1. Andreas Thom was born on 7 September 1965 and is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward for BFC Dynamo, Bayer Leverkusen, Celtic and Hertha BSC.
28 Facts About Andreas Thom
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Andreas Thom played 51 times for East Germany throughout the 1980s and played ten times for the unified Germany national team in the early 1990s.
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Andreas Thom is retired from playing and works as a youth coach at Hertha BSC.
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Andreas Thom was born in Rudersdorf in East Germany and began playing football at an early age for TSG Herzfelde.
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Andreas Thom joined the youth department of BFC Dynamo in 1974 and enrolled in the elite Children and Youth Sports school "Werner Seelenbinder" in Alt-Hohenschonhausen in Berlin.
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Andreas Thom began a sports teacher degree at the German University of Physical Culture in Leipzig in 1987.
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Andreas Thom was one of the greatest talents in East German football, according to former BFC Dynamo coach Jurgen Bogs.
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Andreas Thom brought him up to train with the first team of BFC Dynamo every now and then.
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At 18-years old, Thom made his professional debut for BFC Dynamo in the DDR-Oberliga, as a substitute for Bernd Schulz in the match against FC Carl Zeiss Jena on 22 October 1983.
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Andreas Thom scored the only goal of the game in the 1989 FDGB-Pokal final.
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Andreas Thom became the player of the week six times during the league season.
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Andreas Thom was then voted the East German Footballer of the Year in 1988.
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On 16 December 1989, Andreas Thom became the first East German to sign for a Bundesliga club when he joined West German side Bayer Leverkusen for a transfer fee of 2.5 million Deutsche Mark.
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Franz Beckenbauer has said that he thought Andreas Thom was the most complete player he had ever seen.
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Andreas Thom moved back to Germany in January 1998 to sign for Hertha BSC, although his 15 league appearances for Celtic earlier that season saw him pick up a Scottish League championship medal when Celtic clinched the league title in May 1998.
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Andreas Thom spent four years at Hertha BSC before retiring from playing.
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Andreas Thom played for the East Germany national team between 1984 and 1990, making 51 appearances and scoring 16 goals.
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Andreas Thom made his debut in a friendly against Algeria on 10 October 1984.
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Andreas Thom was now a regular in the East German international side, and played in all eight of his nations qualifying ties for Euro 1988.
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In 1988, Andreas Thom took over from goalkeeper Rene Muller as captain of the national side for six matches, including their first two qualifying games for World Cup against Iceland and Turkey.
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Andreas Thom played in a further 9 matches and scored one more goal.
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Andreas Thom made his only appearance in the finals of a major international tournament in 1992 when he came on as a substitute for Stefan Effenberg in the final of Euro 1992 against Denmark.
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Andreas Thom became assistant coach at the club and held that position under Meyer's successor, Falko Gotz.
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On 10 April 2007, Andreas Thom was sacked along with Gotz due to the poor performance of Hertha BSC.
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On 15 December 2008, it was announced that Andreas Thom would become assistant coach at lower league Holstein Kiel in January 2009.
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Under head coach Falko Gotz, Andreas Thom helped Holstein Kiel win promotion from the Regionalliga Nord to the national third division in 2009.
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Andreas Thom led the Hertha BSC U17 team to the final round of the German U17 Championship three times, winning the German U17 Championship in 2012 and finishing runner-up in 2013.
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Andreas Thom then continued his career at Hertha BSC as youth coach.