Marco Bode

Marco Bode ( born July 23, 1969 in Osterode am Harz ) is a former German football player and now a board member of the SV Werder Bremen. It shall only ten cautions in 379 games as one of the fairest player in Bundesliga history. 1996 and 2002, he was awarded the Bremen athlete of the year.

Biography

Family and Education

His childhood was spent in the Bode Osterode district Schwiegershausen. After his graduation in 1988 he began studying mathematics at the University of Hagen, after studying philosophy at the University of Bremen. Both courses he gave up because the time in addition to the work as a professional footballer was not sufficient. After the end of his footballing career, he completed a one-year crash course in business administration.

Professional footballer

In 1988, Bode of his home club VfR Osterode 08 to the amateurs of Werder Bremen. There he was discovered by Otto Rehhagel and came into the first team of Werder. In his playing days, he was from 1989 to 2002 for Werder Bremen in 379 games and scored 101 active matches, which he is top scorer Bremer. Get him in all his 13 seasons for Werder at least three goals per season. In addition, he scored 23 goals in European club competition for Werder. Marco Bode was one of the fairest German professional football player. In 535 games for Werder and Germany Bode has never been sent off ( second yellow or red card) or was disabled due to accumulated yellow cards for a game. Overall, he only received 15 yellow cards in his 13 years as a pro.

With Bremen was the versatile left-footed 1993 German champions, in the years 1991, 1994 and 1999 DFB Cup winner in 1992, he won the European Cup with Werder Cup Winners' Cup. Bode is one of seven honorary captains of Werder Bremen.

National

From 1995 to 2002 he contributed a total of 40 times the jersey of the German national football team and scored nine goals. He was with the team football champions in England and the Football World Cup 2002 in Japan Vice World Champion 1996. His first international game he played on 15 December 1995 against South Africa (0-0 ), his last on 30 June 2002 in the final of the football World Cup in 2002 against Brazil ( 0-2).

After the 2002 World Cup, Bode ended his career as a professional football player.

After the footballer career

In the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal Bode worked as a reporter for the ARD. For the season 2007/ 08 the pay-TV channel Premiere him committed as a reporter. Furthermore, since 2005 he is partner of the sports marketing agency deepblue sports and where he also works as managing director since 2010. It also functions as a format - counselor for the Hamburg production company Nordic film production.

Bode also holds positions on the Board of Trustees of the youth football foundation. The Youth Soccer Foundation was established in 2000 by Jürgen Klinsmann, another successful national team as well as the lecturers of the football coach - special course. Bode is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace.

On March 29, 2008 Bode was the first athlete to cultural and Peace Award of Villa Ichon in Bremen. Since November 5, 2012 Bode is a member of the board of SV Werder Bremen. For his services to the sport in Lower Saxony, he was inducted into the Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.