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Kurt Linder (8 October 1933 – 12 December 2022) was a German professional
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. He played for Young Boys,
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, among other teams. After his playing career, Linder became a professional manager in Switzerland with
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and Young Boys, in Netherlands with
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, and in France with
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. As a player he won the league titles of Switzerland and Austria with Young Boys and Rapid Wien respectively, while as a manager Linder won the
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and
Swiss League Cup The Swiss League Cup was a football tournament which took place as a summer pre-season tournament in 1972 and 1973, and during the Swiss football season from 1974–75 to 1981–82. The tournament was a knockout competition contested by clubs fro ...
with Young Boys and the
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with Ajax in the 1981-82 season with 117 goals for and 42 goals against in 34 matches, with players like
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. Linder died on 12 December 2022, at the age of 89.


Honours


Player

Young Boys *
Swiss Super League The Super League (also known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a professional association football league in Switzerland and the highest level of the Swiss football league system. It has been played in its current fo ...
: 1956–57 Rapid Wien * Austrian Staatsliga: 1959–60


Manager

Young Boys *
Swiss Cup The Swiss Cup (; ; ; ) is a football cup competition that has been organised annually since 1925–26 season by the Swiss Football Association. The Swiss Cup final is usually the most important game of the year with a high attendance. The co ...
: 1976–77 *
Swiss League Cup The Swiss League Cup was a football tournament which took place as a summer pre-season tournament in 1972 and 1973, and during the Swiss football season from 1974–75 to 1981–82. The tournament was a knockout competition contested by clubs fro ...
: 1976 Ajax *
Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...
: 1981–82


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1933 births 2022 deaths Footballers from Karlsruhe German men's footballers Men's association football forwards Karlsruher SC players SK Rapid Wien players Rot-Weiss Essen players Olympique Lyonnais players Ligue 1 players German football managers German expatriate football managers FC Lausanne-Sport managers PSV Eindhoven managers Olympique de Marseille managers BSC Young Boys managers Urania Genève Sport players AFC Ajax managers German expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria German expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in France German expatriate sportspeople in France German expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland 20th-century German sportsmen {{germany-footy-forward-1930s-stub