Uli Borowka

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Uli Borowka
Personnel
Surname Ulrich Ernst Borowka
birthday May 19, 1962
place of birth Menden (Sauerland) ,  Germany
size 177 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1967-1970 SG Hemer 08
1970-1975 FC Oese 49
1975-1979 SSV Kalthof
1979-1980 DSC Wanne-Eickel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1981 Borussia Mönchengladbach amateurs
1981-1987 Borussia Monchengladbach 149 (11)
1987-1995 Werder Bremen 239 0(8)
1996-1997 Tasmania Neukölln 1 0(0)
1996-1997 Hannover 96 0 0(0)
1997 Widzew Lodz 8 0(0)
1997-1998 FC Oberneuland
1999-2000 SC Viktoria Rheydt
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1982-1987 Germany U-21 2 0(0)
1987-1988 Olympic team 9 0(0)
1988 Germany 6 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1997-1998 FC Oberneuland (player-coach)
2000-2001 Berlin AK 07
2001-2002 Türkiyemspor Berlin
2003-2004 Berlin AK 07
1 Only league games are given.

Ulrich Ernst "Uli" Borowka (born May 19, 1962 in Menden (Sauerland) ) is a former German football player and coach.

Career

Borowka first learned the trade of machinist. In the Bundesliga he was active for Borussia Mönchengladbach and Werder Bremen . As a defender, Borowka played a total of 388 Bundesliga games from 1981 to 1996 and scored 19 goals. With Werder Bremen, he was in 1988 and 1993 German Champion and in 1991 and 1994 German Cup winner . The highlight of his career was winning the 1991/92 European Cup Winners' Cup with Werder Bremen in Lisbon .

The defender known as "Eisenfuß" - or also known as "the ax" - was valued and feared as being particularly strong in shooting and duels. Even if his footballing talent was rather limited, he was considered one of the best and toughest defenders of his time in a duel. Borowka was also known for his trash talk . Opponent of Olaf Thon in his Bundesliga debut in 1984 against Mönchengladbach, what he remembered: "My opponent was Uli Borowka and he received me with the words: 'Today I'll break both your legs.'" But that never happened. A few years in a row, his football colleagues voted him the most unpopular player in the league in the "kicker" election.

In 1988 Borowka wore the jersey of the German national team six times and took part in the European Championship in Germany , where he was used in all four games of the DFB-Elf. By his own testimony he has from that time even a jersey of Diego Maradona , on which he in his first international match against Argentina met on 2 April 1988th After the European Championship, Borowka was no longer taken into account by team boss Franz Beckenbauer . However, he was part of the German national team for the 1988 Olympic Games, but was not used.

After he left Werder Bremen in 1996 and had a brief contract with Tasmania Neukölln and Hannover 96 in Berlin , Borowka moved to Widzew Lodz in early 1997 , making him the first German football player in a professional league in the area of ​​the former Eastern Bloc , the Ekstraklasa in Poland . But the trainer Franciszek Smuda , with whom he communicated in German, only used him eight times. Because of his persistent alcohol consumption, the club did not renew Borowka's contract after one season, whereupon he ended his active career in 1998.

After retirement

After the end of the career, Borowka was a topic in the tabloid media because of alcohol-related and family problems. In 1996 he caused a car accident while under the influence of alcohol.

He has been abstinent since a four-month inpatient withdrawal treatment in 2000. In an autobiography, “Volle Pulle. My double life as a professional soccer player and alcoholic “he has processed his career and alcohol addiction. Borowka also founded an addiction prevention association and advises players with addiction problems.

In 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2003 he worked as a trainer for the upper division clubs FC Oberneuland , Berliner AK 07 , Türkiyemspor Berlin and again at Berliner AK 07.

Borowka recorded a single with the Bremen punk band Dimple Minds with the title Barfuß oder Lackschuh . Since 2007 Borowka has been self-employed in the field of sports marketing and also organizes youth soccer camps.

Borowka is married for the second time. He is the father of three children (two children from his first marriage and a daughter from his second marriage) and lives in Hämelerwald near Lehrte , Lower Saxony (Hanover region).

successes

book

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Ulrich 'Uli' Borowka - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . December 15, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Alex Raack, DER SPIEGEL: Defender Uli Borowka knew every dirty soccer trick - DER SPIEGEL - history. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Alex Raack, DER SPIEGEL: Uli Borowka on trash talk in football: "With Jürgen Klinsmann, mind games had a very good effect" - DER SPIEGEL - history. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Ulrich 'Uli' Borowka - International Appearances . RSSSF . December 15, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thomas Urban : Black eagles, white eagles. German and Polish footballers at the wheel of politics ; Göttingen Die Werkstatt, 2011, p. 157.
  6. ↑ Alex Raack: Uli Borowka about Poland and Franciszek Smuda. 11freunde.de , June 16, 2006, accessed August 9, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Bundesliga. Borowka przyznał się do alkoholizmu. lodz.sport.pl, October 7, 2012, accessed August 9, 2014 (Polish).
  8. ↑ bottle empty. focus.de, October 15, 2012, accessed on August 9, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Uli Borowka, professional footballer and alcoholic. n-tv.de, October 9, 2012, accessed on August 9, 2014 .
  10. ↑ The man in the armor. Article in the Nordwest-Zeitung of October 26, 2012. Accessed October 26, 2012.
  11. ↑ The Bundesliga and the hushed up problem with addiction , on sports. vice.com , accessed March 17, 2016.
  12. ↑ Sport-Bild from December 23, 1997, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Borowka, Uli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borowka, Ulrich Ernst (full name); Borowka, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Menden (Sauerland)