Bernd Schuster

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Bernd Schuster
Personal information
Full name	Bernhard Schuster
Date of birth	22 December 1959 (1959-12-22) (age 49)
Place of birth	Augsburg, West Germany
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
1971–1976 1976–1978	SV Hammerschmiede Augsburg FC Augsburg
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1978–1980 1980–1988 1988–1990 1990–1993 1993–1996 1996–1997 1978–1997	1. FC Köln FC Barcelona Real Madrid Atlético Madrid Bayer Leverkusen UNAM Pumas Total	061 0(10) 170 0(63) 062 0(13) 085 0(11) 059 00(8) 010 00(0) 446 (105)
National team
1977–1979 1980 1980–1984	West Germany U-18 West Germany U-21 West Germany	010 00(2) 001 00(0) 022 00(4)
Teams managed
1997–1998 1998–1999 2001–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2007 2007–2008	Fortuna Köln 1. FC Köln Xerez CD Shakhtar Donetsk Levante UD Getafe CF Real Madrid
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Bernhard Schuster (born 22 December 1959 in Augsburg) is a German football coach and former player.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 FC Barcelona 1.2 Real Madrid 1.3 Atlético Madrid 1.4 Bayer Leverkusen 2 National career 3 Management 3.1 Fortuna Köln 3.2 FC Köln 3.3 Xerez CD 3.4 Shakhtar Donetsk 3.5 Levante 3.6 Getafe 3.7 Real Madrid 4 Managerial stats 5 Personal life 6 Honours 6.1 As player 6.2 As coach 6.3 Individual 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Club career

Schuster started his professional career with 1. FC Köln at age 18 in 1978 after a number of promising performances with the West German Under-18 National team. Schuster left Köln after the 1980 European campaign to sign with Spain's FC Barcelona, where he flourished. During his career, he played for clubs such as Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen. At his final team, the Mexican side Pumas de la UNAM he appeared in ten matches in spring 1997.

[edit] FC Barcelona

Schuster was an important part of the FC Barcelona team during the 1980s, leading the game from midfield and scoring many goals. His club president Josep Lluís Núñez and some trainers like Helenio Herrera, Udo Lattek, Terry Venables and Luis Aragonés had difficult relations with him^[1]. He won, however, the European Silver Ball in 1980 and Bronze Ball in 1981 and 1985. At age 21, in 1981, he received a bad injury on his right knee by Athletic Bilbao defender Andoni Goikoetxea.

[edit] Real Madrid

His move to Real Madrid was controversial due to the strong rivalry between Barcelona and Madrid. Bernd Schusters style complemented the group of home-grown Madrid players known as la Quinta del Buitre who led the team to a dominance of the Spanish Championship through the 1980s.

[edit] Atlético Madrid

Bernd Schuster signed with Atlético Madrid in the fall of 1990 and helped improve the performance of Atletico's traditional games based on backpasses. His long precise passes helped restore Atlético Madrid as a prominent club.

[edit] Bayer Leverkusen

In 1993 Bernd returned home to Germany to play for three seasons with Bayer Leverkusen. Despite his contributions, the club was unable to capture Bundesliga and German Cup titles but his performances inspired much of the country to push for a place for him in the 1994 World Cup squad. In the national TV-Station ARD "Goal of the year" election Schuster won the first 3 places in 1994 ^[1].

In the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll to name the finest European players of the last five decades, Bernd Schuster finished 40th.

[edit] National career

He was part of the West German side that won the 1980 UEFA European Football Championship in Italy, appearing in two of Germany's four matches. His performances there helped him earn the Silver Ball Trophy honour as the Europe's second best player in 1980 behind Golden Ball winner, and Germany team-mate Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. Overall Schuster won twenty-two caps for the West German national team and retired from the German national team at the age of 24, due to his repeated disagreements with the German Football Association, then national team manager Jupp Derwall, and teammates including Paul Breitner^[1]. His refusal to take part in a match against Albania in order to be home for the birth of his second son David caused a sporting scandal at the time ^[1].

According to Schuster himself, his premature retirement from the German National Team was due to a major disagreement with the managements of both Barcelona and the German National Team on either side of a friendly match against Brazil. [1]

[edit] Management

[edit] Fortuna Köln

After his retirement as a player in 1997, Schuster successfully managed a small club in Cologne, SC Fortuna Köln in 2. Fußball-Bundesliga.

[edit] FC Köln

Following this, he managed his former club 1. FC Köln, also in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga, but was unable to get the club promoted and so left. In 2000, he applied for the manager job at Scottish club Dundee FC but the Dundee chairman rejected his application.

