Torsten Frings

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Torsten Frings
Torsten Frings - Day of Legends 2016 03.jpg
Torsten Frings, 2016
Personnel
birthday November 22, 1976
place of birth Würselen ,  Germany
size 182 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1983-1988 Rot-Weiß Alsdorf
1988-1990 Rhenania Alsdorf
1990-1994 Alemannia Aachen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994-1997 Alemannia Aachen 57 (13)
1997 Werder Bremen Amat. 1 0(1)
1997-2002 Werder Bremen 162 (15)
2002-2004 Borussia Dortmund 47 (10)
2004-2005 FC Bayern Munich 29 0(3)
2005-2011 Werder Bremen 164 (21)
2011-2013 Toronto FC 33 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1997-1998 Germany U 21 6 0(1)
1999-2000 Germany A2 5 0(0)
2001-2009 Germany 79 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2013-2014 Werder Bremen II (assistant coach)
2014-2016 Werder Bremen (assistant coach)
2017 SV Darmstadt 98
2020– SV Meppen
1 Only league games are given.

Torsten Frings (born November 22, 1976 in Würselen ) is a former German soccer player and today's coach . Since July 2020 he has been the head coach of SV Meppen .

Life

Torsten Frings was born as the son of Dieter and Adelheid Frings in Würselen and grew up with five siblings (his brothers Christian and Michael played at SSG Zopp) in Alsdorf . He finished his school education with the technical college entrance qualification . In 1994 Frings met his long-term partner, whom he married four years later and with whom he has two daughters (* 2001 and * 2003). In 2009 the relationship ended after 15 years. Torsten Frings also has a son with his new partner.

Career as a player

Club career

From the age of six to fourteen, Frings played not far from his birthplace, first for the youth club Rot-Weiß Alsdorf, and later for Rhenania Alsdorf.

Alemannia Aachen

He then moved to Alemannia Aachen , whereupon he made the leap into the first team - this was playing under Gerd vom Bruch in the 3rd division ( Football Regionalliga West / Southwest ). He played his first game for Alemannia on October 8, 1994 when he came on for Angelo Nijskens in the 58th minute .

This season he was used six times. In the 1995/96 season he scored his first goal in a 2-2 draw against FC Gütersloh on August 20, 1995. In the 4-5 defeat on May 12, 1996 against SC Verl , Frings scored all four goals for Aachen. In the 1996/97 season, Frings established himself as a regular striker and was used in all first round games, but scored only one goal. After 57 appearances in the regional league and 13 goals, Frings said goodbye to amateur football.

Werder Bremen

In January 1997 he moved to the Bundesliga club Werder Bremen for a transfer of 100,000 DM . Frings made his professional debut on February 15, 1997, the 18th matchday, in a 1-0 win against SC Freiburg , when he was substituted on for Christian Brand in the 77th minute . On March 11, 1997 against FC St. Pauli , Hans-Jürgen Dörner Frings played for the first time from the start, but replaced him in the 72nd minute with Andree Wiedener .

The first game over the full distance completed Frings on March 21, 1997 in the 0-2 home game defeat against MSV Duisburg . In his first season for Werder Bremen he was used 15 times. Frings scored his first Bundesliga goal in the 1997/98 season on November 29, 1997 in a 2-2 draw against VfB Stuttgart to make it 1-0. Frings had his first appearance in the DFB Cup in the first round on August 14, 1997 against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen .

On the international stage, Torsten Frings was used for the first time in the UI Cup game on July 5, 1998 against FK Inkaras Kaunas and also scored his first international goal. His most important goal of the season was in the final second leg against FK Vojvodina Novi Sad to win 1-0. Werder Bremen qualified for the 1998/99 UEFA Cup . In the 2-0 defeat by Brann Bergen in the first round of the UEFA Cup, Frings played his first game for that cup, but was eliminated with his team in the second round against Olympique Marseille .

His first goal in the German Cup scoring Frings on 29 August 1998 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen for intermediate 1: 1, even 1 then 2 . N V. was recovered. Frings scored his only double in the round of 16 on October 28, 1998 against Fortuna Düsseldorf , when he scored 1-0 and 3-1, with the game being won 3-2. The final was on 12 June 1999 against Bayern Munich with 6: 5 n E.. Won and marked the first success in his young career and direct qualification for the UEFA Cup 1999/2000 , since one only in the league Was 13th.

In the 1999/2000 season, Frings established himself as a regular in the storm. On April 9, 2000, the 28th matchday of the Bundesliga, Torsten Frings scored his first brace in a 3-1 win over Arminia Bielefeld . At Werder Bremen, Frings matured to become a national player, the change in position from storm to defensive midfield was particularly important . He scored his second brace on April 27, 2002 against FC St. Pauli - one of the goals meant victory with 3-2 goals.

