Franz-Josef Wolfframm (22 October 1934 – 3 July 2015) was a German

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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Career

Wolfframm played for

Fortuna Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V., commonly known as Fortuna Düsseldorf (), is a Football in Germany, German football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, that competes in the 2. Bundesliga. Founded in 1895, Fo ...

between 1957 and 1964, scoring 75 goals in 170 league appearances. With the club he was a runner-up in the German Cup final on three occasions. After leaving in 1964 he spent two years with

Bayer Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It competes in the B ...

Later life and death

Wolfframm died on 3 July 2015, at the age of 80.

References

1934 births 2015 deaths German men's footballers Fortuna Düsseldorf players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Krefeld West German men's footballers {{Germany-footy-midfielder-stub