Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge (born 25 September 1955 in
Lippstadt) is a German former
football striker.
He had his greatest career success with German club
Bayern Munich, where he won the
Intercontinental Cup, the
European Cup, as well as two league titles and two domestic cups.
A member of the
West Germany national team, Rummenigge won the
1980 European Championship and was part of the squad that finished runner-up in the
1982 FIFA World Cup and at the
1986 World Cup. He was also honoured twice as
European Footballer of the Year.
He is currently the chief executive officer of the FC Bayern München AG, a daughter company of
Bundesliga team
Bayern Munich, as well as being the acting chairman of the
European Club Association.
Rummenigge was born in
Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia.
He joined Bayern Munich in 1974, coming from the
Westphalian
amateur side Borussia Lippstadt, for a transfer fee of ca. €10,000. He
immediately showed great strength as a dribbler. His striking qualities
were initially insignificant, but would find great improvement in later
years, particularly after the arrival of coach
Pal Csernai in 1979. In
1979–80, he scored 26 goals and became for the first time the
Bundesliga's top striker, a feat he could repeat in
1981 and
1984 with 29 and 26 goals, respectively.
With Bayern he won the
European Cup in
1975 and
1976. In
1975,
he did not take part in the final of the competition, whilst in the
year thereafter a glass of brandy sufficiently prepared the nervous
Rummenigge to contribute to the defeat of
AS Saint-Etienne. In the same year he became also part of the team that prevailed in the
Intercontinental Cup finals against
Cruzeiro EC from
Belo Horizonte.
In the era of coach Csernai he found in midfielder
Paul Breitner
a congenial partner and he formed such a formidable one-two-punch that
they were only called Breitnigge (name invented by German newspaper
Bild).
The club, then often dubbed as "FC Breitnigge", won in this period the
Bundesliga title in
1980 and
1981, and the
DFB-Pokal in
1982 and
1984. A renewed triumph in the European Cup was denied, when the club lost the
1982 final narrowly against
Aston Villa. In the season before Rummenigge was top-scorer in this competition with 6 goals.
His substantial contribution to the successes of the club and the
German national football team found also expression in personal honours. In 1980, he was named
German Footballer of the Year and in '80–81 the
European Footballer of the Year.
In 1984, aged 29, he was sold for a record fee of €5.7m to
Internazionale. Despite a notable beginning, in which he helped the team to compete until the end for the
1984–85 Scudetto, Rumenigge's career in Italy was mostly marred by injury problems. At the end of his contract in 1987, Rummenigge moved on to
Swiss first division club
Servette FC in Geneva, where he saw his career out. In his last season,
1988–89, he had his last success, becoming top scorer in the Swiss league with 24 goals.
With the
West German national team he took part in the
1978 FIFA World Cup,
1982 FIFA World Cup and
1986 FIFA World Cup. In 1978, West Germany exited in the second group stage of the tournament. In 1982 and 1986, the team was runner-up behind
Italy and
Argentina.
Rummenigge also took part in two
European Championship tournaments. In the
1980 competition in Italy, West Germany defeated
Belgium in the final by 2–1 and won the trophy. The
1984
tournament is engraved as one of the most unsuccessful undertakings of
the German national team. West Germany was already ousted in the group
stage.
From 1990 until 1994 Rummenigge worked as a TV co–commentator for
matches of the German national team. In autumn 1991, Bayern Munich
invited
Franz Beckenbauer
and Rummenigge to return to the club as vice presidents. Rummenigge
held this position until 2002, when he was appointed Chairman of
Executive Board of the newly corporatised football department of the
club. According to the club, "in his role as chairman he is responsible
for external relations, new media, board affairs and representing the
holding company on national and international bodies."
In April 1983, the British pop duo
Alan & Denise recorded a tribute song about his "sexy knees" in the song "Rummenigge, what a man". The record reached number 43 in
German charts.
In March 2004 he was named by
Pelé as one of the
top 125 greatest living footballers.
His brother
Michael Rummenigge was also a noteworthy footballer. He played as forward for Bayern Munich and
Borussia Dortmund from 1982–88 and 1988–94, respectively. He also represented Germany on two occasions between 1983 and 1986.
Rumenigge and his wife Martina have three sons and two daughters born between 1980 and 1991.
- He is the eleventh most capped player for Germany (inclusive of three East German Players)
- He is the fifth most successful striker for Germany (inclusive one East German player)
- He is the tenth most prolific scorer of all time in Bundesliga history
- With Bayern Munich he is the second most prolific scorer of all time in league history after Gerd Müller
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (n.
25 septembrie 1955 în
Lippstadt) este un fost jucător de
fotbal german.
Cel mai mare succes l-a avut la clubul german
Bayern München cu care a câștigat
Cupa Intercontinentală,
Liga Campionilor, două campionate și două cupe.
