Rudi Assauer was a maker and soul of the FC Schalke 04. Fans and football greats have proven the long-term, early February, late Manager of the last honor. The funeral service was broadcast into the stadium.
The club had organized the funeral ceremony in the Priory Church of St. Urbanus Gelsenkirchen-Buer. Among the many mourners of the centuries-trainer Huub Stevens, managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke of Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness and many of the Schalke UEFA-Cup winner 1997 appeared.
A flag-bearer of Schalke 04 is Assauer, the last honor
Assauer was on 6. February, died at the age of 74 years at the consequences of Alzheimer’s disease. On Tuesday, he was in the closest family circle, and in the presence of some long-standing companions in Herten. “It speaks to Rudi that so many people accompany to his last,” said the Schalke Boss Clemens Tönnies.
Schalke 04 have invited his Fans and the mourning of a society by the memorial to Bratwurst and beer in the Arena. There was broadcast on the video cube, the exhibition.
Uli Hoeness, President of FC Bayern Munich
Uli Hoeness paid tribute before his “really good friend” at Sport1: “What has awarded him, was his straightforwardness. What he had promised, he has adhered to also. He was a man with a hard exterior but a very soft core.”
In 2012, it was reported that Assauer is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Since then, the trained steel construction lived withdrawn locksmith as much as possible. In two terms in the scarf core, he had won the 1997 UEFA Cup as well as 2001 and 2002, the DFB-Pokal. In his Era, the construction of the Veltins-Arena fell.
Also Rudi Völler, the Sport Director of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, appeared at the memorial celebration
His management career had begun Assauer at Werder Bremen, where he worked from 1976 to 1981. Between 1964 and 1976, he had not played for Dortmund and Bremen, a total of 307 matches in the Bundesliga, with the BVB, he won the 1966 European Cup.
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