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Guido Buchwald

{{short description|German footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Guido Buchwald

| image = Guido Buchwald cropped.jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Buchwald with Urawa in 2004.

| fullname = Guido Ulrich Buchwald

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|1|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = West Berlin, West Germany

| height = 1.88 m

| currentclub = Stuttgarter Kickers (Director of football)

| position = Defender

| youthyears1 = 1969–1977

| youthclubs1 = SV Wannweil

| youthyears2 = 1977–1978

| youthclubs2 = TSV Pliezhausen

| youthyears3 = 1978–1979

| youthclubs3 = Stuttgarter Kickers

| years1 = 1979–1983

| clubs1 = Stuttgarter Kickers

| caps1 = 146

| goals1 = 18

| years2 = 1983–1994

| clubs2 = VfB Stuttgart

| caps2 = 325

| goals2 = 28

| years3 = 1994–1997

| clubs3 = Urawa Red Diamonds

| caps3 = 127

| goals3 = 11

| years4 = 1997–1999

| clubs4 = Karlsruher SC

| caps4 = 40

| goals4 = 3

| totalcaps = 638 | totalgoals = 60

| nationalyears1 = 1980

| nationalteam1 = West Germany U-21

| nationalcaps1 = 1

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| nationalyears2 = 1983–1984

| nationalteam2 = West Germany Olympic

| nationalcaps2 = 9

| nationalgoals2 = 1

| nationalyears3 = 1984–1994

| nationalteam3 = Germany

| nationalcaps3 = 76

| nationalgoals3 = 4

| manageryears1 = 2004–2006

| managerclubs1 = Urawa Reds

| manageryears2 = 2007

| managerclubs2 = Alemannia Aachen

| manageryears3 = 2012

| managerclubs3 = Stuttgarter Kickers (interim)

| manageryears4 =

| managerclubs4 =

| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's football}}

{{MedalCountry|{{fb|GER}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|FIFA World Cup}}

{{Medal|W|1990 Italy|}}

{{MedalCompetition|UEFA European Championship}}

{{medal|Runner-up|1992 Sweden|}}

}}

Guido Ulrich Buchwald (born 24 January 1961) is a German former professional football player. Throughout his career he played as a defender. He is currently director of football of Stuttgarter Kickers.{{cite web | url = https://www.kicker.de/guido-buchwald/spieler/bundesliga/1991-92/vfb-stuttgart | title = Buchwald, Guido | language = de | publisher=Kicker | access-date =23 January 2011}}

The best game of Buchwald's career was the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup victory for West Germany against Argentina where he effectively marked Diego Maradona for almost the entire match, earning him the nickname "Diego".{{Cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/1990-world-cup-a-magical-night-in-rome-2402993|title=2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - News - A magical night in Rome - FIFA|last=FIFA.com|publisher=FIFA|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-22}} His other nickname, 'Bucky' is due to his surname. He was also part of Germany's disappointing 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign and collected in his career 76 caps.{{Cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/buchwald-intl.html | title = Guido Buchwald - International Appearances | first = Matthias | last = Arnhold | date = 23 July 2015 | access-date = 21 August 2015 | publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}}

Career

Buchwald began his professional football career in 1983 with VfB Stuttgart. He played 325 games in the German Bundesliga for this club, scoring 28 goals.{{Cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/players/buchwalddata.html | title = Guido Buchwald - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga | first = Matthias | last = Arnhold | date = 23 July 2015 | access-date = 21 August 2015 | publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}} The low-point of his career was in 1986 when coach Franz Beckenbauer did not include him in his team for the World Cup in Mexico. He was however part of the squad which won the World Cup in Italy four years later.

The same year Stuttgart lost the final of the German Cup against Bayern Munich and in 1989 the final of the UEFA Cup was also lost, but they managed to win two German championships (1984, 1992).

His personal highlight in his Bundesliga career was on the last day of play in the 1991–92 season, when he scored the deciding goal against Bayer Leverkusen that won Stuttgart the match and the Championship – just six minutes before the games' end.

In 1994, he signed with the Japanese team Urawa Red Diamonds before returning to Germany in 1998 to help Karlsruher SC avoid relegation. He could not save the team and after one more season playing in the second division he retired but stayed with the club as a director of sports.

After retirement

After a stop with the Stuttgarter Kickers (again as director of sports) he went back to Japan where he was managing his old club. He led his team to the "closing" championship.

In 2005, won the title on Emperor's Cup.

In 2006, he won the title on both J-League and Emperor's Cup.

Buchwald then returned to Germany to become manager of Alemannia Aachen.

After five months on duty he was fired by club management on 26 November 2007.

On 1 November 2010, Buchwald returned to the Stuttgarter Kickers as a member of the board responsible for the first team. He took over as interim manager in November 2012 after the sacking of Dirk Schuster, before relinquishing this duty a month later when Gerd Dais was appointed.

