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Oliver Bierhoff ‘’Golden Head’’

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Oliver Bierhoff

Oliver Bierhoff was born on May 1, 1968 in Karlsruhe, West Germany. He played as a striker throughout his football career. The international arenaki scored its first goal in the Euro 1996 final. This goal made him known.

Succeed Far Away from Home

Oliver Bierhoff was a long, strong and productive striker. He is most famous for his excellent abilities in the air and his ability to score goals. Because of these abilities, the fans gave him the nickname “Golden Head”.Club career

Oliver Bierhoff played in nine different clubs in four different leagues, making him the top scorer from foreign players in the history of Serie A. He scored a total of 103 goals. He scored 27 goals for Udinese in the 1997–98 season, making Serie A the top scorer.

However, Bierhoff has never been successful in Bundesliga. He sought his luck in the Austrian Bundesliga because he did not shine in Germany. This is his chance at Ascoli in Italy. But he was particularly successful in Udinese, led by Alberto Zaccheroni, and with this fame he was cast in the German national team. Later he was transferred to Milan in 1998, with the club he won the Serie A championship in his first season, scoring 19 goals in that season and a total of 21 goals in all tournaments. Serie A broke the record.

After three seasons on this team, he transferred from Ligue 1 teams to Monaco in 2001 for a year before returning to Serie A to play in Chievo Verona, where he retired at the end of the 2002–03 season. He played against Juventus in his last game, he made a hat-rick in 3-4 games. International career

Head of the Germany

Oliver Bierhoff played his first national game against Portugal on February 21, 1996. In his second match on 27 March 1996, he managed to score his first two international goals in a 2-0 victory over his country against Denmark. Oliver Bierhoff scored 37 goals in 70 international matches. He was the most important player of his team in the 2–1 victory against the Czech Republic in the Euro 1996 final.

In an important qualifying match held on August 20, 1997, Germany decided to send Thomas Häßler and Oliver Bierhoff by Berti Vogts, the national team’s manager. With 20 minutes remaining, he scored a goal in Northern Ireland. In the following seven minutes, he scored his second and third goals. This meant that Bierhoff was the fastest hat-trick in the history of the German national team.

In 1998, he was appointed captain of the national team after Jürgen Klinsmann retired.

Bierhoff also played in Euro 2000 and in both the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups. He won an 8-0 victory against Saudi Arabia in the opening match of Germany’s second tournament at Sapporo Dome on June 1. He entered the game for the last time in the national team on June 30, in the second half of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final against Brazil. But he did not help his team, and Germany lost that match 2-0.

Individual Achievements

Serie A Top Scorer: 1997–98

Serie B Top Scorer: 1992–93

Goal of the Year (Germany): 1996

German Footballer of the Year: 1998

FIFA XI (Reserve): 1998

A.C. Milan Hall of Fame

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