Joachim Löw

Joachim Loew in June 2011

Joachim " Jogi" Löw ( born February 3, 1960 in Schönau im Schwarzwald, Landkreis Lörrach ) is a former German football player and current football coach. After he had previously coached several European club teams, he was 2004 first assistant coach of the men of the German national football team under Jurgen Klinsmann and 2006, his successor as national coach. He is also with 81 goals scorer and honorary captain of SC Freiburg.

• 4.1 Championship 2008
• 4.2 Qualification for the 2010 World Cup (2008 to 2010)
• 4.3 contract negotiations and salary
• 4.4 World Cup 2010
• 4.5 After the 2010 World Cup
• 4.6 Championship 2012
• 4.7 World Cup 2014

Youth

Loew is the oldest of four sons of an independent oven translator. He spent his childhood and youth in his native town of Schönau im Schwarzwald. After primary school he attended high school, which he left in June 1977 in an intermediate certificate in Schoenau. Thereafter, he completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant. At the same time he was an altar boy and played football for TuS Schönau 1896 and later for the FC Schönau, where his talent was recognized early. The next step on the way to soccer professional career was the change to the sport friends Eintracht Freiburg.

Playing career

Loew's professional career began in 1978 at SC Freiburg, who had just gained in the 2nd Bundesliga. Two years later, in the 1980/81 season, he moved to the Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart where he was, however, no regular players. The striker came just four games; while he did not score. After just one season, Löw joined Eintracht Frankfurt. He scored five goals in 24 Bundesliga games.

In June 1982, Loew accepted an offer of the second division side SC Freiburg, so now he was playing in his first professional club. The SC Freiburg had just gotten with Werner Olk a new coach, who was equally as Loew two seasons in Freiburg working. 1982/83 he met eight times and completed all 34 games. In the second year Löw played the best season in his career: get him 17 goals in 31 games in the second division.

After this season, Löw joined in the summer of 1984 for Karlsruher SC, who played in the first division. As with its stations in Stuttgart and Frankfurt but he could there not enforce properly. He scored just two goals in his 24 games; often he was only a substitute. After this season, Löw returned again to SC Freiburg, where he played four years in the second league. From 1985 to 1989 Loew completed 116 games, scoring 38 hits. In the first two seasons, he was used in each case in 37 games where he scored 12 and 17 goals, then his operating times were low and he scored only seven and two goals. Then Löw played from 1989 to 1992 in Switzerland at FC Schaffhausen and then two years at FC Winterthur.

In 52 league games, he scored seven goals and added a 252 missions and 81 goals in the 2nd Bundesliga, he scored for SC Freiburg. He is still the leading scorer. In addition, Löw came on four missions with the U-21 national team.

On 27 September 2010 Löw was appointed as the sixth honorary captain of SC Freiburg.

Club career

Associations in Switzerland

As a coach, Löw was responsible in 1994 in Switzerland, the D -Jugend FC Winterthur, where he was employed at the same time as a player in the National League B. After moving to the third-tier FC Frauenfeld Löw was player-manager in 1994.

VfB Stuttgart

During his time as player-coach in Frauenfeld Löw started in 1994 training as a football coach. He did not complete this training. This was a quote by Rolf fringer, who had become 1995 's new coach of VfB Stuttgart and Joachim Löw wanted to have as an assistant coach and got. Team reached in the 1995/96 season with tenth place not the hoped-for participation in the UEFA Cup and coach fringer accepted the offer to become Swiss national coach. His successor in Stuttgart became his assistant coach Löw - initially on an interim basis - on 14 August 1996, four days before the start of the new season. After six unbeaten games in a row at the beginning of the 1996/97 season Löw was promoted by the former VfB president Gerhard Mayer- platforms on 21 September 1996 by the interim head coach. However, his first game as head coach Loew lost against the outsider Fortuna Dusseldorf.

With the so-called Magic Triangle by Krassimir Balakov, Giovane Élber and Fredi Bobic of Stuttgart won with coach Loew in the 1996/97 season with a 2-0 victory in the final against Energie Cottbus DFB Cup. A year later, the VfB was in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, which he lost 0-1 in Stockholm against Chelsea. In addition to the finals Loew reached with VfB again to fourth place in the Bundesliga, thus qualifying for the UEFA Cup. Nevertheless, Löw was dismissed from Mayer- platforms and replaced by Winfried Schäfer.

Fenerbahce

Loew changed on 1 July 1998 the Turkish football team Fenerbahce. The result is the transfer of its present consultant and manager Harun Arslan. After he had reached with the team to third place, the engagement ended on 29 May 1999 after one season. Loew was in the season next champion coach Fatih Terim of Galatasaray is the only coach who had not been released early.

