Andreas Möller (born 2 September 1967) is a German former professional
footballer
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who played as an
attacking midfielder
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. He is the head of the youth department at
Eintracht Frankfurt
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.
From 1985 to 2004 Möller played in 429
Bundesliga
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games for Eintracht Frankfurt,
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund () or by its initialism BVB (), or just Dortmund by International fans, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is ...
and
FC Schalke 04
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as Schalke 04 (), and abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional sports club from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its football team, ...
. During his time in the Bundesliga, he became the first player in league history to reach the landmark of 100 goals and 100 assists each (since matched by
Thomas Müller
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and
Marco Reus
Marco Reus (; born 31 May 1989) is a German professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy.
Reus spent his youth career at Borussia Dortmund, prior to l ...
). Möller also played several seasons in
Serie A
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for
Juventus FC
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. He was a member of the
Germany
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teams that won the
1990 FIFA World Cup
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and
UEFA Euro 1996
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, and is also a
Champions League winner,
UEFA Cup
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winner, multiple German champion and
DFB Cup winner at the club level.
Early life
Möller was born the son of a warehouse worker and a bank clerk in the St. Marien Hospital in
Nordend, Frankfurt. He grew up in the district of
Sossenheim as an only child in modest circumstances.
Möller's first club was BSC Schwarz-Weiß 1919 Frankfurt, where his father worked as a youth football coach. His coach there was Klaus Gerster, who became his closest friend and later served as an advisor and negotiator throughout his career.
Club career
At club level, Möller played for
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a German professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German footb ...
(1985–87, 1990–92, 2003–04),
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund () or by its initialism BVB (), or just Dortmund by International fans, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is ...
(1988–90, 1994–2000),
Juventus
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(1992–94), and
Schalke 04
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as Schalke 04 (), and abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional sports club from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its football team, w ...
(2000–03).
Eintracht Frankfurt
Möller began his career at BSC Schwarz-Weiß 1919 Frankfurt and moved to
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a German professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German footb ...
in 1981. In 1985 the midfielder won the German A-Youth Championship and in the same year he joined the first-team squad, venturing into professional football. He played his first game in
Germany's highest football class on the last day of the
1985–86 season in the 0-1 defeat on 26 April 1986 against
Hamburger SV
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. In the following season he came up with 22 missions. He played more and more into the team structure and on Matchday 5 against
1. FC Kaiserslautern
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he scored his first professional goal in league play when he converted a penalty kick to make it 1-2;
it was his only goal of the season. In the 1987–88 season, the youngster, who was good at dribbling, developed into a top performer. In his first game of the season on matchday 5 against
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
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, Möller scored twice.
Borussia Dortmund
On 17 February 1988, Möller made his debut for Borussia Dortmund, scoring the opening goal against
VfL Bochum
Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as VfL Bochum (), is a Football in Germany, German professional association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. They currently play ...
in the 42nd minute at home; however, the game ended in a 2-1 defeat for the ''Black and Yellows'', despite BVB leading 1-0 up until the 88th minute. On the 26th day of the 1987–88 season, against his future employer,
FC Schalke 04
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as Schalke 04 (), and abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional sports club from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its football team, ...
, Möller received his first and only
red card
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, but only had to sit out one game. In the
1988–89 DFB Cup season, Möller advanced to the final with his team. There he met
SV Werder Bremen
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. After a clear 4–1 win against the North Germans, his won his first national title during his first spell with the club.
He also won the
DFL-Supercup
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with Dortmund in the beginning of the 1989–90 season, where he scored the title-deciding goal in the 88th minute of the final match against
Bayern Munich.
Second spell at Eintracht Frankfurt and move to Juventus
Möller was a top performer at Borussia but returned to Frankfurt in the summer of 1990. In the first year after his return, he scored 16 goals in the Bundesliga, setting a personal record that he would not surpass until the end of his career. In the 1991–92 season he missed out on winning the title with Frankfurt on the final day. The season was overshadowed by disputes within the team. Möller was a frequent target of keeper
Uli Stein
Ulrich "Uli" Stein (born 23 October 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Between 1978 and 1997, he made 512 appearances in the German Bundesliga.
Club career
Stein began his career in 1978 with Armi ...
, on the one hand because of his inconsistency, on the other hand because of the many special contractual conditions.
Möller also wanted to play for Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1992–93 season. However, he had promised the
Serie A
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club Juventus an option right for
DM 1.3 million, which the club redeemed in March 1992. The Turin side had resold this option right to
Atalanta B.C.
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, whom Möller would have had to join if
Juventus FC
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had not exercised the option themselves.
FIFA
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had to provide clarification: Möller was bound by the option and had to move to Italy on 1 July 1992, for which he had to buy himself out of his contract with Eintracht Frankfurt for DM 5 million.
After moving to Italian side Juventus, he won the
UEFA Cup
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in
1993
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* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
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, beating out his former club, Borussia Dortmund, 6–1 on aggregate, with Möller scoring one of the goals and providing three assists across both legs of the final.
Borussia Dortmund (second spell)
Despite performing well at Juventus, Möller decided to return to Germany in the summer of 1994 and signed for Borussia Dortmund for the second time. Upon his return to Dortmund, he won several domestic titles with the club, including consecutive
Bundesliga
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titles in
1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
and
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
.
He stayed with the club for a total of six years, scored goals regularly and had the corresponding deployment times. Especially in the championship years 1995 and 1996, Möller showed his class as a playmaker, creator, and scorer. He was considered one of the most prolific midfielders at the time.
His greatest success at club level came in the
1996–97 Champions League: in the
final
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at
Munich's Olympic Stadium on 28 May 1997, and saw him once again beating a former team, Turin side Juventus on this occasion, with a 3–1 victory, providing two assists during the match, while his corner also led to the opening goal. He followed up the victory with the
Intercontinental Cup later
that year, after which he was named ''Man of the Match''.
During this time, however, there was also controversy and debate surrounding Möller, after he feigned a foul inside the opposing box in a game against
Karlsruher SC
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on 13 April 1995, when BVB had been trailing 0–1. The then wrongly awarded
penalty led to the equalising goal (1–1), with the final score ending in an eventual 2–1 win for Dortmund. Möller tried to justify his ''Schwalbe'' (a word used for a ''dive'' in German football jargon, literally meaning "swallow" in Germany) and attacked the KSC coach at the time,
Winfried Schäfer. Möller was sentenced to a two-game ban and a fine of DM 10,000 by the DFB sports court. He was the first player to be banned by the DFB because of a dive. National coach
Berti Vogts
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had to temporarily take him out of the national team due to his ban in the league.
In his last year with the Black and Yellows, Möller only made 18 league appearances, being substituted on or off seven times. Reasons for this were the strong competition from players like
Lars Ricken,
Christian Nerlinger,
Miroslav Stević and
Vladimir But as well as minor injuries.
Schalke 04
In the summer of 2000, in order to risk a fresh start, Möller decided to sign with arch-rivals Schalke 04 in Dortmund, especially since he received a well-paid offer from
Rudi Assauer. Despite criticism, he immediately became a regular there and formed the backbone of Schalke's midfield in his first year with
Jörg Böhme,
Radoslav Látal and
Jiří Němec
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. Schalke finished second in the Bundesliga at the end of the
2000–01 season, just 1 point behind the Champions
Bayern Munich and won the
DFB-Pokal
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. Following season, Schalke successfully defended the
DFB-Pokal
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title after defeating
Bayer Leverkusen
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at the
final
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where Möller scored his team's 3rd goal in a 4–2 victory. After two good years with the
Gelsenkirchen
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side, Möller became more of a supplementary player in the
2002–03 season. Although he made 22 appearances under coaches
Frank Neubarth and later
Marc Wilmots
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During his club career as an attacking midfielder, he won trophies with KV Mechelen, Stand ...
, he was substituted on or off nine times.
Late career and third spell with Eintracht Frankfurt
For the
2003–04 season, Möller went back to Hessen to his home club Eintracht Frankfurt, which had just been promoted to the Bundesliga. Celebrated by the fans before the season as a great returnee and a guarantee of success, disillusionment quickly spread. Möller only played eleven league games and only played 90 minutes twice.
He also did not manage to help the club avoid relegation. Möller played his last professional game on 28 February 2004, when he came on as a substitute in the 89th minute of the 3-1 win against
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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. Three days later he announced his retirement from professional football, bringing his career to an end.
International career
With the
Germany national team, Möller was capped 85 times between 1988 and 1999, scoring 29 goals.
He took part at five major international tournaments, winning the
1990 World Cup
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and
Euro 96
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.
He also played for his country at
Euro 92, where his team reached the
final
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, only to lose 2–0 to
Denmark
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(although Möller did not feature during the match), as well as the
1994
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In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
and
1998 World Cups, in which Germany suffered quarter-final eliminations; in the former edition of the tournament, Germany were eliminated following a surprising 2–1 defeat to
Bulgaria
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, while in the latter edition, Germany lost 3–0 to
Croatia
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. Möller did not play in the 1–0 victory over
Argentina
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in the
1990 World Cup Final and was also suspended for Germany's 2–1 golden goal victory over the
Czech Republic
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in the
final of Euro 96 after he was booked in the semi-final against hosts
England
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; in the resulting
penalty shoot-out
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of the latter match, following a 1–1 draw after extra-time, Möller scored the winning penalty, which he celebrated by mimicking the bravado of the pose struck earlier in the shoot-out when
Paul Gascoigne
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had converted his penalty.
