Christoph Daum

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Christoph Daum (born October 24, 1953 in Zwickau) is a German football coach.

1 Career as a player
2 Career as a manager
3 Daum-Affair
4 External links

[edit] Career as a player

Christoph Daum began his football career in 1971 in the youth league with Hamborn 07, transferred in 1972 to Eintracht Duisburg and then in 1975 to 1. FC Köln, where he played in the amateur league.

[edit] Career as a manager

After finishing his career as a player, he earned his coaching licence at the DFB and began working in 1981 as amateur coach with 1. FC Köln. In the 85/86 season he was promoted to assistant coach and 1986 to the top position. During the 1990 FIFA World Cup, Daum was released from his position by Cologne's president Dietmar Artzinger-Bolten. In November 1990 he transferred to VfB Stuttgart, where he won the German championship in 1992. In the following season Daum committed a mistake in the first round of the Europacup against Leeds United on 30. September 1992 by illegally putting in a fourth foreign player. The game was declared a loss and the club subseqently flew out of the qualification. Thus the VfB missed out on the Champions League and Daum was released.

Beginning in 1994 Daum worked with the turkish club Beşiktaş J.K. in Istanbul and then returned two years later to Germany to coach Bayer Leverkusen. As a result of the so-called Daum-Affair he was fired and found no further position in Germany. He returned to Beşiktaş Istanbul from March 2001 to May 2002 and then moved to FK Austria Wien in October 2002. Beginning in July 2003 he was head coach at Fenerbahçe S.K. and then resigned at the end of the 2005/06 season for health reasons.

Beginning November 27, 2006 he will (again) be coach with 1. FC Köln. His contract is until 2010. Christoph Daum ist still without a success in Cologne. He lives in Cologne-Hahnwald, Hahnwaldweg Nr. 6.

[edit] Daum-Affair

Following the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship Daum was slated to become head coach of the German national team. However, this agreement was annulled by the DFB on October 21, 2000 when a voluntary hair test showed that he had consumed cocaine. As a result, Rudi Völler was given the job.