Michael Kutzop
Encyclopedia
Michael Kutzop is a former German
football player of Polish
origin. He spent 7 seasons in the Bundesliga
with Kickers Offenbach
and SV Werder Bremen
.
Kutzop took arguably the most famous penalty kick
in the history of Bundesliga
. On the penultimate game day of the 1985/86 season Kutzop's league-leading SV Werder Bremen
were playing second-placed FC Bayern Munich
. Werder's victory in that game would guarantee them the title. With the score of 0:0 Kutzop took the penalty kick in the 88th minute and hit the right goalpost. The game ended 0:0. On the last game day FC Bayern beat Borussia Mönchengladbach
6:0, Werder lost 1:2 to VfB Stuttgart
(the team they beat 6:0 earlier in the season) and Bayern took the title on better goal difference. That was the only penalty kick he missed in 14 attempts during his Bundesliga years.
Today he works at Rudi Völler
's football school in Cala Millor
, Majorca, Spain
.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
football player of Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
origin. He spent 7 seasons in the Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
with Kickers Offenbach
Kickers Offenbach
Kickers Offenbach is a German association football club in Offenbach am Main, Hesse. The club was founded on 27 May 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who had left established local clubs including Melitia, Teutonia, Viktoria, Germania and Neptun...
and SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize...
.
Kutzop took arguably the most famous penalty kick
Penalty kick
A penalty kick is a type of direct free kick in association football, taken from twelve yards out from goal and with only the goalkeeper of the defending team between the penalty taker and the goal.Penalty kicks are performed during normal play...
in the history of Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
. On the penultimate game day of the 1985/86 season Kutzop's league-leading SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize...
were playing second-placed FC Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....
. Werder's victory in that game would guarantee them the title. With the score of 0:0 Kutzop took the penalty kick in the 88th minute and hit the right goalpost. The game ended 0:0. On the last game day FC Bayern beat Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach is a German association football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the Bundesliga and is one of the country's most well-known, well-supported, and successful teams. Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 40,000 members and is the sixth...
6:0, Werder lost 1:2 to VfB Stuttgart
VfB Stuttgart
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons...
(the team they beat 6:0 earlier in the season) and Bayern took the title on better goal difference. That was the only penalty kick he missed in 14 attempts during his Bundesliga years.
Today he works at Rudi Völler
Rudi Völler
Rudolf 'Rudi' Völler is a German former international football striker, and a former manager of the German national team...
's football school in Cala Millor
Cala Millor
Cala Millor is a tourist destination on the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca.The next largest town after Porto Cristo heading North. Cala Millor has a population of 5,665 inhabitants. It is the largest tourist development on the east coast of the island...
, Majorca, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
.
Honours
- BundesligaFußball-BundesligaThe Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
champion: 1988. - Bundesliga runner-up: 1985, 1986.
- DFB-PokalDFB-PokalThe DFB-Pokal or DFB Cup is a German knockout football cup competition held annually. 64 teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga. It is considered the second most important national title in German football after the Bundesliga...
finalist: 1989, 1990.