Dieter 'Hoppi' Kurrat (15 May 1942 – 27 October 2017) was a German

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player and coach. His brother,

Hans-Jürgen Kurrat Hans-Jürgen Kurrat (born 7 July 1944 in Dortmund) is a retired German football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqual ...

, also played football professionally.

Career

As a player, he spent nine seasons in the

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(a German professional association football league) with

Borussia Dortmund Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, often known simply as Borussia Dortmund () or by its initialism BVB (), or just Dortmund by International fans, is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is ...

. Nicknamed "Hoppy", he became a club legend, winning the German Championship, the

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, in 1965 and the European Cup Winner's Cup in 1966.

Death

Kurrat died on 27 October 2017.

Honours

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European association football, football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renam ...

winner: 1965–66 *

runner-up: 1965–66 *

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winner: 1964–65; finalist

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* 1942 births 2017 deaths German men's footballers Borussia Dortmund players Bundesliga players German football managers Borussia Dortmund managers Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Dortmund West German men's footballers West German football managers {{germany-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub