Joachim Löw (born 3 February 1960) is a German football coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Germany national team, which he led to victory at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. In 1978, he started his playing career with 2. Bundesliga club SC Freiburg. In 1980, he joined VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga. He also played for Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Schafhausen in Switzerland. He retired from football in 2007.
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Joachim Löw (born 3 February 1960) is a German football coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Germany national team, which he led to victory at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. In 1978, he started his playing career with 2. Bundesliga club SC Freiburg. In 1980, he joined VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga, but he had difficulties establishing himself in the starting lineup and played only four matches. In 1994–95, he served as player-coach of FC Frauenfeld. In 1995–96, he became an assistant coach to V fB Stutgart head coach Rolf Fringer. He was promoted caretaker manager on 14 August 1996. He eventually became the permanent manager and was at the club until 21 May 1998. He left the club seven days later to join Turkish club Fenerbahçe on 1 July 1998. In 1999, he was manager of Karlsruher SC on 25 October 1999. In 2001, he led the Austrian club Tirol Tirol to the Bundesliga title and the 2001–02 Austrian Bundesliga title. In 2002, he replaced Marco Pezzuoli as manager of Turkish club Adanaspor. In 2003, he left the Turkish club to become the manager of German club Werder Bremen. He retired from football in 2007. He has also coached the Swiss club FC Winterthur, FC Schaffhausen and FC Fortuna Düsseldorf.
He also played for Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Schafhausen in Switzerland. He holds the club’s overall goal scoring record with 38 goals in 116 matches. He played four times for the German national under-21 team. In the 1981–82 season, he scored eight goals in 34 matches, 1983–84 he scored 17 goals in 31 matches in the 2. Bundesliga. In 1982–83, he returned to the club twice and scored 38 goals. In 1984, he played for the club again for four years, but only scored two goals in 24 matches. His final match was a 3–1 loss to Hannover on 16 April 2000, while his only win came in a 2–1 win against Fortun a Köln on 19 March 2000, with the club in last place. He finished with a record of 46 wins, 20 draws and 23 losses. In 1997, he coached FenerBahçe to the Turkish Süper Lig title. The same year, the club had to declare bankruptcy and was liquidated at 16th place at the 16th relegation zone. In 1998, he managed the club to the last place in Turkey and was relegated to 2nd division. In 2000, he resigned from the club after the club was relegated from 2nd Division to the 3rd Division. He later coached the Austrian side TirolTirol in the Austrian Bundesliga and the 1st Division.
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