Michael Rummenigge
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| Michael Rummenigge | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Michael Rummenigge | |
| Date of birth | February 3, 1964 | |
| Place of birth | Germany | |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in) | |
| Playing position | midfielder, forward | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1982–1988 1988–1993 1993–1995 |
FC Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Urawa Red Diamonds |
152 (44) 121 (26) 42 (13) |
| National team | ||
| 1983–1986 | West Germany | 2 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Michal Rummenigge (born 3 February 1964 in Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former German football player.
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[edit] Career
At the beginning of his career the younger brother of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge didn’t have it easy as a player of the Bayern Munich star team – always being compared with his brother – captain of FC Bayern Munich and the German national team. He joined Bayern Munich as a member of the German junior national team at the age of 17 in 1981, coming from Borussia Lippstadt. At this time his brother Karl-Heinz already was an international top star. Michael became a professional player in Munich in 1982 and a starter in his second season in 1983. He played for Bayern Munich till 1988. In this time he won the German championship three times and the German Football Cup two times (in 1984 and 1986).
In his career Michael Rummenigge was capped twice for the German national team and represented Germany on two occasions in 1983 and 1986.
In 1988 he changed to Borussia Dortmund. Not being very popular with Borussia’s supporters at the beginning, he won the German Football Cup with Dortmund at the end of his first season – the first title for Borussia Dortmund since the 1960s; in Berlin Borussia Dortmund beat Werder Bremen 4–1.
In 1991–92 after the arrival of the new BVB coach Ottmar Hitzfeld he was appointed captain of his team. In the same year Borussia Dortmund became the runner-up in the German championship. In 1993 he played the UEFA Cup finals Borussia Dortmund vs. Juventus Turin (1–3 and 0–3). Michael Rummenigge finished his career in the black and yellow football shirt in 1993. After having played 309 times in the German Football League and having scored 80 goals 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 injury of his toe.
Michael Rummenigge is a trained banker and today runs a successful sports marketing agency in Dortmund (Sports & Business) as well as commercial football camps (Fussballschule Michael Rummenigge). In addition to that he is a partner / shareholder of the Sportnex GmbH in Munich. Among other things Sportnex runs the auction portal www.sport-auktion.de in cooperation with the teams of the first and second German football leagues.
Apart from this he is a partner of “Germany’s best indoor soccer courts“ („Beste Soccer-Halle Deutschlands“; Bolzen-Magazin & 11 Freunde, 2006 and 2007) in Münster and thus launched another new business “Trendsport Rummenigge“ together with a partner. “Trendsport Rummenigge“ distributes mobile Soccer Courts (Soccer Cages, Soccer Fields).
Michael Rummenigge also shows a remarkable social commitment. He works as patron for the association “Childrensmile“ e. V. which supports severely ill children and disadvantaged children and the initiative “NO DRUGS“ – an initiative against drug abuse.
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. Hennes Weisweiler Academy.
Michael Rummenigge is married to Carolin and has three children (three sons).
[edit] Honours
- German champion: 1985, 1986, 1987
- German Cup: 1984, 1985, 1989
- German Super Cup: 1987, 1989
- European Cup of Champions: Runner-up 1987
- UEFA Cup: Runner-up 1993
[edit] Coach Licence
1996 A-Licence German Football Association - DFB
1996 - 2007 Commercial Football Scholl Michael Rummenigge
2007 PRO Level Licence in Cologne / Germany - Hennes Weisweiler Academy German Football Association - DFB
[edit] Club Career Statistics
| Season | Team | Country | Division | Apps | Goals | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-83 | FC Bayern München |  West Germany |
1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1983-84 | FC Bayern München | West Germany |
1 | 33 | 11 | |
| 1984-85 | FC Bayern München | West Germany |
1 | 24 | 5 | |
| 1985-86 | FC Bayern München | West Germany |
1 | 31 | 10 | |
| 1986-87 | FC Bayern München | West Germany |
1 | 31 | 8 | |
| 1987-88 | FC Bayern München | West Germany |
1 | 32 | 10 | |
| 1988-89 | Borussia Dortmund | West Germany |
1 | 32 | 4 | |
| 1989-90 | Borussia Dortmund | Germany |
1 | 29 | 9 | |
| 1990-91 | Borussia Dortmund | Germany |
1 | 31 | 8 | |
| 1991-92 | Borussia Dortmund | Germany |
1 | 36 | 10 | |
| 1992-93 | Borussia Dortmund | Germany |
1 | 26 | 4 | |
| 1993-94 | Borussia Dortmund | Germany |
1 | 3 | 1 | |
| 1993 | Urawa Red Diamonds |  Japan |
1 | 6 | 1 | |
| 1994 | Urawa Red Diamonds | Japan |
1 | 27 | 11 | |
| 1995 | Urawa Red Diamonds | Japan |
1 | 9 | 1 |
[edit] References
- (German) Fussballdaten
