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Tim Borowski played for which team from 1999 to 2001?
Tim Borowski Tim Borowski ( born 2 May 1980 ) is a German football assistant manager of SV Werder Bremen and a former professional midfielder who played from 2002 to 2008 for the German national team . Borowski played 33 times for the national squad , with which he represented Germany at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008 . He spent 11 years of his 12-year professional career with Werder Bremen , amassing Bundesliga totals of 236 games and 32 goals and winning three major titles , including the 2004 national championship . Next to manager Florian Kohfeldt , Borowski is part of the coaching team since 2017 . Prior to this , he assisted at one of the clubs youth level teams ( U17 ) . He is working to acquire the forth and final DFB manager license in 2020 . Club career . Werder Bremen . Born in Neubrandenburg , Bezirk Neubrandenburg , East Germany , Borowski started his career at hometown club 1 . FC Neubrandenburg 04 , where he was spotted by SV Werder Bremen and signed at the age of 16 for its junior teams . He spent two full seasons with the reserves , competing mainly in Regionalliga Nord . Borowski made his official debut for Werder on 26 August 2000 , starting in a 0–1 home loss against VfL Wolfsburg for the DFB-Pokal . He was definitely promoted to the main squad early into the following campaign . Borowski contributed with 25 games and one goal ( against FC Schalke 04 in a 4–1 home win ) in 2003–04 as the Hanseatic won their fourth national championship , the first in 11 years . He added career highs of ten goals and 11 assists in the 2005–06 season , helping his team to a final second position ; in the latter campaigns UEFA Champions League he also scored against Juventus F.C . for a 3–2 round-of-16 first leg home win , in an eventual away goals rule exit . Bayern Munich . Borowski joined FC Bayern Munich in the 2008 summer after the move was made effective in January , in a free transfer . He finished his first and only season with 30 appearances all competitions comprised . In this season , he appeared in the Champions League seven times and scored there once , he scored in the DFB-Pokal too , and in the Bundesliga five times . In the Bundesliga , he managed to establish himself in the starting eleven six times , in the DFB-Pokal twice , and in the Champions League also twice . Return to Werder . Borowski returned to Werder Bremen on 22 July 2009 , signing a three-year contract . After featuring in only 13 league matches in his last two years combined he was released by his main club , and retired from football shortly after due to injury , aged 32 . In the summer of 2014 , Borowski completed his 18-month traineeship in the marketing department which he had been going through since January 2013 at Werder Bremen . In April of the following year , he signed a contract until July 2018 as sports director for the reserve team . International career . Borowski gained his first cap for Germany on 21 August 2002 , appearing as a late substitute in a 2–2 friendly draw with Bulgaria in Sofia . He was selected by manager Jürgen Klinsmann for the 2006 FIFA World Cup on home soil , filling in for captain Michael Ballack in the opener against Costa Rica ( 4–2 triumph ) . Borowski then proceeded to collect a further four substitute appearances : in the quarter-final against Argentina he made a superb assist for Bremen teammate Miroslav Klose to score the equalizing goal for Germany , and also converted his penalty shootout attempt as it ended 4–2 for the hosts . He started in the following match against Italy , leaving injured in an eventual 0–2 loss . Borowski also participated at the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup ( three minutes against Brazil in the semi-finals ) and UEFA Euro 2008 ( two substitute appearances for the runners-up ) . Honours . Werder Bremen - Bundesliga : 2003–04 - DFB-Pokal : 2003–04 ; runner-up : 2009–10 - DFB-Ligapokal : 2006 ; runner-up : 2004 Germany - UEFA European Championship Runner-up : 2008 - FIFA World Cup third place : 2006 - FIFA Confederations Cup third place : 2005