Rudi Völler
Rudi Völler 2004
Rudolf " Rudi " Völler ( born April 13, 1960 in Hanau ) is a former German football player. With the national team in 1990 he was World Champion, in addition he won the 1993 Champions League with his former club Olympique Marseille. From 2000 to 2004 he was team manager of the German national football team, which was under his direction in 2002 Vice World Champion. He currently holds the post of sporting director at the Bundesliga Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
- 4.1 As a player
- 4.2 As a coach
Life
Youth
Völler was born in 1960 in Hanau as one of four sons of Kurt and Ilse Völler. His father was a skilled lathe worked as a warehouse manager and was later youth workers at the local football club TSV 1860 Hanau, where he has been active as a player. The mother worked as a seamstress and maid some extra money. At eight years old his father took him for the first time for training.
Voeller wanted to play from the beginning only in the storm and emerged quickly as a talent. From the C- youth, he played in the storm of the TSV and scored from there on 40 to 50 goals a season. At 15, he was discovered by talent scouts Offenbacher Hermann Nuber.
He attended secondary school and a church Hanauer called " Sunday School ". After his high-school graduation, the Kickers Offenbach wanted to sign him, but he was also a decision of the mother Ilse, an apprenticeship. He worked as an office administrator trainee on the Kickers - office and later at the company LÖBRO that produced cardan shafts for cars and trucks.
Offenbach and 1860 Munich
With 16 years Völler trained for the first time with the first team of Kickers Offenbach, who was playing in the 2nd Bundesliga Süd. As a 17 -year-old he gave in November 1977 his debut in the first team. This season he made five more league matches and scored his first Profitor in January 1978 for the Kickers.
Prior to the 1978/79 season he signed his first professional contract with the Kickers. He played until the end of the season 1979/80 in Offenbach am Main and brought it to end up on a total of 67 games with 18 goals.
In 1980, Voeller for 700,000 DM to release first division club TSV 1860 Munich. In his first Erstligasaison he scored nine goals in 33 games, but the 1860 got off to the 2nd Bundesliga. The targeted direct resurgence was, although Rudi Völler with 37 goals scorer, 1981/82 missed by one point. Because of great financial burden deprived the DFB TSV license, a relegation to the third-class Bavarian League was the result. Völler then moved up to the ambitious first division club Werder Bremen, who had finished the previous season as a newly promoted to the fifth place. He should be as a center forward the successor of the former national player Erwin Kostedde near Bremen.
In the spring of 1982, the then national coach Jupp, outfitted Völler had been nominated as the only second division player in the preliminary 40 -player squad for the World Cup in Spain. Eventually moved, outfitted but before the established striker Klaus Fischer and Horst Hrubesch.
From 1979 to 1982 he made 19 games for the U- 21 team, scoring 10 goals. In 1982 he became Under-21 European Vice Champion and scored in the first final in Sheffield against England goal for the German team in the 1-3 defeat. In the return match won 3-2 in Bremen, he did not play. In addition, he played three games in 1980 for the B team.
Werder Bremen
In the season 1982/83 Werder Bremen was on points with champions Hamburger SV runner and Voeller in his first season Bremen Bundesliga top scorer. On November 17, 1982, he also made his debut in the 0-1 defeat in Northern Ireland in the German national team, when he came in to replace Lothar Matthäus.
The disappointing for the West German selection 1984 European many of his teammates did not reach nearly their limits. Voeller, however, achieved in the three group matches, according to which Germany was eliminated, the only two goals for Germany. Thus he was one of the few West German players who were able to record the EM at least in part as a success.
In the seasons 1984/85 and 1985/86 was followed by other vice - championships with Werder Bremen, in 1986 again due to goal difference.
More career
In 1987 he moved from Werder Bremen to AS Roma in Serie A in which he reached the third place with his club in the season 1987/88. At the European Championships in 1988 he was employed in all four games, scoring both goals in the match against Spain in the 2-0 victory.
Two years later, in 1990, was Völler with the West German national team won the World Cup. In the 1-0 win over Argentina in the final at Rome it was Voeller, who was fouled in the penalty area. The subsequent penalty Andreas Brehme converted to 1:0.
With the AS Roma he won the 1991 Italian Cup in the same year and reached the finals of the UEFA Cup, where his team but Inter Milan defeated. 1992 came Völler and the Roma into the quarter-finals in the European Cup Winners' Cup, but where the team was eliminated by eventual finalists AS Monaco, who then lost the final against Völlers former club Werder Bremen.
