Dieter Schlindwein
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Dieter Schlindwein is a former German
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
Football (soccer)
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 player.

Player

The qualified industrial clerk played on the Fullback
Defender (football)
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 position. Due to his rough playing style he earned the nickname Eisen-Dieter - Iron Dieter.

Clubs

In his youth he played for FC Germania 06 Karlsdorf. With SV Waldhof Mannheim
SV Waldhof Mannheim
SV Waldhof Mannheim is a German association football club, located in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club today has a membership of over 2,400.-History:...

, who signed him in 1977, he promoted in 1983-84
Second Fußball-Bundesliga 1983-84
- Final table :- Results :NB The Schalke 04 v Rot-Weiss Essen fixture on the final day was annulled by the DFB due to Schalke fans storming the pitch during play...

 to the Bundesliga auf. In 1986 he moved to 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...

 but stayed just one season appearing only three times. He joined Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...

 for their 1987-88 campaign and won with SGE DFB-Pokal
DFB-Pokal
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 in 1988. From 1989-90 he played for FC St. Pauli
FC St. Pauli
Fußball-Club St. Pauli is a German sports club based in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg. The football section is part of a larger club that also has Rugby Fußball-Club St. Pauli is a German sports club based in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg. The football section is part of a larger club that...

, where he captained the squad. His last professional match took place on March 16, 1996 statt: Against 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...

 (result 0-2) he bid farewell with a red card.

In total he had taken part in 186 Bundesliga and 214 second tier fixtures.

Caps

Schlindwein was capped five times for the German under-21
Germany national under-21 football team
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 and once for the German national amateur team and once in the German olympic team that took part at the Olympic games
1984 Summer Olympics
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 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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).

Controversity

Schlindwein caused a scandal in 1994 when he abused his club fellow Leonardo Manzi
Leonardo Manzi
Leonardo Caetano Manzi is a Brazilian football coach and a former player. He also holds Italian citizenship.-External links:...

 from Brazil as "black prick" while being in a training camp with FC St. Pauli.

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