Andreas Möller

Andreas Möller (born 2 September 1967) is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the head of the youth department at Eintracht Frankfurt.

For other people with similar names, see Andreas Müller (disambiguation).

Andreas Möller
Möller in 2018
Personal information
Date of birth (1967-09-02) 2 September 1967
Place of birth Frankfurt, West Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Eintracht Frankfurt (head of youth)
Youth career
1973–1981 BSC Schwarz-Weiß 1919 Frankfurt
1981–1985 Eintracht Frankfurt
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1987 Eintracht Frankfurt 35 (5)
1988–1990 Borussia Dortmund 75 (24)
1990–1992 Eintracht Frankfurt 69 (28)
1992–1994 Juventus 56 (19)
1994–2000 Borussia Dortmund 153 (47)
2000–2003 Schalke 04 86 (6)
2003–2004 Eintracht Frankfurt 11 (0)
Total 485 (129)
International career
1988–1990 West Germany U-21 4 (2)
1988–1999 Germany 85 (29)
Managerial career
2007–2008 Viktoria Aschaffenburg
2015–2017 Hungary (assistant)
Medal record
Representing  Germany
Association football
FIFA World Cup
Gold medal – first placeItaly 1990
UEFA Euro
Gold medal – first placeEngland 1996
Silver medal – second placeSweden 1992
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

From 1985 to 2004 he played as a midfielder in 429 Bundesliga games (110 goals) for Eintracht Frankfurt, Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04, in between also in Serie A for Juventus F.C.. He is i.a. World champion, European champion, World Cup and Champions League winner, UEFA Cup winner, multiple German champion and DFB Cup winner.

Club career

At club level, Möller played for Eintracht Frankfurt (1985–87, 1990–92, 2003–04), Borussia Dortmund (1988–90, 1994–2000), Juventus (1992–94), and Schalke 04 (2000–03).[2]

Eintracht Frankfurt

The midfielder began his career at BSC Schwarz-Weiß 1919 Frankfurt and moved to Eintracht Frankfurt in 1981. In 1985 he won the German A-Youth Championship and in the same year he joined the professional squad. He played his first game in Germany's highest football class on the last day of the 1985/86 season in the 0-1 defeat on 26 April 1986 against Hamburger SV.[3] In the following season he came up with 22 missions. He played more and more into the team structure and on Matchday 5 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern he scored his first professional goal in league play when he converted a penalty kick to make it 1-2;[4] it was his only goal of the season. In the 1987/88 season, the youngster, who was good at dribbling, developed into a top performer. In his first game of the season on matchday 5 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Möller scored twice.[5]

Borussia Dortmund

In his first spell with Borussia Dortmund, he won the DFB-Pokal during the 1988–89 season.[2] After moving to Italian side Juventus, he won the UEFA Cup in 1993, beating out his former club, Borussia Dortmund, 6–1 on aggregate, with Möller scoring one of the goals and providing three assists across both legs of the final.[6][7][8] Upon his return to Dortmund, he won several domestic titles with the club, including consecutive Bundesliga titles in 1995 and 1996,[2] as well as the Champions League in 1997, once again beating his former team, Juventus on this occasion, 3–1, and providing two assists during the match, while his corner also led to the opening goal;[9][10] he followed up the victory with the Intercontinental Cup later that year, after which he was named Man of the Match.[11] On his debut for the Black and Yellows, Möller scored the lead against VfL Bochum in the 42nd minute at home. However, the game was lost 2-1, although BVB had led 1-0 up to the 88th minute.[12] Against his later employer, FC Schalke 04, Möller received his first and only red card[13] on the 26th day of the 1987/88 season, but only had to sit out one game.[14] In the 1988/89 DFB Cup season, Möller advanced with the team to the final. There you met the team from SV Werder Bremen. After a clear 4:1 win against the North Germans, his first national title was perfect.[15]

Eintracht Frankfurt and Juventus Turin

He was a top performer at Borussia but returned to Frankfurt in the summer of 1990.[16] In the first year after his return, he scored 16 goals in the Bundesliga, setting a personal record that he would not surpass until the end of his career. In the 1991/92 season he missed winning the title with Frankfurt on the final day. The season was overshadowed by disputes within the team. Möller was a frequent target of keeper Uli Stein, on the one hand because of his inconsistency, on the other hand because of the many special contractual conditions.[17]

