Stefan Kuntz

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Stefan Kuntz
Personal information
Full name	Stefan Kuntz
Date of birth	October 30, 1962 (1962-10-30) (age 45)
Place of birth	Neunkirchen, West Germany
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	1. FC Kaiserslautern (Chairman)
Youth clubs
1969-1983	Borussia Neunkirchen
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983-1986 1986-1989 1989-1995 1995-1996 1996-1998 1998-1999	VfL Bochum KFC Uerdingen 05 1. FC Kaiserslautern Beşiktaş J.K Arminia Bielefeld VfL Bochum	100 (41) 094 (32) 170 (75) 030 0(9) 065 (25) 020 0(6)
National team
1983-1985 1993-1997	Germany U-21 Germany	004 0(3) 025 0(6)
Teams managed
1999-2000 2000-2002 2003 2003 2006-2008	Borussia Neunkirchen Karlsruher SC SV Waldhof Mannheim LR Ahlen VfL Bochum (Sporting Director)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Stefan Kuntz (born October 30, 1962(1962-10-30) in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a former German professional footballer and since April 2008 chairman of the German football team 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Kuntz's playing career lasted from 1983 until 1999, he made 449 appearances and scored 179 goals in the Bundesliga. He played for VfL Bochum, KFC Uerdingen 05, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Arminia Bielefeld. He also played in Turkey for Beşiktaş J.K.. In 1986 and 1994 he was also the top scorer in the Bundesliga.

Kuntz played for the German national team between 1993 and 1997 and was part of the winning German team of UEFA Euro 1996. He made a particularly memorable performance in the 1-1 draw with England in the semi-final scoring the crucial equalizer. He was mocked in England (notably on Frank Skinner and David Baddiel's TV show and in the video to the 1998 version of Three Lions) because of the similarity of his surname to the word cunts.

Kuntz was also part of the German team that participated in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA. In his international career, he obtained 25 caps, scoring 6 times. None of these caps ended in a defeat for Germany (20 wins and 5 draws), which is the German record for most caps without defeat.

Kuntz's father, Günter Kuntz, played for Borussia Neunkirchen between 1964 and 1968.

From 2006 to 2008, he was the sporting director of VfL Bochum.

[edit] References

• Stefan Kuntz at fck.de

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