Thomas Meggle
Thomas Meggle in 2008
Thomas Meggle ( born February 22, 1975 in Munich ) is a former German football player and current coach. His greatest successes came at FC St. Pauli, with which he ascended twice in the 1st Bundesliga and once in the second Bundesliga and reached the semi-finals of the DFB - Cup 2005/ 06. Most recently, he played since the season 2005/ 06 St. Pauli FC for the central midfield, where he ended his professional career with the end of the season 2009/10. In 2010 he was elected the 100th anniversary club in the Jahr100Elf of FC St. Pauli.
Playing career
The Munich grown Meggle began at the age of six years playing football in the sports friends Harteck and played there for seven years in the F, E, D and C youth to then join the Youth B Wacker Munich. With FC Augsburg 1993 he became German A Youth Champion. He played three years at FC Starnberg, before he first joined the professional team of FC St. Pauli in 1997 ..
Meggle played for TSV 1860 München, FC St. Pauli and Hansa Rostock in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga and in the Regionalliga Nord (3rd League ). In addition to 75 Premier League matches (11 goals), he completed 92 games in the Bundesliga 2 ( 18 goals ) and 51 Regional encounters (16 goals). In the 2000 /01 season he wore as a playmaker crucial for the sensational rise of FC St. Pauli in the Bundesliga with 1. With 70 goals was the FC St. Pauli, acted as " relegated number 1" before the season, this season the top scorers in German professional football. 13 of which contributed Meggle, which was exceeded in the internal scorers Statistics of FC St. Pauli only by Marcel Rath. In the following season 2001/2 he was with 10 goals ( and 4 assists ) of the most prolific players of FC St. Pauli. These results also his goal to make it 1-0 counts in the legendary World Cup victory Heritage winner game (final score 2-1 ) against FC Bayern Munich, one of the most important moments of his career.
After 1997 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2002 Thomas Meggle played since the start of the season 2005/ 06 for the third time at FC St. Pauli, with which he ascended to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2007. At the end of the 2009/10 season Meggle ended his active career at the age of 35 years after he was unable to fully recover from a knee injury.
Coaching career
Meggle acquired in April 2009, the A- license and worked as an assistant coach of his former club FC St. Pauli, first under Holger Stanislawski, with the start of the 2011/12 season under Andre Schubert. After a leave of absence by André Schubert took over from September 26 to October 7, 2012, together with assistant coach Timo Schultz and goalkeeper coach Matthias Hain interim basis, the management of the first team of FC St. Pauli.
On March 27, 2013, was the football coach License presented as one of 22 graduates from the DFB training manager Frank Wormuth. He was the second best of the vintage. In addition, he now has the UEFA Pro Licence.
For the 2013/14 season Meggle takes over the second team (U -23) of FC St. Pauli by Jörn Grosskopf.
Private life and activities as a publisher
Thomas Meggle lives with his wife and children since 2005 in Hamburg- Nienstedten.
In August 2008, he started as a publisher with Stefan Kofahl the weekly newspaper Hamburger amateur football " soccer HAMBURG ". After setting the print edition in the summer of 2010 exists " Soccer Hamburg " as an online portal " fussballhamburg.de " on.
Since 2009, Thomas Meggle plays regularly as part of the charity game for the benefit of children with cardiac kicking with heart to the team of FC St. Pauli Allstars against the doctors team " placebo Kickers " at the University Hospital Hamburg- Eppendorf.
In summer 2010 Meggle founded with several business partners the publisher Tom2M - Thomas Meggle Medien GmbH & Co. KG, the first product to FC St. Pauli Calendar " Pauli Comix 2010-11 " of the artist Guido Schröter brought to market.