Karlsruher SC

Then trained Löw German second division club Karlsruher SC. After eleven years of membership in the Bundesliga, the club was relegated in 1998 for the umpteenth time. With the objective of that ascent Löw took over on 25 October 1999 as coach of Rainer Ulrich. After Karlsruhe Loew, however, only one of 18 games had been able to win, he was released before the end of the season.

Adanaspor

After half a year's break Joachim Loew was set at Turkish football club Adanaspor on 20 December 2000. Because of lack of success, he was released early on March 4, 2001.

FC Tirol Innsbruck

On 10 October 2001 Löw was hired from unemployment FC Tirol Innsbruck as coach after half a year. The successful work of his predecessor Kurt Jara ( Champion 2000 and 2001 ) continued Löw continued. Though the players had received 6 months no salary, he reached with FC Tirol Innsbruck in 2002 the third championship in a row. In the same year, however, the FC Tirol filed for bankruptcy and disbanded after withdrawal of the Bundesliga license. This Löws employment in Innsbruck was completed on 18 June 2002.

Austria Wien

After another year of unemployment Loew was on 4 June 2003 coach of FK Austria Wien. After a 0-2 defeat against bottom club FC Kärnten he was on leave in March 2004, although Austria was the leader.

Germany coach

After the 2004 European Football Championship the team manager of the German national Rudi Völler resigned. As of July 2004, was the leading trio of the German national from Oliver Bierhoff as team manager, Jürgen Klinsmann as national coach Joachim Loew and assistant coach. Klinsmann and Löw had graduated from the Sport University of the Football Association Middle Rhine in Hennef the coaching course. In the 2005 Confederations Cup and the World Cup 2006, the team finished third.

On 12 July 2006 Löw was introduced as the new coach of the DFB. This place became vacant after Jürgen Klinsmann had decided not to renew his expiring on 31 July 2006 contract. Loew initially received a contract for two years. As a sporting goal Löw called winning the European Championship in 2008 and declared its intention to continue the Jürgen Klinsmann and he replaces line in the sporting line. He is the third coach of the national team ( after Otto Erich Ribbeck and mink ), who himself was never A-National player.

He made his debut on 16 August 2006 with a 3-0 win against Sweden, the three following games won the national team without conceding a goal, so it is the first national coach, which began with four straight wins without conceding a goal. In the fifth victory in the European Championship qualifier in Slovakia (4:1), the German team conceded a goal for the first time under Löw. With five victories at the start Joachim Loew is the coach with the most successful start. The sixth game against Cyprus (1-1) on November 15 was the first game in which the team won little during the Loew era. On 7 February 2007 was followed by a 3-1 friendly win against Switzerland on March 24, a 2-1 win against the Czech Republic in the top match of the German EURO qualifying.

The first defeat in the era Loew gave it on 28 March 2007 in a friendly against Denmark 0-1. Löw relied six newcomers a, including with Patrick Helmes (then 1 FC Köln ) is also a second division player. On 22 August 2007, the weakened by many injuries Löw's team managed a very surprising 2-1 away win against England, where she was the first team that could beat England at the new Wembley Stadium.

After an early successful European Championship qualifying after a 0-0 draw in Ireland lost the German national team, which was still strong replacement weakened, on 17 October 2007 in Munich's Allianz Arena, after a weak game 0-3 against the Czech national team, which through this victory also prematurely for the 2008 European Championship qualifying in Austria and Switzerland. It was Loew's first competitive defeat as national coach.

Euro 2008

Under Loew, the German team reached at the European Championships in 2008 after twelve years the first time the knockout round. In the last preliminary round match of Group B Germany had to achieve at least a draw against hosts Austria, in turn, needed a win to qualify for the next round. The game ended 1-0 for Germany.

For the next match in the quarter-final against Portugal Löw was blocked by the Control and Disciplinary Commission of the European Football Union. Germany won the match 3-2, with the same result and the semi-final match against Turkey and met in the final to Spain. This game Spain won 1-0 and thus became European Champion.

Qualification for the World Cup 2010 (2008 to 2010)

After a 1-2 defeat against England to end the year 2008, the German team also lost their first game 0-1 against Norway in 2009. In the course of a controversial trip to Asia the national team in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Bundesliga season in late May, the team of Loew only a 1-1 draw with China earned. After befitting their successes over the United Arab Emirates and the World Cup qualifying opponents Azerbaijan then succeeded with a 1-0 win against the strongest competitors in Russia and a final 1-1 against Finland qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2010 as group winners.

