Joachim Loew Biography

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.