Thomas Broich
Broich at training with 1. FC Köln in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 29 January 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Munich, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Brisbane Roar | ||
| Number | 22 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1987–1993 | ASV Rott am Inn | ||
| 1993–1996 | TSV 1860 Rosenheim | ||
| 1996–2000 | SpVgg Unterhaching | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2001 | SpVgg Unterhaching | ||
| 2001–2003 | SV Wacker Burghausen | 78 | (8) |
| 2004–2006 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 68 | (4) |
| 2006–2009 | 1. FC Köln | 69 | (4) |
| 2009–2010 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 7 | (0) |
| 2010– | Brisbane Roar | 168 | (20) |
| National team | |||
| 2002–2004 | Germany U-21 | 7 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Germany B | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 December 2016. |
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Thomas Broich (born 29 January 1981) is a German professional footballer who plays for Brisbane Roar in the A-League as an attacking midfielder. A documentary film about Broich titled Tom Meets Zizou was released to German cinemas in 2011, after eight years in the making.
Broich played in several Bavarian youth teams such as ASV Rott am Inn, TSV 1860 Rosenheim and SpVgg Unterhaching. Later he played for the U23 team of Unterhaching and could have earned promotion to the Regionalliga Süd (Then Germany's 3rd league), but the manager did not include him in the first squad so he decided to leave. He signed a contract with SV Wacker Burghausen of the Regionalliga Süd and earned promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in 2002. During this time, he gained the reputation of a "thinking-man's player", being dubbed "Mozart" by his teammates, who often spotted him reading classic German literature and listening to classical music. With Burghausen, he became a standout midfielder and caught the eye of several top Bundesliga teams, including FC Bayern Munich.
In January 2004, he decided to sign with Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga. Alongside Bastian Schweinsteiger and Lukas Podolski, Broich was considered to be the "bearer of hope" for the German national team and many media sources predicted that he would be a future player for the national team. However, he injured his foot in May 2004 and was unable to participate in the 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship with the German team. During his injury, he struggled with the pressure to represent his country, drawing comparisons between himself and Sebastian Deisler, another German national team player who in 2003 suffered depression as a result of enormous national pressure, eventually retiring from football.
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