Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

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Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Personal information
Date of birth	September 25, 1955 (age 51)
Place of birth	Lippstadt, Germany
Height	1.82 m
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1974-1984 1984-1987 1987-1989	Bayern Munich Internazionale Servette	310 (162) 64 (24) 50 (34)
National team
1976-1986	West Germany	95 (45)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge (born September 25, 1955) is a German former football player. He is a football functionary now.

He had his greatest successes in his time with Bayern Munich, where he won the Intercontinental Cup, the European Cup of Champions as well as a number of national titles. With Germany he was runner-up in the 1982 FIFA World Cup and the 1986 FIFA World Cup, and won the 1980 European Championship. He was also honoured twice as European Footballer of the Year.

Contents 1 Career as player 1.1 Club 1.2 National team 2 Football management 3 Miscellaneous 4 Career overview 5 External links

[edit] Career as player

[edit] Club

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. His record of 1981 is hitherto unmatched.

With Bayern he won in 1975 and 1976 the European Cup of Champions. 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.

The club, then often dubbed as “FC Breitnigge”, won in this period the German championships of 1980 and 1981, and the German Cup in 1982 und 1984. A renewed triumph in the European Champions 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 this period he was also a serious rival for Diego Maradona for the unofficial honour of being the best player of the world.

In 1984, aged 29, he transferred for a record fee of € 5.7m to Internazionale. Despite a notable beginning, in which he helped the team to race until the end for the 1984-1985 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, 1989/89 he had his last success, becoming top scorer of Switzerland with 24 goals.

[edit] National team

With the German national football team he took part in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, 1982 FIFA World Cup and 1986 FIFA World Cup. In 1978 Germany exited in the first knock-out 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 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. Germany was already ousted in the group stage.

Altogether, between 1976 and 1986, Rummenigge amassed 85 caps and scored 45 goals for the German national team.

[edit] Football management

From 1990 until 1994 Rummenigge worked as a tv co-commentator for matches of the German team. In the autumn of 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. Bayern states, “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.” Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is also president of the UEFA European club forum.

[edit] Miscellaneous

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 FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund from 1982-88 and 1988-94, respectively. He also represented Germany on two occasions between 1983 and 1986.

[edit] Career overview

Period	Club	Matches/Goals	Titles	Caps / Goals
1963-74	Borussia Lippstadt
1974-84	FC Bayern Munich	310 / 162	Intercontinental Cup: 1976 European Cup of Champions: 1975, 1976 Championship: 1980, 1981 German Cup: 1982, 1984	78 / 40
1984-87	Internazionale	64 / 24		17 / 5
1987-89	Servette FC Genève	50 / 34		-
1976-86	Germany	95 / 45	European Championship: 1980	95 / 45
Also:	Finalist at the World Cup: 1982, 1986. Finalist of the European Cup of Champions: 1982,
Personal Distinctions
1980	Top Scorer Bundesliga		26 Goals
1981	Top Scorer Bundesliga		29 Goals
1984	Top Scorer Bundesliga		26 Goals
1989	Top Scorer Swiss League		24 Goals
1980	German Footballer of the Year
1980	European Footballer of the Year
1981	European Footballer of the Year

• He is the 11th most capped player for Germany (inclusive of three East German Players)
• He is the 5th most successful striker for Germany (inclusive one East German player)
• He is the tenth most successful scorer of all time in Bundesliga history
• With Bayern Munich he is the second most successful scorer of all time in league history after Gerd Müller

[edit] External links

• Karl-Heinz Rummenigge @ FCB.de
• Karl-Heinz Rummenigge @ soccer-europe.com
• Autograph Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

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Preceded by Kevin Keegan

European Footballer of the Year 1980, 1981

Succeeded by Paolo Rossi

	West Germany squad - 1978 FIFA World Cup
1 Maier | 2 Vogts | 3 Dietz | 4 Rüssmann | 5 Kaltz | 6 Bonhof | 7 Abramczik | 8 Zimmermann | 9 Fischer | 10 Flohe | 11 Rummenigge | 12 Schwarzenbeck | 13 Konopka | 14 D. Müller | 15 Beer | 16 Cullmann | 17 Hölzenbein | 18 Zewe | 19 Worm | 20 H. Müller | 21 Kargus | 22 Burdenski | Coach: Schön

	West Germany squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Schumacher | 2 Briegel | 3 Breitner | 4 K. Förster | 5 B. Förster | 6 Dremmler | 7 Littbarski | 8 Fischer | 9 Hrubesch | 10 Müller | 11 Rummenigge | 12 Hannes | 13 Reinders | 14 Magath | 15 Stielike | 16 Allofs | 17 Engels | 18 Matthäus | 19 Hieronymus | 20 Kaltz | 21 Franke | 22 Immel | Coach: Derwall

	West Germany squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Schumacher | 2 Briegel | 3 Brehme | 4 Förster | 5 Herget | 6 Eder | 7 Littbarski | 8 Matthäus | 9 Völler | 10 Magath | 11 Rummenigge | 12 Stein | 13 Allgöwer | 14 Berthold | 15 Augenthaler | 16 Thon | 17 Jakobs | 18 Rahn | 19 Allofs | 20 Hoeneß | 21 Rolff | 22 Immel | Coach: Beckenbauer