Thomas Häßler
Thomas Hassler 2008
Thomas " Icke " Hassler (* May 30, 1966 in Berlin ) is a former German football player. He played mostly in the midfield. His greatest successes were the World Champion title in 1990 and the European Championship in 1996.
Playing career
At club level
Hassler began his career at Meteor 06 Berlin, moved in 1979 to the Reinickendorfer foxes and 1984 1st FC Cologne. Hassler graduated 149 games ( 17 goals ) for the Rhinelander, before he was hired after the 1990 World Cup in Italy for a transfer fee of 15 million marks from Juventus. After only one year in Turin, he spent the equivalent of 14 million marks in the Italian capital for AS Roma.
In 1994, Hassler for a fee of seven million mark back in the Bundesliga Karlsruher SC. With Thomas Hassler, the association was able to maintain for many years in the top third of the table, but in 1998 rose Hassler with the KSC from.
After 118 games and 28 goals Hassler then moved to Borussia Dortmund. There remained for him mostly just a place on the bench, because his position was already occupied by Andreas Möller and he fell out with the former Dortmund coach Michael Skibbe.
In 1999, he played for TSV 1860 München. With Thomas Hassler succeeded the Munich to occupy the fourth place in the Bundesliga season 1999/2000. Although it failed to qualify for the Champions League, but Hassler could once again show his skills. In 115 league appearances for 1860 Munich Hassler scored 21 goals and prepared 32 more ago. In 2003, his contract was not renewed for reasons of cost at TSV.
After a long period without simplifying Hassler played the SV Austria Salzburg in Austria.
Thomas Hassler ended his career as a football player on 22 August 2005 with a farewell match in Cologne. In an Allstar team played, among others, Harald Schumacher, Jürgen Kohler, Hans -Peter Lehnhoff, Lothar Matthäus, Thomas Berthold and Birgit Prinz. In his Bundesliga time it brought Hassler total of 400 missions, in which he was able to achieve 68 goals.
National
In 1987 Hassler part with the Bundeswehr 's national team at the Military World Championship in Italy and finished second. In the German national Hassler played between August 1988 and June 2000 101 times, scoring eleven goals.
Because of his achievements at the European Championships in 1992, he was elected to Germany's footballer of the year. 1996 Hassler was the European Championship triumph in Germany also in the national team.
His most important goal he scored on 15 November 1989 in qualifying for the 1990 World Cup 2-1 against Wales in Mungerdorferstadion. This gate, paved the way to participate in the World Cup and allowed the national as the world title.
Hassler is one with 101 completed internationals next Lothar Matthäus, Miroslav Klose, Philipp Lahm, Lukas Podolski, Jürgen Klinsmann, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Jürgen Kohler and Franz Beckenbauer to those nine players who have 100 or more disputed matches for the DFB. Together with Jürgen Klinsmann, he was German record player at the European Championships ( per 13 games) until Philipp Lahm surpassed that record with 14 games at Euro 2012.
Coaching career
From October 2006 to October 2009 was Thomas Hassler technology coach of the first team of the 1st FC Cologne, after he was in the youth sector of the association operates. From February to November 2007, Hassler was also assistant coach Berti Vogts in the Nigerian national team. After the departure of Ümit Özat as a technology trainer of the 1st FC Cologne, Hassler returned in February 2010 in the same function back to the training ground of FC professionals. With the commitment of Ståle Solbakken the contract was terminated at the end of the 2010/11 season.
Others
Because of its origin from Berlin Häßlers nickname Icke 's ( Berlin dialect: I ).
Häßlers marriage made headlines as at 1860 Munich manager Edgar Geenen was dismissed because he had an affair with Häßlers wife Angela. Thomas and Angela Hassler parted the end of 1999, they have three children together.
Thomas Hassler had an older brother who wanted to become a professional football player. Andreas Hassler, however, died in 1980 at the age of 17 from leukemia. His younger brother Sascha also played at FC Cologne 1, but could not prevail there. He brought it to no use in the Bundesliga.
Today Thomas Hassler is a member of the Board of Trustees of the youth football foundation. The Youth Soccer Foundation was established in 2000 by Jürgen Klinsmann, other internationals and the lecturers of the football coach - special course.
The music fan is co-founder of the Munich music label MTM Music.
Achievements
As a national player
- World Champion: 1990
- European Championship: 1996
- European runners-up: 1992
- Olympic Games 1988: Bronze Medal
- Vice - military world champion: 1987
With the club
- German Vice-Champion: 1988/89, 1989/90
- UEFA Cup Runners-up: 1985/86
- DFB Cup Runners-up: 1995/96
- Coppa Italia runners-up: 1992/93
Personal Awards
- Germany's Footballer of the Year: 1989, 1992
- Third parties in the election for FIFA World Player of the Year: 1992
- Appointment to the All- Star team EM 1992