Bodo Rudwaleit

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Bodo Rudwaleit

Rudwaleit with fans of BFC Dynamo after defeating FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the final of the 1988–89 FDGB-Pokal on 1 April 1989.
Personal information
Date of birth	(1957-08-03) 3 August 1957 (age 64)
Place of birth	Woltersdorf (bei Berlin), East Germany
Height	2.02 m (6 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1965–1969	BSG Einheit Woltersdorf
1969–1977	BFC Dynamo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1975–1976	BFC Dynamo II
1976–1989	BFC Dynamo	318	(0)
1990–1991	EFC Stahl	31	(0)
1991–1993	Tennis Borussia Berlin	64	(0)
1993–1997	BSC Marzahn
1997-1998[1]	FV Erkner 1920
National team
	East Germany U-21	21	(0)
	East Germany Olympic team	13	(0)
1979–1988	East Germany	33	(0)
Teams managed
2005	BFC Dynamo (temporary)
Honours Men's Football Representing  East Germany Olympic Games 1980 Moscow Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Bodo Rudwaleit (born 3 August 1957) is a German former football goalkeeper who was the goalkeeper of the record champion BFC Dynamo from 1976 to 1989.

Career[]

Rudwaleit began playing football for BSG Einheit Woltersdorf. He joined the youth academy of BFC Dynamo in 1969 and made his professional debut for BFC Dynamo in the 1976-77 season. Rudwaleit played for BFC Dynamo during most of his career. He became East German champion ten times in a row from 1979 to 1988 with BFC Dynamo. He amassed 318 matches in the East German top-flight for BFC Dynamo and is one of the most capped player of BFC Dynamo.^[2][3] Rudwaleit saved the last two penalty kicks for Aberdeen F.C. in front of 26,000 spectators at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in the penalty shoot-out between BFC Dynamo and Aberdeen F.C. in the return leg of the first round of the 1984-85 European Cup. BFC Dynamo then won the penalty shootout 5-4 after a decisive goal by Norbert Trieloff and advanced to the second round.^[4][5][6]

Rudwaleit was popular among the supporters of BFC Dynamo.^[7] Supporters often chanted "Bodo, wink once!" during matches.^[7][8] However, he also often received provocations from supporters of opposing teams. Rudwaleit was insulted as "Bodo Eierkopp" by supporters of opposing teams during the East German era.^[9][10][11] BFC Dynamo was affiliated to SV Dynamo. The players of BFC Dynamo was nominally employees of the Volkspolizei or the Stasi. Rudwaleit held a rank in the Volkspolizei. He has stated that he would rathered had been hired by the Stasi as that would had meant more money. Hower, Rudwaleit had a grandmother in West Germany, which meant that path was blocked for him.^[11]

Rudwaleit was part of the East German national football team for nearly a decade.^[12] He was the first-choice goalkeeper of the national football team, until René Müller became the undisputed number one in the middle of the 1980s. He was part of the East German Olympic team that won the silver medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He played five matches out of six in the tournament, including the final. Together with his teammates, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze the same year. Rudwaleit made 33 appearances for the East German national football team until 1988. Rudwaleit was known for being unusually tall for a football player in these days with an height of 2.02 meters.

Rudwaleit played the first nine rounds of the 1989-90 DDR-Oberliga season and all four maches in the 1989–90 European Cup for BFC Dynamo. Coach Helmut Jäschke then decided to give goalkeeper Oskar Kosche a chance in the next few matches. Kosche made his debut in the cup match against HFC Chemie in the 1989–90 FDGB-Pokal on 11 November 1989.^[13] Kosche was more than ten years younger than Rudwaleit. Rudwaleit then announced his immediate retirement from football.^[13] He did not want to stand in the way of Kosche and decided it was time to retire from playing.^[14][13] Rudwaleit later backed down from his decision to retire and joined BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt on 1 January 1990 instead.^[15] He quit the Volkspolizei and returned his membership card of the Socialist Unity Party at the same time.^[11] BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt had qualified for the DDR-Oberliga in the 1989–90 season. Rudwaleit commuted between Berlin and Eisenhüttenstadt. He had received a new Lada only a year before. A prominent player in BFC Dynamo could order a new car every third year. He traded in his Lada for a used Mercedes 280 after Die Wende.^[10] Rudwaleit was reserve goalkeeper behind Andreas Hawa during the 1989-90 season.^[10] He then became the undisputed first goalkeeper of the successor club Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl in the 1990–91 NOFV-Oberliga.

Rudwaleit joined Tennis Borussia Berlin in the 1991-92 season. He played two seasons for Tennis Borussia Berlin in the third tier NOFV-Oberliga Nord. Tennis Borussia Berlin reached the final of the 1992-93 Berlin Cup. The team defeated Türkiyemspor Berlin 2-0 in the final at the Mommsenstadion on 6 May 1993. Rudwaleit missed only two of the 66 league matches during the two seasons and helped Tennis Borussia Berlin qualify for the 2. Bundesliga after the 1992-93 season. Rudwaleit then retired from professional fooball after the 1992-93 season, to continue in amateur football. He played for BSC Marzahn in the Verbandsliga Berlin from 1993 to 1997 and then for FV Erkner 1920 in the Spreeliga from 1997 to 1998. Rudwaleit worked as a youth coach at FV Erkner 1920 after retiring as a football player.

Rudwaleit returned to BFC Dynamo as goalkeeping coach at the beginning of 2000.^[16] He made a brief return as goalkeeper of BFC Dynamo in 2001 at 44-years old. He agreed to help the team as a reserve goalkeeper behind Nico Thomaschewski during the match against VfB Lichterfelde at the opening of the 2001-02 season. The new reserve goalkeeper Lobomir Padalik had not yet received permission to play. BFC Dynamo was again coached by Jürgen Bogs during this period.^[1][7] This meant that Rudwaleit and Bogs briefly reunited as player and coach. Rudwaleit also made a brief appearance as a libero for BFC Dynamo during the spring of 2002.^[17] He then served as assistant coach of BFC Dynamo from 2001 to 2003. He continued as goalkeeping coach at BFC Dynamo from 2003. Rudwaleit temporarily also served as co-coach of BFC Dynamo together with Rajko Fijalek at two occactions in 2005: first after the resignation of coach Christian Backs and then after the dismissal of coach Jürgen Piepenburg.^[18][19][20] Rudwaleit retired from all posts at BFC Dynamo in 2006, but returned as goalkeeping coach from 2008 to 2009. He has then served as goalkeeping coach at SV Woltersdorf and FV Erkner 1920.^[21][22][23]

Miscellaneous[]

Rudwaleit is the father of Robert Rudwaleit, who played as defender for BFC Dynamo from 2002 to 2010. He started a taxi company in Erkner in 1997.^[24][17] The taxi company is owned by his wife and Rudwaleit worked for the company as an emplyee.^[25][17] Rudwaleit has stated that he is a fan of FC Bayern Munich. He was a club member of FC Bayern Munich as of 2021.^[26]

Honours[]

BFC Dynamo[]

• East German Champion
  • Winner: (10) 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88
• FDGB-Pokal
  • Winner: 1987–88, 1988–89
• DFV-Supercup
  • Winner: 1989

Tennis Borussia Berlin[]

• NOFV-Oberliga Nord
  • Winner: 1992-93
• Berlin Cup
  • Winner: 1992-93

References[]

External links[]

• Bodo Rudwaleit at WorldFootball.net
• Bodo Rudwaleit at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Bodo Rudwaleit at National-Football-Teams.com
• Bodo Rudwaleit at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)