Dietmar Bruck

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Dietmar Bruck
Personal information
Date of birth (1944-04-19) 19 April 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth Danzig, Germany
Position(s) Full-back
Youth career
Coventry City
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1961–1970 Coventry City 189 (7)
1970–1972 Charlton Athletic 56 (0)
1972–1974 Northampton Town 41 (0)
1974–1975 Nuneaton Borough
1975–1977 Weymouth
Managerial career
1975–1977 Weymouth (player-manager)
1977–19xx Redditch United
1985 Leamington (caretaker manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dietmar Bruck (born 19 April 1944) is a former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a full-back for Coventry City, where he spent the majority of his career, Charlton Athletic and Northampton Town. [1]

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Career

Bruck began his football career as an apprentice with Coventry City, and made his league debut at home to Swindon Town on 28 April 1961, aged just 17 years 9 days. [2] He became the first substitute used by Coventry City when he replaced Ron Farmer in a 3–3 draw against Manchester City on 4 September 1965. [3] He was part of the Coventry team that won the Second Division title in 1967, [4] and played 189 league games for the club. [1]

He moved to Charlton Athletic in October 1970 for a fee of £15,000, [5] and two years later joined Northampton Town.

After leaving Northampton he was part of the Nuneaton Borough team that reached the first round proper of the 1974–75 FA Cup [6] before moving to Weymouth as player-manager. He was sacked from his post at Weymouth in January 1977, [7] subsequently managed Redditch United and Racing Club Warwick, [4] and in the 1985–86 season had a week as caretaker manager of Leamington. [8]

Personal life

Bruck was born in Danzig, then in Germany, and came to England as a child. He was raised in Coventry and attended Bishop Ullathorne RC School. [9] After his football career came to an end, he worked as a financial consultant for an insurance company, [4] and after retirement worked as a "community champion" with Tesco in Coventry. Bruck also worked part time as a PE Teacher at Abbotsford School in Kenilworth in the late 1970s. [10] [11] He was married to Maureen until her death, and in 2003 survived a car crash in which his partner, Sue, was killed. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dietmar Bruck at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
  2. ↑ Padgett, Richard (29 August 2009). "Jeffers enters top ten of Coventry City youngsters". Coventry Telegraph. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
  3. ↑ Brown, Jim (28 August 2004). "The City subs who scored at the double" (reprint). Coventry Telegraph. FindArticles. Retrieved 26 November 2009.[ dead link ]
  4. 1 2 3 Struthers, Greg (19 September 2004). "Caught in Time: Coventry win the Second Division title, 1967". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 26 November 2009.[ dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Campbell and Rodrigues transferred". The Times. 15 October 1970. p. 21.
  6. ↑ "Tooting gain 1,200 tickets for cup tie". The Times. 26 November 1974. p. 13.
  7. ↑ "Terras' Timeline". Weymouth F.C. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
  8. ↑ Edwards, Paul. "Southern League Midland Division 1985–1986". Leamington F.C. Archived from the original on 9 March 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
  9. 1 2 Nanda, Samantha (1 October 2003). "Ex-Sky Blues star tells of crash tragedy" (reprint). Coventry Telegraph. FindArticles. Retrieved 26 November 2009.[ dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Ex-Coventry star Dietmar Bruck runs fun day at Ricoh Arena Tesco". Coventry Telegraph. 25 June 2009. Archived from the original on 3 July 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
  11. ↑ "Donation brightens up day". George Eliot Hospital. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
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