Christian Ziege ( german pronunciation : [ ˈkʁɪsti̯a ( ː ) n ˈtsiːɡə ] ; born 1 February 1972 ) is a retired german football player and is presently head coach for FC Pinzgau. A defender, he started his playing career at FC Bayern Munich, where he won two Bundesliga titles and a UEFA Cup before moving to A.C. Milan, winning an italian Scudetto. In 1999, he joined Middlesbrough of the English Premier League, where he was voted the club ‘s Player of the year in his only season. [ 1 ] A year subsequently, he joined Liverpool and was share of the police squad which won a treble of the Football League Cup, the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup in 2000–01. In 2001, he moved to Tottenham Hotspur, before ending his career back in Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach. With the german national team, Ziege won UEFA Euro 1996 and finished runner-up at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He besides represented the state at UEFA Euro 2000, UEFA Euro 2004 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup. An attack left wing-back, Ziege was considered a dead-ball specialist. [ 2 ]

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Playing career [edit ]

Club career [edit ]

At club level, Ziege played for Bayern Munich ( 1990–97 ), [ 3 ] Milan ( 1997–99 ) and Middlesbrough ( 1999–2000 ). In the summer of 2000, Liverpool F.C. made a £5.5m bid which precisely matched a get-out clause in Ziege ‘s shrink. Middlesbrough insisted they had received offers in overindulgence of £8m for Ziege, but were forced contractually to allow Ziege to talk to Liverpool, who then signed him. [ 4 ] He made his introduction for Liverpool in a 3–2 home win over Manchester City on 9 September 2000, replacing Steven Gerrard in the second one-half. A combination of knee injuries and the improving form of Jamie Carragher, [ 5 ] meant he was transferred to Tottenham Hotspur at the end of that season. He scored two goals during his spell at Liverpool ; against Leeds in the league [ 6 ] and Stoke in the League Cup. [ 7 ] Ziege besides contributed to their treble in the 2000–01 season. He came on as an extra fourth dimension substitute in the 2001 Football League Cup Final and scored a penalty in the gunfight as Liverpool defeated Birmingham City, but he was not partially of the match days squads for either the 2001 FA Cup Final or 2001 UEFA Cup Final. On 14 March 2002, Liverpool were fined £20,000 by The Football Association for having made an illegal border on for Ziege when he had been at Middlesbrough. The player himself was fined £10,000. [ 8 ] Whilst at Spurs he scored in the 2002 Football League Cup Final but he ended up on the suffer slope. however, by this time Ziege ‘s injury problems were escalating, and by 2004 his abridge was terminated by common accept so he could return to Germany. Ziege returned to Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach in June 2004, [ 9 ] but announced his retirement in October 2005, having not played since the previous December due to a persistent ankle wound. [ 10 ]

International career [edit ]

Ziege was capped 72 times for Germany, scoring nine goals. [ 11 ] other than the Euro 96 win, he besides played for his state at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups ( during which he played the final game and sported a quite amusing mohawk ), vitamin a well as Euro 2000 ( he was a extremity of the Euro 2004 team, but did n’t play ). Ziege was not initially named in Rudi Völler ‘s UEFA Euro 2004 team, [ 12 ] but was then called up after an wound to Christian Rahn. [ 13 ]

Managerial career [edit ]

Borussia Mönchengladbach [edit ]

Following retirement as a player, Ziege picked up his UEFA diploma for coaching. In 2006, he moved into coaching with his final professional club, Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he was named coach of the cabaret ‘s Under-17 team, succeeding Thomas Schumacher. In 2006–07 the club ‘s U17 team had won ten out of seventeen matches with Ziege in charge when, in March 2007, he was handed the function of Director of Football at the club, as the substitute for the extroverted Peter Pander. [ 14 ] At the time of his appointment, with ten matches to go until the end of the temper, Borussia Mönchengladbach were at the bed of the Bundesliga, with five points between them and guard. On 5 October 2008, Ziege dismissed Jos Luhukay and became interim director. [ 15 ] The interim speculate lasted until 18 October 2008 when Hans Meyer became the raw permanent director. [ 16 ] On 15 December 2008 Ziege left Borussia Mönchengladbach .

