Günther Schäfer

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Günther Schäfer
Personal information
Date of birth (1962-06-09) 9 June 1962 (age 59)
Place of birth Waiblingen, West Germany
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 VfB Stuttgart (youth coach)
Youth career
0000–1975 TSV Neustadt
1975–1980 VfB Stuttgart
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1996 VfB Stuttgart 331 (9)
1996–1998 Arminia Bielefeld 42 (0)
Total 373 (9)
National team
1981–1984 West Germany U-21 15 (0)
Teams managed
2004–2005 VfB Stuttgart (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Günther Schäfer (born 9 June 1962 in Waiblingen) is a German football coach and a former player.[1][2]

In his sixteen years playing for VfB Stuttgart, the defender gained the status of being one of the most popular players ever to play for the Swabian Bundesliga side and one of the few players to earn two German championship titles with them. The most spectacular and well-known play of Schäfer's career was to clear a ball from the goal line by a bicycle kick, risking injury, in the final match of the 1991–92 season against Bayer Leverkusen, which Stuttgart went on to win 2–1, thus gaining the German championship title that season.

Today, Schäfer is the head coach of VfB's youth acamde.y

Honours[]

VfB Stuttgart

References[]

  1. ^ "Günther Schäfer". fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Günther Schäfer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  3. ^ "Deutscher Supercup, 1992, Finale". dfb.de. Retrieved 5 November 2020.


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