Michael Rummenigge

Michael Rummenigge
Rummenigge playing for a Borussia Dortmund veterans team in 2011
Personal information
Date of birth (1964-02-03) 3 February 1964 (age 60)
Place of birth Lippstadt, West Germany
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder, striker
Youth career
1970–1981 Borussia Lippstadt
1981–1982 Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1988 Bayern Munich 152 (44)
1988–1993 Borussia Dortmund 157 (36)
1993–1995 Urawa Reds 42 (13)
Total 351 (93)
International career
1980–1982 West Germany U-18 9 (1)
1983–1985 West Germany U-21 10 (4)
1983–1986 West Germany 2 (0)
Medal record
Bayern Munich
Winner DFB-Pokal 1984
Winner Bundesliga 1985
Runner-up DFB-Pokal 1985
Winner Bundesliga 1986
Winner DFB-Pokal 1986
Winner Bundesliga 1987
Runner-up European Cup 1987
Winner DFB-Supercup 1987
Borussia Dortmund
Winner DFB-Pokal 1989
Winner DFB-Supercup 1989
Runner-up UEFA Cup 1993
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Michael Rummenigge (born 3 February 1964) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward.[1]

Career

Rummenigge was born in Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia. At the beginning of his career, he did not have it easy as a player with the Bayern Munich star team. He was often compared to his older brother, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, captain of FC Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. Rummenigge joined Bayern Munich in 1981 as a member of the German junior national team at the age of 17, coming from Borussia Lippstadt. His brother, Karl-Heinz, was already an international top star player. Rummenigge became a professional player in Munich in 1982 and a starter in his second season in 1983. He played for Bayern Munich till 1988. By that time his team had won the German championship three times and the DFB-Pokal two times (in 1984 and 1986).

During his career, Rummenigge was capped twice for the Germany national team and represented Germany on two occasions in 1983 and 1986.[2]

In 1988, he changed team affiliation to Borussia Dortmund. In spite of not being very popular with Borussia's supporters in the beginning, he won the DFB-Pokal with Dortmund by the end of his first season – the first title for Borussia Dortmund since the 1960s. Borussia Dortmund defeated Werder Bremen 4–1 in Berlin.

In 1991–92, after the arrival of the new BVB coach, Ottmar Hitzfeld, he was appointed captain of the team. In the same year, Borussia Dortmund became the runner-up in the German championship. In 1993, he played in the UEFA Cup final for Borussia Dortmund against Juventus. Dortmund lost 6–1 on aggregate with Rummenigge scoring their only goal.

Rummenigge finished his career in the black and yellow football shirt of Dortmund in 1993. After having played 309 times in the Bundesliga and having scored 80 goals,[3] he moved on to Japan where a professional football league had just been launched. He played for Urawa Red Diamonds, Japan till 1995. At the beginning of 1996 he had to give up his career because of a severe toe injury.

Business

Rummenigge is a trained banker and runs a successful sports marketing agency in Dortmund (Sports & Business) as well as commercial football camps (Fußballschule Michael Rummenigge). In addition he is a partner/shareholder of the Sportnex GmbH in Munich.

He is also a partner of "Germany's best indoor soccer courts"[4] in Münster and launched (together with a different partner) another new business, "Trendsport Rummenigge", which distributes mobile soccer courts, cages and playing fields.

Rummenigge also shows a remarkable social commitment. He works as patron for the initiative "NO DRUGS" – an initiative against drug abuse and also for the association Childrensmile e. V. which supports severely ill and disadvantaged children.

In June 2007, he passed his exam to be a professional football coach with distinction (UEFA Pro licence) at the German sport university in Cologne.

Personal life

Rummenigge is married to Carolin and has three sons.[citation needed]

Career statistics

Club

Source:[5]
Club Season League Cup League Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Bayern Munich 1982–83 Bundesliga 1 0 1 0
1983–84 33 11 33 11
1984–85 24 5 24 5
1985–86 31 10 31 10
1986–87 31 8 31 8
1987–88 32 10 32 10
Total 152 44 152 44
Borussia Dortmund 1988–89 Bundesliga 32 4 32 4
1989–90 29 9 29 9
1990–91 31 8 31 8
1991–92 36 10 36 10
1992–93 26 4 26 4
1993–94 3 1 3 1
Total 157 36 157 36
Urawa Reds 1993 J1 League 6 1 2 0 3 3 11 4
1994 27 11 0 0 2 1 29 12
1995 9 1 0 0 - 9 1
Total 42 13 2 0 5 4 49 17
Career total 351 93 2 0 5 4 358 97

International

Germany national team
Year Apps Goals
1983 1 0
1984 0 0
1985 0 0
1986 1 0
Total 2 0

Honours

Bayern Munich

Borussia Dortmund

References

  1. ^ "Rummenigge, Michael" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  2. ^ Arnhold, Matthias (13 September 2018). "Michael Rummenigge - International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  3. ^ Arnhold, Matthias (13 September 2018). "Michael Rummenigge - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Beste Soccer-Halle Deutschlands". Bolzen-Magazin & 11 Freunde, 2006 and 2007
  5. ^ Michael Rummenigge at National-Football-Teams.com