After 162 Bundesliga games and 15 goals for Werder Bremen, Frings moved to the then German champions Borussia Dortmund in the 2002/03 season for 8.5 million euros .

During his time with Bremen he was nicknamed "Lollipop".

Borussia Dortmund

He played his first game for Dortmund in the 2-1 defeat in the DFL League Cup on July 30, 2002 against Hertha BSC , when he came on for Christoph Metzelder in the 46th minute . On August 9, 2002, Frings played for BVB for the first time in a league game and scored his first Bundesliga goal for Westphalia, in the DFB Cup he was used by coach Matthias Sammer against SV Concordia Ihrhove on August 31, 2002.

Torsten Frings made his UEFA Champions League debut on September 17, 2002 in a 2-0 defeat by Arsenal . The first goal in this competition he scored on November 26, 2002 for the interim 1: 1 equalization in the 2-1 win against Lokomotiv Moscow . On matchday 21, he scored his only brace for Borussia in a 4-1 win over VfL Bochum on February 15, 2003.

On July 16, 2003, Frings suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in his left knee in the League Cup game against VfL Bochum and thus missed the entire first half of the 2003/04 season . He made his Bundesliga comeback on January 30, 2004 in the Revierderby against FC Schalke 04 . After 47 appearances, 10 goals and 9 assists, Torsten Frings moved to the then runner-up FC Bayern Munich for 9.25 million euros .

FC Bayern Munich

In the 2004/05 season, Frings established himself as a regular player under Felix Magath , who had already been his coach in Bremen. He made his first appearance in the Bundesliga for Munich on August 7, 2004 in a 2-0 win against Hamburger SV on matchday 1. He scored the first goal for the club on September 25th against SC Freiburg , leading them 2-1 at halftime, in a 3-1 win. With the Munich team he reached the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League .

After Torsten Frings celebrated the championship with FC Bayern early on, they faced runner-up FC Schalke 04 in the DFB Cup final on May 28, 2005. The last time he played for Bayern was when he played in the 82 minutes of play for Zé Roberto came on and celebrated the double with the 2-1 win .

Return to Bremen

Torsten Frings before the game Werder Bremen against Levski Sofia 2006

For the 2005/06 season he returned to the Weser for 5 million euros and became a leading player at Werder Bremen together with captain Frank Baumann , Per Mertesacker and Diego . On May 9, 2007 Werder announced that Frings had turned down an offer from Juventus Turin and extended his contract in Bremen, which ran until 2009, by two years until 2011.

On July 24, 2007, Torsten Frings was injured in a test match against SC Paderborn 07 without any action from the opponent and suffered slight damage to the inner and cruciate ligament in his right knee. He made his comeback on October 3, 2007 in the Champions League game against Olympiacos . On October 27, 2007, the injury broke out in the Bundesliga game against FC Schalke 04 again, so that Frings was out for the rest of the first half of the season. On January 22nd, 2008 he tore an inner ligament on his already injured knee during training and had to take a longer break until he was fit again on March 23rd, 2008 against Arminia Bielefeld.

In 2009 Frings won the DFB Cup again with Werder Bremen and also reached the final of the 2008/09 UEFA Cup in Istanbul , which was lost to Shakhtar Donetsk with 1: 2 nV. After the retirement of the then captain Frank Baumann, the previous vice-captain was appointed captain of his team for the 2009/10 season. Per Mertesacker became the new vice-captain .

On May 16, 2011 the sports management of Werder Bremen announced that Frings would no longer be part of the Green-Whites squad in the coming year. On May 14, 2011, the 34th matchday, Frings scored his last goal for Werder Bremen in his last Bundesliga game in a 3-2 defeat against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . On May 26, 2011, he played his last game for Werder Bremen.

Toronto FC

In the summer break of 2011, the Canadian first division club FC Toronto , for whom Jürgen Klinsmann was working as a consultant at the time, signed Frings. He made his debut in the Eastern Conference on July 20, 2011 (5th matchday) in the 0-1 defeat at home against FC Dallas . In November 2011 he returned to Werder Bremen to keep himself fit in the Bundesliga club's A-youth team during the MLS break . At the international level, he took part with his club in the CONCACAF Champions League of the 2011/12 season and reached the semi-finals. In this Toronto was eliminated after 1: 1 and 2: 6 against Santos Laguna . Frings developed into a team captain and crowd favorite due to his growing strong performances.

