Torsten Frings: from "Alemannia" to "Bavaria"

Thorsten Frings is a German basicmidfielder, who relatively recently retired. He managed to play for various German clubs, including the strongest, to win a few trophies, and now continues to play football as an assistant coach. What is the career path that Thorsten Frings has done since the early nineties?

Carier start

Torsten Frings started his career far from the mostin an outstanding manner. He changed several football schools until he was in "Alemannia", which played in one of the lower football divisions. At the age of 14, he began to speak for the youth teams of this club, until he signed his first professional contract at the age of eighteen.

For two and a half years, Frings spoke inregional league, played 57 games and scored 13 goals, was one of the key players, but it did not mean anything at the global level, as the team was incredibly weak and inconspicuous. This remained Frings and until the winter of 1997, when he noticed Bremen Werder, who paid 100 thousand euros of "Alemannia" for 20-year-old midfielder. So Torsten Frings made his first step to success.

Increase

In "Werder" immediately considered the talent of Frings,and he began to get the game practice almost in full scale right after the transfer. Thorsten Frings spent five and a half years at Werder Bremen, and during that time he was able to become the owner of the German Cup. He played in 208 games, scored 21 goals and became known throughout Germany. Naturally, he attracted the attention of larger clubs, and at the age of 26 Torsten Frings, whose biography initially did not attract attention, changed his whole life by going to Dortmund Borussia, which paid him eight and a half million euros. It was a big step that led the player to the first impressive success.

Time in Borussia

No, Dortmund's "Borussia" of that time was notthe club that now competes on equal terms with the "Bavaria", so for two years, held there, Thorsten Frings, whose photos have already been in many magazines, as he became a new German talent, did not win a single trophy. He played in 63 games, scored 12 goals, but naturally a player of this level wanted more. Therefore, in 2004 he did what almost every German footballer dreams about - he moved to "Bavaria".

Year in the "Bavaria"

This transition, which cost the "Bavaria" a littlemore than nine million euros, was extremely successful for Frings in matters of trophies: he won with the "Bavaria" and the championship, and the cup, and even the super cup, and also played in 45 games, scoring five goals. But it was obvious that the player and the club were not following the path. Frings was a hard worker, and the "Bavaria" of that time needed big names, world-size stars - not for nothing that she was nicknamed FC "Hollywood". Therefore, after only a year the player returned to Werder Bremen. Thorsten Frings became a legend for this club, so he was happy to see it. And here he really was able to achieve what he hardly dreamed of.

Return to Werder

Another six years of performances for the "Werder" were waiting for 29year-old defensive midfielder when he returned there in 2005 for five million euros. He immediately became one of the key players and helped his club in 2006 to win the League Cup, in 2008 to go to second place in the Bundesliga, and in 2009 to take another German Cup and make an incredible - to reach the final of the UEFA Cup. This is the second most prestigious tournament in Europe, and therefore a not very prominent club from Germany, who reached the final (where he lost to Shakhtar Donetsk in extra time) surprised many.

After 2009, Frings spent two more years at Werder, but could no longer achieve high results, so he decided to retire.

Completion of career

In 2011, Thorsten Frings moved to the Canadianthe Toronto club, for which he played a half season (he came in the middle of the season, as in North America the seasons are counted differently), and in 2012 he won his last trophy, beating Toronto in the Canadian Championship. After this, the player announced the final completion of the player's career.

Coach career

However, he immediately returned to Germany, where he tookpost assistant coach at the headquarters of Viktor Skripnik, who coached the double "Werder". A year later Skripnik became the head coach of the main team, and Frings followed him. For two years, Frings has been an assistant coach at Werder.