Arminia Bielefeld and German junior national teams [edit ]

On 26 May 2010, Ziege signed a contract as coach of Arminia Bielefeld. [ 17 ] however, his managerial career got off to a inadequate begin with Arminia Bielefeld alone picking up three points from a individual gain from eight games, the worst beginning to an Arminia Bielefeld season in twenty-three years. Ziege was released from his mail as coach of Arminia Bielefeld on 6 November 2010 after a 2–0 get the better of against FC Augsburg. [ 18 ] From April 2011, Ziege worked for the DFB. [ 19 ] He foremost coached the german U-19, before taking over the U-18 side in August of the same year. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Ziege ‘s contract was not renewed. [ 21 ] His sign expires in the summer of 2014. [ 21 ]

SpVgg Unterhaching [edit ]

Ziege became the head coach of SpVgg Unterhaching on 20 March 2014. [ 22 ] Ziege ‘s introduction was a 1–1 withdraw against RB Leipzig. [ 23 ] He resigned on 25 March 2015. [ 24 ] His final peer was a 2–1 loss to Stuttgarter Kickers on 21 March 2015. [ 25 ] On 30 November 2015, Ziege signed with Segunda División B side Atlético Baleares as head coach. [ 26 ]

Ratchaburi Mitr Phol [edit ]

On 27 December 2017, Ratchaburi Mitr Phol F.C. of Thai League 1 officially announced the appointment of Ziege as their new head coach. however, he left them after 2 games of the new temper, in the workweek commencing 19 February “ by common consent ”. [ 27 ]

FC Pinzgau [edit ]

On 29 April 2019, Ziege was named head coach for austrian austrian Regionalliga side FC Pinzgau. [ 28 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[29]

Club

Season

League

National Cup

League Cup

Europe

Total

Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals

Bayern Munich

1990–91

Bundesliga

13
1
0
0
0
0
3
1
16
2

1991–92

26
2
0
0

3
1
29
3

1992–93

28
10
2
2

30
12

1993–94

29
3
4
1

4
3
37
8

1994–95

29
12
0
0
0
0
9
0
38
12

1995–96

33
3
1
0

10
1
44
4

1996–97

27
7
4
1

2
0
35
8

Total

185
38
11
4
0
0
31
6
227
48

Milan

1997–98

Serie A

22
2
5
0

27
2

1998–99

17
2
3
0

20
2

Total

39
4
8
0

0
0
47
4

Middlesbrough

1999–2000

Premier League

29
6
1
0
3
1

33
7

Liverpool

2000–01

Premier League

16
1
3
0
4
1
9
0
32
2

Tottenham Hotspur

2001–02

Premier League

27
5
2
2
4
0

33
7

2002–03

12
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
2

2003–04

8
0
1
0
1
1

10
1

Total

47
7
3
2
5
1
0
0
55
10

Borussia Mönchengladbach

2004–05

Bundesliga

13
0
1
0

14
0

Career total

329
56
27
6
12
3
40
6
396
68

International [edit ]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Germany

1993
7
0

1994
0
0

1995
6
1

1996
14
2

1997
7
0

1998
7
1

1999
4
3

2000
9
1

2001
9
0

2002
8
1

2003
0
0

2004
1
0

Total
72
9

Scores and results list Germany’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ziege goal.

managerial criminal record [edit ]

As of 3 July 2019

Team

From

To

Record

G

W

D

L

Borussia Mönchengladbach

5 October 2008[15]

19 October 2008[16]
1
0
1
0
00 0.00

[30]
Arminia Bielefeld

26 May 2010[17]

6 November 2010[18]
13
1
2
10
00 7.69
[31]
SpVgg Unterhaching

20 March 2014[22]

25 March 2015[24]
39
11
9
19
0 28.21
[32]

FC Pinzgau Saalfelden

29 April 2019 [33]

Present

6

3

1

2

Honours [edit ]

club [edit ]

Bayern Munich
A.C. Milan
Liverpool

International [edit ]

References [edit ]