Style of play
Described by Stephan Uersfeld of ''
ESPN FC
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'' as "one of the greatest midfielders of his generation",
Möller was a talented, versatile, and complete
advanced playmaker, who was known for his unique sprinting speed - his nickname was "Turbo Möller" (running the 100 metres in around 11 seconds)- combined with range of passing, creativity, vision, intelligence, and technical ability, as well as his agility, reactions, and his speed of thought and execution, which enabled him to play first–time passes; he also had the ability to carry the ball or run forward at defences while in possession. In addition to his
creative capabilities and ability to provide assists to teammates, he was also known for his goalscoring, courtesy of his powerful and accurate striking ability with either foot, as well as his heading ability, which allowed him to excel in the air; his offensive qualities also allowed him to be deployed in more advanced roles, as a
supporting striker or even as a
winger on occasion, in addition to his usual
central position as an
attacking midfielder
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behind the strikers. He was also a
free kick specialist.
After retirement
After his active career, Möller, together with other former professionals such as
Dieter Eilts, obtained a football teacher's license at the
German Sport University Cologne. On 20 December 2006 he joined
Viktoria Aschaffenburg
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Even though Aschaffenburg is located in Bavaria, Viktoria Aschaffenburg historically played its football in the Hessenliga (V) and the a ...
in the area of sports organization and sponsoring. In June 2007, Möller started his career as football manager at
Viktoria Aschaffenburg
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Even though Aschaffenburg is located in Bavaria, Viktoria Aschaffenburg historically played its football in the Hessenliga (V) and the a ...
, playing in the
Oberliga Hessen. From 2008 to 2011, he was athletic director for
Kickers Offenbach
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.
On 20 October 2015, Möller was given a job for the
Hungary national team. Here he worked as an assistant for
Bernd Storck. They played together for
Borussia Dortmund
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when Dortmund won the West German Cup in the 1988–89 season.
On 5 October 2019, Möller returned to
Eintracht Frankfurt
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and was hired as head of the youth department. In order to have more time for his family, he declared in February 2022 that he would not extend his contract beyond the end of the season and would leave the academy after two and a half years. A short time later it was announced that Möller would be leaving on 31st March and that Alexander Richter would take over as his successor on April 1.
Personal life
On 28 April 1992 Möller married a school friend, with whom he has three daughters (born in 1993, 1995, and 2000 respectively). Since the beginning of 2001 he has been in a relationship with another woman, whom he married on 18 August 2007 after his first marriage ended in divorce in 2003.
Outside of football
Möller is a member of the board of trustees of the youth football foundation, which was founded in 2000 by
Jürgen Klinsmann
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, other successful national players and the lecturers of the special football teacher training course.
During the
2006 FIFA World Cup
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he commented on the games of the German national team for the guests of the club ship
AIDA
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.
Möller is credited with a classic of football style blossoms. When asked in an interview in 1992 where he would play in the future, he is said to have answered: "
Milan
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or
Madrid
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, the main thing is
Italy
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." In various interviews, Möller stated that he could not remember having made this statement. The sentence was first documented in 1998 in a collage of satirical quotations from Essen's punk rock fanzine Moloko Plus and was made known in
Klaus Bittermann's book ''Vom Feeling her ein gutes Gefühl (1999)''.
Möller was voted into the
BVB Centenary Eleven by the readers of the
WAZ media group.
At irregular intervals he worked for television as a co-commentator on football games.
Media
Möller features in
EA Sports
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' ''
FIFA
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'' video game series; he was on the cover of the German edition of ''
FIFA 98''.
Career statistics
Club
*
1 Including appearances in
1989 DFB-Supercup
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The match was played at the Fritz-Walter-Stadio ...
,
1995 DFB-Supercup,
1996 DFB-Supercup and
1997 Intercontinental Cup.
International
:''Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Möller goal.''
Honours
Eintracht Frankfurt
* German A youth champion: 1985
Borussia Dortmund
*
Bundesliga
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:
1994–95,
1995–96
*
DFB-Pokal
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:
1988–89
*
DFB-Supercup:
1989
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
,
1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
,
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
*
UEFA Champions League
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:
1996–97
*
Intercontinental Cup:
1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
Juventus
*
UEFA Cup
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Computer scientists and Mathematici ...
:
1992–93
Schalke 04
*
DFB-Pokal
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:
2000–01,
2001–02
Germany
*
FIFA World Cup
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:
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
*
UEFA European Championship
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:
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
; runner-up:
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
*
U.S. Cup:
1993
The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
Individual
* ''
kicker'' Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1995–96, 2000–01
* Bundesliga top assist provider: 1989–90, 1995–96
* ''kicker'' Bundesliga-best offensive midfielder: 1990, 1991
* Intercontinental Cup MVP of the Match Award: 1997
References
External links
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1967 births
Living people
Footballers from Frankfurt
German expatriate men's footballers
German men's footballers
German football managers
Borussia Dortmund players
Eintracht Frankfurt players
Juventus FC players
FC Schalke 04 players
Serie A players
Germany men's international footballers
Germany men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
1990 FIFA World Cup players
1994 FIFA World Cup players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 1992 players
UEFA Euro 1996 players
FIFA World Cup–winning players
UEFA European Championship–winning players
Bundesliga players
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
German expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Viktoria Aschaffenburg managers
UEFA Champions League–winning players
UEFA Europa League–winning players
West German men's footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Eintracht Frankfurt non-playing staff