Christian Nerlinger

Christian Nerlinger in 2010

Christian Nerlinger ( born March 21, 1973 in Dortmund ) is a former German football player.

  • 3.1 successes as a player
  • 3.2 successes as sports director

Career as a player

Nerlinger played from 1981 to 1985 at the Munich club TSV Forstenried before he moved to the youth department of the German record champion Bayern Munich.

Bayern Munich

After seven years played in the youth of the FC Bayern Munich moved Nerlinger 1992 in professional cadres at, but disputed at first only games for the amateur team. With players like Jorginho, Lothar Matthäus, Mehmet Scholl, Markus Schupp, Jan Wouters and Christian goat FCB was adequately staffed at this time. The following year, the midfielder made ​​his breakthrough at Bayern. His debut in the Bundesliga was Nerlinger on August 7, 1993 ( 1st Round ) 3-1 home win over SC Freiburg. On the 3rd Round Nerlinger scored his first professional competitive goal. 5-0 against Dynamo Dresden, he scored the intermediate 2-0. With 32 games this season he was behind Matthew the player with the most appearances for the Munich. After the season Nerlinger won the German championship in 1994, his first national title. In 1997 he repeated this success. In 1996 he won with the Munich in the UEFA Cup. However, he was not in any of the two finals against Girondins Bordeaux used. 1998 won Nerlinger with the Bavarians to DFB-Pokal. In the final against MSV Duisburg he played 90 minutes.

Borussia Dortmund, Rangers FC and 1st FC Kaiserslautern

Although he was active as a regular player at Bayern under some coaches, Nerlinger changed in the summer of 1998, surprising the league rivals and former giants Borussia Dortmund. BVB he made in the 1998/99 season along with Dedê, Andreas Möller, Stefan Reuter and Lars Ricken the midfield formation. In the two following years he was only irregularly employed. Finally, he moved to Scotland in 2001 to the Glasgow Rangers, with whom he was in 2003 Scottish champion and cup winner. For the season 2004 /05 Nerlinger returned to Germany, 1 FC Kaiserslautern. In December 2005, he finished after nine league games his career due to ongoing health problems. His last Bundesliga game he played on November 5, 2005 against Hertha BSC.

National

April 21, 1992 Nerlinger debuted in the U-21 national team, as a 1:1 was achieved against the Czech team in Pilsen. His last game (of 22, in which he scored a total of 10 goals) he completed on 26 March 1996 in Metz, which was lost to France with 1:4 - the only goal he scored.

For the senior team, he completed six games, where he scored his only goal on his debut on 5 September 1998 in Malta in a 1-1 draw against Romania to settle in the 85th minute. On October 9, 1999, he arrived in Munich for the last time - off the bench for the second half for Dietmar Hamann - a 0-0 draw in the match against Turkey for use.

Career as a sports director

After the end of his professional career Nerlinger began studying international business at the Munich Business School and also spent a semester abroad at the Free University of Bolzano to learn Italian. On 1 July 2008 he assumed the newly created post of team manager at Bayern Munich. There he was to play a mediating role between coaching staff and board of directors.

From 1 July 2009, he served as sports director, following in the long-term Bayern manager Uli Hoeness after. However, Nerlinger took over here only some of the tasks that held Hoeness as a manager. For this career move Nerlinger gave up his studies to devote himself entirely to the FCB.

On July 2, 2012 Nerlinger was replaced by Matthias Sammer. To immediately before and not to cause unrest during the European Championship in 2012, it was agreed that the separation between FC Bayern Munich and Nerlinger, which took place by mutual consent as specified by the Association, after the tournament ( final deadline July 1, 2012 was ) to announce.

Achievements

Successes as a player

  • UEFA Cup winners: 1996
  • German Champion (2): 1994, 1997
  • DFB Cup winners: 1998
  • DFB - League Cup Winners: 1997
  • Scottish Champion: 2003
  • Scottish Cup Winners (2): 2002, 2003
  • Scottish League Cup Winners (2): 2002, 2003
  • German B- Junior Champion: 1989

Successes as sports director

  • Champions League finalist (2): 2010, 2012
  • German Masters: 2010
  • DFB Cup winners: 2010
  • DFL - Supercup winner: 2010

Others

Christian Nerlinger is the son of former Bundesliga professionals Helmut Nerlinger (57 games, 4 goals).

1. FC Kaiserslautern Christian Ziege 1995–96 UEFA Cup FC Girondins de Bordeaux 1997–98 DFB-Pokal Directeur sportif 1997 DFB-Ligapokal 2009–10 UEFA Champions League 2011–12 UEFA Champions League 2009–10 DFB-Pokal
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