Andreas Brehme

Andreas "Andy" Brehme (born November 9, 1960) is a German football coach and former football defender. He is best known for scoring the winning goal for Germany in the 1990 FIFA world cup finals against Argentina on a controversial 85th minute penalty kick.

Career

Brehme was born in Hamburg. He played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1981 to 1986 and again from 1993 to 1998, winning the German Cup in 1996 and becoming German champion in 1998. He was a member of Bayern Munich from 1986 to 1988, becoming German champion in 1987. After that he joined Inter Milan, playing there from 1987 to 1992, and winning the Italian Championship in 1989 and the UEFA Cup in 1991. Before returning to Germany, Brehme played the 1992/1993 season with Real Zaragoza.

As a member of the German national team, Brehme participated in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, losing the final to Argentina, and he won the World Cup in 1990. In the final of that competition, a 1-0 victory over Argentina, he scored the decisive goal through a penalty. Brehme has the unusual record of not only having scored in two World Cup semi-finals (1986 and 1990) but both goals were free-kicks. Brehme's last matches for the national team came during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, which ended with a disappointing quarter-finals exit for his team. Brehme's special skill is the fact that he was one of the few players in the world who was able to play with both feet with equal strength making him very valuable as a field player. He was well known for taking penalties with his right foot and taking free kicks and corners with his left foot.

After the win of the German Championship with Kaiserslautern in 1998, Brehme ended his career as a football player and went on to become a coach. He managed the 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 2000 to 2002, when he was dismissed because his team was in danger of being relegated. He then managed 2. Bundesliga club SpVgg Unterhaching, but was released there in April 2005, again because the club was in danger of being relegated. He was then assist coach alnong with Giovanni Trapattoni for VfB Stuttgart but both were released after a few months in Stuttgart.

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