Jürgen Wegmann

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Jürgen Wegmann
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Personnel
birthday March 31, 1964
place of birth Essen-BorbeckGermany
size 172 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1969-1976 Wacker Bergeborbeck
1976-1981 Red and white food
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1981-1983 Red and white food 65 (32)
1984-1986 Borussia Dortmund 70 (25)
1986-1987 FC Schalke 04 28 (10)
1987-1989 FC Bayern Munich 58 (26)
1989-1992 Borussia Dortmund 47 0(8)
1993 MSV Duisburg 7 0(2)
1994 Red and white food 5 0(0)
1995 1. FSV Mainz 05 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1985 Germany U-21 4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Jürgen Wegmann (born March 31, 1964 in Essen-Borbeck ) is a former German football player who played in the position of the center forward. In 1989 he became German champion with FC Bayern Munich . He got his nickname "Cobra" because of his statement: "I am more venomous than the most venomous snake."

Career

societies

Wegmann was born and raised in Essen. His father registered him at Wacker Bergeborbeck when he was five. He went through the youth teams at Rot-Weiss Essen from the C-youth and scored 377 hits in the youth according to his own records.

RW Essen

At RW Essen Wegmann received a licensed player contract, his first assignment as a professional was on March 6, 1982 (26th matchday). In the 4-1 home win over SC Fortuna Köln , he scored his first professional goal to make it 1-0 after three minutes. In the first three seasons in the 2nd Bundesliga he was successful 32 times in 65 games.

Borussia Dortmund

During the winter break of the 1984/85 season , he moved to the first division club Borussia Dortmund for 1 million DM . The 1985/86 season ended BVB than 16 and third from bottom of the Bundesliga. Because of this placement, two relegation games had to be played against the second division third, in this case SC Fortuna Köln . Borussia lost the first leg in Cologne 2-0 and were 1-0 down at half-time in the second leg at home. In the second half, Dortmund was able to turn the game around and take a 2-1 lead, but this result would have meant BVB's relegation. Wegmann finally scored the 3: 1 in the last minute of the game, which allowed BVB to equalize by adding the two games. This meant that a play-off had to be played, which BVB won 8-0 in Düsseldorf.

Borussia Dortmund immortalized Wegmann with a star on the BVB Walk of Fame .

Schalke 04

At the time of the relegation games with Dortmund, his move to league rivals FC Schalke 04 for the 1986/87 season for a transfer fee of 1.35 million DM was already certain. With Schalke he was 13th and scored ten goals in 28 games, which made him the best scorer of the Knappen . He played his last game for Schalke in Munich with Bayern, who completed their second championship hat-trick under coach Udo Lattek with a 1-0 win .

FC Bayern Munich

For the following season he moved to FC Bayern Munich for a transfer fee of DM 2 million , with which the DFB Supercup won the first ever DFB Supercup at the beginning of the new season . In the final of this competition against Hamburger SV he scored both goals for Bayern in a 2-1 win. After his second goal in the 87th minute, HSV goalkeeper Uli Stein knocked him down with a punch and was sent off. After the runner-up in 1988 behind SV Werder Bremen , he was also German champion with Bayern in 1989 . In his two years with Bayern under coach Jupp Heynckes , he was the second best goalscorer within the club with 13 league goals each, behind Lothar Matthäus and Roland Wohlfarth , who each scored 17 goals. A personal highlight of Wegmann's was the goal on November 26th, 1988 with a side pull to the 1-0 win against 1. FC Nürnberg , which was later voted Goal of the Year .

Borussia Dortmund

In the summer of 1989 Wegmann returned to Borussia Dortmund for four seasons for a transfer fee of 1.95 million DM. In the first two seasons he was used regularly, scoring eight goals in 45 league games. In the last two seasons he was only on the field once due to an injury.

Career end

During the winter break of the 1992/93 season, Wegmann moved to the second division club MSV Duisburg , where he met twice in seven games. Then he returned to Rot-Weiss Essen, also in the 2nd Bundesliga . After relegation with Essen, he played one more season in the then third-class regional league .

In 1995 Wegmann was obliged for the symbolic transfer fee of one mark from the second division club 1. FSV Mainz 05 , who could only use him in a single test match. Another serious injury in that game caused the premature termination of the contract and Wegmann's career end.

Wegmann scored 69 goals in 203 Bundesliga games and 34 goals in 77 second division games.

National team

Between 1984 and 1985 Wegmann played four times for the U-21 national team ; He made his debut on March 27, 1984 in Osnabrück in a 1-1 draw against the Soviet Union. This was followed by the games against Greece (0-0, on April 17), Scotland (1: 2, on September 11) and 1985 against Portugal (1: 2, on February 23).

After the career

Wegmann worked for many years in the Borussia Dortmund fan shop . After this position was over, the picture reported : “This is how the goal hero lives alone and from Hartz IV in the pot.” Bayern manager Uli Hoeneß Wegmann then arranged a position as a security guard for the FC Bayern fan article shop from April 2008 to September 2012 CentrO Oberhausen. Wegmann later had to give up this job for health reasons. "We couldn't stand for seven hours," he remarked.

Wegmann now lives on a disability pension in a 44 m² apartment in his hometown of Essen.

literature

Franz-Josef Colli: "Kobra" Wegmann turns 50, detailed report in: WAZ , Essen edition, from March 31, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Series on 50 years of the Bundesliga - Jürgen Wegmann, the Kobra Süddeutsche Zeitung, online edition. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  2. a b Dreamlike and unforgettable: Goal of the Year 1988, in: NRZ from November 28, 2013 (Sport in Essen)
  3. Details on www.transfermarkt.de
  4. Centrum Składów Piłkarskich - informacje. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  5. Note in: Three careers, one association. In: WAZ Essen from 23 August 2014