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Key facts
- 1971
- West Germany U-23
- 1990
- → Schalke 04 (interim)
- 1992
- → Schalke 04 (interim)
- Date of birth
- ( 1949-12-27 ) 27 December 1949 (age 76)
- Place of birth
- Kreuzstraßl, West Germany
- Height
- 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Position
- Forward
- 1958 1961
- SC Kreuzstraßl
- 1961 1968
- SC Zwiesel
- Years
- Team
- 1968 1970
- 1860 Munich
- 1970 1981
- Schalke 04
- 1981 1984
- 1. FC Köln
- 1984 1988
- VfL Bochum
- 1977 1982
- West Germany
- 1988 1989
- VfL Bochum (assistant)
- 1989 1992
- Schalke 04 (assistant)
- 1992 1995
- Schalke 04 II
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Klaus
- Family name
- Fischer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Lindberg
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 1978 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Germany national under-21 football team
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- Germany
- Mass
- 72
- Image
- Klaus Fischer 2013-06-29.jpg
- Height
- 178
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- date of birth
- 1949-12-27
- Commons category
- Klaus Fischer (footballer)
- end of work period
- 1988-00-00
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Klaus Fischer (born 27 December 1949) is a German former professional footballer and coach. He was a key player on the West Germany national team that lost the 1982 World Cup final to Italy. As a forward, he was noted for his bicycle kicks, and scored a spectacular overhead kick equalizer in extra-time of a 1982 World Cup semi-final against France.
Club career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Klaus Fischer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.