Guido Buchwald

Guido Buchwald

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 (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	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)
International career
1980	West Germany U-21	1	(0)
1983–1984	West Germany Olympic	9	(1)
1984–1994	Germany	76	(4)
Managerial career
2004–2006	Urawa Reds
2007	Alemannia Aachen
2012	Stuttgarter Kickers (interim)
Medal record Men's football Representing   Germany FIFA World Cup Winner 1990 Italy UEFA European Championship Runner-up 1992 Sweden
*Club domestic league appearances and 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. ^[1]

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". ^[2] He was also part of Germany's disappointing 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign and collected in his career 76 caps. ^[3]

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. ^[4] 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

As of 11 May 2012

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Karlsruher SC	16 October 1999	24 October 1999	2	0	0	2	000.00
Urawa Reds [5]	1 January 2004	31 December 2006	98	58	19	21	059.18
Alemannia Aachen	1 July 2007	26 November 2007	14	5	4	5	035.71
Total			114	63	23	28	055.26

Honours

As a player

VfB Stuttgart ^[6]

• Bundesliga: 1983–84, 1991–92
• DFL-Supercup: 1992 ^[7]

Germany ^[6]

• FIFA World Cup: 1990

Individual

• kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1989–90, 1993–94 ^{[8] [9]}
• J.League Best XI: 1995, 1996 ^[10]

As a manager

Urawa Red Diamonds ^[11]

• J.League Division 1: 2006
• Emperor's Cup: 2005, 2006
• Xerox Super Cup: 2006

Individual

• J.League Manager of the Year: 2006 ^[12]

References

1. "Buchwald, Guido" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
2. FIFA.com. "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - News - A magical night in Rome - FIFA". FIFA. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
3. Arnhold, Matthias (23 July 2015). "Guido Buchwald - International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
4. Arnhold, Matthias (23 July 2015). "Guido Buchwald - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
5. J.League Data Site (in Japanese)
6. Whitney, Clark (4 October 2013). "The 20 Most Intimidating Defenders in Bundesliga History". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
7. "Deutscher Supercup, 1992, Finale". dfb.de. 16 October 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
8. "Bundesliga Historie 1989/90" (in German). kicker.
9. "Bundesliga Historie 1993/94" (in German). kicker.
10. Jackman, Spencer (29 May 2018). "Iniesta Is Taking His Talents To Japan, Joining These Legenday J League Imports". The18. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
11. "CLUB HISTORY". Urawa Red Diamonds. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
12. "Aachen name Buchwald as new coach". CNN International. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2018.

External links

• Guido Buchwald at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Guido Buchwald at WorldFootball.net
• Guido Buchwald at National-Football-Teams.com
• Player statistics at J.League ( archive ) (in Japanese)
• Manager statistics manager profile at J.League ( archive ) (in Japanese)