Markus Babbel
Markus Babbel (2011)
Markus Babbel ( born September 8, 1972 in Munich ) is a former German football player and current football coach, but is currently without a club. With the national team in 1996 he became European Champion.
- 2.1 VfB Stuttgart
- 2.2 Hertha BSC
- 2.3 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
- 3.1 Players
- 3.2 Coaches
Playing career
Association
Markus Babbel started his football career with TSV Gilching - Argelsried. After that he played successfully in the youth teams of FC Bayern Munich and worked abroad for the youth selection of the DFB. In the Bundesliga, he came as a defender for Bayern initially only on a few missions, but was on loan 1992-1994 regular player at Hamburger SV. On his return to Munich he sat down by even with Bayern, winning the German championship four times, twice the DFB Cup once and the UEFA Cup.
2000 left Babbel, the Bundesliga and moved to England for the first division team FC Liverpool, with whom he also won the 2001 UEFA Cup. His career was temporarily interrupted by a nerve disease, Guillain -Barré syndrome. After his recovery, he was on loan from Liverpool in 2003 to Blackburn Rovers.
In summer 2004, Babbel moved back to the Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart in order to follow Marcelo Bordon as a central defender. In the season 2005/ 06 Babbel found in the system of coach Giovanni Trapattoni initially hardly taken into consideration, but later he was again a regular player. Under Trapattoni's successor Armin Veh he came only rarely. At the end of his active career, he won with VfB in the summer of 2007, once again the German Cup. The DFB Cup final in 2007 against 1 FC Nuremberg was lost.
National
His debut in the national jersey was Babbel on January 29, 1991 in U -20 's 3-0 victory over Portugal in Maspalomas. On February 1, the 1-2 defeat against Spain followed in Las Palmas. On April 21, 1992, he debuted in the U -21, which came in Pilsen against the Czech team to a 1-1 draw. His last game he played on December 14, 1993 Cordoba in the 1-3 defeat against Spain. In 1993 Babbel also participate with the Bundeswehr 's national team at the World Military Championship in Morocco and finished third.
For the senior team, he played 51 games in which he scored one goal ( on 6 September 1995 in the 4-1 win against Georgia). His start he gave on 22 February 1995 in Jerez de la Frontera in the 0-0 draw against Spain. Babbel was a participant at the 1996 European Championships sparked at this tournament injured Jürgen Kohler as a central defender and stood in the team that defeated the Czech Republic 2-1 in the final after extra time. Also at the 1998 World Cup in France, he took part. After the 0-1 defeat on June 17, 2000 against England in the group stage match of the European Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands, in which the German team was eliminated in the first round, Babbel resigned as national team.
Coaching career
VfB Stuttgart
Markus Babbel was after the end of his career as a player assistant coach at VfB Stuttgart. From 1 July 2007 to 22 November 2008, he was assistant coach Armin Veh. After his release 23 November 2008 Babbel was promoted to team manager of VfB Stuttgart. Due to the lack Fußballlehrer license Babbel would the team be able to support only a temporary until June 30, 2009 special permit after damaligem state. Due to a reform of the training course by the DFB, however VfB Babbel could also serve beyond.
On 6 May 2009 Babbel signed a contract dated before end of June 2011 as head coach at VfB Stuttgart.
Under Babbels line VfB played in the 2008 /09 season, the second-best second round of teams and had until the last match chances of the championship. At the end of the season the club finished in third place in the table, the person entitled to participate in the qualifying matches for the UEFA Champions League 2009/10.
After just two wins from their first 15 games of the season of 2009/10 season and only one win in five games of the Champions League Babbel was sacked on 6 December 2009 in Stuttgart. His successor was the Swiss coach Christian Gross, who had coached the FC Basel. His critical reflection of the football business in connection with his dismissal was praised by many commentators to be accurate and precise.
In April 2010, Babbel acquired the soccer coach diploma at the Hennes Weisweiler Academy of German Sport University Cologne.
Hertha BSC
For the 2010/11 season was coach Babbel at Hertha BSC in the 2. The contract is automatically extended to 25 April 2011 due to the rise in the Bundesliga until 2012. With three games left in the season could Hertha not be displaced by a direct promotion place with twelve points ahead of third place.
In the first round of the 2011 club under Babbel ranked in the middle of the table.
Markus Babbel was planning to finish the season end his career at Hertha BSC. Moreover, he had already informed in early November, according to his own statement manager Michael Preetz. But who emphasized that he had never done such a conversation with Babbel, and called Babbel's statement as " simply wrong ". Then Hertha president Werner Gegenbauer Babbel accused of lying ( quote: " Now you should not come up with Baron Munchausen stories "). In his view, it may be known only since December 13 decision. The next day we took leave Babbel with immediate effect. On December 22, 2011 Hertha BSC was then announced that the dispute with Babbel had been settled.
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
On February 10, 2012 Babbel became the new head coach at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He signed a contract until 2014. From March to September 2012, he was also manager of the association. On December 3, 2012 Babbel was relieved of his duties as head coach at Hoffenheim since the association, which with ambitions for a place that allowed for international competitions, had started the season, after 15 match days, with nine defeats and only three wins stood on the relegation place.
Achievements and titles
Player
- With FC Bayern München: 1989 German Junior B champion
- 1996 UEFA Cup winners
- 1997 German champions and League Cup winners
- 1998 DFB Cup and League Cup winners
- 1999 German champions and League Cup winners
- 2000 German champions, DFB Cup and League Cup winners
- With FC Liverpool: 2001 FA Cup, English League Cup, English Super Cup, UEFA Cup and European Supercup winner
- With the VfB Stuttgart: 2007 German Champion
- With the German national team: 1996 European champion
- With the Bundeswehr national 1993 World Cup bronze medalist
Coach
- With the VfB Stuttgart: 2009 third in the championship (Bundesliga) - qualifying for the Champions League
- 2011 promotion to the 1st League as champions of the Bundesliga 2
Personal
Markus Babbel is married for the second time. For every marriage he has two children.
Babbel bears the emblem of his previous clubs as player and coach as a tattoo on his right upper arm. This does not include clubs, where he played only on loan, and his last club, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.