Contract negotiations and salary

On 16 December 2009, the DFB announced that the contract of national coach, Löw was extended a handshake until after Euro 2012. In February 2010, however, Löw declared in writing that it had not been such a handshake agreement. Background was a meeting of Löw, Bierhoff and Theo Zwanziger in Frankfurt, where the extension of the contract should be discussed. The planned extension of the contract, however, was put on hold and announced new negotiations for the period after the upcoming World Cup. Zwanziger spoke of "important substantive differences" between Loew, team manager Oliver Bierhoff and the Bureau. Supposedly Löw and Bierhoff had demanded, inter alia, a signing bonus in the amount of one annual salary for the contract extension. In addition, Bierhoff had demanded veto power over the national coach question. Löw was upset about the negotiations and the suspected him of indiscretion on the part of the DFB. So issues were being made public, which had been discussed internally. His salary is estimated at 2.7 million to four million euros. These Löw has three lucrative advertising contracts ( Nivea, Tui and German investment advice ).

World Cup 2010

Despite the retirement of captain Michael Ballack and several other important players, who had to cancel due to injury, Löw not for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa deserved players with tournament experience as Torsten Frings, Thomas Hitzlsperger or Kevin Kuranyi. Instead, he sat mainly on young players to have little to no senior international experience: So denied goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and Ballack replacement Sami Khedira to the nomination in May 2010, only three internationals, Thomas Müller one, Holger Badstuber none at all. With an average age of under 25 years Löw had compiled the youngest German World Cup squad for the World Cup of 1934. Six members of the squad had, however, previously won the U- 21 Championship 2009. Ultimately, he was unsuccessful in this surprising compilation but the foundation for a much stronger in the coming years German team than before.

After completed on the first place in the second round group stage managed a 4-1 victory over the English team as well as the quarter-finals 4-0 to Argentina. Both are the highest so far achieved victory of a German team against these teams. In the semifinals, the young men had indeed give almost no chance but still beaten 0-1 by the surprises of the previous games against the experienced Spaniard; The German team had come Ledegem to two chances. But after that she won in the match for third place with a 3-2 victory over the surprise team of the tournament, Uruguay, which meant in comparison to the run-up to an unexpectedly high level of success, according to the increased expectations in the tournament but certainly made ​​up for disappointment.

According to the 2010 World Cup

In October 2010, Löw was honored for his achievements with the Federal Cross of Merit. On 10 November 2010 he was awarded the Bambi in the category " special prize of the jury ," the laudatory speech was Mesut Özil.

On 20 July 2010 extended Löw and his staff Oliver Bierhoff, Hansi Flick and Andreas Koepke to contract as Germany coach until 31 July 2012. On 15 March 2011, the DFB announced that Joachim Löw and his staff their contracts by a further have extended two years until 31 July 2014.

The EURO 2012 Qualifying joined the team for the first time with ten wins in ten games from what was previously only the Czech Republic succeeded in qualifying for Euro 2000. Along with this, in test matches victories against eventual champion Uruguay South America, against world champion Brazil and against vice world champion Netherlands.

2012 European Championship

At the European Championships in 2012, the German team was in a Group of Death, with runner-up Netherlands, Portugal and Denmark, which were just as Germany placed before the tournament in the top ten of the FIFA world rankings. Germany won all three group games, which no German team had previously managed at a European Championship finals. In the quarterfinals, the team turned in a 4-2 against Greece to the 15th competitive victory in a row setting a new world record. In the semifinals, the team lost with 1-2 against Italy. In various German media and also from various German Ex - players Löw was certified a significant blame for the departure. Kicker chief reporter Karl Heinz Wild was:

World Cup 2014

In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup the team get under Löw nine wins and a draw in the penultimate round and already participating in Brazil could be secured. Here come the team most goals of all European teams, but they also suffered the most goals of all European teams qualified directly, mainly seven goals in two games against the second-placed Sweden. After the last game of the qualifying his contract was extended until 2016.

Success as a coach

• DFB Cup: 1997
• European Cup Winners' Cup: Finalist 1998
• Austrian Champion: 2002
• European Championships: Finalist 2008

Private life

Loew lives since 2008 a few miles south of Freiburg im Breisgau. He is married to his wife Daniela since 1986. The couple has no children. Joachim Löw's brother Mark was also a professional footballer.

Commitment

• Youth Football Foundation: Since 2000, Löw Vice President of the Foundation, which operates an Internet portal for young football fans and streetfootballworld, a global network of social football projects supported. The Bureau and Board of Trustees, other former and current national players are represented as Jürgen Klinsmann, Andreas Kopke, Jens Lehmann, Christoph Metzelder and Pierre Littbarski.
• Mercedes -Benz Junior Cup: Since 2006, Löw regular guest of one of the most important tournaments for professional young and lost here regularly with patron Oliver Bierhoff the groups.
• We love Africa: Since 2009, Loew supports the social project for the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
• Plan International: Since 2010 Joachim Loew supports the children's charity. He has two godchildren in Africa, a boy and a girl, both living in Ghana. Together with NIVEA and Plan supports a sports and educational project for children in Rwanda. In addition, he is involved in plan girls soccer projects.