| Capital: | € 8 million |
| Age: | 55 |
| Born: | 02/21/1965 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | Soccer player |
| Last updated: | 2022 |
Short introduction
Thomas Helmer (born April 21, 1965, Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) – German soccer participant, performed as a defender.
Early life
Helmer commenced 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 towards Schalke 04. With a zero-three defeat, he ignored an excellent 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 located sixteenth withinside the 2nd department on the give up of the season. After normal gamers like Dirk Hoopé and Detlef Schnier left the crew, Helmer marched into the beginning 11 of East Westphalia in 1985/86 and in the end won. The defender scored his first purpose on November 2, 1985. He led his crew 1-zero towards Borussia Berlin, laying the cornerstone for a 2-zero win. Overall, he scored 5 dreams this season with the second one-great scorer Uwe Haas in Bielefeld. With fourth place, the crew ignored a right away go back to the Bundesliga.
Career
On March 23, 1985, in a sport towards Schalke, Thomas become substituted on the sector as one of the final 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, wherein Thomas Helmer confirmed himself in all its beauty and the 1986/87 season commenced in Borussia, Dortmund. There he straight away have become a base participant and spent six correct seasons after gambling a complete of a hundred ninety video games and scoring sixteen dreams.
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 bolster their competition and attempted to promote the participant to the French Lions. At that point the Munich crew had an acute hassle with defenders – Hansi Pflugler ended his profession and Marcus Babbel moved to Hamburg. Helmer become almost unmatched and straight away have become the bottom participant for an extended time. The debut in Bavaria befell on August 15, 1992 withinside the first spherical healthy towards 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 settlement with Sunderland, England, regardless of being supplied a Liverpool settlement. However, Sunderland’s instructor Peter Reid didn’t see him at the bottom. At the start of the season, Thomas switched to Hertha below a hire 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 exquisite achievement on the UEFA European Football Championship. Germany especially misplaced to Denmark in 1992, however 4 years later it were given higher while he defeated the Czech Republic in greater time at Wembley.
Helmer additionally competed in FIFA World Cups while he retired from global soccer withinside the 2nd spherical towards Mexico in 1998 and become changed with the aid of using Christian Ziege throughout the break. It become recognized to update Josip Weber withinside the penalty region throughout 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 country wide crew, finished sixty eight video games throughout this time and scored five dreams. The debut befell on October 10, 1990 in a pleasant sport with the Swedish country wide crew, which resulted in a three-1 win for the country wide crew. Helmer got here out at the grid and spent the entire healthy on the sector. In 1996 he have become European champion. After finishing his soccer profession, Helmer commenced running 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 all through the event withinside the German country wide camp.
Thomas Helmer is presently running as a sports activities columnist and moderator at Sport1. As a rule, he feedback at the video games of the German young people soccer crew and leads 3 evaluation packages with reference 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.