When Lothar Matthäus in 1992 at the knee injured and could not participate in the European Championship, Voeller was captain of the national team. At the European Championships in 1992, however, he broke in the first game against the CIS arm and could therefore no longer be used in the other games.
For the season 1992/93 he moved to Olympique Marseille, where he - as the first German footballer ever - 1993 won the Champions League. Völler was replaced in the final, which won the French 1-0 against AC Milan in the 78th minute against Jean -Christophe Thomas.
With the Football World Cup 1994, he scored in the second round against Belgium 2 goals (final score 3-2 ). The quarterfinal against Bulgaria was his last game for the national team.
For the national team, he played until 1994, 90 times and scored 47 goals, making him together with Jürgen Klinsmann makes it the fourth most successful strikers of the German national team, he played 15 World Cup matches, scoring 8 goals and 8 EM games where he scored 4 goals.
Bayer Leverkusen
In 1994 he returned to Germany. For Bayer 04 Leverkusen, he completed 62 Bundesliga matches and scored 26 goals before he finally ended his active career in 1996, thereafter to work as sports director for the club. His contract runs until 2017.
Football coach and manager
On 2 July 2000, shortly after the European Championships, in which the German national team was eliminated under Erich Ribbeck as the defending champion in the first round as a group Last, Voeller was team leader of the DFB.
Originally Völler should be a year long hold the post (until 2001 ) until Christoph Daum's contract expired at Bayer 04 Leverkusen and this could take up the post. Of thumb is no longer included due to proven drug use for the post of national coach, Voeller was discontinued indefinitely. For less than a month he was in the autumn of 2000, after the dismissal of Christoph Daum simultaneously Interim coach for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
His greatest success came Voeller 2002. Contrary to many predictions of experts who had predicted an early off, he managed the German national team at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan to the finals. Germany lost to Brazil 0-2.
For Völler made headlines on September 6, 2003: After a disappointing 0-0 of the German national team in a European Championship qualifier in Iceland against the " Brazilians of the North Atlantic " (quote Gerhard Delling ) he said in a live interview with ARD presenter Waldemar Hartmann his displeasure, after he was questioned about the poor performance of his team. He attacked on camera in particular the commentators Gerhard Delling and Günter Netzer for their opinion of his improper and negative reporting. Hartmann, who did not want to accept it, was therefore also rebuked by the German team manager. Voeller later apologized publicly for his choice of words, but maintained his fundamental criticism of his view firmly desavouierenden reporting.
After the German national team was already eliminated in the 2004 European Championship in the first round, said Voller on 24 June 2004 his resignation as team manager of the German national team.
On 30 August 2004 the new team manager Rudi Voeller in Italian football club AS Roma. On 25 September 2004, he joined because of the lack of sporting success but back again.
Since January 18, 2005 Voeller has again acted as sports director of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. On 16 September 2005, he was the successor of Klaus Augenthaler caretaker coach for three Bundesliga games. On 9 October 2005, he gave up the coaching reins to Michael Skibbe and has since worked again until at least 2017 as sports director.
Records
73 goals in his first 100 games for one club (Werder Bremen) mean football league record.
Achievements
As a player
- World Cup: 1990 with Germany
- Vice World Champion: 1986 Germany
- Champions League winner: 1993 with Olympique Marseille
- Coppa Italia: 1991 with AS Roma
- Scorer in the Bundesliga: 1983
- Scorer in the Bundesliga 2: 1982
- Scorer in the Coppa Italia: 1991
- Scorer of the UEFA Cup: 1991
As a coach
- Vice World Champion: 2002 Germany
Honors
Private
Voeller has been married since 1995 in second marriage with the Italian Sabrina. From this relationship, he has two sons, and another son and a daughter from his first marriage. His son Marco Völler plays in the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga for the Hanau White Wings.
Criticism
In the press Völler was criticized because he was promoting the controversial energy provider Teldafax. Since summer 2011, Völler is seen as a promotional figure for savings banks.
Others
During the 1990 World Cup, he was repeatedly spat upon by the Dutch international Frank Rijkaard. Due to his subsequent complaint to the referee Völler was then sent off along with Rijkaard.
During his time in Völler was nicknamed Tante Käthe because of his hairstyle. Legendary were the long drawn Ruuuuuuuuudi shouts in German football stadiums as well ( during and after the 2002 World Cup ), the song " There's only ein'n Rudi Völler " to the tune of Guantanamera. Also from the Cologne dialect band The Hoehner it is sung in the 2001 title Tante Käthe as national coach.
Film
- Wolfgang Schoen: Legends - Rudi Völler. TV Schoen film