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Buchwald with Urawa in 2004.
Personal information
Full name Guido Ulrich Buchwald
Date of birth (1961-01-24) 24 January 1961 (age 63)
Place of birth West Berlin, West Germany
Height 1.88 m
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Stuttgarter Kickers (Director of football)
Youth career
1969–1977 SV Wannweil
1977–1978 TSV Pliezhausen
1978–1979 Stuttgarter Kickers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1979–1983 Stuttgarter Kickers 146 (18)
1983–1994 VfB Stuttgart 325 (28)
1994–1997 Urawa Red Diamonds 127 (11)
1997–1999 Karlsruher SC 40 (3)
Total 638 (60)
National team
1980 West Germany U-21 1 (0)
1983–1984 West Germany Olympic 9 (1)
1984–1994 Germany 76 (4)
Teams managed
2004–2006 Urawa Reds
2007 Alemannia Aachen
2012 Stuttgarter Kickers (interim)
Honours
Men's football
Representing  Germany
FIFA World Cup
Winner 1990 Italy
UEFA European Championship
1992 Sweden
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Guido Ulrich Buchwald (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.

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". He was also part of Germany's disappointing 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign and collected in his career 76 caps.

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. 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 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&02.&&&&&02 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&00.&&&&&00 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&00.&&&&&00 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&02.&&&&&02 &0&&&&&&&&&&&&&&00.&&&&&00.00
Urawa Reds 1 January 2004 31 December 2006 &&&&&&&&&&&&&098.&&&&&098 &&&&&&&&&&&&&058.&&&&&058 &&&&&&&&&&&&&019.&&&&&019 &&&&&&&&&&&&&021.&&&&&021 &&&&&&&&&&&&&059.18000059.18
Alemannia Aachen 1 July 2007 26 November 2007 &&&&&&&&&&&&&014.&&&&&014 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&05.&&&&&05 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&04.&&&&&04 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&05.&&&&&05 &&&&&&&&&&&&&035.71000035.71
Total &&&&&&&&&&&&0114.&&&&&0114 &&&&&&&&&&&&&063.&&&&&063 &&&&&&&&&&&&&023.&&&&&023 &&&&&&&&&&&&&028.&&&&&028 &&&&&&&&&&&&&055.26000055.26

Honours

As a player

VfB Stuttgart

Germany

Individual

  • kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1989–90, 1993–94
  • J.League Best XI: 1995, 1996

As a manager

Urawa Red Diamonds

Individual

  • J.League Manager of the Year: 2006

See also

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