[edit] Xerez CD

In 2001 he received an offer from the small club Xerez CD in Southern Spain and he managed the team, very successfully, for two seasons; the best two seasons in the history of the club. However, he could not promote the team to Primera Division.

[edit] Shakhtar Donetsk

Upon receiving no good offers from Spain, he accepted a deal to coach the Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk where he established a club record number of consecutive victories. However, the team did not win the championship and did not reach the final round of the Champions League with a match against Lokomotiv Moscow. Schuster was fired one week before his team played and won the Ukrainian Cup in 2004.

[edit] Levante

He went back to Spain in summer 2004 to coach Levante UD and made a good start with the small club from Valencia. The president fired him with a 5-point advantage over the relegation places just five games from the end of the season. Levante could not win a game and fell to Segunda División (Spanish second division) again.

[edit] Getafe

In summer 2005, Getafe CF, a small side from Madrid, had their best season in team history. Schuster coached Getafe in their second successful season under his guidance and the team did even better, 7th in La Liga. Getafe have also secured entry to the 2007-08 UEFA Cup as a result of reaching the final of the Copa del Rey after overcoming a 5-2 first leg defeat against Barcelona, beating them 4-0 in the second leg.

[edit] Real Madrid

Schuster was then appointed manager of Real Madrid on 9 July 2007. He was required to buy-out his existing contract with Getafe for €480,000, which he paid for out of his own pocket. He made a successful start with Real taking them to top of the La Liga standings. As manager beautiful football returned again to the Santiago Bernabeu stadium with Real Madrid having the strongest offence, not beaten at home from the start of the league and defeating their arch rival Barcelona at their home ground Camp Nou with a goal scored by Julio Baptista thus increasing their lead to seven points between them and the second place (Barcelona). The team also qualified to the second round of the UEFA Champions League leading their group which also contained Olympiacos, Werder Bremen and S.S. Lazio. He improved Real Madrid's style of play significantly. He managed to switch from the unattractive defensive football during the reign of Fabio Capello to fast paced, attacking football. After losing 2-1 to AS Roma in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League which meant the elimination of Real Madrid, many doubted that Schuster would continue to be Madrid's coach, but the club denied such allegations. On 4 May 2008, Schuster guided Real Madrid to their 31st title with 3 games to spare. On 18 May 2008, Schuster's Real Madrid achieved the highest point total (85 points) a record that was set by rivals Barcelona. He then went on to win the Spanish Super Cup.

On 9 December 2008 Schuster stepped down^[2] as manager after a 4-3 defeat to Sevilla FC, and speaking out publicly about his team standing no chance of beating Barcelona in the El Clásico derby match.^[3] He was replaced by Juande Ramos, former Sevilla FC and Tottenham Hotspur coach.

[edit] Managerial stats

Last updated 24 September 2008

Nat	Team	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %	GF	GA	+/-
	SC Fortuna Köln	1997	1998	34	11	13	10	32.35%	53	53	0
	1. FC Köln	1998	1999	34	12	9	13	35.29%	46	53	-7
	Xerez CD	2001	2003	81	34	22	25	41.98%	89	89	0
	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	2003	2004	23	15	4	4	65.22%	41	18	+23
	Levante UD	2004	2005	34	9	8	17	26.47%	36	50	-14
	Getafe CF	2005	2007	76	29	19	28	38.16%	93	82	+11
	Real Madrid	2007	2008	53	35	6	12	66.04%	114	63	+51
Total Career				323	139	79	105	43.03%	449	386	+63

[edit] Personal life

During his heyday as a player Schuster and his wife, Gaby, were celebrities in Germany. Gaby had a controversial reputation, worsened when she took over the job as her husband's manager. She was soon labelled by the press as being "Bernd's dragon-like boss" without whom he would never even sign a bill in a restaurant.^{[citation needed]} During the Schusters' residence in Spain, Gaby was also notorious for her often public comments directed towards FC Barcelona coach Udo Lattek and national coach Jupp Derwall when her husband played for them. Gaby and Bernd Schuster are still married and have four children. Gaby is a sports manager but she has not been Bernd Schuster's manager for some years. Since 2008 Bernd Schuster lives separated from his wife and has a new girlfriend.^[4]

[edit] Honours

[edit] As player

• FC Barcelona
  • La Liga: 1985
  • Copa del Rey: 1981, 1983, 1988
  • European Cup Winners' Cup: 1981-82
  • Supercopa de España: 1983
  • Copa de la Liga: 1983, 1986
  • European Cup:
    • Runner-up: 1986

• Real Madrid
  • La Liga: 1989, 1990
  • Copa del Rey: 1989
  • Supercopa de España: 1989