Möller also wanted to play for Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1992/93 season. However, he had promised the Serie A club Juventus Turin an option right for DM 1.3 million, which the club redeemed in March 1992.[18] The Turiners had resold this option right to Atalanta B.C., where Möller would have had to go if Juventus F.C. had not exercised the option themselves. FIFA had to provide clarification: Möller was bound by the option and had to move to Italy on 1 July 1992, for which he had to buy himself out of his contract with Eintracht Frankfurt for DM 5 million.[19]

Borussia Dortmund (second commitment)
Möller with Borussia Dortmund in 1997

Despite performing well at Juventus, Möller decided to return to Germany in the summer of 1994 and signed for Borussia Dortmund for the second time. He stayed with the ball game club for a total of six years, scored goals regularly and had the corresponding deployment times. Especially in the championship years 1995 and 1996, Möller showed his class as a playmaker, preparer and scorer. He was considered one of the most prolific midfielders at the time. The greatest success at club level was the 3-1 victory in the 1996/97 Champions League final on 28 May 1997 in Munich's Olympic Stadium. The opponent was his former employer Juventus Turin, and Möller was on the winning side again this time.[20] In his last year with the Black and Yellows, he only made 18 appearances, being substituted on or substituted on seven times. Reasons for this were the strong competition from players like Lars Ricken, Christian Nerlinger, Miroslav Stević and Vladimir But as well as minor injuries. During this time there was a discussion about Möller, who feigned a foul on 13 April 1995 in the game against Karlsruher SC when the score was 0:1. The then wrongly awarded penalty led to 1:1 (final score 2:1 for Dortmund). Möller tried to justify his swallow and attacked the KSC coach at the time, Winfried Schäfer.[21] Möller was sentenced to a two-game ban and a fine of DM 10,000 by the DFB sports court. He was the first player to be banned by the DFB because of a swallow.[22] National coach Berti Vogts had to temporarily take him out of the national team due to his ban in the league.[23][24]

Schalke 04

In the summer of 2000, in order to risk a fresh start, he decided to sign with arch-rivals Schalke 04 in Dortmund, especially since he received a well-paid offer from Rudi Assauer. Despite criticism, he immediately became a regular there and formed the backbone of Schalke's midfield in his first year with Jörg Böhme, Radoslav Látal and Jiří Němec. Although he made 22 appearances under coaches Frank Neubarth and later Marc Wilmots, he was substituted on and substituted on nine times.[25]

Eintracht Frankfurt and End of Career

For the 2003/04 season, Möller went back to Hessen to his home club Eintracht Frankfurt, which had just been promoted to the Bundesliga. Celebrated by the fans before the season as a great returnee and a guarantee of success, disillusionment quickly spread. Möller only played eleven league games and only played 90 minutes twice.[4] He also did not manage to help the club stay in the league. Möller played his last professional game on 28 February 2004, when he came on as a substitute in the 89th minute of the 3-1 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Three days later he announced the end of his career.[26]

International career

With the Germany national team, Möller was capped 85 times between 1988 and 1999, scoring 29 goals.[27] He took part at five major international tournaments, winning the 1990 World Cup and Euro 96.[2][28] He also played for his country at Euro 92, where his team reached the final, only to lose out 2–0 to Denmark (although Möller did not feature during the match),[29] as well as the 1994[30][31][32] and 1998 World Cups, in which Germany suffered quarter-final eliminations; in the former edition of the tournament, Germany were eliminated following a surprising 2–1 defeat to Bulgaria,[33] while in the latter edition, Germany lost out 3–0 to Croatia.[34] Möller did not play in the 1–0 victory over Argentina in the 1990 World Cup Final[35][36] and was also suspended for Germany's 2–1 golden goal victory over Czech Republic in the final of Euro 96[37] after he was booked in the semi-final against hosts England; in the resulting shoot out of the latter match, following a 1–1 draw after extra-time, Möller scored the winning penalty, which he celebrated by mimicking the bravado of the pose struck earlier in the shoot out when Paul Gascoigne had converted his penalty.[2][38][39][40]

Style of play

Described by Stephan Uersfeld of ESPN FC as "one of the greatest midfielders of his generation",[2] Möller was a talented, versatile, and complete advanced playmaker, who was known for his unique sprinting speed - his nickname was "Turbo Möller" - combined with range of passing, creativity, vision, intelligence, and technical ability, as well as his agility, reactions, and his speed of thought and execution, which enabled him to play first–time passes; he also had the ability to carry the ball or run forward at defences while in possession. In addition to his creative capabilities and ability to provide assists to teammates, he was also known for his goalscoring, courtesy of his powerful and accurate striking ability with either foot, as well as his heading ability, which allowed him to excel in the air; his offensive qualities also allowed him to be deployed in more advanced roles, as a supporting striker or even as a winger on occasion, in addition to his usual central position as an attacking midfielder behind the strikers. He was also a free kick specialist.[6][30][31][32][41][42]

