CHRISTIAN ZIEGE

CHRISTIAN ZIEGE

Full name: Christian Ziege
Born: 01.02.1972
Born in: Berlin, Germany
Nationality: Germany
Height: 186 cm
Weight: 73 kg


Statistic Club Career

07/2005 - 10/2005 ==> Bor. Mönchengladbach, Germany
07/2004 - 06/2005 ==> Bor. Mönchengladbach, Germany
07/2001 - 06/2004 ==> Tottenham Hotspur, England
07/2000 - 06/2001 ==> Liverpool FC, England
07/1999 - 06/2000 ==> Middlesbrough FC, England
07/1997 - 06/1999 ==> AC Milan, Italy
07/1995 - 06/1997 ==> Bayern München, Germany
07/1990 - 06/1995 ==> Bayern München, Germany

At club level, Ziege played for Bayern Munich (1990-97), AC Milan (1997-99) and Middlesbrough (1999-2000). In summer 2000 Liverpool F.C. made a £5.5m bid which exactly matched a get-out clause in Ziege's contract. Middlesbrough insisted they had received offers in excess of £8m for Ziege, but were forced contractually to allow Ziege to talk to Liverpool, who then signed him. He made his debut for Liverpool in a 3-2 home win over Manchester City on 9 September, 2000, replacing Steven Gerrard in the second half. Although the Anfield crowd saw flashes of Ziege's brilliance down the left flank during the season, a combination of knee injuries and the improving form of Jamie Carragher, meant he was transferred to Tottenham Hotspur after one year and 32 appearances in all competitions.

On 14 March 2002, Liverpool were fined £20,000 by The Football Association for making an illegal approach for Ziege, while the player himself was fined £10,000. However, by this time Ziege's injury problems were escalating, and by 2004 his contract was terminated by mutual consent so he could return to Germany.

Ziege returned to Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach in June 2004, but announced his retirement in October 2005, having not played since the previous December due to a persistent ankle injury.

International Career

World Cup 2002, Japan/South Korea
World Cup 1998, France
WC Qualifiers Europe 2002
WC Qualifiers Europe 1998
WC Qualifiers Relegation 2002
Friendlies 2004
Friendlies 2002
Friendlies 2001
Friendlies 2000
Friendlies 1999
Friendlies 1998
Friendlies 1997
Friendlies 1996
Friendlies 1995
Friendlies 1993
EURO 2004, Portugal
EURO 2000, Holland/Belgium
EURO 1996, England
EURO Qualifiers 2002/2003
EURO Qualifiers 1998/1999
EURO Qualifiers 1994/1995

Ziege was capped 72 times for Germany, 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).

Managerial Career

Following retirement from the game due to injury in October 2005, Ziege picked up his UEFA diploma for coaching. In 2006 he moved into coaching with his last professional club, Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he was named head coach of the club'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 role of Director of Football at the club, as the replacement for the outgoing Peter Pander. At the time of his appointment, with ten matches to go until the end of the season, Mönchengladbach were at the bottom of the Bundesliga, with five points between them and safety. On 15 December 2008 Ziege left Borussia Mönchengladbach.