Wolfram Wuttke (17 November 1961 – 1 March 2015) was a German professional footballer[2] who played as a midfielder.
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Date of birth | (1961-11-17)17 November 1961 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Castrop-Rauxel, West Germany[1] | ||||||||||||
Date of death | 1 March 2015(2015-03-01) (aged 53) | ||||||||||||
Place of death | Lünen, Germany | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||
1967–1976 | SG Castrop | ||||||||||||
1976–1978 | Schalke 04 | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
1979–1981 | Schalke 04 | 32 | (3) | ||||||||||
1981–1982 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 58 | (9) | ||||||||||
1982–1983 | Schalke 04 | 16 | (7) | ||||||||||
1983–1985 | Hamburger SV | 58 | (15) | ||||||||||
1985–1990 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 112 | (32) | ||||||||||
1990–1992 | 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 | ||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Wuttke made his Bundesliga debut in October 1979 for Schalke 04[1] in a 3–0 win against 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. 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] He appeared in nearly 300 (West) German top-flight matches.[4]
His good performance in the Bundesliga earned him four caps in the West Germany national team[5] 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]
On 1 March 2015, he died due to a multisystem organ failure caused by cirrhosis.[3][1]
1. FC Kaiserslautern[6]
Germany U21
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