- Dirk Schuster
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Dirk Schuster 
Personal information Date of birth December 29, 1967 Place of birth Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Playing position Defender Club information Current club Stuttgarter Kickers (Head Coach) Youth career 1985-1986 FC Karl-Marx-Stadt Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1986-1988 Sachsenring Zwickau 12 (1) 1988-1990 1. FC Magdeburg 40 (0) 1990-1991 Eintracht Braunschweig 35 (4) 1991-1997 Karlsruher SC 167 (3) 1997-1999 1. FC Köln 62 (5) 1999-2000 Antalyaspor 29 (0) 2000 VfB Admira Wacker Mödling 10 (0) 2001-2002 LR Ahlen 50 (6) 2002-2004 SV Wilhelmshaven 36 (4) 2004-2006 SV Waldhof Mannheim 66 (4) 2006 ASV Durlach 2007 Alemannia Wilferdingen National team 1990 East Germany 4 (0) 1994-1995 Germany 3 (0) Teams managed 2007 ASV Durlach 2009- Stuttgarter Kickers * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Dirk Schuster (born December 29, 1967 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a retired German soccer player.
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Career
Schuster, who lived his youth in the DDR, was one of the first East German players to make the move into the West, starting in Eintracht Braunschweig and soon moving on to Karlsruher SC in 1991, where he established himself as a respected center-back.[1]
A move to 1. FC Köln in 1997 proved less successful, and in the following journeyman years he played in Turkey and Austria. He then played for newly promoted Second Bundesliga club LR Ahlen in 2000, where he has a good stint, before he returned to Austria and then played in the Oberliga, the fourth-highest league with Waldhof.[2]
International career
He was capped three times in the German national team and four times in the East German national team, making him a member of the small group of Ex-DDR footballers who played in both the German and the East German tenure, such as Ulf Kirsten, Andreas Thom or Matthias Sammer.[3]
Coaching career
Schusters first coaching job was as interim coach for ASV Durlach between October 16, 2006 and Januaray 10, 2007.[4] On May 30, 2009 he was named as the new head coach of the Stuttgarter Kickers, where he signed a two years contract until June 30, 2011,[5] which was on April 1, 2010 prematurely extended until June 30, 2012.[6]
Honours
- DFB-Pokal finalist: 1996.
References
External links
- Dirk Schuster at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:- 1967 births
- Chemnitzer FC players
- Rot Weiss Ahlen players
- Karlsruher SC players
- FSV Zwickau players
- 1. FC Köln players
- SV Waldhof Mannheim players
- Eintracht Braunschweig players
- 1. FC Magdeburg players
- Antalyaspor footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Turkey
- German footballers
- East German footballers
- Germany international footballers
- German expatriate footballers
- VfB Admira Wacker Mödling players
- Fußball-Bundesliga players
- Süper Lig players
- Living people
- East Germany international footballers
- Dual internationalists (football)
- Expatriate footballers in Austria
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