Thomas Eichin

Thomas gauge ( born October 9, 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German sports manager and former football player.

Career as a player

Gauge was in 1984 with the U -16 national champions. While still a youth player joined in 1985 by the gauge Freiburger FC to Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he played as a defender for almost 15 years in the highest German football league. His first Bundesliga Match of the right footer on October 3, 1987 at 3-1 against Eintracht Frankfurt. With Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1992 he reached the final of the DFB Cup, which was lost to Hannover 96. For the second half of the 1994/95 season he was awarded in the 2nd Bundesliga for 1.FC Nuremberg, for which he played ten games. For the 1995/96 season he returned to Mönchengladbach. In the 0-2 defeat at home to Bayern Munich on 16 December 1998 he made his last game in the Bundesliga; he was replaced in the 68th minute.

Gauge was up to 31 matchday of the 2008/09 season (May 8, 2009) with 180 Bundesliga appearances and no goal has been scored the torungefährlichste outfield player in the Bundesliga, but was replaced shortly thereafter by Markus Schuler of Arminia Bielefeld, for the up end of the same season came to 182 games without a goal. During his time at the 1st FC Nuremberg gauge scored in the second league match against SV Meppen his only goal as a professional football player, but the game 0-2 was evaluated for Meppen, since Nuremberg coach Günter Sebert with the Austrians Reinhold Hintermaier illegally brought a fourth foreigner had.

Career as a sports manager

Gauge graduated from 1993 to 1995 at a private educational institution, a sports management training. After his playing days as a professional footballer in the ice hockey club Kölner Haie 1999 signed him initially as head of marketing in 2001 as Managing Director. With the club, he won the 1999 Spengler Cup, 2002, the German Cup in 2004 and the German Ice Hockey Cup. On December 27, 2012 football Bundesliga club Werder Bremen announced the commitment Eichins as the new sporting director in the spring of 2013. After a presentation at Werder coach Schaaf in his vacation home in Austria in December 2012 gauge signed a contract until 2016 and participated in the February 15, 2013 carries on. This gauge became the successor of Klaus Allofs, who moved to VfL Wolfsburg on.