Klaus Theiss
Klaus Theiss ( born July 9, 1963 in Nagold ) is a former German football player, who from 1981 to 1990, denied 146 games in the Bundesliga and scored 14 goals in the process.
Career
Youth, to 1981
From his original club VfL Nagold, Klaus Theiss 1978 in the ambitious youth department of TuS Ergenzingen ( near Tübingen ). He learned there, next to the sports promotion by coach Walter Baur know the advantages of a friendly - comradely, yet attractive, successful youth work with long journeys that led to Brazil even for three weeks in 1980. A change in the youth department of a Bundesliga club stood for Theiss through the narrow bonds of friendship is not up for debate. In Association Season South youth teams in 1981 and master behind VfB Stuttgart Württemberg in the final runner-up was. This year, the TuS -A- Youth also won for the first time the discharged since 1972 international Pfingstturnier, by a final win against MSV Duisburg. Outstanding Player in the tournament winner was Klaus Theiss.
About the Württemberg- selection, the offensively strong Libero played in the field of view of DFB coach Dietrich Weise. His two first international appearances in the national youth team he had in January 1980 in games against the United States in Redland and Orlando. In September 1980, he took the DFB team in a tournament in the Istrian Pula, where he was deployed four times. In November 1980, the DFB youth in the Prince Albert Cup in Monaco as guests, and Theiss completed another four internationals. In January 1981, Theiss was the DFB - Elf active when Granatkin Memorial tournament in Moscow and was involved in the three victories against Spain, the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. Sporty outstanding tournament was the European champion in May / June 1981 in Germany. As Libero and safer penalty taker Klaus Theiss led the DFB youth with victories over Wales, Belgium, Greece and the semi-final against France in the final on June 3 in Dusseldorf against Poland. With a 1-0 victory, the talented Rüdiger Vollenborn, Ulf Quaisser, Anton Schmid Kunz, Ralf Falk Mayer, Thomas Brunner, Ralf Loose, Holger Anthes, Thomas Herbst, Roland Wohlfarth and Klaus Theiss brought - for him it was the 20th Youth National team - the European title.
During the European Championship tournament, and then Klaus Theiss received contract offers from VfB Stuttgart, the Stuttgarter Kickers, Eintracht Frankfurt, MSV Duisburg and from Karlsruher SC. Theiss chose the offer of KSC- CEO Manfred Amereller because Theiss figured the best prospects for an early stakes in the Bundesliga in Baden. Because a game for the inauguration of the new turf field Theiss 1982 then returned to the KSC again back to Ergenzingen.
Karlsruhe and Frankfurt, 1981-1987
In the Bundesliga home game of the Karlsruhe SC on August 26, 1981 against Arminia Bielefeld, Libero Reinhold Fanz moved in the first half to a knee injury and coach Manfred Krafft brought to the second half of the 18 -year-old newcomer from Ergenzingen, Klaus Theiss, to his Bundesliga debut. The young defender a 2-1 half-time lead was defended and the KSC won two points. By the 34th day - on May 29 during the 1982 Hamburger SV - stood Theiss in all of the following 30 league games for the Baden on the field. Even as a coach Krafft - after the 14th matchday 11:17 points on the twelfth Scrapping - was surprisingly detached from the November 27, 1981 by Max Merkel, the talent was able to meet the demands of the " success coach ". While the first game with the " big shot " with 1:4 gates went on 28 November against 1 FC Cologne after goals by Rainer Bonhof, Klaus Fischer, Tony Woodcock and Pierre Littbarski lost, but Karlsruhe was the 14th place in the table on broadcast obtain the class. This Theiss had in his first year completed 31 Bundesliga games and was, together with Rudolf Wimmer, Stephan Groß, Edmund Becker, Gerhard Bold, Martin Wiesner, Emanuel Günther and Wolfgang students to the service providers of the KSC game. Outstanding of the 4-1 win was on February 13, 1981 at the local game park stadium against Bayern Munich was able to maintain when the young libero attack the efforts of the Bayern stars Paul Breitner, Dieter Hoeness and Karl -Heinz Rummenigge in check. Due to its importance for the main cast Theiss received from KSC no release for U 19 - World Championship Tournament in October 1981 in Australia, where his colleagues - Rüdiger Vollenborn, Michael Zorc, Roland Wohlfahrt - winning the title with a 4-0 win on 18 October in Sydney against Qatar succeeded.
