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Günther Schäfer

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1980–1996
  
VfB Stuttgart

Current team
  
VfB Stuttgart

0000–1975
  
TSV Neustadt

Name
  
Gunther Schafer

Playing position
  
Defender

1975–1980
  
VfB Stuttgart

Role
  
Football player

Date joined
  
1980

Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.74 m


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Date of birth
  
(1962-06-09) June 9, 1962 (age 53)

Place of birth
  
Waiblingen, Germany

Günther Schäfer (Fußballspieler)


Günther Schäfer (born June 9, 1962 in Waiblingen) is a German football coach and a former player.

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In his sixteen years playing for VfB Stuttgart, the defender gained the status of being one of the most popular players ever to play for that Swabian Bundesliga side and one of the few players to earn two German championship titles with them. The most spectacular and well-known play of Schäfer's career was to clear a ball from the goal line by a bicycle kick, risking injury, in the final match of the 1991-92 season against Bayer Leverkusen, which Stuttgart went on to win 2-1, thus gaining the German championship title that season.

Today, Schäfer is the head coach of VfB's "football school".

Honours

  • UEFA Cup finalist: 1989.
  • Bundesliga champion: 1984, 1992.
  • DFB-Pokal finalist: 1986.
  • References

    Günther Schäfer Wikipedia