Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer (1990 )
Matthias Sammer ( born September 5, 1967 in Dresden ) is a German football official, former football player and football coach. He is currently sporting director at Bayern Munich.
Sammer was an active football player 1986-1997 national team, first in East Germany after German reunification in the total German national team. He also played for the SG Dynamo Dresden, VfB Stuttgart, Inter Milan and Borussia Dortmund.
During his active career Sammer won as a footballer in the 1990s almost all the major titles in European football. He was Champions League winners, World Cup winner and three times German champion. With the German national team in 1996 he became European Champion. As a football coach, he won in 2002 with Borussia Dortmund, the German championship. Sammer is one of six players in the history of the Bundesliga, which were both as a player and as a coach German football champions.
Matthias Sammer was 2006-2012 sports director of the German Football Association. Since July 2, 2012, he is a board for professional players Affairs of FC Bayern München AG and responsible for coordination and young talent.
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Life
Career as a player
Early years at Dynamo Dresden
Matthias Sammer started playing football as a nine year old boy in 1976 in the children's team of SG Dynamo Dresden. He thus continuing his father Klaus Sammer tradition, who played from 1965 to 1975 also at Dynamo Dresden. By 1985, Matthias Sammer went through all youth teams of Dresdner, most recently played for Dynamo Dresden in the junior league. In 1985, he was with the Dynamo Juniors team GDR champion and cup winner. His start in the league team of the men he gave a nearly 18 - year-old in the season 1985 / 86th On 2 Season Match the top division of the East German Football Association, August 24, 1985, he was under his father as a coach in the encounter 1.FC Magdeburg - Dynamo Dresden (2:3) used in the last eight final minutes. During this season, he was indeed used in 18 league games point, but completed only six games over the full 90 minutes. Nevertheless, he was always used as a striker, with eight hits second best scorer of his team behind Ralf Minge (9). 1986/87 to Sammer, now fought for a starting berth under coach Eduard Geyer, already as a left winger with 20 league assignments had, this time ranged seven gates to the scorer of Dresden. During the season 1987/88 Sammer was recalled by coach Geyer in the middle that what it did not stop with eight point game gates continue to be among Dynamos top scorers. With 25 missions Sammer graduated in the 1988/89 season, his most league matches of his career and won with the East German Championship for his first title in the men's area. His most successful DDR - Oberliga season and its also the last game in the DDR operation completed Sammer 1989/90. He drew with Dynamo Dresden, the Double, league and cup. During his five seasons in the GDR Oberliga he came there on 102 missions, scoring 39 goals. His biggest international success with Dynamo was the advance up in the UEFA Cup semi-final of the season 1988 / 89th Sammer played a total of 20 European games for the SG Dynamo Dresden, in which he scored two goals.
Club career in Stuttgart, Milan and Dortmund
In the context of political change Sammer left in the summer of 1990, the now renamed 1 FC Dynamo Dresden and moved to VfB Stuttgart. Previously, he had at Bayer 04 Leverkusen a preliminary contract, but this was disbanded. VfB he played 63 Bundesliga games ( 20 goals ), three European games (one goal ) and was established in 1992 with the team of coach Christoph Daum German masters.
For a few months Sammer played in the season 1992/93 for the Italian club Inter Milan in Italy. In eleven games, he scored four goals in Serie A, was there but not happy and therefore accepted an offer from Borussia Dortmund, which led him back into the winter break this season in the German Bundesliga.
There he started on his hitherto typical of him playing position as a midfielder. His first game for Borussia Dortmund he played on February 20, 1993 against VfL Bochum, where he scored the winning goal in a 1-0 draw. In the following season 1993/94 Sammer was used by coach Ottmar Hitzfeld increasingly in the role of libero. This version first published as a stopgap proved thanks to Sammer's strong tackling and anticipation as very successful. The committed for the season 1994/95 actually for the position of libero Brazilian Julio Cesar was henceforth used by some unconvincing games on this position at left-back, and Sammer returned to the libero position at which it ran aground in the national team from 1996.
His time at Borussia Dortmund (115 Erstligaspiele/21 goals and 27 European Cup games without a goal ) was very successful. Under coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, he won two more championships (1995 and 1996), in 1997 after a 3-1 final victory against Juventus in Munich's Olympic Stadium, the UEFA Champions League in 1997 after a victory against Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte World Cup.
National
Sammer was already as a youth player in the squad of GDR youth teams and went through all the ages of the U 16 to U-23 national team. With the U-18 team, he was European champion in 1986 after a 3-1 victory over Italy. He brought his team in the 42nd minute with a 2-1 lead for the first time. A year later, he reached the U -20 team at the Junior World Cup 1987 in Chile to a 3-1 victory over the host the 3rd place.
In the senior team of the GDR, he debuted on 19 November 1986 at the Leipzig Central Stadium at the European Championship qualifier against France ( 0-0), in which he appeared as a substitute in the 77th minute. Until 1988 Sammer substitute remained in the national team, only after he had won a regular place. In addition to the European Championship qualifier in 1986, he played in 1988 and 1989, seven of the eight discharged Cup Qualifiers. By 1990, he was 23 times in the GDR team and was successful with six goals. He was one of the few regulars, who contested the last international match of the GDR national team on 12 September 1990. As team captain, he scored both goals in the 2-0 friendly win against Belgium in Brussels.
