Lars Ricken

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Lars Ricken
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Ricken training with Borussia Dortmund in 2006
Personal information
Full name Lars Ricken
Date of birth (1976-07-10) 10 July 1976 (age 47)
Place of birth Dortmund, West Germany
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Borussia Dortmund (youth coordinator)
Youth career
1982–1986 TuS Eving-Lindenhorst
1986–1990 Eintracht Dortmund
1990–1993 Borussia Dortmund
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1993–2007 Borussia Dortmund 301 (49)
2003–2009 Borussia Dortmund II 39 (8)
Total340(57)
International career
1995–1998 Germany U21 17 (8)
1997–2002 Germany 16 (1)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Men's football
FIFA World Cup
Runner-up 2002 Korea/Japan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lars Ricken (born 10 July 1976) is a German retired footballer and current managing director of Borussia Dortmund. [1] From 2008 to 2024, he was the youth coordinator at Dortmund.

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He represented Borussia Dortmund during his entire professional career, which spanned 15 years. He was the youngest player to ever appear for the club in an official match, a record later broken by Nuri Şahin. A midfielder, he won three Bundesliga titles (1994–95, 1995–96, 2001–02) and scored in the 1996–97 Champions League final which Dortmund won.

A German international for five years, Ricken represented the country at the 2002 World Cup and the 1999 Confederations Cup.

Football career

Born in Dortmund, Ricken joined local BV Borussia at an early age, and made his Bundesliga debut on 8 March 1994 in a 1–2 home defeat against VfB Stuttgart, aged not yet 18. From the following season onwards, he became a regular. [2]

Ricken scored a memorable long-distance goal in the final of the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League edition against Juventus FC, which stood as the fastest in a final of the competition by a substitute, finding the net after just 16 seconds on the field. [3] [4] He also contributed with 8 goals in 47 matches in the team's back-to-back national titles (1994–96).

In the following years, Ricken's success was hampered by a series of injuries. He gained his first cap for Germany on 10 September 1997, [5] in a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Armenia, but missed that major international tournament as well as UEFA Euro 2000. Later, he restored his form, helping Dortmund to claim the league title in 2002 by scoring a career-best six goals and being selected by national coach Rudi Völler for the squad at that year's World Cup; he did not play in the competition, however, as Germany emerged runners-up.

Ricken's injury woes returned after the World Cup and, as a consequence, he failed to earn recognition at both European or international level. In early April 2007, he was demoted to the reserve team by manager Thomas Doll, due to substandard performance. [6]

In November 2007, Ricken announced his retirement from football. In an attempt to return to football, he briefly attended a training camp in February 2008 with the Columbus Crew of the Major League Soccer, but returned to Germany and Dortmund after a few days.

On 11 June 2008, Borussia Dortmund sport director Michael Zorc, also a former club footballer, announced that Ricken was to be hired as youth coordinator with immediate effect, while still appearing for the amateur side in Regionalliga West. However, on 16 February 2009, he announced his retirement from professional football. [7]

On 22 April 2024, Ricken was announced to take over the duties of CEO for Sport at the club from Hans-Joachim Watzke, beginning from 1 May 2024. [1]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition [8]
ClubSeasonLeagueCupLeague CupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Borussia Dortmund 1993–94 Bundesliga 5100—2 [lower-alpha 1] 1—72
1994–95 Bundesliga21200—7 [lower-alpha 1] 1—283
1995–96 Bundesliga26631—7 [lower-alpha 2] 2—369
1996–97 Bundesliga23210—9 [lower-alpha 2] 41 [lower-alpha 3] 0346
1997–98 Bundesliga25223205 [lower-alpha 2] 02 [lower-alpha 4] 0365
1998–99 Bundesliga28520———305
1999–2000 Bundesliga294102011 [lower-alpha 5] 0—434
2000–01 Bundesliga29631———327
2001–02 Bundesliga286102015 [lower-alpha 5] 4—4610
2002–03 Bundesliga244101111 [lower-alpha 2] 0—375
2003–04 Bundesliga23220205 [lower-alpha 5] 2—324
2004–05 Bundesliga17510—2 [lower-alpha 6] 0—205
2005–06 Bundesliga10410———114
2006–07 Bundesliga13010———140
Total301491958174143040569
Borussia Dortmund II 2002–03 Regionalliga Nord 10————10
2003–04 Regionalliga Nord10————10
2004–05 Regionalliga Nord42————42
2006–07 Regionalliga Nord115————115
2007–08 Regionalliga Nord191————191
2008–09 Regionalliga West 30————30
Total398————398
Career Total340571958174143044477
  1. 1 2 Appearances in the UEFA Cup.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Appearances in the UEFA Champions League.
  3. ↑ Appearances in the German Super Cup.
  4. ↑ Appearances in the UEFA Super Cup.
  5. 1 2 3 Appearances in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup.
  6. ↑ Appearances in the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Honours

Borussia Dortmund

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References

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