Thomas Tuchel
Tuchel in 2016
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Thomas Tuchel | ||
| Date of birth | 29 August 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Krumbach, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Borussia Dortmund (Head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| TSV Krumbach | |||
| 1988–1992 | FC Augsburg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1994 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 8 | (1) |
| 1994–1998 | SSV Ulm | 69 | (2) |
| Total | 77 | (3) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2007–2008 | FC Augsburg II | ||
| 2009–2014 | Mainz 05 | ||
| 2015– | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Thomas Tuchel (German pronunciation: [ˈtʰoːmas ˈtʊxəl]; born 29 August 1973) is a German retired footballer and the current head coach of Borussia Dortmund.
Tuchel's youth club was TSV Krumbach. In 1988, he moved to nearby FC Augsburg (then fourth-tier Bundesliga). He then got the opportunity to play in the 2. Bundesliga for Württemberg side Stuttgarter Kickers from 1992. He played in only eight matches in 1992–93, and, after an even more disappointing 1993–94 season, when he was dropped from Kickers first team, he joined Regionalliga Süd, a third-tier side SSV Ulm, where he played in 69 matches for the Swabian side in four years before ending his active career due to a chronic cartilage injury in 1998.
Tuchel began his coaching career in 2000 as head coach of the Under 19 of VfB Stuttgart. After five years he returned to his former club FC Augsburg, where he worked as youth team co-ordinator for three years. He was the manager of FC Augsburg II during the 2007–08 season.
He was named as the new head coach of 1. FSV Mainz 05 on 3 August 2009, after the club was promoted to the Bundesliga. He had been a youth team coach for Mainz for the previous 12 months. He signed a two-year contract after being promoted to that position from the 1. FSV Mainz 05 Under 19 side.
In the 2010–11 season, Tuchel coached Mainz to seven wins in their first seven games, including an away victory over Bayern Munich. The team finished fifth in the rankings.Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen both made approaches for Tuchel in the latter–half of the 2013–14 season. Tuchel led Mainz to a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League spot during the 2013–14 season after finishing the season in seventh place. Tuchel asked to be released from his contract prematurely. Tuchel left the position of head coach on 11 May 2014. However, Mainz refused to release him from his contract. He finished his Mainz career with a record of 72 wins, 46 draws, and 64 losses. Tuchel later said of his decision to leave the club: “I couldn’t see how we could reinvent ourselves once more the coming summer.”
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