Günther Schäfer

Günther Schäfer
Personal information
Date of birth	9 June 1962 (age 62)
Place of birth	Waiblingen, West Germany
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	VfB Stuttgart (youth coach)
Youth career
0000–1975	TSV Neustadt
1975–1980	VfB Stuttgart
Senior career*
Years	Team
1980–1996	VfB Stuttgart
1996–1998	Arminia Bielefeld
Total
International career
1981–1984	West Germany U-21
Managerial career
2004–2005	VfB Stuttgart (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

UEFA Cup finalist: 1989
Bundesliga: 1984, 1992
DFB-Pokal finalist: 1986

References

^ "Günther Schäfer". fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^ "Günther Schäfer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

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[1] "Günther Schäfer". fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

[2] "Günther Schäfer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

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