Wolfram Wuttke
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| Full name | Wolfram Wuttke | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 17 November 1961 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Castrop-Rauxel, West Germany[1] | |||||||||||
| Date of death | 1 March 2015 (aged 53) | |||||||||||
| Place of death | Lünen, Germany | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)[2] | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
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| 1967–1976 | SG Castrop | |||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | FC Schalke 04 | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1979–1981 | FC Schalke 04 | 32 | (3) | |||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 58 | (9) | |||||||||
| 1982–1983 | FC Schalke 04 | 16 | (7) | |||||||||
| 1983–1985 | Hamburger SV | 58 | (15) | |||||||||
| 1985–1990 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 112 | (32) | |||||||||
| 1990–1992 | RCD Espanyol | 51 | (15) | |||||||||
| 1992–1993 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 23 | (0) | |||||||||
| Total | 350 | (72) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1980–1982 | West Germany U-21 | 7 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1986–1988 | West Germany | 4 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1987–1988 | West Germany Olympic | 11 | (6) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | TuS Haltern | |||||||||||
| 2008 | TSV Crailsheim | |||||||||||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | ||||||||||||
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Wolfram Wuttke (17 November 1961 – 1 March 2015) was a German footballer[2] who played as a midfielder.
He made his Bundesliga debut in October 1979 for FC Schalke 04[1] in a 3–0 win against SV Werder Bremen. From 1981 to 1982, he played one and a half seasons for Borussia Mönchengladbach before returning to Schalke.[2] In summer 1983, he moved to Hamburger SV.[2] Günther Netzer, then Hamburg's sporting director, called him one of the greatest German football talents of all times.[1] After several disputes, Ernst Happel, Hamburg's manager, threw him out of the team in September 1985.[1] After that, he played nearly four seasons for 1. FC Kaiserslautern. His good performance during that time earned him four caps in the national team and he was part of West Germany's squad at the UEFA Euro 1988[3] and the West German team that won the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1] Kaiserslautern canceled his contract in 1990 due to "unprofessional behaviour" and so he joined RCD Espanyol.[3] In 1992, he returned to the Bundesliga and played for 1. FC Saarbrücken but he had to end his career at the age of 31 due to a fracture of the shoulder.[1]
On 1 March 2015, he died due to a multisystem organ failure caused by cirrhosis.[3][1]
Honours
Club
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern[4]
International
- UEFA Under-21 Championship: Runner-up 1982[5]
- Olympics: Bronze Medal 1988[6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Ex-Nationalspieler: Wolfram Wuttke ist tot" [Former international: Wolfram Wuttke is dead] (in German). Spiegel Online. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Wolfram Wuttke" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- 1 2 3 Muras, Udo (1 March 2015). "Wolfram Wuttke, das schlamperte Genie, ist tot" [Wolfram Wuttke, the sloppy genius, is dead] (in German). Die Welt. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ "Wolfram Wuttke" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ "U21-Europameisterschaft 1982: Verlierer machen Karriere" [U21 European Cup 1982: Losers get ahead] (in German). weltfussball.de. 29 June 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ "Wolfram Wuttke ist tot" [Wolfram Wuttke is dead] (in German). kicker.de. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
External links
- Wolfram Wuttke profile at Fussballdaten
- Wolfram Wuttke at BDFutbol.com (Spanish)
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