Born on September 25, 1955.
The country is Germany.
Role striker
Clubs: Borussia Lippstadt (1963-1974), Bayern Munich (both FRG) (1974-1984), Inter (Italy) (1984-1987), Servette Geneva (Switzerland) (1987-1988)
.Servette" (Geneva, Switzerland)(1987-1988).
Titles: the 1980 European champion, world Vice-champion in 1982 and 1986, the Owner of "Golden ball" as the best player in Europe 1980, 1981, the Winner of the Champions Cup 1975, 1976, Winner of the Intercontinental Cup in 1976, champion Germany, 1980, 1981, world Cup, Germany, 1982, 1984, the Best scorer of the championship Germany 1980(26 goals), 1981(29), winner of the "Bronze boots" among the top scorers in Europe 1981, a member of the 1978 world Cup, Best playe
r in Germany in 1980.
In the Bundesliga, he played 310 matches, scored 162 goals (1974-1984).
The national team 1976-1986: Played 95 matches, scor
ed 45 goals.
Lippstadt, a small town in Westphalia, has apparently never produced a more famous personality than Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. This surname (originally Rumanike) has a Gypsy origin, and, perhaps, for this reason, although it is quite rare, it is widespread throughout Germany.
CHILDREN'S EXPLOITS
In Lippstadt, it was worn by Heinrich Rummenigge, an artisan who made tools, and the father of three sons. Kalle was average. Football battles were regularly held on the lawn near his house, in which anyone who paid 20 pfennigs could become a participant. Kalle has been chasing the ball since he was five years old. Developed beyond his years, he easily beat 9-10-year-old boys, so that a window in a nearby house sometimes opened, and from it came the voice of some ol
d-timer: "And where did you come from,
boy?"
The successes of little Kalle greatly hurt his older brother Wolfgang, who fancied himself a great football player (he later played in the second Bundesliga). The elder tried to forbid the middle one to go to football, he threw a tantrum and complained to his mother. Mom uttered her imperious word, and then Wolfgang had to take Kalle with him. But jealousy took its toll again, and he sent his brother to the stands without taking him to the team. He rushed home, bursting into tears, and then Wolfgang was given an ultimatum: either you let Kalle play,
or you won't play yourself.
There were two football teams in Lippstadt - Borussia and Teutonia. The brothers had no choice: of course, they had to go to Borussia: after all, Heinrich's father played for it. He played as a striker, and not without success. He was often written about in local newspapers. Borussia played in the Westphalia regional league under him and in one of the seasons, only due to severe bad luck, failed to break into the second Bundesliga. He used trucks to get to away matches.
Borussia Lippstadt had teams of different ages. Seven-year-old Kalle Rummenigge was included in the youngest, marked with the letter E, the fifth in the alphabet. This team did not know any competition. The first match with the prodigy ended with a score of 11:0, and in just 14 games she scored 100 goals, which was unprecedented even for
such a young age.
At the age of 9, he was transferred to team C, where 14-year-olds played. And the "ceshniki", having received a small goalscorer, set a city record - 96 goals for the season. In the match against Bad Westerkotten, which ended with a score of 31:0, Rummenigge scored 16 goals. "I don't know why they put the shortest guy in the gate. It was worth putting the ball at a height of one and a half meters, as it was guaranteed to be in
the net," he recalls of his childhood
achievement
.Rumors about Karl-Heinz's talent spread far beyond Lippstadt. He was included in the junior national team of the country that toured England. Shortly after this tour, an envelope with a stamp depicting Konrad Adenauer and the coat of arms of the Schalke club came to the house. "Dear Mrs. and Mr. Rummenigge," the letter said. - Finally send your son to our school!"
The whole of Lippstadt spent the whole day discussing this message. Not the Rummenigge family. The mother peremptorily declared: "I will not let my boys
leave home so early!"
So Kalle had to stay in his hometown until the age of 17. His youth "Borussia" reached the maximum level it could reach - the first division of the League of Westphalia (having risen two steps up at the same time)
After school, the question arose where to go to work. At first, he was going to get a job at a hosiery factory, but then a vacancy in the People's Bank became vacant, which he hurried to take. At the bank, he was known as a diligent student, and the director, as a reward, let him go for a few hours during working hours when he needed to p
ractice or play.
