Guido Buchwald

Guido Ulrich Buchwald (prounounced 'Buckwild')(born 24 January 1961) is a German former professional football player. Throughout his career he played as a defender. He is currently director of football of Stuttgarter Kickers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The best game of Buchwald's career was the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup victory for West Germany against Argentina where he effectively marked Diego Maradona for almost the entire match, earning him the nickname "Diego".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His other nickname, 'Bucky' is due to his surname. He was also part of Germany's disappointing 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign and collected in his career 76 caps.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

Buchwald began his professional football career in 1983 with VfB Stuttgart. He played 325 games in the German Bundesliga for this club, scoring 28 goals.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The low-point of his career was in 1986 when coach Franz Beckenbauer did not include him in his team for the World Cup in Mexico. He was however part of the squad which won the World Cup in Italy four years later.

The same year Stuttgart lost the final of the German Cup against Bayern Munich and in 1989 the final of the UEFA Cup was also lost, but they managed to win two German championships (1984, 1992).

His personal highlight in his Bundesliga career was on the last day of play in the 1991–92 season, when he scored the deciding goal against Bayer Leverkusen that won Stuttgart the match and the Championship – just six minutes before the games' end.

In 1994, he signed with the Japanese team Urawa Red Diamonds before returning to Germany in 1998 to help Karlsruher SC avoid relegation. He could not save the team and after one more season playing in the second division he retired but stayed with the club as a director of sports.

After retirement

After a stop with the Stuttgarter Kickers (again as director of sports) he went back to Japan where he was managing his old club. He led his team to the "closing" championship. In 2005, won the title on Emperor's Cup. In 2006, he won the title on both J-League and Emperor's Cup.

Buchwald then returned to Germany to become manager of Alemannia Aachen. After five months on duty he was fired by club management on 26 November 2007.

On 1 November 2010, Buchwald returned to the Stuttgarter Kickers as a member of the board responsible for the first team. He took over as interim manager in November 2012 after the sacking of Dirk Schuster, before relinquishing this duty a month later when Gerd Dais was appointed.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Stuttgarter Kickers	1979–80	2. Bundesliga	33	1	1	0	—		—		34	1
	1980–81		38	8	1	0	—		—		39	8
	1981–82		38	5	1	0	—		1	0	40	5
	1982–83		37	4	2	0	—		—		39	4
	Total		146	18	5	0	—		1	0	152	18
VfB Stuttgart	1983–84	Bundesliga	34	3	5	3	—		1	0	40	6
	1984–85		15	4	2	0	—		—		17	4
	1985–86		32	1	6	2	—		—		38	3
	1986–87		33	2	1	0	—		4	0	38	2
	1987–88		30	1	1	0	—		—		31	1
	1988–89		30	1	5	2	—		10	0	45	3
	1989–90		28	5	3	3	—		5	1	36	9
	1990–91		21	3	4	1	—		—		25	4
	1991–92		37	5	4	1	—		4	2	45	8
	1992–93		33	1	2	0	—		3	0	391	21
	1993–94		32	2	1	1	—		—		33	3
	Total		325	28	34	13			27	3	387	45
Urawa Reds	1994	J1 League	20	2	3	0	2	0	—		25	2
	1995		51	4	3	0	-		—		54	4
	1996		24	3	4	0	12	0	—		40	3
	1997		32	2	0	0	6	0	—		38	2
	Total		127	11	10	0	20	0	—		157	11
Karlsruher SC	1997–98	Bundesliga	9	0	—		—		—		9	0
	1998–99	2. Bundesliga	31	3	1	0	—		—		32	3
	Total		40	3	1	0	—		—		41	3
Career total			638	60	50	13	20	0	28	3	737	77

• ¹ Including 1 match and 1 goal in 1992 DFB-Supercup.

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Germany	1984	3	0
	1985	0	0
	1986	7	0
	1987	7	0
	1988	6	0
	1989	6	0
	1990	12	0
	1991	6	1
	1992	13	1
	1993	10	2
	1994	6	0
Total		76	4

Coaching

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Karlsruher SC	16 October 1999	24 October 1999
Urawa Reds<ref>J.League Data SiteTemplate:In lang</ref>	1 January 2004	31 December 2006
Alemannia Aachen	1 July 2007	26 November 2007
Total

Honours

As a player

VfB Stuttgart<ref name="Bleacher Report">Template:Cite web</ref>

• Bundesliga: 1983–84, 1991–92
• DFL-Supercup: 1992<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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• FIFA World Cup: 1990

Individual

• kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1989–90, 1993–94<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• J.League Best XI: 1995, 1996<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

As a manager

Urawa Red Diamonds<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• J.League Division 1: 2006
• Emperor's Cup: 2005, 2006
• Xerox Super Cup: 2006

Individual

• J.League Manager of the Year: 2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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