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Christian Goat
Christian Goat ( born 1 February 1972 in West Berlin) is a German football coach and former football player. In his playing days, he won the European Championships with the national team in 1996. Besides he was both German and Italian Champion and twice won the UEFA Cup. Since March 2014 Goat trains the SpVgg Unterhaching.
Career as a player
Clubs
Between 1978 and 1981, played goat for Südstern 08 Berlin and then moved to TSV Rudow Berlin. From 1985 to 1990 he was active for Hertha Zehlendorf before him in 1990, the FC Bayern München committed. For Bayern he graduated to 1997 185 Bundesliga games. Then he played a few years abroad - for AC Milan ( 1997-1999 ), the Middlesbrough FC (1999 /2000) and Liverpool (2000 /2001). By the summer of 2004, he finally played for Tottenham Hotspur in London; in this period also fell emergency surgery ( fasciotomy ), which was necessary because of a compartment syndrome as a result of a "horse kiss ". For the 2004/2005 season goat returned to Germany. But soon after, he finished as team captain at Borussia Moenchengladbach on October 20, 2005 after a lengthy ankle injury of his career. His last game he completed on 21 May 2005 ( 34th Round ) in the 1:5 defeat in the away game against Bayer Leverkusen.
National
On April 30, 1991 debuted Goat in the U-21 national team, which won 3-1 in Osnabrück against the selection of Belgium, against which he also scored his first goal equal. In his 12th and final game on 13 April 1993 in Ronne, get him in a 4-1 victory over the selection of Denmark two goals.
For the Olympic national team, he played on 25 February 1992 in Troisdorf in a 2-1 victory over the selection of Poland his only game.
Goat played 72 times for the national team for which he scored nine goals. He made his debut on 10 June 1993 in Washington a 3-3 draw in a test match against the Brazilian national team.
Goat belonged to each of the cadres of the European and World Championship finals between 1996 and 2004. At the European Championships in England in 1996 he came to the final against the Czech Republic and prepared there the equalizing goal by Oliver Bierhoff before, which then also scored the golden goal to make it 2-1 and win the title. Goat reached with the national team and the final of the World Cup 2002. Last time for a tournament he was nominated for the 2004 European Championships for the injured Christian Rahn. Previously, a goat use in the national team was almost two years been denied.
His last international game, he completed 7-0 success in the preparatory international match for Euro 2004 on 27 May 2004 against the selection of Malta. At the European Championships in Portugal it was no use. After the tournament goat did not occur while back from the national team, but he could no longer be taken for the national team back as a result of his injuries.
Career as a coach
After the end of his playing career goat earned his A- Trainer certificate in Sport Centrum Kamen - Kaiserau. From June 2006 to March 2007, he coached then the U-17 Juniors Borussia Mönchengladbach. Another soccer coach license he originally wanted to purchase at the Hennes Weisweiler Academy in Cologne. However, he broke this training prematurely in order to devote himself exclusively to his job as a manager.
After Borussia Mönchengladbach was released on October 5, 2008 Jos Luhukay as a coach, took over as acting goat this task. In his only game as interim coach the team battled to a 2-2 draw in Bochum. On October 19 goat was presented at a news conference as the new assistant at the side of Hans Meyer. The change had been suggested by goat itself in internal discussions. On 15 December 2008 his resignation was goat as an assistant coach known. The reasons for private and personal aspects were called by his side.
In April 2010, he acquired still the football coach diploma at the Hennes Weisweiler Academy of German Sport University Cologne. Last time was goat from start of season 2010/11, head coach of the second division club Arminia Bielefeld, who released him on November 6, 2010.
In April 2011 goat was presented as a future coach of the U-19 national team. He followed there on Ralf Minge, who had coached the team previously. In August 2011, goat took over at the DFB, the U-18 national team. His expiring in the summer of 2014 contract was not renewed by the DFB.
On March 20, 2014 goat was the new coach of SpVgg Unterhaching.
Career as manager
On March 8, 2007 Christian goat took over from sporting director Peter Pander at Borussia Moenchengladbach. After relegation from the Bundesliga in the summer of 2007 left 13 players the club. Goat then put together an almost entirely new team, who then managed the immediate resurgence. In June 2008, the current contract was extended in advance with goat by the end of June 2011. However, goat gave the post due to his new job as an assistant coach October 19, 2008 ahead of Max Eberl from.
Achievements
- Vice World Champion 2002
- European Champion 1996
- UEFA Cup winners - 1996 ( with FC Bayern München ), 2001 ( with Liverpool )
- German Champion - 1994, 1997
- Italian Champion 1999 ( with AC Milan )
- FA Cup Winners 2001 ( with Liverpool )
- League Cup winner 2001 ( with Liverpool )
- German B- Junior Champion 1988