Karl-Heinz Riedle
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| Full name | Karl-Heinz Riedle | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 September 1965 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Weiler im Allgäu, West Germany | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | |||||||||||
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| TSV Ellhofen | ||||||||||||
| SV Weiler | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | |||||||||
| 1983–1986 | FC Augsburg | |||||||||||
| 1986–1987 | Blau-Weiß Berlin | 34 | (10) | |||||||||
| 1987–1990 | SV Werder Bremen | 86 | (38) | |||||||||
| 1990–1993 | Lazio | 84 | (30) | |||||||||
| 1993–1997 | Borussia Dortmund | 87 | (24) | |||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Liverpool | 60 | (11) | |||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Fulham | 34 | (6) | |||||||||
| Total | 385 | (119) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1986–1987 | West Germany U-21 | 4 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1988 | West Germany Olympic | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1988–1994 | Germany | 42 | (16) | |||||||||
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| 2000 | Fulham | |||||||||||
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Karl-Heinz "Air" Riedle (born 16 September 1965 in Weiler im Allgäu) is a former German professional footballer, who won the FIFA World Cup with West Germany in 1990 and the UEFA Champions League in 1997 with Borussia Dortmund. Riedle ended his international career with 42 caps and 16 goals.[1]
Riedle's youth clubs are TSV Ellhofen and SV Weiler. He started his senior career at FC Augsburg. He then moved to SpVgg Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin in 1986, who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga. However, the club finished last in that season, but Riedle managed to earn the interest of his next club Werder Bremen. He played for the side, coached by Otto Rehhagel, from 1987 to 1990. He scored 18 goals in 33 games in his first season and helped Bremen to win the Bundesliga title in that year. That season, he made his debut for the West German national team as well. He was able to score against Finland in his first international match. Furthermore, Riedle and Bremen appeared in two DFB-Pokal finals (1989 and 1990), which they lost both.
In 1990, Riedle was a member of the West German side that won the World Cup. That same year, he moved to Lazio of the Italian Serie A for a transfer fee of 13 million Deutsche Mark. One of his most memorable matches during that time period was the UEFA Euro 1992 semi-final of Germany against Sweden, in which he scored two goals and helped Germany to reach the final against Denmark.
Riedle returned to Germany in 1993 and joined Borussia Dortmund. He helped Dortmund to win two Bundesliga titles in 1995 and 1996. In 1997, he scored two goals in the Champions League Final to help upset Juventus 3–1.
In 1997, Riedle joined Liverpool of the English Premier League. Unable to secure a regular place in the lineup, he joined Fulham in 1999. Riedle, along with his old Liverpool manager Roy Evans, served as the caretaker manager for the end of the 1999–2000 season after Paul Bracewell had been fired in March 2000. Riedle retired from football in 2001. He scored his last goal in a 2–0 win over Queens Park Rangers in a Division One match.
Due to his notable jumping and timing skills for headers, he got the nickname "Air Riedle".
Riedle's son, Alessandro, also a footballer, plays for Bellinzona.
[edit] Honours
Club
- SV Werder Bremen
- German Bundesliga Champion: 1987–88
- DFB-Pokal Runner-up: 1988–89, 1989–90
- DFL-Supercup Winner: 1988
- Borussia Dortmund
- German Bundesliga Champion: 1994–95, 1995–96
- DFL-Supercup Winner: 1995, 1996
- UEFA Champions League Winner: 1996–97
Country
- Germany
- FIFA World Cup Winner: 1990
- European Championship Runner-up: 1992
- Olympic Bronze Medalist: 1988
| Germany national team | ||
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| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1988 | 1 | 1 |
| 1989 | 3 | 1 |
| 1990 | 9 | 1 |
| 1991 | 5 | 3 |
| 1992 | 10 | 4 |
| 1993 | 8 | 5 |
| 1994 | 6 | 1 |
| Total | 42 | 16 |
[edit] References
- ^ "Karl-Heinz Riedle - Goals in International Matches". rsssf.com. 19 February 2010. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/riedle-intl.html. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
[edit] External links
- Karl-Heinz Riedle at fussballdaten.de (German)
- Karl-Heinz Riedle career stats at Soccerbase
- Karl-Heinz Riedle management career stats at Soccerbase
- Profile at LFCHistory.net
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Lindau (district)
- German footballers
- Germany international footballers
- Germany under-21 international footballers
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- 1994 FIFA World Cup players
- Association football forwards
- Fußball-Bundesliga players
- Premier League players
- Serie A footballers
- Borussia Dortmund players
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- FC Augsburg players
- FIFA World Cup-winning players
- Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Fulham F.C. players
- Fulham F.C. managers
- Expatriate football managers in England
- German expatriate footballers
- German expatriates in Italy
- German expatriates in the United Kingdom
- Liverpool F.C. players
- Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
- Olympic footballers of West Germany
- S.S. Lazio players
- UEFA Euro 1992 players
- SV Werder Bremen players
- Olympic medalists in football
