There are some people who understand that life can lift them up and throw them down just as easily.
Andreas Brepe is one of those who lived the ugliest way. From the top of the world in 1990, to the toilets in 2017. This is his life…
The elders remember him, they know well who he was and what he did. Young people can simply learn that Andreas Breme was one of the best full-backs in the 80s and 90s, one of the greatest Germans of all time and world champion in 1990. In fact, his own penalty in the final with Argentina at the Olympique de Rome, was what lifted Germany to the top rung and led to the famous cry of Diego Maradona.
Two decades later, of course, the tears of Argentina are imagined and are… nothing ahead of those of the German, who could not have imagined, when he set the ball to beat Goigoecea and make it 1-0 in the 83rd minute of his final World Cup '90, that the continuation would be difficult. Very hard. Bremen remained in Italy, where he was from the summer of 1988, for another two years after the World Cup, always with the Inter jersey, with which he had won the '89 championship.
The perfect career
In the summer of 1992 he decided to accept the proposal of the Spanish Zaragoza and a year later he considered it the right time to repatriate and wear the Kaiserslautern jersey again. She started playing football in it, she wanted to finish in it and she did it in a perfect way, after she celebrated that magical championship after her return to the Bundesliga.
Bremen's football career, that is, was impeccable. He won titles in Germany and Italy, won the 1990 World Cup, played in another final (1986), earned everyone's appreciation as one of the best full-backs, with the ability to play with equal ease on both sides of the field.
He did not know how to "play" off the field
The bad thing is that he probably did not know how to "play" off the field. With several problems in his marriage to Pilar, Bremen gradually became addicted to gambling and drinking, continuing to be - as usual in these cases - dramatic… The much money he made during his career slowly began to dwindle but steadily, until in 2014 Andreas was informed about the big debt to the tax office and in order to pay it he was forced to sell his house and become homeless…
He could not find football jobs (the last one was that of Trapattoni's assistant in Stuttgart in 2006), his family was broken up, the money raised by Franz Beckenbauer and his former teammates from a friendly in his honor was not enough and Andreas Breme ended up accepting proposals to clean toilets to make a living… Certainly not what he imagined would be his future in 1990, with him finally answering in the negative and making one last attempt to balance somewhat , deciding to become a player manager.
We do not know how his life will develop from now on but we know that for Bremen, and every Bremen, the goal is to find his footing and his pride again. The one he showed to everyone when he galloped from the left side, passing whoever was in front of him…
Source: Forzajuve.gr