On May 23, 2012, Frings won the Canadian championship with Toronto, which was a mini-tournament with four participants, and thus qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League 2012/13 . Toronto prevailed against the Vancouver Whitecaps after a return match (1-1 and 1-0) , but were eliminated in the Champions League in the group stage.

In the 2012 season of the US-Canadian Major League Soccer, which is not related to the modestly organized Canadian championship, Frings was only available to his club until the 26th day of the game because he had sustained a hip injury. On February 26, 2013, Frings ended his career.

National team

Frings made his senior national team debut on February 27, 2001 in Paris when he lost 1-0 in the international test match against France . When Confederations Cup 2005 was Frings for the second time the captaincy after Bernd Schneider (Representative Michael Ballack ) is replaced. At the 2002 World Cup , he played all games; including the final, lost 2-0 to Brazil .

At the 2004 European Championship in Portugal , Frings played all three group matches (over 90 minutes) and scored 1-0 in the first, in the 1-1 draw against the Netherlands .

In the opening game of the 2006 World Cup , he scored the goal in the 87th minute from almost 30 meters to make it 4-2 against Costa Rica .

After the quarter-final match against Argentina 4-2 i. E. was won, there was a large scuffle on the sidelines between the players and the staff of both teams. Frings struck a blow against the Argentine Julio Cruz and was therefore suspended by FIFA for the semi-final against Italy . He was also sentenced to a fine of 5,000 SFR and another game suspension, which was suspended for half a year. The verdict is controversial despite a hand movement to Cruz's face that can be seen on TV , on the one hand because Cruz had told a newspaper that he had not noticed a blow, on the other hand because Frings was not reported by the Argentine side, but Italian media started the matter brought after FIFA initially closed the investigation against German players. Frings himself said: “This is all politics. The Argentines attack us, I defend myself, Italians get upset. With this ban, FIFA just wanted to show that Germany would not be given preferential treatment at the World Cup in their own country. ”With the exception of the semi-final against Italy, Frings played all of the matches from the start.

Nominated for the 2008 European Championships in Austria and Switzerland by national coach Joachim Löw , Frings played all three group games before sustaining a rib injury in the last game of the preliminary round and had to pause against Portugal in the quarter-finals .

With the loss of his regular place after the European Championship, he was only used on October 11, 2008 in the qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup in a 2-1 victory over Russia . The disregard against Wales four days later and the resulting discussion triggered by Ballack , a good friend of Frings', regarding the criticism of national coach Löw in dealing with deserving players, was only resolved in November in a discussion between the three concerned. Frings played his last international game on February 11, 2009 in the 1-0 defeat by Norway , as he learned on January 20, 2010 from national coach Löw that he is no longer being considered in the planning for the 2010 World Cup .

Farewell game

On September 7, 2013 Frings denied at a packed Weserstadion before 42,300 spectators his farewell match . The Werder Allstars defeated Torsten & Friends 8: 7. Torsten Frings scored one goal for each team. Under coach Thomas Schaaf , the Werder Allstars u. a. Tim Wiese , Dieter Eilts , Ivan Klasnić , Aílton , Diego , Naldo , Oliver Reck and Johan Micoud . In the team Torsten & Friends played next to his two brothers Michael and Christian u. a. Michael Ballack , Mark van Bommel , Oliver Neuville , Bernd Schneider and Michael Schumacher .

position

Before joining Werder Bremen for the first time , Torsten Frings was a striker . Over time and under different coaches, he developed more and more into an all-rounder. He was also used at times as a right full-back or in midfield . Under Thomas Schaaf , he became a fixture in Werder's midfield. Until Frank Baumann's departure from professional football in 2009, Frings mostly played in the half-right position, after which he took over the position of Baumann's central defensive midfielder and was the last midfielder in front of the defensive chain.

In the national team , he worked under Jürgen Klinsmann together with Michael Ballack in the central defensive midfield. At the 2002 World Cup , Rudi Völler used him as a right full-back.

Career as a coach

Starts as an assistant trainer

For the 2013/14 season , Frings returned to his old place of work and took over the position of assistant coach from Viktor Skripnik at the regional league club Werder Bremen II. After Robin Dutt's dismissal , Skripnik became the head coach of the Bundesliga team. Frings remained his assistant coach in this role. On March 31, 2015, he acquired the football instructor license.

In the course of the dismissal of head coach Victor Skripnik on September 18, 2016, assistant coaches Florian Kohfeldt and Torsten Frings from Werder Bremen were also released.

