Short introduction

Thomas Helmer (born April 21, 1965, Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) – German soccer participant, performed as a defender.

Early life

Helmer began out his profession at SC Bad Salzuflen and switched to Arminia Bielefeld in 1984 as a professional. There he made his debut on March 23, 1985 (twenty fourth matchday) withinside the Bundesliga in opposition to Schalke 04. With a zero-three defeat, he overlooked an amazing debut withinside the German pinnacle league. After spending ninety mins on the sector in his first sport, he best finished 3 greater brief missions in different video games. The crew become positioned sixteenth withinside the 2nd department on the give up of the season. After ordinary gamers like Dirk Hoopé and Detlef Schnier left the crew, Helmer marched into the beginning 11 of East Westphalia in 1985/86 and eventually won. The defender scored his first purpose on November 2, 1985. He led his crew 1-zero in opposition to Borussia Berlin, laying the cornerstone for a 2-zero win. Overall, he scored 5 desires this season with the second one-satisfactory scorer Uwe Haas in Bielefeld. With fourth place, the crew overlooked a direct go back to the Bundesliga.

Career

On March 23, 1985, in a sport in opposition to Schalke, Thomas become substituted on the sector as one of the closing hopes. But he couldn’t assist it either, the Bielefeld gamers misplaced the sport absolutely with a end result of zero: three. The season become now no longer stored either; After the results, “Arminia” flew into the second one Bundesliga, in which Thomas Helmer confirmed himself in all its beauty and the 1986/87 season commenced in Borussia, Dortmund. There he without delay have become a base participant and spent six exact seasons after gambling a complete of one hundred ninety video games and scoring sixteen desires.

In the summer time season of 1992 Thomas moved to Munich for 7.five million marks due to the fact the Dortmund crew did now no longer need to reinforce their competition and attempted to promote the participant to the French Lions. At that point the Munich crew had an acute trouble with defenders – Hansi Pflugler ended his profession and Marcus Babbel moved to Hamburg. Helmer become almost unmatched and without delay have become the bottom participant for a protracted time. The debut in Bavaria passed off on August 15, 1992 withinside the first spherical in shape in opposition to Bayer Jürdingen, which ended with the three-zero victory of Munich. Thomas spent the entire sport on the sector or even controlled to attain withinside the eighty fifth minute. In 1997 Thomas have become captain of the crew, changed the mythical Lothar Mathäus and remained captain till 1999, while he left the club.

Thomas determined to extrade his stay: he signed a agreement with Sunderland, England, no matter being supplied a Liverpool agreement. However, Sunderland’s teacher Peter Reid didn’t see him at the bottom. At the start of the season, Thomas switched to Hertha below a rent and spent 5 video games there. In January 2000 he back to England however become not able to play there and ended his soccer profession.

Helmer made his complete global debut for Germany on October 10, 1990 in a three-1 win in a pleasant with Sweden in Stockholm. He had first-rate achievement on the UEFA European Football Championship. Germany enormously misplaced to Denmark in 1992, however 4 years later it were given higher while he defeated the Czech Republic in more time at Wembley.

Helmer additionally competed in FIFA World Cups while he retired from global soccer withinside the 2nd spherical in opposition to Mexico in 1998 and become changed with the aid of using Christian Ziege in the course of the break. It become recognized to update Josip Weber withinside the penalty place in the course of the 1994 World Cup, however the referee Kurt Röthlisberger had made no extrade this time.

Career highlights

Thomas performed a complete of eight years for the German countrywide crew, finished sixty eight video games in the course of this time and scored five desires. The debut passed off on October 10, 1990 in a pleasant sport with the Swedish countrywide crew, which resulted in a three-1 win for the countrywide crew. Helmer got here out at the grid and spent the entire in shape on the sector. In 1996 he have become European champion. After finishing his soccer profession, Helmer commenced operating as a sports activities journalist on television. He become a sports activities analyst for Sat.1 on the 2004 European Championships in Portugal. At the 2006 World Cup, he labored for Sport1 at some point of the match withinside the German countrywide camp.

Thomas Helmer is presently operating as a sports activities columnist and moderator at Sport1. As a rule, he remarks at the video games of the German teenagers soccer crew and leads 3 evaluation packages as regards to soccer. For numerous years, Thomas Helmer has been selling the collection of video games “This Is Football” for the PlayStation 2. Thomas is presently married to Moroccan actress Jasmine Filali and that they have children. He additionally has sons from his first marriage.