Oliver Bierhoff
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Oliver Bierhoff | ||
| Date of birth | 1 May 1968 | ||
| Place of birth | Karlsruhe, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Germany (Business manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986–1988 | Bayer Uerdingen | 31 | (4) |
| 1988–1990 | Hamburger SV | 34 | (6) |
| 1990 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 8 | (0) |
| 1990–1991 | Austria Salzburg | 32 | (23) |
| 1991–1995 | Ascoli | 117 | (48) |
| 1995–1998 | Udinese | 86 | (57) |
| 1998–2001 | Milan | 91 | (37) |
| 2001–2002 | Monaco | 18 | (5) |
| 2002–2003 | Chievo | 26 | (7) |
| Total | 443 | (188) | |
| National team | |||
| 1988–1990 | West Germany U21 | 10 | (7) |
| 1996–2002 | Germany | 70 | (37) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Oliver Bierhoff (German pronunciation: [ˈbiːɐ̯hɔf]; born 1 May 1968) is a retired German former footballer who scored the first golden goal in the history of major international football, for Germany in the Euro 96 final. A tall, strong and prolific goalscorer, he was mostly renowned for his excellent abilities in the air, and as a target man, being able to deliver pin-point headers towards goal.
The son of a German utility magnate, Bierhoff played for nine different clubs, in four different leagues. He scored a total of 103 goals in Serie A, one of the highest totals for a non-Italian in the league's history. In the 1997–98 season, he was the Serie A top scorer with 27 goals for Udinese.
Bierhoff, however, was never a success in the Bundesliga. After failing to shine in Germany, he got his chance in the Austrian Bundesliga. That gave him the chance at Ascoli in Italy. But it was at Udinese, under Alberto Zaccheroni, that Bierhoff found success and won his place in fame and in the German national team. He then transferred to Milan in 1998, winning the Serie A title in his first season there. After three seasons there, he moved to French Ligue 1 side Monaco in 2001 for one year, before moving back to Serie A to play for Chievo Verona, where he retired at the end of the 2002–03 season. In his last ever game, he scored a hat-trick for Chievo Verona in a 3–4 defeat to Juventus.
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