Merkel did not renew his contract in Karlsruhe and it came with Horst Franz a new coach to round 1982/83 to Baden. In the first Theiss -term injuries occurred - he was only 24 games the KSC available - and the KSC could not even by the coaching change to 1 February 1983, the former assistant Lothar Strehlau replaced the dismissed Franz, avoid relegation. Theiss remained in Karlsruhe and won with coach Werner Olk in the Round 1983/84 championship in the 2nd Bundesliga and was thus able to celebrate its chances of promotion. In 38 games he scored five goals. Through a negative series of 13 to 18 points Matchday 00:12 and 4:29 doors slid the KSC as a climber in the Round 1984/85 in the table dramatically. Lothar Buchmann replaced from March 25, 1985 previous coach Olk, yet from Karlsruhe rose as 17. Theiss had in his fourth season at KSC denied 32 games and scored three goals in the process. After a total of 125 league inserts with eight goals for the KSC he took to Round 1985/86 on the supply of Eintracht Frankfurt and moved to the Main.
Under the training conducted by Dietrich Weise Theiss was used in his first year in Frankfurt in 28 games and won with seven goals the " scorer crown" of concord. The eagle-bearer achieved only 35 goals this round and were able to occupy only the 15th place. The personal good performance of Theiss documented by two vocations in the DFB Junior National Team U-21 in October 1985 and April 1986. On 15 October 1985 he conducted as a sweeper in Karlsruhe in the European Championship qualifier against Portugal defender Stefan Reuter, Jurgen Kohler and Michael Frontzeck in the 2-0 victory. On April 8, 1986, he was with goalkeeper Bodo Illgner defense support in the 2-1 success in Kehl against Switzerland. The second Eintracht year 1986/87, was under the negative sign of the dismissal of coach Dietrich Weise 3 December 1986 and after tearing a ligament on September 20, 1986 at the home game against Werder Bremen, where Theiss was replaced after 32 minutes by. Only 18 games, 21 February 1987 Theiss could actively intervene in the game again. Meanwhile Manfred Binz was nachgerückt on the Libero position and Theiss had to settle with two goals at the round end with 14 inserts. Theiss was with Eintracht Frankfurt unable to agree on a contract extension and was the beginning of the 1987/88 season on ice. A flash transfer to FC Schalke 04, already announced by the club as perfect, failed in the financing. In the late fall of 1987 (November) he was then part of the transfer of Uli Stein concord - he was loaned to the Hamburger SV in return. This happened even under coach Josip Skoblar because the Yugoslavian but was replaced from November 11, 1987 Willi Reimann and not planned with Theiss, he came in the round 1987/88 to no further use Bundesliga. In order to regain match fitness so he took to Round 1988/89 on the supply of Viktoria Aschaffenburg from the 2nd Bundesliga.
Aschaffenburg, Homburg and Berlin, 1988-1995
In Stadium on Schönbusch then the ex - youth national team could fully play through a game again and completed for the team of coach Kurt Geinzer (up to April 1989 in office) 36 of the discharged 38 round matches. Due to the weakness Away - 7:31 points - could not accomplish in the league, the good home record of 27:11 points. On the final day, 18 June, 1989, Aschaffenburg lost with 1:2 goals for the SG Wattenscheid 09 and SpVgg Bayreuth won their home game against Darmstadt 98 with 4:1 goals, reaching the point tie with Viktoria, but had the better goal and thus remained in the 2nd Bundesliga. Klaus Theiss and his teammates Rudi Bommer, Hans -Peter Knecht, Peter Löhr and Claus riding Maier went up against it from the amateur in stock.
In the runner-up of the second league and promoted to the Bundesliga, FC 08 Homburg, Klaus Theiss got to round 1989/90 with another opportunity his skills in football Upper House to prove. But his susceptibility to injury mainly in the ankle, leaving only 17 appearances for the team of the first chairman Udo Geitlinger. With the Homburgern he started with a 0-3 away defeat on July 28, 1989 in the round and denied the 33rd match day, in a 1-0 home win against VfL Bochum, his 17th game of the round. As a final light, the Saarland came after 34 match days, by the way, in the second league. Wolfgang Fahrian, the adviser of Theiss, mediated in winter 1990/91 his transfer to the club from Jack White to Berlin to Tennis Borussia Berlin. With the " Violet" Theiss rose in 1993 in the 2nd Bundesliga, but was due to an injury - Theiss had to cope with a total of seven surgeries in his career and each subsequent periods of three to six months - 1993/94 contest only three games and finished as sports invalid in 1995 his career.
After the football
Theiss, who had left school after GCSEs, went through after football training as a travel agent and guides today (2008) in Erlensee in Hanau, a travel agency with three employees.