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Wynton Rufer
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New Zealand association football player
Key facts
- 1980
- Stop Out
- 1981
- Wellington Diamond
- 1982
- Norwich City
- 1997
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- 1998
- North Shore United
- 1999
- New Zealand U16
- Full name
- Wynton Alan Whai Rufer
- Date of birth
- ( 1962-12-29 ) 29 December 1962 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Wellington , New Zealand
- Position
- Striker
- Years
- Team
- 1982 1986
- FC Zürich
- 1986 1988
- FC Aarau
- 1988 1989
- Grasshoppers
- 1989 1995
- Werder Bremen
- 1995 1996
- JEF United
- 1999 2002
- Auckland Kingz
- 1980 1997
- New Zealand
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Forward
- Nationality
- New Zealand
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Wellington
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1982 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- New Zealand men's national football team
- Position played
- forward
- League
- 2. Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- New Zealand
- Mass
- 85
- Image
- Wynton rufer headshot.JPG
- Height
- 181
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1962-12-29
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 1
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- ethnic group
- Māori
- Commons category
- Wynton Rufer
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Encyclopedic overview
Wynton Alan Whai Rufer CNZM (born 29 December 1962) is a New Zealand retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent more than a decade of his professional career in Switzerland and Germany, achieving his greatest success at Werder Bremen, where he won a total of four major titles and finished the top scorer in the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League. He was also a member of the New Zealand national team in its first FIFA World Cup appearance in 1982. He was named the Oceania Footballer of the Century by the Oceania Football Confederation.
Club career
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