Klaus Toppmöller

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Klaus Toppmöller
Personal information
Full name	Klaus Toppmöller
Date of birth	August 12, 1951 (1951-08-12) (age 56)
Place of birth	Rivenich, West Germany
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	-
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1972–1980 1980–1984 1985–1987	1. FC Kaiserslautern Dallas Tornado FSV Salmrohr	204 (108) ? (?) ? (?)
National team
1976–1979	Germany	3 (1)
Teams managed
1987–1988 1988–1990 1990–1991 1991–1993 1993–1994 1994–1999 2001–2003 2003–2004 2006-2008	FSV Salmrohr SSV Ulm 1846 Wismut Aue Waldhof Mannheim Eintracht Frankfurt VfL Bochum Bayer Leverkusen Hamburger SV Georgia
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Klaus Toppmöller (born August 12, 1951) is a former football player and the coach of Georgia national football team from 2006 to April 1, 2008.

He earned 3 caps and scored 1 goal during his international career for Germany.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 3 Personal life 4 Links

[edit] Playing career

Toppmöller trained as a supply engineer, starting his football career as an amateur at SV Rivenich, and transferred to the then-Regionalliga team Eintracht Trier.

Toppmöller transferred to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Fußball-Bundesliga in 1972, where he appeared 204 times, scoring 108 goals and becoming the record scorer of the red devils. Toppmöller made his debute for Germany in 1976 against the Spanish national football team, and was also capped in 1979 against Malta and Turkey.

In 1980 Toppmöller moved to Dallas Tornado, but returned to Germany after the collapse of the North American Soccer League in 1984. After playing in the 2. Bundesliga he retired at FSV Salmrohr.

[edit] Coaching career

Toppmöller became coach of FSV Salmrohr from summer 1987 to 18 April 1988 when he became coach of SSV Ulm 1846 until February 1989. After his dismissal, Toppmöller coached DDR-Oberliga side FC Erzgebirge Aue from 28 November 1990 to 30 June 1991. He than transferred back to the Federal league with SV Waldhof Mannheim from 19 September 1991 to 30 June 1993.

In light of his success, Toppmöller became coach of Eintracht Frankfurt, with whom he had a very successful start. But after failures with the squad relationship and resultantly missing the championship he was dismissed on 10 April 1994. Toppmöller then joined VfL Bochum on 9 November 1994, with whom in the 1997/98 season reached the last sixteen of the UEFA cup. On 30 June 1999 Toppmöller left his position as coach of VfL Bochum, but was eventually dismissed on 29 November 2000.

From 1 July 2001 Toppmöller was coach with Bayer 04 Leverkusen, whom in his first season led to the final of the UEFA Champions League, as well as second place in federal league and the German cup final. Toppmöller was resultantly declared by German sports journalists as "football coach of the year" for 2002. However, in the following season Leverkusen performed poorly, and in light of a poor league position which could have led to relegation, Toppmöller was sacked on the 16 February 2003.

Toppmöller became coach of Hamburger SV on 23 October 2003. However, after the team fell to last place in the league, and Toppmöller used strange tactics, formations and out of position players (such as midfielder Sergej Barbarez in defence), he was sacked on the 17 October 2004.

On 1 February 2006 Toppmöller became national coach of the Georgia national football team, with Ralf Minge as assistant coach. He was dismissed on April 1, 2008.

[edit] Personal life

A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Toppmöller married Roswitha in 1977, and the couple have three children:

• 1979 - daughter Sarah Nina is a part time teacher, and sings under the artist name Zaranina in Munich
• 1980 - son Dino is named after Toppmöller's Italian idol Dino Zoff. Dino has played for several teams from the second German tier.
• 1988 - son Tommy is a school student, playing for the Under 19 side of FSV Salmrohr

Toppmöller brother Heinz and nephew Marco have played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

[edit] Links

• (German) Klaus Toppmöller at eintracht-archiv.de

Awards
Preceded by none	German Football Manager of the Year 2002	Succeeded by Felix Magath
Sporting positions
Preceded by Jürgen Gelsdorf	VfL Bochum Manager 1995–1999	Succeeded by Ernst Middendorp

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