Christian Rudzki

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Christian Rudzki (born July 26, 1946 ) is a former Argentine soccer player who played for the Argentine clubs Deportivo Español and Estudiantes de La Plata , as well as in the Bundesliga at Hannover 96 . With Estudiantes, Rudzki won the Copa Libertadores in 1969 and 1970 . He played four league games (1 goal) in the Bundesliga for Hanover in the 1972/73 season .

Athletic career

Born in Czechoslovakia, Rudzki fled his home country when he was appointed to the junior national team there. Under Osvaldo Zubeldía he belonged to the golden generation at Estudiantes de La Plata, which transformed the long-term relegation candidate into a top team. The club had the national championship title for the first time in 1967 and also celebrated international success by winning the Copa Libertadores in 1968 , but from 1969 it was part of the team that became the first club to achieve the title hat-trick by defending the title in the Copa Libertadores in 1969 and 1970 . This made him the first European to win the South American title. In 1970 he was used in both World Cup finals, but Feyenoord Rotterdam under Ernst Happel ultimately prevailed. He was also in the starting line-up in the finals for the Copa Libertadores in 1971 , but Nacional Montevideo prevented the fourth success in a row in a decider.

In 1972 Rudzki returned to Europe, where he joined the Bundesliga club Hannover 96. According to his own statement, Estudiantes is said to have been behind with eight months' salary, which is why he moved to Europe. In Hanover, however, hardly any attention was paid to the first Argentinian in the German elite class, in the 1972/73 season he was only used four times in the Bundesliga and scored on his debut day, September 30, 1972, in a 3-1 home win against the VfB Stuttgart scored the goal to make it 3-1. In retrospect, it was noted in the book about “Die Roten” that only Karl-Heinz Mrosko, a sonorous name, had joined the 96ers before the start of the round in 1972/73. The Argentine Christian Rudzki only shone through experience. His international successes in the Copa Libertadores were apparently not worth mentioning to the authors. For his third Bundesliga appearance on October 14, 1972 at 1. FC Köln (0-0), the Bundesliga chronicle is recorded: A quarter of an hour before the end, coach Hans Hipp finally let himself be softened and, as if in spite of himself , sent Rudzki, who was loudly demanded by the audience Space. "And if people turn upside down, Rudzki just doesn't have the Bundesliga pace", Hanover's coach was right. His Bundesliga career ended on October 21, 1972 in the away game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern (1: 2) of the man from Argentina. He played for the injured Hans Siemensmeyer in midfield on the side of Ludwig Denz and Peter Rühmkorb on the Betzenberg. In a message from December 11, 1972 in the Kicker-Sportmagazin it is stated that the plan is to sell the player who is on home leave by January 30, 1973. On April 16, 1973, the kicker added the message that the player, who was on leave until July 31, 1973, was looking for a club in Mexico.

Rudzki was there at the festive reopening of the Estadio Jorge Luis Hirschi on November 9, 2019.

literature

  • Emergency brake, Hardy Greens: The Reds. The story of Hanover 96. Verlag Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-89533-537-1 .
  • Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1972/73. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2008. ISBN 978-3-89784-092-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 613
  2. ↑ a b c estudiantesdelaplata.com: "Christian Rudzki, bicampeón de América, dijo presente en Acá hay una Escuela" (accessed)
  3. ^ Emergency brake, Hardy Greens: The Reds. The story of Hanover 96. p. 151
  4. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1972/73. P. 78

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personal data
SURNAME Rudzki, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1946