Pablo Thiam

Pablo Thiam in February 2007

Pablo Demba Thiam ( born January 3, 1974 in Conakry ) is a former German football player guinean - and current - functionary.

Career as a player

Clubs

Thiam grew up as the son of a Guinean diplomats in the former German capital Bonn. When MSV Bonn he started playing football. The age of 15 he moved to the youth department of the 1st FC Cologne. With the B- youth of the 1st FC Cologne in 1990 he was German champion. With the A - youth, he reached the final of the 1991 DFB youth football Cup in 1992 and the final of the German Cup.

On November 5, 1994 ( 12th Round ) he gave in the 1:3 home defeat against Borussia Mönchengladbach his debut in Germany's highest division. Until shortly before the game he did not even notice that he is to accrue. Nine missions later, on 1 April 1994 (24th Round ), he scored the 1-0 goal in a 3-1 home victory over his future employer, FC Bayern Munich, his first Bundesliga goal.

In 1998 he moved to VfB Stuttgart. In 2001, he came to Bayern Munich, but could not enforce here.

In January 2003, he moved to VfL Wolfsburg. There was Thiam regular player, leader and captain of the Green-Whites. When Klaus Augenthaler coach in Wolfsburg, he moved more and more into second place and was often reserve players. Between 2006 and 2008, therefore, he completed only 16 league games and was also used in the amateur team of the club. At the end of the 2007/ 08 Thiam ended his career after 311 league games and 23 goals. With this number of league games, he still ranked well in September 2012 in ninth place ranking foreign player with the most Bundesliga inserts. Furthermore graduated Thiam 17 DFB Cup games ( 4x for Cologne, 5x for Stuttgart, Munich 3x, 5x for Wolfsburg ) and 8 international cup inserts ( 7x Cologne, 1x for Wolfsburg in the UEFA Intertoto Cup )

National

For the national team of Guinea Thiam played 31 times and scored one goal. He participated in the African Championships in 1994, 1998 and 2006. In the first two tournaments, he retired with the team in third place from as early as the respective preliminaries. 2006, when the first group, they lost in the quarter -finals Senegal 2:3.

Career in Management

Under then coach and sports director Felix Magath Thiam received a contract dated to 2010 as a management assistant, now he holds the office of athletic director of the U-23 Regional team of VfL Wolfsburg.

Achievements

  • World Cup winners in 2001
  • A finalist in the Junior Championship in 1992
  • Finalist in the DFB youth football Cup of A-Juniors 1991
  • German Junior B Champion 1990

Others

Thiam is involved in the network ark. In addition, Thiam Since 2013 engaged in Show Racism the Red Card - Germany eV and participated in the campaign "Our team against racism."

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