Christian Ziege

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Christian Ziege
Personal information
Date of birth	February 1, 1972 (age 35)
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Playing position	Left Midfielder/defender
Youth clubs
1978-81 1981-85 1985-90	FC Südstern 08 Berlin TSV Rudow Berlin Hertha 03 Zehlendorf
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1990-97 1997-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-04 2004-05	Bayern Munich A.C. Milan Middlesbrough F.C. Liverpool F.C. Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Borussia Mönchengladbach	185 (35) 39 (4) 29 (6) 16 (1) 47 (7) 13 (0)
National team
1993-2004	Germany	72 (9)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Christian Ziege (born February 1, 1972 in Berlin) is a former German football (soccer) defender and midfielder. With the German national team, Ziege won Euro 96. Ziege is actually Director of Football at Borussia Mönchengladbach

On club level, Ziege played for Bayern Munich (1990-97), AC Milan (1997-99), Middlesbrough (1999-2000), Liverpool (2000-01), Tottenham Hotspur (2001-04), and Borussia Mönchengladbach (2004-2005). He won the Bundesliga title twice with Bayern and the Serie A title once with Milan. He also won the UEFA Cup with Bayern in 1996 and with Liverpool in 2001. With the club from the Merseyside, he also gained the 2001 League Cup. He is the answer to the football trivia question, "Which player has played in the Milan, Munich, Merseyside, Tyne-Tees and North London derbies."

For Germany, Ziege has been capped 72 times, scoring nine goals. Other than the Euro 96 win, he also played for his country at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups (during which he played the final game), as well as Euro 2000 (he was a member of the Euro 2004 squad, but didn't play).

Following retirement from the game due to injury in October 2005, Ziege picked up his UEFA diploma for coaching and got subsequently thrown into coaching by his last professional club, Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he was named headcoach of the clubs U17 in succession of Thomas Schumacher in 2006. Two thirds into the following season, the clubs U17 team had won ten out of those seventeen matches with him in charge, the Berlin-born was handed the role of Director of Football at Mönchengladbach as the replacement for outgoing Peter Pander. On his first day into his new job, with ten matches to go until the end of the season, Mönchengladbach was bottom-side in the Bundesliga, already fighting a distance of five points in between them and safety.

Contents 1 Career Honours 1.1 Honours As Player 1.1.1 Bayern Munich 1.1.2 AC Milan 1.1.3 Liverpool 1.1.4 Tottenham Hotspur 1.1.5 Germany 2 References

[edit] Career Honours

[edit] Honours As Player

[edit] Bayern Munich

Winner

• 1993-94 German Bundesliga
• 1995-96 UEFA Cup
• 1996-97 German Bundesliga
• 1997-98 Liga-Pokal

Runner Up

• 1990-91 German Bundesliga
• 1992-93 German Bundesliga
• 1995-96 German Bundesliga

[edit] AC Milan

Winner

• 1998-99 Italian Serie A (Level 1)

[edit] Liverpool

Winner

• 2000-01 League Cup

[edit] Tottenham Hotspur

Runner Up

• 2001-02 League Cup

[edit] Germany

Winner

• 1996 European Football Championship

Runner Up

• 2002 FIFA World Cup

[edit] References

• (English) Official website
• (English) Yahoo! sport
• (German) Borussia MG

	Germany Squad - 1996 European Football Championship (3rd Title)
1 Köpke | 2 Reuter | 3 Bode | 4 Freund | 5 Helmer | 6 Sammer | 7 Möller | 8 Scholl | 9 Bobic | 10 Häßler | 11 Kuntz | 12 Kahn | 13 Basler | 14 Babbel | 15 Kohler | 16 Schneider | 17 Ziege | 18 Klinsmann | 19 Strunz | 20 Bierhoff | 21 Eilts | 22 Reck | Coach: Vogts

	Germany squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Köpke | 2 Wörns | 3 Heinrich | 4 Kohler | 5 Helmer | 6 Thon | 7 Möller | 8 Matthäus | 9 Kirsten | 10 Häßler | 11 Marschall | 12 Kahn | 13 Jeremies | 14 Babbel | 15 Freund | 16 Hamann | 17 Ziege | 18 Klinsmann | 19 Reuter | 20 Bierhoff | 21 Tarnat | 22 Lehmann | Coach: Vogts

	Germany squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Kahn | 2 Linke | 3 Rehmer | 4 Baumann | 5 Ramelow | 6 Ziege | 7 Neuville | 8 Hamann | 9 Jancker | 10 Ricken | 11 Klose | 12 Lehmann | 13 Ballack | 14 Asamoah | 15 Kehl | 16 Jeremies | 17 Bode | 18 Böhme | 19 Schneider | 20 Bierhoff | 21 Metzelder | 22 Frings | 23 Butt | Coach: Völler