VfB Stuttgart
Which team did Alexander Strehmel play for from 1986 to 1988?
Alexander Strehmel Alexander Strehmel ( born 20 March 1968 ) is a German football manager and a former professional player who played as a defender or midfielder . He manages Michigan Stars FC . Playing career . Strehmel began his career with VfB Stuttgart , and broke into the first team during the 1986–87 season , in which he made sixteen appearances in the Bundesliga . He continued to play steadily over the next few years , and helped the club to the 1989 UEFA Cup Final , although he missed the entire second half of the 1988–89 season , including final itself ( a defeat against Napoli ) . Three years later came the greatest success of Strehmels career as VfB Stuttgart won the Bundesliga title . He made 25 appearances during the season , as the club overhauled Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund with a 4–2 win over the latter on the last day of the season to become German champions . Strehmel played in the match as a late substitute for Andreas Buck , with the score at 3–1 . By the 1993–94 season , Strehmel was used less frequently ( only thirteen appearances ) , so he left Stuttgart in July 1994 , after over 150 league appearances for the club . He signed for SG Wattenscheid 09 of the 2 . Bundesliga , where he spent two seasons , the second of which saw the club relegated in last place . Strehmel stayed in the second tier , though , signing for SpVgg Unterhaching . In the 1998–99 season , Unterhaching finished in second place , earning promotion to the Bundesliga , where they would spend the next two seasons . The first season they finished a very respectable tenth , and were involved in another dramatic title race - their 2–0 win over Bayer Leverkusen on the last day of the season handing the German championship to their neighbours Bayern Munich . However , Unterhaching finished 16th the following season , and this relegation was followed by another - they finished 15th in the 2 . Bundesliga and were relegated to the Regionalliga Süd . They immediately bounced back as champions , before Strehmel left the club midway through the 2003–04 season , returning to the Regionalliga Süd to join FC Augsburg . He retired from football at the end of the 2004–05 season , after only eight appearances in eighteen months for Augsburg . International career . Strehmel was part of the West Germany under-20 team that went to the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile . He played in all six matches as West Germany reached the final , scoring once in a group game against Saudi Arabia . He also scored a penalty in the shoot-out in the final against Yugoslavia , but West Germany lost 5–4 . Strehmel also won 8 caps for the under-21 team between 1988 and 1990 . Coaching career . Since retiring from football , Strehmel has been a coach , usually working as assistant to Lorenz-Günther Köstner , who had been his manager at SpVgg Unterhaching . The pair have worked at Rot-Weiss Essen , TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , and VfL Wolfsburg II . He became coach at Michigan Stars FC of the National Independent Soccer Association , the US third tier . Honours . - UEFA Cup finalist : 1989 - Bundesliga : 1992