Pierre Littbarski

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Pierre Littbarski
Personal information
Full name Pierre Littbarski
Date of birth April 16, 1960
Place of birth Berlin, Germany
Height 168 cm
Nickname Litti
Position attacking midfielder, striker
Club information
Current club retired
Youth clubs
VfL Schöneberg
F.C. Hertha 03 Zehlendorf
1. FC Köln
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
1978-1986
1987-1993

1986-1987
1993-1995
1996-1997		 1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln

Racing Club de France
JEF United
Brumell Sendai
406 (116)

34 (4)
?? (??)
?? (??)
National team**
1981-1990 West Germany 73 (18)

* Professional club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of June 30, 1999.
** National team caps and goals correct
as of June 30, 1990.

Pierre Littbarski (born April 16, 1960) is a German football manager and former player, and was a FIFA World Cup winner with West Germany in 1990. He was also runner up twice in 1982 and 1986 with West Germany. He was born in Berlin.

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[edit] Life and work

Littbarski spent most of his playing career at 1. FC Köln, winning the German Cup once, in 1983, and was three times runner up in the Bundesliga (1982, 1989 and 1990). He has also played for Racing Club de Paris in Ligue 1 as well as for JEF United and Brummel Sendai in Japan. In his career, he was initially used as a striker before being utilised as an attacking midfielder.

He was manager of Australian A-League side Sydney FC, and lead them to the FIFA Club World Championship in 2005, and a win in the inaugural A-League Championship. He was famous amongst Sydney FC supporters for his stylish brown suits [1][2]. Sydney under Littbarski were often criticised for boring, unimaginative football, but the results could seldom be argued with and Sydney FC went on to claim the innaugral A-League Championship under his reign. Littbarski and Sydney FC severed ties on Wednesday, May 5, 2006, with Littbarski announcing he would not re-sign for the club following disputes over training locations and a cut-price contract offer.

As of June, 2006 Pierre Littbarski has been in talks with the Football Association of Albania working on a deal that would make him manager of the Albanian National side. Littbarski has sounded very excited at the possibility of working in Tirana, Albania.

Previously, he has been the manager of Yokohama FC (twice), as well as assistant manager of Bayer 04 Leverkusen and manager of MSV Duisburg. He has also been linked with the role of manager of the Ghana national football team and Heart of Midlothian F.C..

[edit] Club Career

[edit] International playing career

73 internationals for West Germany - 18 goals.

German U21 side: 21 internationals

[edit] Managerial Career

[edit] External links

West Germany West Germany squad - 1982 World Cup Runner-up West Germany

1 Schumacher | 2 Briegel | 3 Breitner | 4 K. Förster | 5 B. Förster | 6 Dremmler | 7 Littbarski | 8 Fischer | 9 Hrubesch | 10 Müller | 11 Rummenigge | 12 Hannes | 13 Reinders | 14 Magath | 15 Stielike | 16 Allofs | 17 Engels | 18 Matthäus | 19 Hieronymus | 20 Kaltz | 21 Franke | 22 Immel | Coach: Derwall
West Germany West Germany squad - 1986 World Cup Runner-up West Germany

1 Schumacher | 2 Briegel | 3 Brehme | 4 Förster | 5 Herget | 6 Eder | 7 Littbarski | 8 Matthäus | 9 Völler | 10 Magath | 11 Rummenigge | 12 Stein | 13 Allgöwer | 14 Berthold | 15 Augenthaler | 16 Thon | 17 Jakobs | 18 Rahn | 19 Allofs | 20 Hoeneß | 21 Rolff | 22 Immel | Coach: Beckenbauer
West Germany West Germany squad - 1990 World Cup Champions (3rd Title) West Germany

1 Illgner | 2 Reuter | 3 Brehme | 4 Kohler | 5 Augenthaler | 6 Buchwald | 7 Littbarski | 8 Häßler | 9 Völler | 10 Matthäus | 11 Mill | 12 Aumann | 13 Riedle | 14 Berthold | 15 Bein | 16 Steiner | 17 Möller | 18 Klinsmann | 19 Pflügler | 20 Thon | 21 Hermann | 22 Köpke | Coach: Beckenbauer
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