Ansgar Brinkmann
Ansgar Brinkmann Eintracht Frankfurt Museum 2008
Ansgar Brinkmann ( born July 5, 1969 in Vechta ) is a former German football player. In his long career Brinkmann was in many clubs under contract. He is one of the players with the most club change in Germany and was next to Bernd Schneider as one of the last street footballers in Germany.
Stations
Brinkmann grew up as the youngest of seven siblings in Vechta in Oldenburger Munsterland. As A Teenager he was appointed to the Lower Saxony selection. When he was 15 years old, talent scouts discovered him from Bayer 05 Uerdingen so that Brinkmann moved to Krefeld. He played for Bayer and made his way vocational training year in the automotive trade.
His professional career began at age 18 in 1987 at VfL Osnabrück in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the 1990/1991 season of fast winger moved to the league rivals Preußen Münster, where he quickly became a crowd favorite. At the end of the season he rose with the Prussians from the Oberliga Westfalen, but stayed two years at the club. In 1993, Brink 's return to the 2nd Bundesliga, where he 05 a contract signed for 1 FSV Mainz.
After a brief interlude in Münster in 1995 and further stations in Gutersloh, Verl and Cloppenburg he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt, in 1998 the rise was achieved with the Brinkmann in the Bundesliga.
After a season in the Premier League Brinkmann played again a few years in the 2nd Bundesliga at Tennis Borussia Berlin, again at VfL Osnabrueck and Arminia Bielefeld. With Bielefeld he succeeded in 2002, the return to the Bundesliga, where he scored two goals in 30 games.
In 2003, Brinkmann to LR Ahlen and during the winter break to the Austrian Bundesliga FC Kärnten. In January 2005, Brinkmann joined Dynamo Dresden. On 9 January 2006, the contract was dissolved in Dresden and Brinkmann moved to Preußen Münster. The descent of the Prussians in the league he could not prevent. For the Münster Brinkmann graduated on May 13, 2007 in the league match against the second team FC Schalke 04 is the last game of his career as a professional footballer.
On March 27, 2009, his farewell match took place in Bielefeld SchücoArena before 4100 spectators. The game between the team and the Ansgar Arminia - Allstars ended 6:6. Shortly before the end Brinkmann took another symbolically his last red card. His victory lap he managed during the song " This Way" by Xavier Naidoo. On game also participated nor Thomas Hassler, Fredi Bobic, Uwe Bein, Sergej Barbarez and Stefan Kretzschmar.
In September 2009, he earned his A coaching license in the sport Hennef ( Football Association Middle Rhine ) and is currently planning to complete training as a football coach. In parallel, he works as a scout for a player Cologne sports agency.
For the season 2012/13 undertook the Kreisligist TSV Juist Brinkmann.
Reputation as the " enfant terrible "
Even outside of the football field made Ansgar Brinkmann headlines that earned him the nickname " drinking man ". So he fled in Osnabrück walking in front of an alcohol control and turned until hours later at the police station to pick up the car key. In addition, Brinkmann was involved in Bielefeld, Berlin and Gütersloh in fisticuffs, which earned him, among other things, a fine of 36,000 euros for assault. The bankruptcy of a rehabilitation center and investment in a shopping arcade in Bielefeld, in his own words lost more than one million euros by Brinkmann, brought him to court.
His reputation as an enfant terrible harm to the popularity Brinkmanns by football fans do not, but rather promoted it yet. Typical words that fell in the sports reporting to Brinkmann, were "white Brazilians ", " crowd ", " cult player " and " one of the last real types ' of the Bundesliga," especially as interviews with Brinkmann through his loose, sometimes even provocative distinguished sayings of the interview statements of many other professional footballers. When local radio station Radio Bielefeld Bielefeld, he was an own comedy series called "Mission: relegation " dedicated. Here he coined the phrase: " The need no man ". He dedicated this statement opposing teams and players. Legendary is the message on his answering machine: " I reach to five clock early in my local pub ."