DEBUT AT BAYERN
The offer from Bayern came in 1974, when Rummenigge had been working at his bank for a year and a half. There were, of course, a lot of others, but Bayern stood apart. It was impossible to neglect such a chance. The technical director of the club, Max Merkel, personally came t
o talk with his father.
Among other things, it was also a lot of money: 8000 marks a month, not counting pocket expenses and bonuses. But the money in this case interested Karl-Heinz in the second place. Later it turned out, by the way, that the manager Siobhan gave Rummenigge a much higher salary than the other guys who tried out at Bayern - he was such an astute perso
n.
The world champions were entitled to additional rest, and the first days of the training camp in Herzogenaurach passed without them. "The "greats" - Beckenbauer, Mayer, Muller, Breitner, Hoeness, Schwarzenbeck - arrived by bus when Bayern were going to spar with a local club. Their actions still showed relaxation, and the match was barely reduced to a draw - 3:3. Rummenigge came on the field in the second half and made an assist to Gerd Muller. "All right, boy!" - the "
Fat Man" thanked.
Karl-Heinz has a nickname in the team - Red Cheeks. He was so called because the blood very often rushed to his cheeks: he was still very shy. "But it's better to have such a nickname than none. It means that you are noticed," Kalle thought.
In the control match with Verdol, Bayern won - 12:0. Muller scored 11 (!) goals, Rummenigge got the twelfth. Meanwhile, it's time to open the championship. Bayern played their first match in Offenbach with the local Kickers. It so happened that on the eve of the match, for various reasons, several main players were out of action - Roth, Durnberger, Torstensson. Coach Udo Lattek told Kalle: "Get a good nig
ht's sleep - you're pl
aying tomorrow
!"
Hearing the stunning news, Rummenigge, of course, did not close his eyes at night, repeatedly scrolling in his thoughts his virtual martial arts with a player named Fass (eloquent nowhere!), who was supposed to be his first vis-a-vis.
Before the match at the hotel, seeing him next to Muller, the journalists quipped: "Gerd, since when have you been hanging out with autograph lovers?"You probably don't know this guy. His last name is Rummenigge, remember
," Mueller said.
Bayern lost with a bang - 0:6. "Despite this score, I played the match well," Rummenigge recalled. - Maybe everything would have gone differently if I had scored a goal at 0:1. Hadewitz hung from the flank, I was about to strike when I suddenly heard the voice of Wunder: "Pass the ball." This remark confused me. I still struck, but the goalkeeper
parried it."
Rummenigge scored his first goal in an official match for Bayern Munich for the Stuttgart Cup, having sent Rainer Zbel's pass under the crossbar since the summer. Laudatory headlines appeared in the newspapers: "Finally, Bayern has a real right edge!", "Drive the expensive (700,000 marks) Wunder, long live the cheap (17,500 marks)
Rummenigge!"
RECOVERED WITH THE HELP OF: SOLZHENITSYN
Bayern went to a commercial match in Rome with Lazio, and on the way in the plane Karl-Heinz had an appendicitis attack. The team doctor Richie Muller found the best specialist in the Eternal City, and Schwan did not spare 10 thousand marks out of the 130 thousand that Bayern received for this match. "Make sure that everything is fine with Kalle," he shoveRichie Muller ran around the bookstores of Rome in an attempt to find something in German. And I found: "Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn! During the four days that he was in the clinic, he read this work with a bi
nge.d this money to his medic.
Three weeks after the operation, Kalle was back on the field. The Champions Cup match with Magdeburg was difficult - Bayern lost 0:2 in the first half. Lattek decided to change the situation by releasing Rummenigge. And this measure worked brilliantly. Th
e result was a 3;2
In the championship , things were going badly for the club: Bayern dropped to 13th place in the table, to 14th: The world champions are in the relegation zone: a shame, that's all. Lattek was nervous, broke down, shuffled the composition. Rummenigge often found himself on the bench. At the Hamburg airport, the word "Rummelflige" (translated as something like "annoying fly") flew off Lattek's lips for the first time. So then everyone got used to distorting his last name. "Now I take this word as a joke, but then it really pissed me off," r
ecalls Kalle. - - I stopped trusting Latex."
