“Bolt-Rudi” Gutendorf is dead

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Soccer coach and friend of mankind: Rudi gutendorf was a special coach. 56 stations in 29 countries. Including countries such as Tonga, Rwanda, and Nepal. Now the football Ambassador, has died at the age of 93 years.

As a player, Rudi was a good village for his hometown club TuS Neuendorf in the top League active. The highlight of his playing career in the semi-finals of the German championship against the 1 was. FC Kaiserslautern in 1948, which was lost with 1:5.

Exchange between Germany and the world

As a coach, good the village was much more successful: From the 1950s, he trained in Switzerland. First of all, the small Club Blue Stars Zürich, and later by the first division club FC Luzern. There he won the 1959 Swiss Cup. From 1960 onwards, a good village, made his way in the wide world, began, first of all, in Monastir in Tunisia, but then unspectacular in the Ruhr area club TSV Marl-Hüls was interrupted.

Rudi gutendorf and the world Cup Hero of 1954, Helmut Rahn (right) during the Training of the Meidericher SV in July 1963

Three years at the Meidericher SV Duisburg and VfB Stuttgart made good the village is also internationally known. In Duisburg, the art piece was a mediocre team Vice-champion behind the 1. To FC Cologne. The tactics: The defense should be strong as a wall. “Bolt-Rudi” was the name of a good village henceforth. Duisburg conceding only 36 goals against in the season 1963/1964, less as a master of Cologne.

From Bermuda to Schalke

In 1966, Koblenz, Germany went to the USA to St. Louis and hired then to Bermuda. There, he supervised, for the first time a national team. After stints at Schalke 04 and Kickers Offenbach in the Bundesliga in a good village in 1972, went to Chile. This exchange between Germany and abroad, certain Gutendorfs life up to the year 2003. As coach of the U23 of Samoa, he took care of the young in the island state. Prior to that, he coached Rwanda to Australia, from Nepal to Iran pretty much everything that had to do with football. Like he said, he could no longer walk well, but with two assistants, he could always train every professional team.

In a book good village has described his life as a coach

Good village as Ambassador of his country. For this he was honoured: “Rudi gutendorf as a world traveler and Ambassador of football in over 50 years of use-long made an important contribution to international understanding,” explained the former Rhineland-Palatinate Minister-President Kurt Beck, the honors, the good village were given.

Football as a mediating Element

Be perhaps the most sustainable commitment was in a good village according to his own statements in Rwanda after the genocide. “I sat with players from both tribes, whose fathers have cut each other’s necks, by the camp fire, and show them that revenge brings nothing”, so good village. “It fills me with incredible Pride,” said good village in 2016 in an Interview with the page Fußball.de

More than just football: good village and as a Trainer in Rwanda

Good village also took care always to marginalised groups and set up the football for the Integration. So he trained even in 2016 at the age of 90 years, the third team of TuS Koblenz: A Team of refugee players. “Football makes Strange friends,” he says always.