Christian Ziege

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Christian Ziege
Personal information
Date of birth February 1, 1972 (1972-02-01) (age 36)
Place of birth    Berlin, Germany
Playing position Left Midfielder/defender
Youth clubs
1978-1981
1981-1985
1985-1990		 FC Südstern 08 Berlin
TSV Rudow Berlin
Hertha 03 Zehlendorf
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1990-1997
1997-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2004
2004-2005		 Bayern Munich
A.C. Milan
Middlesbrough
Liverpool
Tottenham Hotspur
Borussia Mönchengladbach		 185 (35)
039 0(4)
029 0(6)
016 0(1)
047 0(7)
013 0(0)   
National team
1993-2004 Germany 072 0(9)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Christian Ziege (born February 1, 1972 in Berlin) is a former German football (soccer) defender and midfielder. With the German national team, Ziege won Euro 96. Ziege is currently director of football at Borussia Mönchengladbach.

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[edit] Playing career

[edit] Club career

At club level, Ziege played for Bayern Munich (1990-97), AC Milan (1997-99) and Middlesbrough (1999-2000). In summer 2000 Liverpool F.C. made a £5.5m bid which exactly matched a get-out clause in Ziege's contract. Middlesbrough insisted they had received offers in excess of £8m for Ziege, but were forced contractually to allow Ziege to talk to Liverpool, who then signed him.[1] He made his debut for Liverpool in a 3-2 home win over Manchester City on 9 September, 2000, replacing Steven Gerrard in the second half. Although the Anfield crowd saw flashes of Ziege's brilliance down the left flank during the season, a combination of knee injuries and the improving form of Jamie Carragher[2], meant he was transferred to Tottenham Hotspur after one year and 32 appearances in all competitions.

On 14 March 2002, Liverpool were fined £20,000 by The Football Association for making an illegal approach for Ziege, while the player himself was fined £10,000.[3] However, by this time Ziege's injury problems were escalating, and by 2004 his contract was terminated by mutual consent so he could return to Germany.

Ziege returned to Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach in June 2004,[4] but announced his retirement in October 2005, having not played since the previous December due to a persistent ankle injury.[5]

[edit] International career

Ziege was capped 72 times for Germany, scoring nine goals. Other than the Euro 96 win, he also played for his country at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups (during which he played the final game), as well as Euro 2000 (he was a member of the Euro 2004 squad, but didn't play).

[edit] Awards

Ziege won the Bundesliga title twice with Bayern and the Serie A title once with Milan. He also won the UEFA Cup with Bayern in 1996 and with Liverpool in 2001. With the club from the Merseyside, he also gained the 2001 League Cup. He is the only player to have played in the Milan, Munich, Merseyside, Tyne-Tees and North London derbies.

[edit] Managerial career

Following retirement from the game due to injury in October 2005, Ziege picked up his UEFA diploma for coaching. In 2006 he moved into coaching with his last professional club, Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he was named head coach of the club's Under-17 team, succeeding Thomas Schumacher. In 2006-07 the club's U17 team had won ten out of seventeen matches with Ziege in charge when, in March 2007, he was handed the role of Director of Football at the club, as the replacement for the outgoing Peter Pander.[6] At the time of his appointment, with ten matches to go until the end of the season, Mönchengladbach were at the bottom of the Bundesliga, with five points between them and safety.

[edit] Career honours

[edit] Honours as player

[edit] Flag of Germany Bayern Munich

Winner

Runner up

[edit] Flag of Italy AC Milan

Winner

[edit] Flag of England Liverpool

Winner

[edit] Flag of England Tottenham Hotspur

Runner Up

[edit] Flag of Germany Germany

Winner

Runner Up

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Ziege cleared for Reds", BBC Sport, 2000-08-29. Retrieved on 2007-06-30. 
  2. ^ Whatever Happened to: Christian Ziege
  3. ^ "Liverpool handed Ziege fine", BBC Sport, 2002-03-14. Retrieved on 2007-06-30. 
  4. ^ "Ziege returns to Bundesliga", BBC Sport, 2004-06-09. Retrieved on 2007-06-30. 
  5. ^ "Injury forces Ziege to end career", BBC Sport, 2005-10-20. Retrieved on 2007-06-30. 
  6. ^ "Ziege clinches new Borussia role", BBC Sport, 2007-03-08. Retrieved on 2007-06-30. 

[edit] External links

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Germany squad - UEFA Euro 1996 Winners (3rd title)
1 Köpke • 2 Reuter • 3 Bode • 4 Freund • 5 Helmer • 6 Sammer • 7 Möller • 8 Scholl • 9 Bobic • 10 Häßler • 11 Kuntz • 12 Kahn • 13 Basler • 14 Babbel • 15 Kohler • 16 Schneider • 17 Ziege • 18 Klinsmann • 19 Strunz • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Eilts • 22 Reck • Coach: Vogts
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Germany squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Köpke • 2 Wörns • 3 Heinrich • 4 Kohler • 5 Helmer • 6 Thon • 7 Möller • 8 Matthäus • 9 Kirsten • 10 Häßler • 11 Marschall • 12 Kahn • 13 Jeremies • 14 Babbel • 15 Freund • 16 Hamann • 17 Ziege • 18 Klinsmann • 19 Reuter • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Tarnat • 22 Lehmann • Coach: Vogts
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Germany squad - UEFA Euro 2000
1 Kahn • 2 Babbel • 3 Rehmer • 4 Linke • 5 Bode • 6 Nowotny • 7 Scholl • 8 Häßler • 9 Kirsten • 10 Matthäus • 11 Rink • 12 Lehmann • 13 Ballack • 14 Hamann • 15 Wosz • 16 Jeremies • 17 Ziege • 18 Deisler • 19 Jancker • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Ramelow • 22 Butt • Coach: Ribbeck
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Germany squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Kahn • 2 Linke • 3 Rehmer • 4 Baumann • 5 Ramelow • 6 Ziege • 7 Neuville • 8 Hamann • 9 Jancker • 10 Ricken • 11 Klose • 12 Lehmann • 13 Ballack • 14 Asamoah • 15 Kehl • 16 Jeremies • 17 Bode • 18 Böhme • 19 Schneider • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Metzelder • 22 Frings • 23 Butt • Coach: Völler
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Germany squad - UEFA Euro 2004
1 Kahn • 2 Hinkel • 3 Friedrich • 4 Wörns • 5 Nowotny • 6 Baumann • 7 Schweinsteiger • 8 Hamann • 9 Bobic • 10 Kuranyi • 11 Klose • 12 Lehmann • 13 Ballack • 14 Brdaric • 15 Kehl • 16 Jeremies • 17 Ziege • 18 Ernst • 19 Schneider • 20 Podolski • 21 Lahm • 22 Frings • 23 Hildebrand • Coach: Völler
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Persondata
NAME Ziege, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin, Germany
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH