The former German footballer Rudi Völler, who turns 60 on 13. april, put an end to Brøndbys adventure in international football in 1991.
He has scored goals at the stripe on the German national team and for various big clubs in Europe.
But it is probably the goals he scored for AS Roma, two minutes before slutfløjt in the Uefa Cup semi-final against Brøndby in 1991, as the Danish football fans remember him best for.
the Goal sent namely the Italian club to reach the final with a 2-1 win, while Brøndby had put an end to one of the Danish klubfodbolds largest european adventure through the ages.
Rudi Völler is the man behind the goal, and on Monday the 13. april fills the former German striker 60 years.
It was now not only against Brøndby, that Rudi Völler scored the goals.
He had generally a distinguished career as a striker. It was among other things, to 47 goals in 90 matches for the German national team, with whom he won the WORLD cup in Italy in 1990.
On the way to the WORLD title came Völler also in the focus of something else, when he was spitting in the curls of Dutch Frank Rijkaard. Spyttescenen is, with time, become one of the most viewed tv clips from the finals.
Seniorkarrieren began Völler in Kickers Offenbach in 1977, took him past 1860 Munich, Werder Bremen, Roma, Marseille and ending in Bayer Leverkusen in 1996.
the Latter club has Völler ex post regime with a tough, professional, hand, through a long number of years as the sports director – a position he still holds today.
But before he really sat right in the seat in Bayer Leverkusen, stood Völler in the forefront as the head coach of the German national team from 2000 to 2004.
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