Career statistics

=Club=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

rowspan="2"|Club

!rowspan="2"|Season

!colspan="3"|League

!colspan="2"|National Cup

!colspan="2"|League Cup

!colspan="2"|Continental

!colspan="2"|Total

DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
rowspan="5"|Stuttgarter Kickers

|1979–80

|rowspan="4"|2. Bundesliga

|33

110colspan=2|—colspan=2|—341
1980–81

|38

810colspan=2|—colspan=2|—398
1981–82

|38

510colspan=2|—10405
1982–83

|37

420colspan=2|—colspan=2|—394
colspan="2"|Total

!146

1850colspan=2|—1015218
rowspan="12"|VfB Stuttgart

|1983–84

|rowspan="11"|Bundesliga

|34

353colspan=2|—10406
1984–85

|15

420colspan=2|—colspan=2|—174
1985–86

|32

162colspan=2|—colspan=2|—383
1986–87

|33

210colspan=2|—40382
1987–88

|30

110colspan=2|—colspan=2|—311
1988–89

|30

152colspan=2|—100453
1989–90

|28

533colspan=2|—51369
1990–91

|21

341colspan=2|—colspan=2|—254
1991–92

|37

541colspan=2|—42458
1992–93

|33

120colspan=2|—3039121
1993–94

|32

211colspan=2|—colspan=2|—333
colspan="2"|Total

!325

28341327338745
rowspan="5"|Urawa Reds

|1994

|rowspan="4"|J1 League

|20

23020colspan=2|—252
1995

|51

430colspan="2"
|colspan=2|—544
1996

|24

340120colspan=2|—403
1997

|32

20060colspan=2|—382
colspan="2"|Total

!127

11100200colspan=2|—15711
rowspan="3"|Karlsruher SC

|1997–98

|Bundesliga

|9

0colspan=2|—colspan=2|—colspan=2|—90
1998–99

|2. Bundesliga

|31

310colspan=2|—colspan=2|—323
colspan="2"|Total

!40

310colspan=2|—colspan=2|—413
colspan="3"|Career total

!638

60501320028373777

=International=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year

National teamYearAppsGoals
rowspan="11"|Germany

|1984

30
198500
198670
198770
198860
198960
1990120
199161
1992131
1993102
199460
colspan="2"|Total764

=Coaching=

{{updated|11 May 2012}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
rowspan="2"|Team

!rowspan="2"|From

!rowspan="2"|To

!colspan="6"|Record

GWDLWin %
align=left|Karlsruher SC

|align=left|16 October 1999

|align=left|24 October 1999

{{WDL|2|0|0|2}}

align=left|Urawa Reds[https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFIX07/?staff_id=2379 J.League Data Site]{{in lang|ja}}

|align=left|1 January 2004

|align=left|31 December 2006

{{WDL|98|58|19|21}}

align=left|Alemannia Aachen

|align=left|1 July 2007

|align=left|26 November 2007

{{WDL|14|5|4|5}}

colspan="3"|Total

{{WDLtot|114|63|23|28}}

Honours

= As a player =

VfB Stuttgart{{Cite web | url = https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1783912-the-20-most-intimidating-defenders-in-bundesliga-history | title = The 20 Most Intimidating Defenders in Bundesliga History | first = Clark | last = Whitney | date = 4 October 2013 | access-date = 6 December 2018 | publisher = Bleacher Report}}

  • Bundesliga: 1983–84, 1991–92
  • DFL-Supercup: 1992{{Cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/supercup/das-spiel/?spieledb_path=%2Fmatches%2F1972323 |title=Deutscher Supercup, 1992, Finale |date=16 October 2014 |publisher=dfb.de |access-date=5 November 2020}}

Germany

Individual

  • kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1989–90, 1993–94{{cite web|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/bl50/198990/startseite.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018212343/http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/bl50/198990/startseite.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 October 2012|title=Bundesliga Historie 1989/90|language=de|publisher=kicker}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/bl50/199394/startseite.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018190234/http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/bl50/199394/startseite.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 October 2012|title=Bundesliga Historie 1993/94|language=de|publisher=kicker}}
  • J.League Best XI: 1995, 1996{{Cite web | url = https://the18.com/soccer-entertainment/best-foreign-players-in-J-League-history | title = Iniesta Is Taking His Talents To Japan, Joining These Legenday J League Imports | first = Spencer | last = Jackman | date = 29 May 2018 | access-date = 6 December 2018 | publisher = The18}}

= As a manager =

Urawa Red Diamonds{{Cite web | url = http://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/reds-en/club-profile/club-history/ | title = CLUB HISTORY | access-date = 6 December 2018 | publisher = Urawa Red Diamonds}}

Individual

  • J.League Manager of the Year: 2006{{Cite web | url = http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/football/06/12/germany.coach/index.html | title = Aachen name Buchwald as new coach | date = 12 June 2007 | access-date = 6 December 2018 | publisher = CNN International}}

References

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External links

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  • {{WorldFootball.net|guido-buchwald}}
  • {{NFT player|14141}}
  • {{J.League player|name=Player statistics}}
  • {{J.League manager|name=Manager statistics}}

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{{1989–90 kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season}}

{{1993–94 kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season}}

{{1995 J.League Team of the Year}}

{{1996 J.League Team of the Year}}

{{J.League winning managers}}

{{J.League Manager of the Year}}

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{{West Germany squad UEFA Euro 1984}}

{{West Germany football squad 1984 Summer Olympics}}

{{West Germany squad UEFA Euro 1988}}

{{West Germany squad 1990 FIFA World Cup}}

{{Germany squad UEFA Euro 1992}}

{{Germany squad 1994 FIFA World Cup}}

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{{Urawa Red Diamonds managers}}

{{Alemannia Aachen managers}}

{{Stuttgarter Kickers managers}}

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