Manfred Binz
Manni Binz Eintracht Frankfurt Museum 2008
Manfred " Manni " Binz ( born September 22, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German football player. During his active football career in 1988 with the Libero Eintracht Frankfurt first DFB Cup winner and 1992 with the German national team vice European champion.
Career as a player
Association
Manfred Binz was from the season 1986/87 the undisputed defensive leader of Eintracht Frankfurt, who completed eight years in 246 Bundesliga games in a row and the nickname Manni received the Libero at this time. Although Frankfurt has always belonged to the title contenders in the early 1990s, Binz was denied during his active playing career winning the German championship. Thus, the DFB Cup victory was in 1988 for him the sporting highlight of his playing career.
In Frankfurt it was in March 1994 after leaving in the UEFA Cup with coach Klaus Toppmöller a rift heralding the slow departure of the libero. The waves smoothed out, although again, but after relegation from the Bundesliga Eintracht Frankfurt in 1996, he left towards Italy. From then on he played for the Italian second division club Brescia Calcio, with whom he immediately ascended to the first division. During the winter break 1997/98, the decline followed in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund in his pro career trailed off slowly.
Largely considered only as a reserve player, he returned in the summer of 1999 in his home Hessian, calculated to Frankfurt archrival, the second division side Kickers Offenbach, back. There, the descent was followed a year later in the Regionalliga Süd. Binz was the Kickers two years faithfully and then switched back to Eintracht Frankfurt, for their amateur team he played eight games in 2003 again in the Regionalliga Süd.
National
Binz denied a total of 14 games for the national team. For the first time he was summoned by coach Berti Vogts in August 1990 in a friendly against Portugal (1-1). Soon, Binz developed the root - Libero of the team. In June 1992, the last test match before the European Championships in Sweden in 1992, Binz managed a 1-1 draw with Northern Ireland is a hit in the national team.
But the tournament in Sweden should not affect good for Binz career: He was soon for gross errors in the defensive lines - made personally responsible, so his ambitions for a longer career in - especially after the 1-3 defeat against the Netherlands DFB team have been completed. After the three preliminary round games in Sweden ( even if the next round was secured ) he never again played one match for the German national team. However, as the team reached the final ( and lost with 0-2 against Denmark ), to Binz Vice-European Champion can name.
Career as a (co -) trainer
From January 2004 to the end of the 2007 /08 Binz worked as an assistant coach at Kickers Offenbach. In the wake of the dismissal of coach Jorn Andersen after relegation to the Regionalliga also assistant coach, Manfred Binz was released on May 25, 2008 in Offenbach. Since then, Manfred Binz worked as an assistant coach at FSV Frankfurt. Of these tasks, but he was released in October 2009.
In the season 2010/11 Manfred Binz charge of the first team of the Frankfurt Group division club FC Germania 1911 Enkheim as head coach.
On 22 February 2011 Kickers Offenbach announced that Binz is part of the coaching staff led by head coach Wolfgang Wolf. This Binz is part of the coaching staff of the Offenbach for the second time. However, few days was discharged after Binz beginning the head coach Wolf. After the dismissal of Wolf 's successor Binz Gerstner took over on April 30, 2011 along with Tobias Dudek interim basis as coach. On February 6, 2013, was suspended along with head coach Arie van Lent, after the Kickers had a run of six defeats in seven games without a win.
Success as a professional footballer
- DFB Cup (1): DFB-Pokal 1987/88 with Eintracht Frankfurt.
- Vice-European Champion ( 1): EM 1992 Germany