Wolfgang Patzke

Wolfgang Patzke ( born February 24, 1959 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a former German football player.

Club career

Even as a youth player in the service of Rot-Weiss Essen Wolfgang Patzke made ​​with his performances attracted attention. With the Essenes O youth, he was in 1976 in the final of the German Cup and the following season he celebrated with just 18 years his Bundesliga debut in the first team by RWE on March 1, 1977 in a 2-2 draw against FC Schalke 04 with Rot-Weiss Essen Patzke rose to the 2nd Bundesliga and subsequently joined a little later for the Liga rivals Wattenscheid 09 1981, the youth national team VfL Bochum was bound and returned to the Bundesliga. According to other stations Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Schalke 04 pulled the football player from the Ruhr to Berlin. For Hertha BSC He played three more years and celebrated the 1990 championship of the second division. After Wolfgang Patzke had to end his career as a sports handicapped in the 1990/91 season, he opened together with his former teammate Michael Jacob, an outpatient rehabilitation center in Berlin.

In 150 Bundesliga games, the midfielder scored a total of 30 goals and 18 goals in 171 games second division.

In October 2006, she was diagnosed with chronic leukemia Wolfgang Patzke. Since then, he has to undergo regular chemotherapy.