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| Date of birth | September 3, 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Witten, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Central Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1967–1972 | TuS Nettlingen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1980 | TuS Sulingen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1984 | TuS Syke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1987 | VfB Oldenburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1989 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 51 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1994 | Borussia Dortmund | 133 | (4) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Werder Bremen | 59 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1988 | West Germany Olympic | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Germany | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Michael Schulz (born September 3, 1961 in Witten) is a retired German soccer player. He played 243 matches in the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen and 1. FC Kaiserslautern and scored eight goals.
Schulz played centre-back and had the reputation of being one of the hardest defenders in the Bundesliga. He collected 48 yellow and 2 red cards. He was a great crowd favourite in Bremen, his fans regularly chanting "Schuuuuuuuuuulz" whenever he had the ball. Fellow Bremen player Christian Schulz, who bears no relationship to him, is regularly celebrated like this because of him. In Paninis World Championship collector's cards edition 1994 he is described as "an anchor as header, strong in duels, feared for his wide throw-ins. The Charles Bronson type of guy overdoes toughness."
He played seven times for the German national team from 1992 to 1993. He also competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]
He works as a player agent at the Hamburg based sport management agency Extratime. He's additionally in the field for several German TV channels and since August 2009 also as a field reporter for Deutsche Telekom's football channel Liga total.
Although Schulz was one of the best defenders of his generation, top titles eluded him. The special sting in his case was the fact that each team he played for was highly successful after he was transferred away, leading to speculation he was cursed.
In a 1997 issue of the German soccer magazine kicker, published when Schulz announced his retirement, he was asked in the column Mal ehrlich (Now, seriously), whether Bremen, now that Schulz was stopping, would finally win something. He answered, "This is a sure-fire tip! I'd bet on it anytime", acknowledging the existence of his jinx.
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