Playing position Position Midfielder Role Footballer | Name Axel Juptner | |
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Date of birth (1969-04-26)26 April 1969 Date of death 24 April 1998(1998-04-24) (aged 28) Died April 24, 1998, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany | ||
Axel Jüptner (26 April 1969 in Gemmrigheim – 24 April 1998 in Bad Oeynhausen) was a German footballer.
Jüptner played in the Fußball-Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart between 1988 and 1991. In 1991 he joined KFC Uerdingen 05 and helped win promotion to the Fußball-Bundesliga the same year. He played for Uerdingen until November 1997, when he transferred to FC Carl Zeiss Jena. On 23 April 1998, during a training session in Jena, he suffered from myocardial infarction and died one day later.
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