Dirk Schuster

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Dirk Schuster (born December 29, 1967) is a German soccer player, currently playing for Waldhof Mannheim.

Schuster, who lived his youth in the DDR, was one of the first East German players to make the move into the West, starting in Eintracht Braunschweig and soon moving on to Karlsruher SC in 1991, where he established himself as a respected center-back.

A move to 1. FC Köln in 1997 proved less successful, and in the following journeyman years he played in Turkey and Austria. He then played for newly promoted Second Bundesliga club LR Ahlen in 2000, where he has a good stint, before he returned back to Austria and now plays in the Oberliga, the fourth-highest league with Waldhof.

He was capped three times in the German national team and seven times in the East German national team, making him a member of the small group of Ex-DDR footballers who played in both the German and the East German tenure, such as Ulf Kirsten, Andreas Thom or Matthias Sammer.