Wolfram Wuttke
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 17 November 1961 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Castrop-Rauxel, West Germany | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 1 March 2015 | (aged 53)|||||||||||||
Place of death | Lünen, Germany | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||
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) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1980–1982 | West Germany U-21 | 7 | (1) | |||||||||||
1986–1988 | West Germany | 4 | (1) | |||||||||||
1987–1988 | West Germany Olympic | 11 | (6) | |||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
1994 | TuS Haltern | |||||||||||||
2008 | TSV Crailsheim | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Wolfram Wuttke (17 November 1961 – 1 March 2015) was a German professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Wuttke made his Bundesliga debut in October 1979 for Schalke 04 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. In summer 1983, he moved to Hamburger SV. Günther Netzer, then Hamburg's sporting director, called him one of the greatest German football talents of all times. After several disputes, Ernst Happel, Hamburg's manager, threw him out of the team in September 1985. 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. 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. He appeared in nearly 300 (West) German top-flight matches.
International career
His good performance in the Bundesliga earned him four caps in the West Germany national team and he was part of West Germany's squad at the UEFA Euro 1988 and the West German team that won the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Death
On 1 March 2015, he died due to a multisystem organ failure caused by cirrhosis.
Honours
1. FC Kaiserslautern
Germany U21
- UEFA Under-21 Championship: runner-up 1982
- Olympics: Bronze Medal 1988
- 1961 births
- 2015 deaths
- People from Castrop-Rauxel
- Footballers from Münster (region)
- German men's footballers
- German expatriate men's footballers
- German expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
- Men's association football midfielders
- Germany men's under-21 international footballers
- Germany men's international footballers
- FC Schalke 04 players
- Borussia Mönchengladbach players
- Hamburger SV players
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern players
- RCD Espanyol footballers
- 1. FC Saarbrücken players
- Bundesliga players
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- UEFA Euro 1988 players
- Olympic footballers for West Germany
- West German men's footballers
- Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
- Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in football
- Alcohol-related deaths in Germany
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Deaths from cirrhosis
- Deaths from multiple organ failure
- German football midfielder, 1960s birth stubs
- German Olympic medalist stubs