The president of the Neudecker club is also. On Christmas Eve 1974, he fired Lattek. For some reason, he kicked out almost all the coaches in the pre-Christmas days. This happened before with Zebets, late
r with Kramer and Lant
.Rummenigge's relationship with Lattek's successor, Detmar Kramer, was completely different. An intelligent and correct person who has been as a FIFA coach in 70 countries of the world, Kramer became for him a grandfather, a godfather, a brother, a friend in one person. He liked to show small signs of attention. When Kalle scored a goal for Stuttgart, which saved a 1-1 draw for Bayern, he se
nt him a bottle of champagne as a gif
t.Once there was such a funny case. A slender blond man got into the habit of going to one of the Munich restaurants, who ordered the most expensive dishes for himself, and when it was time to pay, he said: "I am Rummenigge from Bayern. Once, twice: Then the owner of the restaurant reported to the police, who took Karl-Heinz into custody. This quickly became known to Kramer, who did not spare the night to prove that his ward was innocent and some kind of joker was "working" under his name. Rummenigge thanked h
is mentor in his own way - with a bottle of whiske
Karl-Heinz took his toll a year later, when Bayern won the prestigious trophy for the third time in a row. He took part in the victory over Saint-Etienne in Glasgow. Before the game, the doctor Richie Muller, seeing that the young man was terribly nervous, gave him a drink of cognac to calm him down. At the victory banquet, they were left alone in the bar with Schwarzenbeck, when everyone else went to sleep in the rooms. We
drank whiskey and Coke, and when the coke ran out - pur
e whisky
HE FINISHED HIS CAREER AS A LIBERO
On September 2, 1975, Kalle played for the second German national team. Before the match, Helmut Schoen told him in the locker room: "If you prove yourself, I'll take you to Vienna for the game with Austria." It would be better if he did not say this, because Rummen
igge became nervous, and his "looks" failed.
In July 1976, Kalle was drafted into the Bundeswehr. "Kramer was worried about the question: how will service in the army affect me - will it unsettle me or make a man out of me? After I scored three goals for Tennis-Borussia in my first absence, and during the
second I helped Bayern, which was losing 1-4, beat Bochum 6-5, he definitely leaned towards the second opinion."
As, probably, Helmut Schoen. He appreciated the changes that had taken place in Rummenigge, and on October 6, for the first time, entrusted him with defending the honor of the country. Germany defeated Wales
2-0, and Shen said: "Kalle was our best."
In 1980, Rummenigge was the undisputed leader of the team that won the European Championship. But he did not become a world champion, despite three attempts. Injuries are partly to blame for this. For a long time they avoided him: in 1977-1982, Kalle played 160 matches in the Bundesliga without a break! But in March 1982, he received the first of a series of injuries that from that tiRummenigge went unwell to the World Cup in Spain, but even in this state he managed to accomplish a feat: coming on as a substitute in the extra time of the semi-final with France with the score 1:3, he contributed to a tremendous moral uplift, scored one goal himsel
f and helped his team to snatch victory.me haunted him until the very end of his c
areer.
A similar story happened at the next World Championship in Mexico. The injured Rummenigge came on as a substitute in the final with Argentina. With him, the Germans scored two goals (Karl-Heinz was the author of one of them), but then they still mis
sed the t
d:3
The last years of his performances at Bayern, Karl-Heinz acted in an attack on a couple with his brother Michael (they once played together for the national team). In 1984, he was sold for a record amount for the Bundesliga to Inter, where he formed an attacking duo with Altobelli. He spent the last two seasons of his career in Servette, Switzerland, and for some time in the position of libero (!). In the second season-88/89, he returned to such amazing form that he won the competition of scorers. However, the earlier decision to leave football has not changed. Since 1989, he has been working at Bayern, holding the post of vice-president.
