Guido Buchwald

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Guido Buchwald
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Guido Buchwald in 2012 in the studio with Markus Lanz
Personnel
Surname Guido Ulrich Buchwald
birthday January 24, 1961
place of birth West Berlin ,  Germany
size 188 cm
position Defender , midfielder
Juniors
Years station
1969-1977 SV Wannweil
1977-1988 TSV Pliezhausen
1978-1979 Stuttgart Kickers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1983 Stuttgart Kickers 146 (18)
1983-1994 VfB Stuttgart 325 (28)
1994-1997 Urawa Red Diamonds 127 (11)
1998-1999 Karlsruher SC 40 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1980 Germany U-21 1 0(0)
1983-1984 Olympic team 9 0(1)
1984-1994 Germany 76 0(4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999 Karlsruher SC (interim)
2004-2007 Urawa Red Diamonds
2007 Alemannia Aachen
2012 Stuttgarter Kickers (interim)
1 Only league games are given.
Guido Buchwald, 2004

Guido "Diego" Ulrich Buchwald (born January 24, 1961 in West Berlin ) is a former German football player and coach . He is one of the best central defenders in German football history.

The highlight of his career is his commitment in the victorious final of the 1990 World Cup as an opponent of Diego Maradona . He was twice German champion ( 1984 and 1992). Today Buchwald is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Youth Football Foundation.

Stations as a player

Buchwald was born in Berlin and lived in Wannweil from 1962 , where he also learned to play football. With the Stuttgarter Kickers he was German A youth champion in the 1978/79 season . The trained electrician began his Bundesliga career in the 1983/84 season at VfB Stuttgart , for which he played a total of 325 Bundesliga games and scored 28 goals.

With VfB he reached the DFB Cup final in 1986 and the UEFA Cup final in 1989 , both of which were lost. He was twice German champion ( 1984 and 1992). On the last matchday of the 1991/92 season , Buchwald decided the championship for VfB Stuttgart with a header to make it 2-1 at Bayer Leverkusen in the 86th minute of the game.

In 1994 the 76-time German national player moved to Japan in the J. League , in which he played 127 games (11 goals) for the Urawa Red Diamonds . Towards the end of the 1997/98 season he returned to Germany to the relegation-threatened Karlsruher SC . He played nine Bundesliga games for KSC this season, but could not prevent relegation. In the following season, Buchwald played another 31 times in the 2nd Bundesliga . He then ended his active career.

In 2007, Buchwald was allowed to hand over the championship trophy , which he had received as VfB captain 15 years earlier, to his successor Fernando Meira .

National team

Buchwald made a total of 76 appearances for the senior national team, scoring four goals and receiving two yellow cards. He made his debut on May 22, 1984 in the game against Italy on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of FIFA and was then part of the squad for the European Championship 1984, where the DFB selection was eliminated in the preliminary round. He then took part with the Olympic selection at the Olympic soccer tournament in Los Angeles. Team boss Franz Beckenbauer did not nominate him for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico .

At the European Championship in 1988, he collided with Flemming Povlsen in the game against Denmark and pulled himself a laceration. After this was sewn, he returned to the court, but had to retire due to a groin strain. The EM was over for him. At the European Championships in Sweden in 1992 , Buchwald collapsed after a header duel and suffered an obstruction of the airways. The national team masseur, Adolf Katzenmeier , saved his life.

At the 1990 World Cup, Buchwald was a regular player and played all seven national team games . He didn't get his nickname "Diego" from his strong performance in the final against Maradona, which he didn't let unfold over the entire season; rather, he received it after the round of 16 due to the climber in front of his cross to Jürgen Klinsmann's 1-0 against the Netherlands.

For his sporting successes he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf - together with the world championship team.

Sports director and coach

After his career as a player, Buchwald became sports director at KSC, with whom he was relegated and promoted back to the second division in the following season. In 2001 he moved to his previous club, the Stuttgarter Kickers , and took the same position there part-time. He later became a sports advisor to the Urawa Red Diamonds and worked from January 1, 2004 at his former club as a coach . After two runners-up in 2004 and 2005, his team achieved a long-awaited title win in 2005 by winning the Imperial Cup (Japanese Cup). In 2006, the Urawa Red Diamonds secured their first championship since the change of name in 1992 on the last day of the J-League . Most recently, the club won the Japanese championship as Mitsubishi FC in 1982. Only a few days later, the team repeated their previous year's triumph in the final of the Kaiser Cup with a 1-0 win against Gamba Osaka and secured the double. With this double title win and the election to coach of the year 2006 in Japan, "Guido-San" ended his coaching position in Asia in December 2006.

On June 11, 2007 Buchwald signed a two-year contract as head coach at the second division Alemannia Aachen . He succeeded Michael Frontzeck , who had made his office available after the unsuccessful relegation in the Bundesliga. Aachen was Buchwald's first coaching station in Germany. On November 26, 2007, he was released after his team had only finished ninth in the table at that time. In particular, the team's “poor performance” in away games, for which Buchwald couldn't find an explanation, was the reason for the separation. Since December 1, 2010, Buchwald was on the presidium of the Stuttgarter Kickers for the soccer / 1 department. Team responsible. Under his leadership, he was promoted to the 3rd division in the 2011/2012 season. There, Buchwald took over the coaching position on an interim basis during the 2012/2013 season after a series of defeats in November 2012, after the promotion coach Dirk Schuster was relieved of his duties. For the second half of the 2012/2013 season, Gerd Dais was finally hired a new coach and Buchwald returned to his position in the club's executive committee. On October 1, 2013, one day after the new coach Horst Steffen signed on , he resigned from this position with immediate effect.

Since 2015 he has worked for VfB Stuttgart as a scout and as an employee for internationalization on the Asian market. On February 4, 2019, Buchwald resigned from all of his offices due to internal differences.

Personal

Guido Buchwald is Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Morgenstern AG (formerly Morgenstern + Buchwald GmbH ), a provider of output and document management systems. He is the godfather of the youth hostel Stuttgart International and the Familienherberge Lebensweg, an aid organization for families with seriously ill children.

His uncle Paul Buchwald was also a soccer player; he played as a striker for Königshütte .

Success as a player

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports talk: “When Diego put Diego in the cold” , Deutschlandfunk on July 5, 2015.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Guido Buchwald - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 23, 2015. Accessed August 21, 2015.
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Guido Buchwald - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 23, 2015. Accessed August 21, 2015.
  4. ^ "Alemannia dismisses Buchwald" , online kicker service from November 26, 2007
  5. ↑ Setting the course. (No longer available online.) VfB Stuttgart 1893 eV, May 25, 2015, archived from the original on May 28, 2015 ; accessed on May 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfb.de
  6. ^ The full length of the press conference of the club management. (Video) (No longer available online.) VfB Stuttgart 1893 eV, May 25, 2015, archived from the original on May 28, 2015 ; accessed on May 28, 2015 (from 27:35 min). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vfbtv.vfb.de
  7. ↑ Buchwald stops at VfB and raises allegations , kicker.de, accessed on February 4, 2019
  8. ^ Press release ( memento of February 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of the Stuttgart International Youth Hostel.
  9. ^ Football legend Guido Buchwald. In: Familienherberge-lebensweg.de , accessed on September 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Buchwald, Guido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchwald, Diego (nickname); Buchwald, Guido Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin , Germany