- Karlheinz Förster
Football player infobox
playername = Karlheinz Förster
fullname = Karlheinz Förster
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1958|7|25
cityofbirth =Mosbach
countryofbirth =West Germany
height = height|m=1.78
currentclub = retired
position = defender
youthyears =
youthclubs = TSV Badenia UnterschwarzachSV Waldhof Mannheim VfB Stuttgart
years =1977–1986
1986–1990
clubs =VfB Stuttgart Olympique Marseille
caps(goals) = 272 (17)
130 (10)
nationalyears = 1978–1986
nationalteam = West Germany
nationalcaps(goals) = 081 0(2)Karlheinz Förster (born
25 July 1958 inMosbach ) is a former German football player.The younger brother of
Bernd Förster , Karlheinz took part in the 1982 and the1986 FIFA World Cup . His defendings skills neutralized opponent players except in the finals; both times he finished runner-up with West Germany in these competitions.The younger of two brothers in West Germany's EURO '80-winning squad, Karl-Heinz Förster would outshine his sibling Bernd both in that tournament and throughout a career that brought him continuous admiration and adulation as one of the world's most irrepressible central defenders. Aged only 21, Förster completely neutralised Belgian dangerman Jan Ceulemans in the EURO '80 final to round off an exceptional championship. He would remain in situ for the next six years, accumulating 81 international caps and leaving his mark on EURO '84, where the Germans exited in the group stage, as well as two successive FIFA World Cups. A Bundesliga winner with VfB Stuttgart in 1984, he left the club he had joined as a youngster for Olympique de Marseille in 1986, prematurely bringing his international career to a close, aged 28, as he did so. He bowed out at club level in 1990 in style by winning the French double.
On club level he played in 272 Bundesliga matches for
VfB Stuttgart , scoring seventeen goals before he joinedOlympique Marseille after the 1985-1986 season.Olympique Marseille paidVfB Stuttgart 3,5 million Deutsche Mark for the then 28-year-old defender.External links
* [http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/foersterkarlheinz/ Karlheinz Förster bei www.fussballdaten.de]
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