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Fred Schaub (28 August 1960 – 22 April 2003) was a German professional
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played as a
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. He is best remembered for scoring the winning goal for
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in the
1979–80 UEFA Cup The 1979–80 UEFA Cup was the ninth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played in West Germany over two legs, at the Bökelbergstadion., Mönchengladbach, and at the Waldstadio ...
final. The 17-year-old Schaub joined German
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side Eintracht Frankfurt at the beginning of the 1978–79 season. He stayed with the club until the winter break of the 1980–81 season. Though a promising talent, he never lived fully up to expectations, and appeared in only 21 league matches for the "Eagles", in which he scored three goals. However, his goal engraved him forever in the club's history.


Career


UEFA Cup final glory

In May 1980, Eintracht met domestic rivals
Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, better known as Borussia Mönchengladbach () and colloquially known as just Gladbach, is a professional Association football, football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-W ...
in the all-German final of the
1979–80 UEFA Cup The 1979–80 UEFA Cup was the ninth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played in West Germany over two legs, at the Bökelbergstadion., Mönchengladbach, and at the Waldstadio ...
. They lost the first leg 3–2 in Mönchengladbach. In the second leg in Frankfurt a fortnight later, the game was still deadlocked goalless when, in the 77th minute, Eintracht coach
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took off defender
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and replaced him with Schaub. Only four minutes later, the youngster scored what would prove to be the only goal of the match, and thus secured the first European Cup in the history of Eintracht


Subsequent Bundesliga career

From January 1981 until June 1983, Schaub played in the second division for SpVgg Fürth, where he scored 36 goals in 84 matches, a good enough record for
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to provide him with an opportunity for a comeback in the Bundesliga. He failed to do well there, and by the time of the 1983–84 winter break he had returned to the second division, this time to
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. There, he became a regular, and remained so as Hannover attained promotion to the Bundesliga in 1985. The following year, however, they were relegated back to the second division in bottom place. Schaub moved on to another second division club,
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, where he was a first-choice player for the next two years.


In Austria

At the beginning of the 1988–89 season, Schaub moved to
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n first division side FC Admira/Wacker in
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. There, he impressed with his fighting spirit, and together with
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and
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at ÖFB 1957 births Living people People from Feldkirchen District Footballers from Carinthia Men's assoc ...
he formed a dangerous forward line. In his first season, the club finished runner-up in the championship and reached the cup final, losing both competitions to the then mighty
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, who were coached by the legendary
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. Nevertheless, the club has not had a more successful year since. The following season, 1989–90, Schaub experienced his final European Cup campaign, this time in the European Cup-Winners' Cup, where subsequent finalists
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eliminated Admira in the quarter-finals. In his time with the club, Schaub scored 23 goals in 68 matches. In 1989, he was voted second best foreign player in Austria after his
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