Werner Lucas Maier is a former German

Germans

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 American football

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 player. He has been president of the Munich Cowboys

Munich Cowboys

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 since 2006.

Biography

Maier moved to Munich

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 in 1981. After finishing his secondary education

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 with the abitur

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 in 1987 he studied jurisprudence

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 at the University of Augsburg

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 and at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

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.

After moving to Munich he started playing football in the Munich Rangers' youth team. From 1985 to 1995 he played in the German Football League

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, and was also team captain

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 in 1992, when the team placed second in 1993, when they won the German Bowl

German Bowl

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. During his years of study he also worked as an editorial assistant of American football for some TV broadcasters, and later as a football referee and university sports speaker of flag football

Flag football

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. Apart from that he organized separate football events.

Maier has been working as a lawyer

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in his own firm since 1997.