Christian Nerlinger

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Christian Nerlinger
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Nerlinger in 2010
Personal information
Date of birth (1973-03-21) 21 March 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Dortmund, West Germany
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1981–1986 TSV Forstenried
1986–1992 Bayern Munich
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1990–1993 Bayern Munich (A) 75 (18)
1992–1998 Bayern Munich 156 (27)
1998–2001 Borussia Dortmund 59 (2)
2001–2004 Rangers 25 (2)
2004–2006 1. FC Kaiserslautern 9 (0)
Total324(49)
International career
1992–1996 Germany U21 22 (10)
1998–1999 Germany 6 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Christian Nerlinger (born 21 March 1973) is a German former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. His professional career was mainly associated with Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

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Club career

Nerlinger was born in Dortmund. He signed for FC Bayern Munich at the age of 13, completing his formation at the Bavarian side. [1] He was promoted to the first team in 1992, but made no Bundesliga appearances in his debut season.

In the following campaign, Nerlinger's impact, in a midfield which also comprised Jorginho, Lothar Matthäus, Mehmet Scholl and Christian Ziege, was immediate, and he helped the eventual champions by finishing as the second top scorer in the squad with nine goals – a career-best in the German top-flight [2] – only behind Scholl and Adolfo Valencia's 11; he made his competition debut on 7 August 1993, in a 3–1 home win against SC Freiburg.

After another four solid seasons, Nerlinger moved to hometown club Borussia Dortmund, where he began suffering with injuries; this situation would be worsened in the following years, as he could hardly get a game at any of his following two clubs, Scotland's Rangers [3] [4] and 1. FC Kaiserslautern (he reunited with former Bayern teammate Carsten Jancker in the latter), forcing to his retirement from the game in December 2005.

International career

Nerlinger was capped six times by Germany, his debut coming on 5 September 1998, in a 1–1 friendly with Romania, [5] in which he scored the equalizer five minutes from time. He did not attend, however, any major international tournament.

Managerial career

After his professional career ended, Nerlinger studied International Business at the Munich Business School. Shortly later he was appointed team manager at Bayern Munich. In January 2010, he succeeded Uli Hoeneß as technical manager, upgrading shortly after to general manager of the club. [6] On 2 July 2012, Nerlinger was replaced by Matthias Sammer. [7]

Nerlinger became Team Manager on 1 July 2008. [8] He became Sporting Director of Bayern Munich on 1 July 2009. [9] He held the position until June 2012 [8] when he was replaced by Matthias Sammer.

Career statistics

Score and result list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after Nerlinger goal.
International goal scored by Christian Nerlinger
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
15 September 1998 Ta' Qali Stadium, Attard, MaltaFlag of Romania.svg  Romania 1–11–1 Friendly

Honours

Bayern Munich

Rangers

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References

  1. ↑ "Nerlinger, Christian" (in German). kicker . Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  2. ↑ Arnhold, Matthias (11 October 2018). "Christian Nerlinger - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga". RSSSF . Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Rangers line up Nerlinger". BBC Sport. 19 June 2001. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  4. ↑ "I don't want a Christian burial; Nerlinger vows to breathe life into his Rangers career". The Free Library. 14 August 2003. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
  5. ↑ Arnhold, Matthias (11 October 2018). "Christian Nerlinger - International Appearances". RSSSF . Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Departments". Bayern Munich . Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  7. ↑ "Matthias Sammer wird neuer 'Sport-Vorstand'" (in German). FC Bayern Munich. 2 July 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Team manager: Christian Nerlinger". FC Bayern Munich . 17 June 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  9. ↑ "Nerlinger ist der neue Hoeneß". kicker (in German). 24 May 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
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