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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1955-03-24) 24 March 1955 (age 69) | ||
| Place of birth | Lubliniec, Poland | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| FC Bürgel | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1984 | Kickers Offenbach | 151 | (35) |
| 1984–1990 | Werder Bremen | 121 | (23) |
| Total | 272 | (58) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Michael Kutzop (born 24 March 1955) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent seven seasons in the Bundesliga with Kickers Offenbach and SV Werder Bremen.
Kutzop took arguably the most famous penalty kick in the history of Bundesliga. On the penultimate game day of the 1985–86 season Kutzop's league-leading SV Werder Bremen were playing second-placed Bayern Munich. Werder's victory in that game would guarantee them the title. With the score of 0–0 Kutzop took the penalty kick in the 88th minute and hit the right goalpost. The game ended 0–0. On the last game day Bayern Munich beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 6–0, Werder lost 2–1 to VfB Stuttgart (the team they beat 6–0 earlier in the season) and Bayern took the title on goal difference. That was the only penalty kick he missed in 15 attempts during his Bundesliga years.
Today he works at Rudi Völler's football school in Cala Millor, Majorca, Spain.
Honours
Werder Bremen
- Bundesliga: 1987–88; runner-up: 1984–85, 1985–86
- DFB-Pokal finalist: 1988–89, 1989–90
- DFL-Supercup: 1988
References
- "Kutzop, Michael" (in German). Kicker. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
- "Deutscher Supercup, 1988, Finale". dfb.de. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
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- 1955 births
- Living people
- German men's footballers
- German people of Polish descent
- Men's association football defenders
- Bundesliga players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- Kickers Offenbach players
- SV Werder Bremen players
- People from Lubliniec
- Footballers from Silesian Voivodeship
- Polish emigrants to West Germany
- Polish men's footballers
- West German men's footballers
- 20th-century Polish sportsmen
- German football defender, 1950s birth stubs