• Atlético Madrid
  • La Liga:
    • Runner-up: 1991
  • Copa del Rey: 1991, 1992

• National Team
  • UEFA European Football Championship: 1980

[edit] As coach

• Shakhtar Donetsk
  • Ukrainian Cup: 2004
• Real Madrid
  • La Liga: 2008
  • Supercopa de España: 2008

[edit] Individual

• La Liga: Best Foreign Player 1985, 1991
• European Footballer of the Year: Silver Ball 1980 - Bronze Ball 1981 and 1985

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Profile at RealMadrid.com
• Career stats at Fussballdaten.de (German)

Preceded by Máximo Hernández	Xerez CD manager 2001-2003	Succeeded by Carlos Orúe
Preceded by Manuel Preciado	Levante UD manager 2004-2005	Succeeded by Juan Ramón López Caro
Preceded by Quique Sánchez Flores	Getafe CF manager 2005-2007	Succeeded by Michael Laudrup

v • d • e West Germany squad – UEFA Euro 1980 Winners (2nd title) 1 Schumacher • 2 Briegel • 3 Cullmann • 4 K. Förster • 5 Dietz • 6 Schuster • 7 B. Förster • 8 Rummenigge • 9 Hrubesch • 10 Müller • 11 K. Allofs • 12 Memering • 13 Bonhof • 14 Magath • 15 Stielike • 16 Zimmermann • 17 Del'Haye • 18 Matthäus • 19 Votava • 20 Kaltz • 21 Junghans • 22 Immel • Coach: Derwall

v • d • e 1. FC Köln – Managers Flink (1948) · Schneider (1952–53) · Winkler (1953–54) · Baluses (1954–55) · Weisweiler (1955–58) · Szabo (1958–59) · Pfau (1959–61) · Čajkovski (1961–63) · Knöpfle (1963–64) · Multhaup (1966–68) · Merkle (1968–70) · Ocwirk (1970–71) · Lóránt (1971–72) · Herings (1972) · Schlott (1972–73) · Čajkovski (1973–75) · Stollenwerk (1976) · Weisweiler (1976–80) · Heddergott (1980) · Herings (1980) · Michels (1980–83) · Löhr (1983–86) · Keßler (1986) · Daum (1986–90) · Rutemöller (1990–91) · Lattek (1991) · Linssen (1991) · Berger (1991–93) · Jerat (1993) · Olsen (1993–95) · Engels (1995–96) · Neururer (1996–97) · Köstner (1997–98) · Schuster (1998–99) · Lienen (1999–2002) · John (2002) · Funkel (2002–03) · Luhukay (2003) · Koller (2003–04) · Stevens (2004–05) · Rapolder (2005–06) · Latour (2006) · Gehrke (2006) · Daum (2006–09) · Soldo (2009–)

v • d • e Getafe CF – Managers Prado (1999–2000) · Hurtado (2000–01) · Barderas (2001–02) · Mel (2002–03) · Uribe (2003–04) · Flores (2004–05) · Schuster (2005–07) · Laudrup (2007–08) · Muñoz (2008–09) · Míchel (2009–)

v • d • e Real Madrid C.F. – Managers Johnson (1910–20) · de Cárcel (1920–26) · Llorente (1926–27) · Bernabéu (1926–27) · Berraondo (1927–29) · Quirante (1929–30) · Hertzka (1930–32) · Firth (1932–1934) · Bru (1934–41) · Armet (1941–43) · Encinas (1943–45) · Quincoces (1945–46) · Albéniz (1946–47) · Quincoces (1947–48) · Keeping (1948–50) · Albéniz (1950–51) · Scarone (1951–52) · Ipiña (1952–53) · Fernández (1953–54) · Villalonga (1954–57) · Carniglia (1957–59) · Muñoz (1959) · Carniglia (1959) · Fleitas (1959–60) · Muñoz (1960–74) · Molowny (1974) · Miljanić (1974–77) · Molowny (1977–79) · Boškov (1979–82) · Molowny (1982) · di Stéfano (1982–84) · Amaro (1984–85) · Molowny (1985–86) · Beenhakker (1986–89) · Toshack (1989–90) · di Stéfano (1990–91) · Antić (1991–92) · Beenhakker (1992) · Floro (1992–94) · del Bosque (1994) · Valdano (1994–96) · Iglesias (1996) · Capello (1996–97) · Heynckes (1997–98) · Hiddink (1998–99) · Toshack (1999) · del Bosque (1999–2003) · Queiroz (2003–04) · Camacho (2004) · García Remón (2004) · Luxemburgo (2004–05) · López Caro (2005–06) · Capello (2006–07) · Schuster (2007–08) · Ramos (2008–09) · Pellegrini (2009-–)