A fost în
Echipa națională de fotbal a Germaniei cu care a câștigat
Campionatul European de Fotbal din 1980 și a făcut parte din echipele care au terminat pe locul doi la
Campionatul Mondial de Fotbal din 1982 și la
Campionatul Mondial de Fotbal din 1986. A primit de două ori
Balonul de Aur.
Adams spent his entire playing career of 22 years as a defender at Arsenal.[1] He is considered one of the greatest Arsenal players of all time by the club's own fans [2] and was included in the Football League 100 Legends.
With Arsenal, he won four top flight division titles, uniquely
captaining a title-winning team in three different decades, three FA Cups, two Football League Cups, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and three FA Community Shields. A statue honouring Adams was unveiled at Emirates stadium on 9 December 2011, along with statues of Thierry Henry and Herbert Chapman.
When England manager Glenn Hoddle took the Captain's armband from Adams and gave it to Alan Shearer
it was a bitter pill for Adams to swallow. Speaking at a fans' forum in
2008 Adams remarked "I have some resentment over the way Glenn Hoddle
gave the captaincy to Alan Shearer instead of me but I can let that go. I
reacted positively. I disagreed with him [Hoddle] and he thought Alan
could get more penalties being a centre forward. People know my reaction
to that".
Adams continued to play for the national side, however and he finally appeared in a World Cup finals in 1998. His international swansong was England's largely unsuccessful Euro 2000
campaign. With Shearer retiring from international football after the
tournament, Adams regained the captaincy. However, within months,
England lost a World Cup qualifier to Germany in October 2000, the match being the last to be staged at Wembley Stadium before the stadium was torn down for rebuilding. That match was Adams's 60th Wembley appearance, a record. With Sven-Göran Eriksson eventually taking the helm and under increasing pressure for his place from the emerging and improving Rio Ferdinand,
Adams retired from international football before Eriksson picked his
first squad. He was the last England player to score at the old Wembley
Stadium when he scored England's second goal in a 2–0 friendly win over
Ukraine on 31 May 2000. This was also his first goal since he scored in a
friendly against Saudi Arabia in November 1988, thus making the record
for the longest gap between goals for England.
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Kaká started his footballing career at the age of eight, when he
began playing for a local club. At the time, he also played tennis, and it was not until he moved on to São Paulo FC and signed his first professional contract with the club at the age of 15 that he chose to focus on football.
Allan Rodenkam Simonsen (born 15 December 1952) is a former Danish footballer and manager. He most prominently played for German Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcelona from Spain, winning the 1982 Cup Winners' Cup. Simonsen is the only footballer to have scored in the European Cup, UEFA Cup, and Cup Winners' Cup finals. Simonsen was named 1977 European Footballer of the Year.
He played a crucial part for the Danish national team under manager Sepp Piontek,
in Denmark's qualifying campaign for the 1984 European Championship.
Denmark led their qualifying group with a single point over second
placed England before the two teams met at England's home ground Wembley Stadium in September 1983. Simonsen scored one of the most important Danish goals ever, as he converted a penalty kick against English goalkeeper Peter Shilton.
The 1–0 win eventually secured the Danish national team qualification
for their first international tournament since the 1972 Olympic Games,
and the first European Championship participation since the 1964 tournament. It effectively ended England's hopes of qualification for the tournament. He subsequently finished third in the vote for the 1983 European Footballer of the Year award.
Weah spent fourteen years of his professional football career playing for clubs in France, Italy, and England. Arsène Wenger brought him to Europe when he signed for Monaco in 1988. Weah moved to Paris Saint Germain in 1992 where he won Ligue 1 in 1994 and became the top scorer of the UEFA Champions League 1994–95. He signed for A.C. Milan
in 1995 where he spent four very successful seasons, scoring some
spectacular goals (the most notable running the length of the field
against Verona), and won Serie A twice. He then moved to the English Premier League towards the end of his career and had spells at Chelsea and Manchester City.
As a player in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been described as
"arguably the first superstar English player to attract the modern media
spotlight". He began his playing career at Scunthorpe United in 1968, before moving to Liverpool in 1971. At Liverpool, Keegan won three First Division titles, the UEFA Cup twice, the FA Cup and the European Cup. He also gained his first England cap in 1972, and moved to German club Hamburg in the summer of 1977. At Hamburg he was named European Footballer of the Year in 1978 and 1979, won the Bundesliga title in 1978–79, and reached the European Cup final in 1980. Keegan moved to Southampton that summer, and spent two seasons at the club before a transfer to Newcastle United in the English second division
in 1982. He helped Newcastle to promotion in his second season, and
retired from football in 1984, having been capped 63 times for England,
scoring 21 goals.
