Pierre Littbarski Net Worth

Capital:	€ 17 million
Age:	60
Born:	April 16, 1960
Country of origin:	Germany
Source of wealth:	Soccer player
Last updated:	2020

Short introduction

Pierre Littbarski is a former professional footballer who won the world champion with Germany in 1990. Most of the time he played for 1. FC Köln, but also active in France and Japan. After his career, he held various roles of football, sometimes a coach and assistant coach, and has become a brand ambassador for VFL Wolfsburg for some time now, where he was before the head of Scouting.

Early life

At that time West Berlin, Pierre Littbarski was born in 1960 and mostly grew up with his grandparents. He played football at the club from the start, namely from 1967. First at VFL Schöneberg until 1976, then at Hertha Zehlendorf, with whom he became German runner-up in 1978. From 1978 he was under contract with 1. FC Köln , where he is sold for 13,000 DM. He made his Bundesliga debut on August 26, 1978, and 21 more seasons as a professional soccer player had to follow Pierre Littbarski.

Career

In his first season Littbarski played 16 of the 34 possible league appearances and was also active in the European Cup for 1. FC Köln. The following season, the only 1.68 meter offensive player became commonplace in Cologne. The same applies to the U21 national team in Germany. However, he and his club lost the 1980 final in the DFB 1: 2 Cup against Fortuna Düsseldorf. He should have won this missing title in 1983 when he scored the only goal for a 1-0 victory against Local rival Fortuna Köln at Müngersdorf House Stadium.

Previously, he had made a final break even after the number of hits. In the 1981/82 season he scored 15 goals in the Bundesliga. As a result, he also went to the 1982 World Cup in Spain, where he became the representative of the world champion with colleagues such as Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Paul Breitner. He has made his debut in the senior team in 1981 in a 3-1 victory over Austria, where he scored two goals in his first game.

The same success must be repeated by Pierre Littbarski in 1986 when he returned to runner-up with the selection of DFB. In 1990 he even made a big splash when he became a 1-0 world champion over Argentina under the manager of the team Franz Beckenbauer.

At the club, he quickly canceled a short trip to France for the season to Paris racing club. Even though 34 appearances, he only managed 4 goals for the capital. He was said to have paid a portion of the transfer fee when he moved back to 1. FC Köln. During his time at this club between 1978 and 1993, he was used 406 times in the Bundesliga, scoring 116 goals, which still placed it in the top 50 list of Bundesliga’s top scorers.

Pierre Littbarski then moved to Jef United Chiba in Japan for two years, where he added another season to Brummell Sendai before ending his career as a player. In Japan he gained great popularity because it was open but often naughty, which continued to this day.

He then has various training posts in German and Japanese football. So he trained MSV Duisburg, Yokohama FC, in Australia even Sydney FC, and the last was the assistant coach at VFL Wolfsburg. However, great success in this work was not realized – he did not win a title as a coach and was taken several times early.

At the 2002 World Cup he was a co-commentator for World Cup games in Japan in RTL, from 2012 to 2018 he was the head of Scouting at VFL Wolfsburg. Since then he has worked as a brand ambassador to this club.

Career highlights

The absolute highlight of Pierre Littbarski’s career, of course, won the World Cup in 1990 after he had runner-up twice. If not, he won the DFB Cup in 1983. In addition, with 18 goals in 21 international matches with German U21, he was still a goal scorer. As a very good success, non-sports, Pierre Littbarks can rely on the fact that he is popular in Germany and Japan far beyond the supporters of each club. In a very pleasant way to celebrate football, especially in impressive dribbles, he wins the heart here and is free from pretensions and is blessed with smoke jokes.

Amazing facts

In 1989 he was appointed by CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia to choose Richard Von Weizsäcker as federal president to the federal assembly, where he also participated.

In Japan he was very popular as “Litti”, among others he met as in Japanese textbooks.

In 2018 he appeared as a guest in the series “Dittsche”, playing alone.

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