First head coach position in Darmstadt

In January 2017 Frings took over - about three and a half months after his release as an assistant coach in Bremen - that after 16 match days standing on the bottom of the table Bundesliga team SV Darmstadt 98 as head coach from interim coach Ramon Berndroth which the team after the dismissal of Norbert Meier for had taken over three games. He received a contract that ran until June 30, 2018. However, Frings' commitment did not change the fact that the team was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the season. After a successful start to the season in the 2nd league in 2017 , in which Darmstadt 98 temporarily took second place in the table, his contract was extended prematurely until June 2020. After a subsequent series of 11 games without a win and the associated slipping onto the relegation place in the table, Frings was released as a coach on December 8, 2017.

Frings as head coach in Meppen

In July 2020 it was announced that Frings will take over the position of head coach at SV Meppen .

Success as a player

Werder Bremen
FC Bayern Munich
Toronto FC
National team
Awards

Trivia

The breaking bad character Gustavo Fring is named after Frings , according to George Mastras , one of the writers of the US series.

Web links

Commons : Torsten Frings  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung : Yourself to the enemy , April 30, 2002
  2. ↑ Star portrait: Torsten Frings ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Frings, Völler, Effe and Co. Why soccer players get married so young. RP Online , August 29, 2009; archived from the original on May 28, 2010 ; accessed on December 17, 2010 : “Torsten Frings was 17 years old when he and his Petra became a couple. Now the professional soccer player is moving out of the marital home - at least for the time being. "
  4. ↑ Torsten Frings: Love break after 15 years. Gala.de , August 27, 2009, accessed December 17, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Trainers are allowed to scold themselves: Torsten Frings (with girlfriend Yvonne), currently assistant trainer at Werder Bremen, is one of the 24 participants who have passed the ten-month course at Hennes-Weisweiler-Akademie . - Stuttgart newspaper . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on May 14, 2017]).
  6. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Torsten Frings - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. May 15, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ Frings, Völler, Effe and Co. Why soccer players get married so young. German Football League , November 14, 2007, accessed on December 31, 2011 : “Torsten Frings also listens to the cry of“ lollipop ”. Why does he say: “I owe this nickname to Andy Herzog . That was when I was first in Bremen. I was 20 years old and I was pretty naughty with the older players. My team-mates took him over, and after that I couldn't get rid of him. ""
  8. ↑ Torsten Frings opts for Werder Bremen ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ↑ Positive surprise: Frings did not tear the cruciate ligament. Werder.de, July 25, 2007, archived from the original on December 17, 2015 ; Retrieved July 26, 2007 .
  10. ↑ The End of the Frings Era - Background Information. SV Werder Bremen, May 16, 2011, archived from the original on April 18, 2014 ; Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  11. ^ Frings & Koevermans join TFC. Toronto FC , June 29, 2011, accessed June 29, 2011 .
  12. ↑ Torsten Frings trains with Werders A-Jugend. Abdendblatt, November 3, 2011, accessed November 3, 2011 .
  13. ↑ Title for Werder Star - Frings with Toronto Canadian Masters focus, May 24, 2012, accessed May 24, 2012.
  14. ^ Frings Announces Retirement. Toronto FC, February 26, 2013, accessed February 26, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Fifa suspends Frings for the semifinals. Spiegel Online , July 3, 2006, accessed July 3, 2006 .
  16. ↑ Anger after suspension: Frings attacks FIFA. Spiegel Online, July 7, 2006, accessed July 7, 2006 .
  17. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Torsten Frings - Goals in International Matches . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. May 19, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  18. ↑ Frings never again in the DFB jersey. sport1.de , January 20, 2010, accessed on January 21, 2010 .
  19. ↑ Werder brings back Frings , sport1.de from June 4, 2013. Retrieved on June 4, 2013.
  20. ^ Message ( memento of April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on werder.de
  21. ↑ Werder Bremen puts coach Viktor Skripnik on leave on sport1.de, accessed September 18, 2016
  22. ^ SV Darmstadt 98: Torsten Frings new head coach at SV 98 ( Memento from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), December 27, 2016, accessed on December 27, 2016.
  23. ↑ sport1.de: Darmstadt 98: Torsten Frings' coaching team extends contract - Frings remains loyal to Darmstadt . September 5, 2017, accessed December 10, 2017.
  24. ↑ echo-online.de: Torsten Frings released as head coach with immediate effect . December 9, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  25. ↑ SV Meppen 1912 eV on Instagram: "Fix ✍️ - Torsten Frings is the new head coach ..." July 14, 2020, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Breaking Bad villain named after German trainer welt online
personal data
SURNAME Frings, Torsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frings, Torsten Klaus (full name); Lollipop (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Würselen , Germany