Dietmar Bruck

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Dietmar Bruck
Personal information
Full name	Dietmar Bruck
Date of birth	April 19, 1944 (1944-04-19) (age 64)
Place of birth	Danzig, Germany
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1961-1970 1970-1972 1972-1974 1974-1977	Coventry City Charlton Athletic Northampton Town Nuneaton Borough	189 (-) - (-) - (-) - (-)
Teams managed
1974-1977 1977-19??	Weymouth Redditch United
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Dietmar Bruck (born April 19, 1944) is a former professional footballer, remembered mostly as a full-back for Coventry City in the 1960s.

Although born in Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland from 1945), Bruck began his career with English side Coventry City who he joined as an apprentice. He made his league debut for Coventry at home to Swindon Town in April 1961.

He moved to Charlton Athletic in October 1970, having played 189 league games for Coventry. His final move to a Football League side came in 1972 when he joined Northampton Town.

After leaving Northampton he joined non-league Nuneaton Borough, before moving to Weymouth in 1974 as player-manager. He was sacked from his post at Weymouth in January 1977 and subsequently managed Redditch United.

He later worked as a financial consultant for an insurance company in Coventry and in the 1985-86 season had a week as caretaker-manager of Leamington.

In September 2003, Bruck was involved in, and lucky to survive a car crash in Spain which killed his girlfriend. As of 2008, he works in Tesco, in Coventry. An article about Bruck appeared in Tesco staff magazine, The One, on March 28, 2008

Preceded by Graham Williams

Weymouth Manager 1974-1977

Succeeded by Graham Carr