Guido Ulrich Buchwald (born 24 January 1961) is a German former professional football player. Throughout his career he played as a defender. He is currently director of football of Stuttgarter Kickers. The best game of Buchwald's career was the final of the

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victory for

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against

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where he effectively marked

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for almost the entire match, earning him the nickname "Diego". He was also part of Germany's disappointing

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campaign and collected in his career 76 caps.

Career

Buchwald began his professional football career in 1983 with

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. He played 325 games in the German

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for this club, scoring 28 goals. The low-point of his career was in 1986 when coach

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did not include him in his team for the World Cup in Mexico. He was however part of the squad which won the World Cup in Italy four years later. The same year Stuttgart lost the final of the

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against

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and in 1989 the final of the

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was also lost, but they managed to win two German championships (1984, 1992). His personal highlight in his Bundesliga career was on the last day of play in the 1991–92 season, when he scored the deciding goal against

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that won Stuttgart the match and the Championship – just six minutes before the games' end. In 1994, he signed with the Japanese team

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before returning to Germany in 1998 to help

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avoid relegation. He could not save the team and after one more season playing in the second division he retired but stayed with the club as a director of sports.

After retirement

After a stop with the Stuttgarter Kickers (again as director of sports) he went back to Japan where he was managing his old club. He led his team to the "closing" championship. In 2005, won the title on Emperor's Cup. In 2006, he won the title on both J-League and Emperor's Cup. Buchwald then returned to Germany to become manager of

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. After five months on duty he was fired by club management on 26 November 2007. On 1 November 2010, Buchwald returned to the Stuttgarter Kickers as a member of the board responsible for the first team. He took over as interim manager in November 2012 after the sacking of

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, before relinquishing this duty a month later when Gerd Dais was appointed.

Career statistics

Club

*¹ Including 1 match and 1 goal in

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International

Coaching

Honours

As a player

VfB Stuttgart *

: 1983–84, 1991–92 * DFL-Supercup:

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Germany *

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Individual * '' kicker''

Team of the Season: 1989–90, 1993–94 *

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: 1995, 1996

As a manager

Urawa Red Diamonds *

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: 2005, 2006 * Xerox Super Cup: 2006 Individual *

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: 2006

References

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Buchwald, Guido 1961 births Living people 1990 FIFA World Cup players 1994 FIFA World Cup players Expatriate footballers in Japan Expatriate football managers in Japan FIFA World Cup-winning players Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics German expatriate sportspeople in Japan German footballers German expatriate footballers German football managers Germany international footballers Germany under-21 international footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Karlsruher SC players Olympic footballers of West Germany Stuttgarter Kickers players UEFA Euro 1984 players UEFA Euro 1988 players UEFA Euro 1992 players J1 League players Urawa Red Diamonds players J1 League managers Urawa Red Diamonds managers VfB Stuttgart players Alemannia Aachen managers Stuttgarter Kickers managers Footballers from Berlin Association football defenders 3. Liga managers Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg