Guido Buchwald

Guido Buchwald
Personal information
Full name Guido Ulrich Buchwald
Date of birth 24 January 1961 (1961-01-24) (age 51)
Place of birth Berlin, Germany
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Defender
Youth career
1969–1977 SV Wannweil
1977–1978 TSV Pliezhausen
1978–1979 Stuttgarter Kickers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1979–1983 Stuttgarter Kickers 145 (18)
1983–1994 VfB Stuttgart 325 (28)
1994–1997 Urawa Red Diamonds 127 (11)
1997–1999 Karlsruher SC 40 (3)
Total 637 (60)
National team
1980 West Germany U-21 1 (0)
1983–1984 West Germany Olympic 9 (1)
1984–1994 Germany 76 (4)
Teams managed
2004–2006 Urawa Red Diamonds
2007 Alemannia Aachen
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Guido Ulrich Buchwald (born 24 January 1961) is a German former football defender and manager.[1]

The best game of Buchwald's career was probably the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup when he effectively marked the skilled footballer, Diego Maradona, earning him the nickname "Diego". He was also part of Germany's disappointing 1994 FIFA World Cup squad.

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Career

Buchwald began his professional football career in 1983 with VfB Stuttgart. He played 325 games in the German Bundesliga for this club, scoring 28 goals. The low-point of his career was in 1986 when coach Franz Beckenbauer did not include him in his team for the World Cup in Mexico.

The same year Stuttgart lost the final of the German Cup against FC Bayern Munich and in 1989 the final of the UEFA Cup was also lost, but they managed to win two German championships (1984, 1992).

His personal highlight in his Bundesliga-Career was on the last day of play in the 1991–92 season, when he scored the deciding goal against Bayer Leverkusen that won Stuttgart the match and the Championship – just six minutes before the games' end.

In 1994 he signed with the Japanese team Urawa Red Diamonds before returning to Germany in 1998 to help the Karlsruhe avoid relegation. He could not save the team and after one more season playing in the second division he retired but stayed with the club as a director of sports.

After retirement

After a stop with the Stuttgarter Kickers (again as director of sports) he went back to Japan where he was managing his old club. He led his team to the "closing" championship.

Buchwald then returned to Germany to become manager of Alemannia Aachen. After five months on duty he was fired by club management on 26 November 2007.

On 1 November 2010, Buchwald returned to the Stuttgarter Kickers as a member of the board responsible for the first team.

Career statistics

Club performance League Cup League Cup Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Germany League DFB-Pokal DFB Ligapokal Total
1979–80 Stuttgarter Kickers 2. Bundesliga 33 1
1980–81 38 8
1981–82 38 5
1982–83 37 4
1983–84 Stuttgart Bundesliga 34 3
1984–85 15 4
1985–86 32 1
1986–87 33 2
1987–88 30 1
1988–89 30 1
1989–90 28 5
1990–91 21 3
1991–92 37 5
1992–93 33 1
1993–94 32 2
Japan League Emperor's Cup J. League Cup Total
1994 Urawa Red Diamonds J. League Division 1 20 2 3 0 2 0 25 2
1995 51 4 3 0 - 54 4
1996 24 3 4 0 12 0 40 3
1997 32 2 0 0 6 0 38 2
Germany League DFB-Pokal DFB Ligapokal Total
1997–98 Karlsruhe Fußball-Bundesliga 9 0
1998–99 2. Bundesliga 31 3
Country Germany 511 49
Japan 127 11 10 0 20 0 157 11
Total 638 60

[2]

Germany national team
Year Apps Goals
1984 3 0
1985 0 0
1986 7 0
1987 7 0
1988 6 0
1989 6 0
1990 12 0
1991 6 1
1992 13 1
1993 10 2
1994 6 0
Total 76 4

Honors and awards

Individual honors as player

Individual honors as coach

Team honors as player

Team honors as coach

References

  1. ^ "Buchwald, Guido" (in German). kicker.de. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/vereine/1-bundesliga/1991-92/vfb-stuttgart-11/9090/spieler_guido-buchwald.html. Retrieved 23 January 2011. 
  2. ^ "Guido Buchwald – International Appearances". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/buchwald-intl.html. Retrieved 23 January 2011. 

External links

GK: Shinkichi Kikuchi  · DF: Naoki Soma  · DF: Masami Ihara  · DF: Masaharu Suzuki  · DF: Guido Buchwald  · MF: Tetsuji Hashiratani  · MF: Bismarck  · FW: Masahiro Fukuda  · FW: Kazuyoshi Miura  · FW: Dragan Stojković  · FW: Hiroaki Morishima
GK: Seigo Narazaki  · DF: Naoki Soma  · DF: Masami Ihara  · DF: Guido Buchwald  · MF: Jorginho  · MF: Masakiyo Maezono  · MF: Motohiro Yamaguchi  · MF: Hiroshi Nanami  · FW: Kazuyoshi Miura  · FW: Dragan Stojković  · FW: Masayuki Okano
West Germany squad – UEFA Euro 1984
West Germany squad – 1984 Summer Olympics
West Germany squad – UEFA Euro 1988 semi-finalists
West Germany squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup Winners (3rd Title)
Germany squad – UEFA Euro 1992 Runners-up
Germany squad – 1994 FIFA World Cup
Urawa Red Diamonds – managers
Alemannia Aachen – managers
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