Olaf Janßen

Midfielder Olaf Janßen was on the West German football team that won the third-place match against Italy 3-0, and took the bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Therefore, the team and all players were awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award. Janßen played with the Olympic team three times.

Domestically, Janßen played with 1. FC Köln (1985-96) and Eintracht Frankfurt (1996-2000), helping Köln to reach the UEFA Cup final against Real Madrid in 1986, losing 5-1. With Köln, he also became Bundesliga runner-up in 1989 and 1990. In total, he played 241 Bundesliga matches and scored 17 goals.

After his playing career, Janßen became a coach with TSV 1860 München, Rot-Weiß Essen, Dynamo Dresden, VfB Stuttgart, FC St. Pauli, Viktoria Köln, VfL Wolfsburg, and Hertha BSC Berlin, mostly as assistant coach. Between 2008-13, he had a stint as assistant coach of the Azerbaijan national team under chief coach Berti Vogts.