Guido Buchwald

Guido Buchwald 2012 in the studio with Markus Lanz

Guido " Diego " Ulrich Buchwald ( born January 24, 1961 in West Berlin) is a former German football player and current coach. He is considered one of Germany's best defensive midfielders in the history.

As the culmination of Buchwald's career is considered to be use in the final of the FIFA World Cup 1990 as an opponent of Diego Maradona. He was twice German Champions ( 1984 and 1992 ). Today Buchwald serves on the Board of Trustees of the youth football foundation.

Stations as a player

Buchwald was born in Berlin, lived in Wannweil ​​, where he also learned to play soccer since 1962. With the Stuttgarter Kickers he was German A Youth champion of season 1978 / 79th The qualified electrician started his Bundesliga career in the 1983/84 season at VfB Stuttgart, for which he completed a total of 325 Bundesliga matches and scored 28 goals.

With the VfB he reached the DFB Cup final and 1989, the UEFA Cup final, which, however, both were lost in 1986. He was twice German Champions ( 1984 and 1992 ). On the final day of the 1991/92 season Buchwald decided with a headed goal to make it 2-1 at Bayer Leverkusen in the 86th minute the championship for VfB Stuttgart.

In 1994, the 76- time German national team to Japan in the J. League and played there 127 games ( 11 goals) for the Urawa Red Diamonds. Towards the end of the 1997/98 season Buchwald returned to Germany to relegation-threatened Karlsruher SC. For the KSC, he played in nine league games this season, but could not prevent relegation. In the next season Buchwald came 31 times in the 2nd Bundesliga for use. He finished after his career as a football player.

2007 was allowed to Buchenwald hand over the championship trophy, he had 15 years earlier still get themselves as VfB captain, to his successor, Fernando Meira.

National

Overall Buchwald graduated 76 inserts for the senior national team, scored four goals and thereby received two yellow cards. He made his debut on May 22, 1984 game against Italy on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of FIFA and then belonged to the levy of the EM 1984 in the DFB team already eliminated in the first round. He then took the Olympic team at the Olympic football tournament in Los Angeles in part. For the 1986 World Cup in Mexico team boss Franz Beckenbauer not nominated him.

At Euro 1988, he rebounded in the game against Denmark, together with Flemming Povlsen and retired while a laceration to. After it was sewn, he returned, but then had to withdraw due to a groin strain. The EM meant the end for him. At the European Championships in Sweden in 1992 Buchwald had collapsed unconscious after an aerial duel and suffered while a blocked airway. The masseur for the national team, Adolf cats Meier, saved his life.

In the 1990 World Cup Buchenwald was a regular and completed all seven games of the national team. It's nicknamed " Diego " not only due to his strong performance in the final against Maradona, whom he did not come to the flowering over the whole season, but he already got it after the second round because of his over -climber against the flank of Jürgen Klinsmann's 1-0 win over the Netherlands.

Sporting director and coach

After end of his career as a player was Buchenwald sports director at KSC with which he rose again in the second Bundesliga from and in the following season. In 2001 he moved to his former club, Stuttgarter Kickers, and where he took part-time work in the same position. Later, he was sporting a consultant at the Urawa Red Diamonds and worked from January 1, 2004 at his former club as coach. After two runner-up in 2004 and 2005 his team succeeded in 2005 by winning the Imperial Cup (Japanese League) a much-anticipated title. 2006 Urawa Red Diamonds secured on the final day of the J -League 's first championship since the name change in 1992. Finally, the club had won the Japanese championship as Mitsubishi FC in 1982. Just a few days later, the team repeated in the final of the Emperor's Cup last year's triumph with a 1-0 victory over Gamba Osaka and secured the Double. With this double title win and the choice for coach of the year in Japan in 2006 ended " Guido -san " his coach office in Asia.

On June 11, 2007 Book Forest signed at second division Alemannia Aachen a two-year contract as head coach. He succeeded to Michael Frontzeck, who had resigned from office, available on a non- successful relegation in the Bundesliga. For Buchenwald Aachen was the first coach station in Germany. On November 26, 2007, he was fired after his team had occupied at this time only the ninth place in the table. In particular, the " poor performance " of the team in away games, found no explanation for the Buchenwald was the reason for the separation. Since 1 December 2010, Buchenwald was responsible for the department Fußball/1.Mannschaft in the Bureau of Stuttgarter Kickers. Under his leadership, succeeded in the 2011/2012 season promotion to the third division. There Buchenwald took over during the 2012/2013 season after a series of defeats in November 2012 on an interim basis as coach after climbing coach Dirk Schuster was relieved of his duties. For the second half of the 2012/2013 season a new coach with Gerd Dais was finally obliged and Buchwald returned to his post in the Bureau of the Association. On October 1, 2013, one day after the commitment of the new coach Horst Steffen, he resigned with immediate effect from this post.

Personal

Buchwald holds a 25 % stake in the Morning Star Buchwald GmbH (formerly brewer Buchenwald), a provider of output and document management systems. He is godfather of the Hostel Stuttgart International.

Successes as a player

Bundesliga: 2x German Champion 83/84 and 91/92 with VfB Stuttgart

DFB - Cup: Finalist 85/86 with VfB Stuttgart

UEFA Cup: Finalist 88/89 with VfB Stuttgart

National team: world champion 1990 European Vice-Champion 1992 2x World Cups (1990, 1994) 3x EM appearances (1984, 1988, 1992 )