Pierre Littbarski
Pierre Michael " Litti " Littbarski ( born April 16, 1960 in Berlin ) is a former German football player and current football coach.
Playing career
Littbarski came to the Bundesliga Season 1978/79 from Berlin Hertha Zehlendorf 1 FC Köln, where he was at first, later used as a striker as an attacking midfielder. Littbarski scored for Cologne in 406 Bundesliga games, a total of 116 goals. In 1986 he moved to France to Racing Paris, denied there 32 games in Division 1, scoring four goals. However, he felt uncomfortable in Paris and came in his second season there in only two point games used. Therefore Littbarski returned in August 1987 to Cologne; assuming the responsibility to his transfer, he presented the first FC Cologne loan. In May 1993 Littbarski finally went to JEF United Ichihara to the newly established Japanese J. League. In 1996 he moved, for the last time in his playing career, the club Brummell Sendai.
A particularly important goal of his career scoring Littbarski 1983 in a 1-0 success of the 1st FC Cologne over local rivals SC Fortuna Köln in the final of the DFB-Pokal.
In 1985 Littbarski was voted by viewers the ARD sports show on the scorers of the year.
Statistics
National
From 1981 to 1990 contributed Littbarski 73 times the jersey of the German national football team, scoring 18 goals - including three World Cup goals. He participated in three World Cups (1982 in Spain, in 1986 in Mexico and 1990 in Italy ) and two European Football Championships (1984 in France and 1988 in Germany ) part. The highlight of his career was winning the World Championship title in 1990 in Italy. Littbarski belonged to the team that defeated Argentina in the final 1-0.
Achievements as a player
Coaching career
His coaching career began Littbarski in Japan, where he 1997, a class S license was given, the highest possible, which allows the training of J. League clubs. From 1999 to 2000 he coached the J. League side Yokohama FC, with whom he won the championship in both years. He then worked as an assistant coach of Berti Vogts at Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Later he was responsible for the team of MSV Duisburg in the second Bundesliga. From 2004, he took care of the newly-launched A-League for the Sydney FC, with whom he won the Australian Masters title in March 2006. Because of disputes about the contract extension he left the club on 3 May 2006. In December of the same year he signed a one year contract with the Japanese first division relegated Avispa Fukuoka. On 4 July 2008, the club announced on its website the dismissal of the coach known, although a contract extension was agreed to January 2009, in February. A few weeks later Littbarski was presented as the new coach of the Iranian Association Saipa Tehran, but already on 21 October 2008, this was again the separation of Littbarski known. On 4 November 2008, the gambling in the Swiss Axpo Super League club FC Vaduz Liechtenstein Littbarski committed as successor to the former coach Heinz Hermann. On 12 April 2010 he was discharged at FC Vaduz.
Since the season 2010/11 Littbarski is assistant coach of Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg. After the dismissal of Steve McClaren on 7 February 2011, he was interim coach of the Wolves, for which he stood in five games on the sidelines, four of which were lost. Littbarski was replaced on 18 March 2011 by Felix Magath, under which he then became the assistant coach. Since February 1, 2012 he directs the work area "Player observation and development" of the VfL .
After the active time
During the FIFA World Cup 2006, Pierre Littbarski operated as a co- commentator for live broadcasts of RTL.
Pierre Littbarski serves on the Board of Trustees of the youth football foundation. The Foundation was established in 2000 by Littbarski, Klinsmann and other successful national team as well as lecturers of the football coach - special course.
Private life
From Littbarskis first marriage ( to 1994 ) derived two daughters. His second wife was married to a Japanese woman, with her he has two sons.
He lives with his family in Wolfsburg.
In 1994 he published his autobiography Litti - My story by Hoffmann und Campe Verlag. In February 2005, his first wife had the " collection Littbarski " auction on the Internet, including Littis Golden Camera, various football awards and trophies and commemorative photos, sunglasses and clothing the footballer.
Others
Littbarski was appointed in 1989 by the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU for re-election Richard von Weizsäcker to the presidency in the Federal Assembly.
His first WRC assignment had, strictly speaking, in 1974 Littbarski - the preliminary round of the GDR against Chile, he worked as a ball boy at the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
Littbarski occurs as a character in the Japanese textbook " Japanese in the blinking of an eye " under the Japanese name " Litti ".