovanni Trapattoni for the first division club Red Bull Salzburg, for whom his former team-mate Alexander Zickler , with whom Fink had played for seven years at Bayern Munich, also played.

FC Ingolstadt 04

On January 5, 2008 Fink signed a contract as head coach with the German regional league club FC Ingolstadt 04 , with whom he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga on May 31, 2008 . As twelfth in the first half of the table, the FCI fell back to a relegation place after eleven games without a win in the second half of the season, and Fink was on leave on April 21, 2009. 16 days earlier, Fink had been guaranteed a job until the end of the season. In an interview on April 17th, supervisory board member Andreas Schleef emphasized that “a change of coach no longer makes sense at this point in time.” In an interview on May 10, 2009, supervisory board chairman Peter Jackwerth took the view that one was already moving to a significantly earlier one Time should have separated from Thorsten Fink.

FC Basel

On June 9, 2009, Fink succeeded Christian Gross as coach of FC Basel . Equipped with a three-year contract, he won his first coaching title, the Swiss Cup and a week later the championship, despite a rather bad start in his first season . The team set a new goal record for Switzerland with 90 goals in 36 league games. On August 24, 2010, FC Basel moved into the group stage of the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League . On October 30, 2010, the contract with Thorsten Fink was extended to June 2013 without an exit clause. In May 2011 he won the 14th Swiss championship with Basel, which entitled him to participate in the Champions League again.

Hamburger SV

17 October 2011 Fink coach of Bundesliga was Hamburger SV as the successor to Michael Oenning , who was released on 19 September 2011th His contract with FC Basel had previously been terminated by HSV against payment of a transfer fee. Fink took over the team after the 9th matchday in the last place in the table. In the rest of the first half of the season he managed to stabilize the team and lead it to 13th place. After a weaker second half of the season, HSV got back into the relegation battle, but ended the season in 15th place in the table.

In the 2012/13 season , HSV under his leadership just barely missed qualifying for an international competition after a false start at the beginning of the season with seventh place on the last match day. The low point this season was the 2: 9 away defeat against FC Bayern Munich , although HSV beat the reigning champions and cup winners Borussia Dortmund twice (3: 2 in the Volksparkstadion and 4: 1 in the Westfalenstadion ). After a bad start to the 2013/14 season , Fink was given a leave of absence on September 17, 2013 after a 6-2 draw against Borussia Dortmund.

APOEL Nicosia

In January 2015, Fink signed a six- month contract with the Cypriot record champions APOEL Nicosia with an option for another year. After a defeat at runner-up Apollon Limassol , who came close to APOEL by two points, the club parted ways with Fink two game days before the end of the season on May 11, 2015. Without Fink, the club became champions and cup winners shortly thereafter.

FK Austria Vienna

For the 2015/16 season Fink became head coach at FK Austria Wien . He signed a two-year contract with an option for an additional year. His first season with Austria he finished third in the table, the second as runner-up. In February 2018 he was released from his duties; At that time Austria was in 7th place in the table.

Grasshopper Club Zurich

On April 23, 2018 he became the new trainer of the Grasshopper Club Zurich . The dismissal took place after a less than successful term on March 4, 2019, at that time GCZ was in 10th and thus last place in the table.

Vissel Kobe

In June 2019 he became the coach of the Japanese first division and won the Kaiser Cup on January 1, 2020 with the players Lukas Podolski and Andrés Iniesta .

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Commons : Thorsten Fink  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fashionable "Duke" with a sense of family bundesliga.de, accessed on June 29, 2016
  2. ↑ NDR: Thorsten Fink: Often at the top, sometimes at the bottom (Fig. 18). Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ kicker.de FCI separates from Fink , kicker online on April 21, 2009
  4. ↑ FCI separates from Fink , donaukurier.de on April 21, 2009
  5. ↑ donaukurier.de FC Ingolstadt: Fink will definitely stay until the end of the season
  6. ↑ donaukurier.de "Everything is rinsed soft"
  7. ↑ donaukurier.de "We should have reacted earlier"
  8. ↑ Thorsten Fink new FCB trainer. 20 minutes , accessed June 9, 2009 .
  9. ↑ hsv.de Thorsten Fink becomes coach of Hamburger SV ( Memento from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Spiegel.de Thorsten Fink is the new coach of Hamburger SV
  11. ^ Confirmation from FC Basel
  12. ↑ HSV separates from Thorsten Fink ( Memento from September 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) hsv.de, accessed on September 18, 2013
  13. ↑ Thorsten Fink is hired in Cyprus at t-online.de, accessed on January 10, 2015.
  14. ↑ Football: Nicosia and Fink end their cooperation , Augsburger Allgemeine, accessed on May 11, 2015
  15. ↑ Thorsten Fink is the new trainer! , FK Austria Wien , accessed on May 28, 2015
  16. ↑ Thorsten Fink released from his duties fk-austria.at, on February 25, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2018
  17. ↑ http://www.gcz.ch/news/news/artikel/thorsten-fink-wird-neuer-gc-cheftrainer/
  18. ↑ Grasshopper Club Zurich: GC SEPARATES FROM HEAD TRAINER THORSTEN FINK AND SPORTS MANAGER MATHIAS WALTHER. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ ト ル ス テ ン フ ィ ン ク 氏 監督 就任 お よ び ト ッ プ チ ー ム 新 体制 の お 知 ら せ vissel-kobe.co.jp, June 8, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019
  20. ↑ Kicker Fußball-Almanach 2009 , p. 596. Copress Sport Verlag, Munich, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , Germany