Klaus Allofs

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Klaus Allofs
Personal information
Full name	Klaus Allofs
Date of birth	May 12, 1956 (1956-05-12) (age 52)
Place of birth	Düsseldorf, West Germany
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder (early), Striker (later)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1975-1981 1981-1987 1987-1989 1989-1990 1990-1992	Fortuna Düsseldorf FC Cologne Olympique Marseille Girondins Bordeaux Werder Bremen	169 (71) 177 (88) 53 (20) 37 (14) 78 (18)
National team
1978-1988	Germany	56 (17)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

[edit] Playing career

Klaus began playing professionally for his home team of TuS Gerresheim. His first foray into the national spotlight was when he was playing for Fortuna Düsseldorf. In 1981 he began to play for 1. FC Köln. Later on in his career he mananged to move on to another team,Olympique Marseille. After a moderately successful spell he moved to Bordeaux, before finishing his playing career in Werder Bremen in 1993.

Allofs played a total of 424 matches in the Bundesliga. He summed up a total 177 goals. He shares his goalscoring scoring record with Dieter Müller, meaning that he is ranked seventh in the alltime goalscorers records.

[edit] International career

Allofs played for his nation of Germany a total of 56 times and acquired 17 goals. His first time playing for his nation in an actual match came on October 11, 1978 in Prague against Czechoslovakia. He was subsituted in for Ronald Worm. Allofs was also part of the 1980 which went onto be European Champions for that year - it was also the year he became top goalscorer.

[edit] Honours

In 1979 and 1985 Allofs became top goalscorer in the Bundesliga. Between 1979 and 1991 he won the German Football Association Cup four times, and in 1992 he won the Cup Winners' Cup with Werder Bremen.

[edit] Coaching career

In 1999 Allofs was hired temporarily as the manager and coach of Fortuna Düsseldorf. After leaving his position as manager and coach of the club, he became a member of the board of directors at Werder Bremen and presently works there as the general manager.

[edit] External links

• Player profile (in German)

v • d • e West Germany squad - UEFA Euro 1980 Winners (2nd title) 1 Schumacher • 2 Briegel • 3 Cullmann • 4 K. Förster • 5 Dietz • 6 Schuster • 7 B. Förster • 8 Rumenigge • 9 Hrubesch • 10 Müller • 11 Allofs • 12 Memering • 13 Bonhof • 14 Magath • 15 Stielike • 16 Zimmermann • 17 Del'Haye • 18 Matthäus • 19 Votava • 20 Kaltz • 21 Junghans • 22 Immel • Coach: Derwall

v • d • e West Germany squad - UEFA Euro 1984 1 Schumacher • 2 Briegel • 3 Strack • 4 K. Förster • 5 B. Förster • 6 Rolff • 7 Brehme • 8 Allofs • 9 Völler • 10 Meier • 11 Rummenigge • 12 Burdenski • 13 Matthäus • 14 Falkenmayer • 15 Stielike • 16 Bruns • 17 Littbarski • 18 Buchwald • 19 Bommer • 20 Roleder • Coach: Derwall

v • d • e West Germany squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup Runners-up 1 Schumacher • 2 Briegel • 3 Brehme • 4 Förster • 5 Herget • 6 Eder • 7 Littbarski • 8 Matthäus • 9 Völler • 10 Magath • 11 Rummenigge • 12 Stein • 13 Allgöwer • 14 Berthold • 15 Augenthaler • 16 Thon • 17 Jakobs • 18 Rahn • 19 Allofs • 20 Hoeneß • 21 Rolff • 22 Immel • Coach: Beckenbauer