Thomas Schaaf

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Thomas Schaaf (born April 30, 1961 in Mannheim, Germany) is a German former footballer (defender), now a trainer.

Schaaf is a one club man: He has been at his current club, Werder Bremen, since July 1, 1972 and was a youth team player until 1978. After turning professional he played a total of 262 Bundesliga games before retiring in 1994.

In his time as a Bundesliga player he scored 13 goals and helped the team to the German Bundesliga Championship in 1988 and 1993, the DFB Cup in 1991 and 1994 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1992.

From 1987 to 1995 he was the youth team trainer. After this he became the reserve team trainer before taking over as first team trainer on May 09, 1999.

As trainer he led Werder to the DFB Cup in 1999, the Bundesliga and DFB Cup double in 2004 and the Premiere Ligapokal in 2006 for the first time. From 2004 on the team has qualified for the UEFA Champions League every year.

He is married and has a daughter called Valeska. Thomas Schaaf was named as the best trainer of the future by the Spanish newspaper AS.

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[1] The official website of SV Werder Bremen