His full name is Joachim Jogi Loew,
he was born in February 3, 1960 in Schönau im Schwarzwald, and Joachim Low is a
former football player and the current head coach of the German national
football team.
Playing career of Joachim Loew:
Joachim Loew Began his career in
1978 with the second division club SC Freiburg. In 1980, Loew joined VfB
Stuttgart in the Bundesliga, but he faced difficulties in developed and played
only four games without scoring any goal.
In the 1981-1982 seasons Loew played in Eintracht Frankfurt club 24
matches and scored five goals, but he returned to Freiburg in the following
year. In the 1982-1983 seasons he scored 8 goals over 34 games, and in the
1983-1984 seasons, Loew scored 17 goals in 31 games in the Bundesliga. Then he
returned to Serie A with Karlsruhe Club, but again he did not work, and only
scored two goals in 24 games. Later, he returned to his club Freiburg and
continued with them four years playing 116 games and scoring 38 goals. Loew
concluded his career in Switzerland, where he played for FC Schaffhausen
between 1989-1992 and Winterthur Club between 1992-1994. And Loew played four
games with the national team of Germany soccer for youth under 21 years old.
Managerial career of Joachim
Loew:
Club coach and assistant coach of
Germany National Team:
Loew began his coaching career as
coach of the youth of Winterthur club despite him was still a soccer player. In
the 1994-1995 seasons he coached FC Frauenfeld. And in the 1995-1996 seasons
Loew became an assistant for the VfB Stuttgart coach Rolf Fringer and since
Fringer had the opportunity to become coach of Switzerland later Loew became a
football coach for the club as caretaker coach and then became the first coach
of VfB Stuttgart. With the magic triangle consisting of the players Balakov,
Giovanni Ailber and Fredi Bobic, the team played a successful season and won
the national cup game, German Cup. In the following year the team arrived to
the final of the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup, but lost 0-1 against Chelsea and
finished fourth in the Bundesliga. Loew left VfB Stuttgart in July 1998 and
joined the Turkish club Fenerbahce. In October 1999, Loew became coach of Karlsruhe,
but he was unable to avoid relegation to the third division so he was rejected.
From December 2000 to March 2001, he returned to Turkey as coach of club Adanaspur,
but he was refused again because of poor results. In October 2001 , Loew became
coach of the Austrian Tirol Innsbruck and led the team to the Austrian league
title in 2002 and in the same year, the club announced bankruptcy and was
liquidated so Again, Loew found himself unemployed. The next job was with
Austria Vienna between June 2003 - March 2004 before Loew became in a stunning
assistant coach of Germany, under Jurgen Klinsmann in August 2004. Klinsmann
and Loew had met several years earlier in a training school. Klinsmann came
with a new offensive philosophy and tactical. Klinsmann has formed a personal
charismatic and highly influential and smart tactics as well as the love of a
strong team Joachim Loew; they reached the semifinals at the Confederations Cup
before losing to Brazil 3-2 in the best match of the tournament. And after that
Germany defeated Mexico 4-3 after extra time in the match for third place, When
Germany opened the World Cup Football 2006 on June 9.
Joachim Loew head coach of
Germany:
Euro 2008
On July 12, 2006, in the wake of
Jurgen Klinsmann's decision not to renew his contract, Joachim Loew was appointed
the new coach of the German national team. Loew won the contract for two years,
and announced that he wants to continue in the philosophy that he and Klinsmann
put it. He announced that his goal is to win Euro 2008. But Germany lost 0-1 to
Spain in the final of the European Championship on June 29, 2008.
World Cup 2010
Then it followed by a stage of
qualifying for the World Cup Soccer 2010 where Loew faced stiff competition
from the Russian team under the command of Dutch coach Guus Hiddink. And Loew could
with rate tactic of skipping the Russian team and defeat in their home in
Moscow. And deservedly Germany qualified for the figures the 2010 World Cup in
South Africa.
Loew have been drawn in a tough
group involving teams of Serbs and Ghana and Australia. And Loew were able to
access the German national team to the second round after a relatively
convincing performance topping the group at the same time in which it failed team’s
champions Italy and France runner-up. In the first knockout round and a young
team Loew faced England full of stars led by the legendary coach Fabio Capello.
And Loew demonstrated his experience after the overthrow of the English team
4-1 in an impressive performance of my plans followed by a sweep of Argentina
with four goals other clean in the quarter-finals emphasizing the versatility
of tremendous training and after serious consideration. Loew led Germany to the
semi-final to lose in front of Spain 2-0.
