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Name
  
Thomas Helmer

Position
  
Defender

1984–1986
  
Spouse
  
Yasmina Filali (m. 2005)


Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.85 m

0000–1984
  
SC Bad Salzuflen

Role
  
Footballer

Date joined
  
1992

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Date of birth
  
(1965-04-21) 21 April 1965 (age 50)

Playing position
  
Centre-back, defensive midfielder, sweeper

Children
  
Kim Helmer, Sunny Luz Helmer, Sam Helmer

Similar People
  
Yasmina Filali, Thomas Strunz, Stefan Reuter, Jorg Wontorra, Thomas Berthold

Profiles


Place of birth
  

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Thomas Helmer (born 21 April 1965 in Herford, West Germany) is a former German footballer.

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His preferred playing position was sweeper, but he was primarily deployed as a central defender.

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Helmer spent most of his club career with Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich – appearing in nearly 400 Bundesliga games in 15 seasons – and won the European Championship in 1996.

Helmer's Phantom Goal


Club career

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Helmer began his professional career with Arminia Bielefeld, playing four games late in 1984–85, in a season that ended in relegation. In the following season, he netted five goals in 35 second division matches, prompting interest from Borussia Dortmund, which signed him in 1986. A key element from the start, Helmer also scored 16 goals during his six-season stint.

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In 1992, he joined FC Bayern Munich in controversial circumstances. Dortmund did not wish to sell Helmer, one of its best players, to a rival Bundesliga team, and sent him to France's Olympique Lyonnais instead. However, only three months later, Lyon sold Helmer to Bayern Munich for 7.5 million marks, at the time a record transfer fee paid by the Bavarian club. The resultant furore became so heated that German national side coach Berti Vogts threatened to drop Helmer from the UEFA Euro 92 squad because of the distraction the affair was causing.

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Helmer was also an integral part (scoring seven goals in his debut season) and, eventually, captain of an ascendant Bayern Munich team of the late-1990s, winning three league titles, one cup and three League cups), adding the 1995–96 UEFA Cup, where he scored once (against FC Girondins de Bordeaux in the final's first leg) in 12 games. Defensively, the team would also include, during Helmer's stay, internationals Olaf Thon, Lothar Matthäus and Markus Babbel.

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Upon leaving Bayern in 1999, Helmer opted to move to the Premier League. He was offered a contract by Liverpool, but chose instead to join newly promoted Sunderland on a free transfer. Sunderland manager Peter Reid hardly used him, however, making just two league appearances against Leeds United and Arsenal and he returned to Germany on loan with Hertha BSC. Although he had appeared in the UEFA Champions League for Hertha, upon his return to Sunderland, Reid judged that “his legs had gone”, and the club bought-out his contract, with the player retiring immediately afterwards.

International career

Helmer made his full international debut for Germany on 10 October 1990, a 3–1 win in a friendly match with Sweden in Stockholm. He enjoyed great success in the UEFA European Football Championships, starting in consecutive finals. In 1992, Germany lost surprisingly to Denmark, which had been called at the last hour, but four years later went one better, defeating the Czech Republic in extra-time at Wembley.

Helmer also appeared in two FIFA World Cups, bowing out of international football in the second round clash of the 1998 edition against Mexico, when he was replaced before half-time by Christian Ziege.

International goals

Scores and results table. Germany's goal tally first.

Club

  • Bundesliga: 1993–94, 1996–97, 1998–99
  • DFB-Pokal: 1988–89, 1997–98; Runner-up 1998–99
  • DFB-Ligapokal: 1997, 1998
  • UEFA Champions League: Runner-up 1998–99
  • UEFA Cup: 1995–96
  • International

    Germany
  • UEFA European Championship: 1996; Runner-up 1992
  • US Cup: 1993
  • Post-retirement

    After retiring, Helmer worked as a sports journalist and television presenter with DSF. Additionally, he served as Germany's ambassador to children's charity "FIFA for SOS Children's Villages", first undertaking it in 1997.

    References

    Thomas Helmer Wikipedia


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