Christian Wörns

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Christian Wörns
Personal information
Full name	Christian Wörns
Date of birth	May 10, 1972 (1972-05-10) (age 37)
Place of birth	Mannheim, West Germany
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Defender
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989–1991 1991–1998 1998–1999 1999–2008	Waldhof Mannheim Bayer Leverkusen Paris Saint-Germain Borussia Dortmund	052 0(3) 211 (13) 028 0(2) 240 (14)
National team
1990–1993 1992–2005	Germany U-21 Germany	016 0(1) 066 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Christian Wörns (born on May 10, 1972 in Mannheim) is a retired German footballer who played at both Full-back and Centre-back.

[edit] Career

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Wörns debuted at the tender age of 17 years, 3 months and 30 days for Waldhof Mannheim and was the fourth youngest debutant ever.

The next year, he transferred to Bayer Leverkusen, quickly established himself as a defensive stalwart and anchored the strong Leverkusen defense for nearly a decade, together with Jens Nowotny and Markus Happe.

In 1998, he changed to Paris Saint-Germain FC, but there, he failed to settle and transferred to Borussia Dortmund the next year, where he played until finishing his career in 2008

[edit] International career

Wörns represented his country on 66 occasions and did not score.

Wörns was considered one of the finest German defenders of his generation, suffered a long string of professional failures in the German squad.

• Euro 1996: after an injury hit season, Wörns fails to get nominated and misses being on the winning squad.
• World Cup 1998: Considered the best player on the German squad, Wörns plays a stellar tourney until he fouls Davor Šuker in the quarter final match against Croatia to stop a breakaway run on goal. He is sent off and three unanswered goals are scored against Germany after his red card, making him the scapegoat for his country's 0-3 loss.
• World Cup 2002: Wörns injures himself at the last moment, nonetheless Germany reaches the final.
• Euro Cup 2004: Despite his strong performances against Holland and Latvia, he could not prevent Germany from crashing out in the intitial group stage.
• When manager Jürgen Klinsmann announced the 22 players for the 2006 FIFA World Cup squad, Wörns was only a backup squad member. This promped an outrageous interview by Wörns. Due to the fact that he verbally attacked Klinsmann during the interview the German Football Association took disciplinary action against Wörns: he was banned from playing as an international. This was similar to what happened to Uli Stein (during the 1986 FIFA World Cup) and Stefan Effenberg (during the 1994 FIFA World Cup).

[edit] Career statistics

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[edit] Honours

Bayer Leverkusen

• German Cup
  • Winner: 1992–93

Borussia Dortmund

• Bundesliga
  • Winner: 2001–02

German National Football Team

• Euro 1992
  • Runner-up: 1992

[edit] External links

• Leverkusen who's who

v • d • e Germany squad – UEFA Euro 1992 Runners-up 1 Illgner • 2 Reuter • 3 Brehme • 4 Kohler • 5 Binz • 6 Buchwald • 7 Möller • 8 Häßler • 9 Völler • 10 Doll • 11 Riedle • 12 Köpke • 13 Thom • 14 Helmer • 15 Frontzeck • 16 Sammer • 17 Effenberg • 18 Klinsmann • 19 Schulz • 20 Wörns • Coach: Vogts

v • d • e Germany squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Köpke • 2 Wörns • 3 Heinrich • 4 Kohler • 5 Helmer • 6 Thon • 7 Möller • 8 Matthäus • 9 Kirsten • 10 Häßler • 11 Marschall • 12 Kahn • 13 Jeremies • 14 Babbel • 15 Freund • 16 Hamann • 17 Ziege • 18 Klinsmann • 19 Reuter • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Tarnat • 22 Lehmann • Coach: Vogts

v • d • e Germany squad – 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup 1 Lehmann • 2 Wörns • 3 Heinrich • 4 Linke • 5 Doğan • 6 Maul • 7 Scholl • 8 Wosz • 9 Marschall • 10 Matthäus • 11 Preetz • 12 Enke • 13 Neuville • 14 Baumann • 15 Ballack • 16 Schneider • 17 Gerber • 18 Ricken • 19 Heldt • 20 Rink • Coach: Ribbeck

v • d • e Germany squad – UEFA Euro 2004 1 Kahn • 2 Hinkel • 3 Friedrich • 4 Wörns • 5 Nowotny • 6 Baumann • 7 Schweinsteiger • 8 Hamann • 9 Bobic • 10 Kurányi • 11 Klose • 12 Lehmann • 13 Ballack • 14 Brdaric • 15 Kehl • 16 Jeremies • 17 Ziege • 18 Ernst • 19 Schneider • 20 Podolski • 21 Lahm • 22 Frings • 23 Hildebrand • Coach: Völler