Full name Mario Basler Role Football manager Playing position Height 1.86 m | 1974–1984 VfL Neustadt Weight 80 kg Name Mario Basler Position Midfielder | |
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Date of birth (1968-12-18) 18 December 1968 (age 46) Place of birth Neustadt (Weinstrase), West Germany Current team 1.FC Lokomotive Leipzig (sports director) Similar People Thomas Helmer, Stefan Effenberg, Carsten Jancker, Mehmet Scholl, Thomas Strunz Profiles | ||
Nachspielzeit der leipziger fu balltalk mit mario basler vom 01 m rz 2015
Mario Basler (born 18 December 1968 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße) is a German former football winger and current manager, most recently in charge of Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.
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- Nachspielzeit der leipziger fu balltalk mit mario basler vom 01 m rz 2015
- Football legend mario basler tribute
- Club career
- International career
- Coaching career
- Coaching record
- Club
- International
- Individual
- References
He currently works as sports director at 1.FC Lokomotive Leipzig.
A dead-ball specialist, Basler scored numerous goals from free-kicks and two directly from corner kicks during his career, colloquially known as Olympic goals. He also was known for his creativity.
Football legend mario basler tribute
Club career
Basler started his career with 1. FC Kaiserslautern, making only one league appearance. In 1993, he joined Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen, after previously playing for Hertha BSC and Rot-Weiss Essen in the 2. Bundesliga. With Bremen, Basler won the DFB-Pokal in 1994 and finished runner-up in the Bundesliga in 1995. During the 1994–95 season, he was joint top-goalscorer in the Bundesliga with 20 goals.
Basler joined FC Bayern Munich in 1996, where he won the Bundesliga title in 1997 and 1999, and scored the club's winning goal in the 1998 DFB-Pokal final. Basler also scored the opening goal for Bayern Munich in their 1999 UEFA Champions League Final against Manchester United at Camp Nou, Barcelona with free-kick in the sixth minute of the game. Bayern went on to lose the match 2–1.
Basler rejoined Kaiserslautern in 1999, reaching the UEFA Cup semi-finals in 2001 and the final of the 2002–03 DFB-Pokal, where die roten Teufel were beaten by Basler's former club Bayern Munich.
International career
He played 30 games for the Germany national football team between 1994 and 1998 and scored two goals. He was named in the squad for the 1994 World Cup, and Euro 1996, the latter of which Germany won, although Basler didn't make any appearances in the tournament.
Coaching career
Basler began his coaching career 2004 as head coach of SSV Jahn Regensburg but was sacked after few months. In July 2007 he became assistant coach of TuS Koblenz. After only one year he left TuS Koblenz to sign a contract as head coach and manager with SV Eintracht Trier 05. On 21 February 2010 was fired by his club SV Eintracht Trier 05. He was appointed as manager of SV Wacker Burghausen in August of the same year. When Burghausen was relegated at the end of the 2010–11 season, Basler was sacked.
Basler took over as coach of Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in October 2011 but resigned from his position on 14 September 2012 after four losses in seven games.
In February 2015, Basler got the job as sports director for 1.FC Lokomotive Leipzig.