With the football Olympic team of the GDR Sammer played two 1988 qualifiers against Portugal ( 3-0) and Iceland (3:0 ) after the GDR had already forfeited the qualification for Seoul 1988.
As the first player from the GDR, he was appointed to the total German national team Berti Vogts. His first game was on 19 December 1990 against Switzerland in Stuttgart ( 4-0), his last game on June 7, 1997 in Kiev against Ukraine in the World Cup qualifiers (0-0 ). In 51 games for the DFB he scored eight goals, his biggest success was winning the European Championship in England in 1996 and the Vice European Championship in Sweden in 1992.
Honors
Outstanding performance at Borussia Dortmund and at the 1996 European Sammer brought the title of the European footballer of the year 1996. He is so since 1956 alongside Franz Beckenbauer and Fabio Cannavaro of a so far only three defensive players who received this award. His other personal honors include two-time selection to Germany's Footballer of the Year in 1995 and 1996.
End of career
After a lengthy knee injury that cost him, among others, to participate in the 1998 World Cup in France, Matthias Sammer in 2000 ended his career as a player. He had played his last league game on October 4, 1997. Sammer's balance sheet amounted to 291 top-flight appearances (84 goals) in the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany and in Italy as well as 50 European games ( three goals). The number of his matches - DFV and DFB added together - is 74 (14 goals).
Successes as a player
Internationally
- U-18 European Championship: 1986 ( DFV)
- European Championship: 1996 ( DFB)
- UEFA Champions League winner: 1997 (Borussia Dortmund)
- World Cup winner: 1997 (Borussia Dortmund)
Germany
- DDR Champion (2): 1989, 1990 (Dynamo Dresden)
- East German Cup winner: 1990 (Dynamo Dresden)
- German master ( 3): 1992 (VfB Stuttgart), 1995, 1996 (Borussia Dortmund)
- DFB - Supercup winner (2): 1995, 1996 (Borussia Dortmund)
Individual Awards
- Germany's Footballer of the Year ( 2): 1995, 1996
- Ballon d'Or: 1996
- Best Player of the Championship: 1996
- All- Star team European Championship: 1996
- European Footballer of the Year 1996
Coaching career
Borussia Dortmund
Sammer, who had obtained his trainer's license in a shortened DFB special training for former national team in 2000, was head coach of Borussia Dortmund in the same year. He replaced Udo Lattek, whom he had already assisted on a transitional basis. In the first year under Sammer the team finished third in the league and qualified for the Champions League. In the second year Sammer was - as a player as before - German Champion and hence youngest champion coach of Bundesliga history. In the same year, 2002, he arrived with the team the final of the UEFA Cup against Feyenoord Rotterdam, in the Dortmund lost with 2:3. Thereafter, however, the success was after: the team was able to in the following season 2002/ 03 the champion will not defend and reached the third place. She also different in the Champions League 2003 already out in the second round. In the 2003 / 04 season, the team failed to qualify for the Champions League and had to play in the UEFA Cup. There they separated already into the second round and finished second in the Bundesliga sixth place. Therefore, the current actually until 2010 Trainer contract between Sammer and Borussia was prematurely ended June 30, 2004 " by mutual consent ".
VfB Stuttgart
On 31 May 2004 Matthias Sammer signed with his former club VfB Stuttgart a contract until 2007, with whom he reached a place in the European Cup of the season 2005/ 06 at the end of season 2004 /05. Despite this performance demanded in May 2005, critical voices his dismissal, as the qualification for the Champions League had been gambled recklessly. On 3 June 2005 agreed VfB Sammer and the early termination of the contract.
Success as a coach
- 2002: German Champion ( Borussia Dortmund)
- 2002: UEFA Cup finalists ( Borussia Dortmund)
DFB sporting director from 2006 to 2012
Since April 1, 2006 Sammer as sports director of the German Football Association ( DFB) worked. With the occupation of the then newly created post, he received it in preference to the former hockey national coach Bernhard Peters, by the then national coach Jürgen Klinsmann favored. In addition Sammer was responsible for the development of talent since 2010 as a junior coordinator of pages of the DFB.
In January 2011, Sammer was courted by the Supervisory Board of the Hamburg SV for the post of sporting director. It should Sammer a negotiated contract have been submitted. However, Sammer decided to fulfill his contract with the DFB. The early resolution agreement in July 2012 with the DFB originally ran until March 31, 2016.
Sports Board at Bayern
On July 2, 2012 Matthias Sammer joined the post of the Executive Board for licensed players affairs at Bayern Munich. After the second season without a title of FC Bayern in the wake of former international and European champion from 1996 replaced the previous director of sport Christian Nerlinger. Due to the upcoming European Football Championship 2012 was agreed to announce the decision until after the tournament. The DFB issued Sammer an appropriate release. In his first season at Bayern, the club won the treble of German Cup, DFB Cup and UEFA Champions League. In March 2014 Sammer was criticized after he accused the konkurierenden clubs inadequate training in the Bundesliga.
Private
Matthias Sammer is the son of the East German international's Klaus Sammer. The trained machine and system mechanic is married, has three children and lives with his family in Grünwald near Munich.