Sebastian Deisler

During a training match in Bonn (May 2005)

Sebastian Deisler Toni ( born January 5, 1980 in Lörrach ) is a former German football player.

Career

Clubs

His career began Deisler in the e- Youth of the FV Tumringen, a neighborhood association of Lörrach. Since he was too young for this age group, he was only allowed to train the first two years at the club. About the TuS Lörrach -Stetten and FV Lörrach came Deisler in 1995 in the youth department of Borussia Mönchengladbach and belonged to Marcel Ketelaer, Marco Villa and Robert Enke to a "quadruple team " of young players that would form the backbone of a new Gladbach team. 1998/99 he was part of the first team squad and made his debut in the Bundesliga on 8 September 1998 (3rd Round ) in the 1-1 draw at home against Eintracht Frankfurt when he came on in the 63rd minute for Casa Markus Weiler; his first goal he succeeded on 6 March 1999 ( 21 Matchday) in the 2-0 home win over TSV 1860 Munich.

After only one year, and the descent of Borussia to the 2nd Bundesliga, he joined ( plus further payments to Borussia Mönchengladbach in subsequent internationals and participation at a later resale ) to Hertha BSC, where he for a transfer fee of 4.5 million DM in three seasons 56 times came to the league use, scoring nine goals and 2001, won the League Cup.

By the 2002/03 season completed transfer to FC Bayern Munich, he joined his last club in as Active. Committed as playmaker and successor of Stefan Effenberg - - For Bayern played Deisler until the winter break of the 2006/07 season, and won several titles there. In the 2003 /04 season Deisler sat due to depression of several months. On 16 January 2007 the 27-year -old midfielder drew the consequences from numerous injuries and illnesses that had set him back in recent years over again, and told Uli Hoeness the end of his career. He attributed this to a lack of confidence in the stability of his knee. Although Deisler said his move was final, let Uli Hoeness, had their own quarters that long tried to dissuade the player announced that the June 2009 valid contract Deisler at Bayern Munich will only exposed to the players, where appropriate, a return to allow.

National

Deisler was a participant at the U - 17 World Cup in Egypt in 1997 and came in two games of the preliminary round on 5 ( 1-0 win over Chile) and 7 September ( 3-0 win over Thailand) and three games of the final round 14 (4:3 in a penalty shoot-out against Mali), 18 ( 0:4 defeat against Brazil) and 21 September ( 1-2 defeat against Spain ) are used, finishing in fourth place tournament. In 1998 he reached the U-18 national team the final of the U-18 European Championship, which was lost to Ireland on penalties 3:4. For the U-21 national team, he played three times, it was used on 26 March 1999 in Belfast during the 0-1 defeat against Northern Ireland for the first time. His debut in the senior team, he was on 23 February 2000 in Amsterdam in the 1-2 defeat in the Test match against the Netherlands when he was substituted in the 46th minute Zoltan Sebescen. In the 2002 World Cup he was missing through injury as well as in the 2006 World Cup in their own country. His last game in the national team, he played on 1 March 2006 in Florence at the 1:4 defeat in the Test match against Italy.

Achievements

  • Third in Confederations Cup 2005
  • Fourth in the U- 17 World Cup 1997
  • Second in the U-18 European Championship 1998
  • German Champion 2003, 2005, 2006 ( with Bayern Munich)
  • DFB Cup winners 2003, 2005, 2006 ( with Bayern Munich)
  • League Cup winners 2001 ( with Hertha BSC ), 2004 ( with Bayern Munich)

Awards

  • Scorer of the month August 1999 July 2000

Others

After his career end Deisler had largely withdrawn from public life. It was not until end of September 2007, approximately eight months after his resignation, he said in an interview for the first time about the reasons for this step. On October 8, 2009 by sports journalist Michael Rosentritt ( " Der Tagesspiegel " ) was published in collaboration with Sebastian Deisler Deisler wrote biography. Back to life.

Deisler, who with his former Brazilian girlfriend a son ( * 2004) has aspired to his footballing career to work as a physiotherapist.

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