Adalbert Fuhrmann

Adalbert "Adel" Fuhrmann (born April 24, 1954 ; † January 28, 2008 in Bonn ) was a German football player .

The striker began his career at the amateur club Ahrweiler BC , where he was a three-time junior national player and was promoted to the third-class Rhineland league in 1971/72 . Right at the beginning of the second half of the season, the fast dribbling right winger trained with the professionals from Borussia Mönchengladbach and was employed by their club manager Helmut Grashoff .

In the 1972/73 season he came to seven Bundesliga appearances for Borussia Mönchengladbach, in which he was twice substituted and four times. The highlight here was probably his commitment to the Danish star Henning Jensen in the last 20 minutes of the Bundesliga first round match at Bayern Bayern the Beckenbauer era. In front of 74,000 spectators in the Munich Olympic Stadium, Borussia lost 3-0. Borussia finished the season in fifth place.

In the UEFA Cup he was in the home games of the first and second round against Aberdeen FC from Scotland and Denmark's Hvidovre IF each for 45 minutes; Borussia lost in the finals of the competition against Liverpool FC . However, it was not used in the DFB Cup, where the legendary Günter Netzer scored the winning goal in his last game for the club, the final against 1. FC Köln . Fuhrmann's other prominent players at Borussia, which was trained by Hennes Weisweiler , were the later world champions Hans-Hubert "Berti" Vogts , Rainer Bonhof , Herbert "Hacki" Wimmer and Josef "Jupp" Heynckes, as well as the later vice world champion Uli Stielike in his tender beginnings. In the storm were also the national player Bernd Rupp and the still young, later European Footballer of the Year Allan Simonsen next to Heynckes and Jensen other competitors of Fuhrmann.

He then moved to the second division VfL Osnabrück , where he did not feel comfortable and could not get along with coach Klaus-Dieter Ochs . After just one season he went to SC Viktoria Köln for which he played for two years in the third-class association league Middle Rhine. He then spent a season at VfL Cologne in 1899 , also in the association league. In 1977 he moved within the league to Bonner SC with the then coach Heinz Hornig , after which he moved to Siegburger SV 04 . He ended his career as a player-coach for SG Landskrone / Heimersheim .

While still active, he had made up for his Abitur at the evening grammar school in Cologne, then studied first social sciences and then medicine, which he completed with a doctorate. He was then an orthopedist and sports medicine specialist in Wesseling .

Fuhrmann was married and had two daughters.

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