KARL-HEINZ RUMMENIGGE

(Born in 1955)

Played in the German club Borussia Lippstadt and Bayern Munich, the Italian club Inter Milan, the Swiss club Servette. In 1976-1986 has 95 matches for the national team of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Rummenigge had a chance to play in the great Bayern Munich club which was in the mid-1970′s, when three times in a row, from 1974 to 1976, won the European Cup.

However, Rummenigge was younger famous Bavarians of the era of Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Muller, Ulrich Hennessy, Paul Breitner, and he appeared in "Bavaria" in the summer of 1974. By this time the club had already won the Cup for the first time by winning the final of the Madrid Atletico Madrid, and Beckenbauer, Muller, Hoeness, Breitner and goalkeeper for Bayern Sepp Maier of West Germany has just become world champions.

Then began the same football career Rummenigge in Lippstadt, small Westphalian town. Nevertheless, there were as many as two amateur football clubs - Borussia and Teutons. As the father of Karl-Heinz, a tool-maker by profession, played in the "Borussia", the same was eight and Karl-Heinz. But the outstanding football talent was discovered he had been in the age of five: he drove the ball on the lawn, looking around without difficulty where the older guys and scoring goals.

The first match of eight Rummenigge of the youngest team Borussia ended with the score 11:0. When he was nine, the coaches moved him to the team, which played fourteen teenagers. Since then, she had never known defeat, and Karl-Heinz for one season scored 96 goals. Boy has been compared with the very Gerd Muller - a young Rummenigge was remarkably developed helps flair. He was invariably in the same point near the gate of others, where the next moment came the ball, whether it is after pasa a partner, or a rebound from the goalkeeper or goalpost. In the match with a team of teenagers nearby town once Karl-Heinz scored 16 goals.

The fame of the exploits of the young striker yet diverged farther from Lippstadt. Finally, about it heard and coaches junior team Germany. Together with the team, Karl-Heinz traveled to England, and then received an invitation to go to youth football school distinguished Bundesliga club Schalke 04. However, if parents do not dare let him out of the house, and even professional football career seemed to them not too reliable.

So it happened that, having left school, Karl-Heinz was still in his native Lippstadt, took a job at the local branch of the People′s Bank of Germany and continued to play in his native Borussia at the amateur level, is now in the main team. However, in Lippstadt now and then appeared breeders professional clubs in the Bundesliga - BV Borussia Dortmund, leverkuzenskogo "Bayer", "Cologne".

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When the proposal came from the great Bayern Munich, parents, finally, believed in the football star Karl-Heinz, the more that the sum of the contract exceeded the boldest expectations.

Karl-Heinz was not yet nineteen, when he appeared at the suburban-based "Bavaria. " Season has not started, players had only just started training. In the first control match Karl-Heinz managed to make a goal assist Gerd Muller. In another control the game, when Bayern Munich won - 12:0, Muller scored 11 goals and 12-th - rookie "Bavaria" Rummenigge.

But the first official match of the Bundesliga, the debut for Karl-Heinz ended in resounding failure: Bayern Munich lost - 0:6. Goals are not scored any great Gerd Muller, neither young Rummenigge. But soon in the cup match with VfB Stuttgart, Karl-Heinz discovered by his balls for a great club with a move plunging the ball after the transfer of a partner under the crossbar.

In the spring of 1975, "Bayern" the second time in succession won the European Cup, winning the final of English "Leeds". In 1976 he was the third victory in a row - now in the final match by defeating a French "Saint-Etienne. In the same year, Bayern Munich and won the Intercontinental Cup, beating Brazil′s "Cruzeiro". Still the best for Rummenigge time in the "Bavaria" was the beginning of 1980, when it has already reached football maturity. Now he was a popular German soccer player, a great scorer. And the leader of a new generation of players for Bayern.

Goals he was able to score for every taste. Smote the gates distant surprise attack or the first turned out to have the ball in a skirmish near the gates and managed to push it into the net from under the feet of defender. Great playing head, hammering the ball after the filing of a corner. Performed amazing solo passages, playing with defenders and completing a raid precise blow.

In 1980, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was the first time leading scorer in the Bundesliga, scoring 26 goals. The following year he again was the first of the strikers, now with the 29-S balls. During these years, Bayern Munich won the national championship, and in 1982 made the "double", winning the Cup and the country. It was in these years, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has received "Golden balls" as the best footballer in Europe.

European recognition of his help, of course, is the fact that in 1980 West Germany became the European champion, having beaten in the final match command Belgium - 2:1. By this time, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was a major player in the West team for which he made his debut in 1976.

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But for the world champion German football at that time, less lucky, though I Rummenigge in 1978 in Argentina, became famous for a hat-trick in a match of group tournament with the national team of Mexico. Even then, the magnificent German striker spotted leadership Inter Milan. But the other two matches of West Germany completed zero anyone′s, including with the national team of Tunisia. In the next stage of drawing the Germans still out, but to get to the finals could not.

Unfortunately, the brilliant game Rummenigge later plagued by frequent injuries. The first one he received in March 1982, shortly before the World Cup. In Spain, Karl-Heinz went as captain, but to the end and not recovered. And yet managed to make this sports victory. In the semi-final match against France Rummenigge came on the replacement when the score is 1:3 in extra time and helped his team score even. One ball he scored himself: an incredible way managed to reach the ball while lying on the ground, and sent it to the gate. In the penalty shoot-the Germans were more accurate and advanced to the final. However, the opposing team was stronger than Italy. Won - 3:1, the Italians have become world champions.

But be that as it may, despite the injuries, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge with 5 balls boarded ranked among the best scorers in the championship. Ahead of his only Italian Paolo Rossi, who scored 6 goals.

Dramatic for the great German footballer and turned out to be the next World Cup, which Rummenigge came again, not fully healed the injury. Nevertheless, West Germany squad for the second time in a row went to the finals, where she met with the Argentine national team, led by Maradona. The Argentines were taken with the score 2:0, but Rummenigge otkvital one ball, and then Rudi Voller has a second, equalized. Still a good ball Argentinian Burruchaga brought victory team Argentina.

At this time, Rummenigge has played Inter Milan, which moved from the "Bavaria" in 1984. The amount paid for it by the Italians, at that time was a record for the Bundesliga. But three seasons, conducted by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in Milan, have not yielded great victories or "Inter", nor the most German footballer.

The last club to Rummenigge was the Swiss "Servette", where the great striker retrained in free defender and an excellent job with their responsibilities. In 1989, he completed a career as a football player and he returned to Bayern Munich - the post of vice-president of the famous club.