After retirement

After his active career, Möller, together with other former professionals such as Dieter Eilts, obtained a football teacher's license at the German Sport University Cologne. On 20 December 2006 he joined Viktoria Aschaffenburg in the area of sports organization and sponsoring. In June 2007, Möller started his career as football manager at Viktoria Aschaffenburg, playing in the Oberliga Hessen. From 2008 to 2011, he was athletic director for Kickers Offenbach.

On 20 October 2015, Möller was given a job for the Hungary national team. Here he worked as an assistant for Bernd Storck. They played together for Borussia Dortmund when Dortmund won the West German Cup in the 1988–89 season.

On 5 October 2019, Möller returned to Eintracht Frankfurt and was hired as head of the youth department.[43] In order to have more time for his family, he declared in February 2022 that he would not extend his contract beyond the end of the season and would leave the academy after two and a half years.[44] A short time later it was announced that Möller would be leaving on 31st March and that Alexander Richter would take over as his successor on April 1.[45]

Private

Möller was born the son of a warehouse worker and a bank clerk in the St. Marien Hospital in Nordend, Frankfurt. He grew up in the district of Sossenheim as an only child in modest circumstances.[46][47][48]

Möller's first club was BSC Schwarz-Weiß 1919 Frankfurt, where his father worked as a youth football coach. His coach there was Klaus Gerster, who became his closest friend and later served as an advisor and negotiator throughout his career.[49]

On 28 April 1992 he married a school friend, with whom he has three daughters (* 1993, 1995, 2000).[50][51] Since the beginning of 2001 he has been in a relationship with another woman, whom he married on 18 August 2007 after the divorce of his first marriage (2003).[52]

Other

Möller is a member of the board of trustees of the youth football foundation,[53] which was founded in 2000 by Jürgen Klinsmann, other successful national players and the lecturers of the special football teacher training course.[54]

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup he commented on the games of the German national team for the guests of the club ship AIDA.[55] Möller is credited with a classic of football style blossoms. When asked in an interview in 1992 where he would play in the future, he is said to have answered: "Milan or Madrid, the main thing is Italy." In various interviews, Möller stated that he could not remember having made this statement.[56] The sentence was first documented in 1998 in a collage of satirical quotations from Essen's punk rock fanzine Moloko Plus and was made known in Klaus Bittermann's book Vom Feeling her ein gutes Gefühl (1999).[57]

Möller was voted into the BVB Centenary Eleven by the readers of the WAZ media group.[58]

At irregular intervals he worked for television as a co-commentator on football games.[59][60]

Media

Möller features in EA Sports' FIFA video game series; he was on the cover of the German edition of FIFA 98.[61]

Career statistics

Club
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[62]
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other1 Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Eintracht Frankfurt 1985–86 Bundesliga 10––––10
1986–87 22132–––253
1987–88 12421–––145
Total 35553–––408
Borussia Dortmund 1987–88 Bundesliga 14320–––163
1988–89 291152–––3413
1989–90 321020–40113911
Total 752492–40118927
Eintracht Frankfurt 1990–91 Bundesliga 321672–21–4119
1991–92 371220–42–4314
Total 692892–63–8433
Juventus 1992–93 Serie A 261044–104–4018
1993–94 30910–73–3812
Total 561954–177–7830
Borussia Dortmund 1994–95 Bundesliga 301420–93–4117
1995–96 23841–62103411
1996–97 26510–9110376
1997–98 2610332083104016
1998–99 30720–––327
1999–00 183102071–284
Total 153471344039103021261
Schalke 04 2000–01 Bundesliga 32161–––382
2001–02 324632051–458
2002–03 221202030–291
Total 8661444081–11211
Eintracht Frankfurt 2003–04 Bundesliga 11010–––120
Career total 485129561980742141627170

International
Appearances and goals by national team and year[27]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Germany 198810
198962
199071
199151
199271
1993107
1994122
199595
1996126
199740
1998104
199920
Total8529

Honours

Eintracht Frankfurt

  • German A youth champion: 1985[63]

Borussia Dortmund

Juventus

Schalke 04

Germany

Individual

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