Bodo Rudwaleit (born 3 August 1957) is a German former
football goalkeeper who played as goalkeeper for the record champion
BFC Dynamo from 1976 to 1989.
Career
Early years
Rudwaleit began playing football for enterprise sports community BSG Einheit Woltersdorf. He joined the
youth academy
In sporting terminology, a youth system (or youth academy) is a youth investment program within a particular team or league, which develops and nurtures young talent in farm teams, with the vision of using them in the first team in the future if t ...
of
football club BFC Dynamo in 1969.
Playing career
Rudwaleit made his first appearance with the first team of BFC Dynamo as a 19-year old against
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Ober ...
in the eighth matchday of the
1976-77 DDR-Oberliga on 22 October 1976.
He was known for being unusually tall for a football player at the time, with an height of 2.02 meters. He then became the first-choice goalkeeper during the 1977-78 season.
Rudwaleit would play for BFC Dynamo during most of his plaing career. He became
East German champion ten times in a row from 1979 to 1988 with BFC Dynamo. He playing in a total of 401 matchers for BFC Dynamo during his career, including 318 matches in the
East German top-flight, and is one of the most capped players of BFC Dynamo.
Rudwaleit saved the last two penalty kicks for
Aberdeen F.C.
Aberdeen Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland. They compete in the Scottish Premiership and have never been relegated from the top division of the Scottish football league system since they were ...
in front of 26,000 spectators at the
Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark in the
penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...
between BFC Dynamo and Aberdeen F.C. in the return leg of the first round of the
1984-85 European Cup. BFC Dynamo then won the penalty shootout 5-4 after a decisive goal by
Norbert Trieloff and advanced to the second round.
Rudwaleit was popular among the supporters of BFC Dynamo.
Supporters often chanted "Bodo, wink once!" during matches.
However, he also often received provocations from supporters of opposing teams. Rudwaleit was insulted as "Bodo Eierkopp" by supporters of opposing teams during the East German era.
BFC Dynamo was affiliated to
SV Dynamo
The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the Sports associations (East Germany), sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Stasi, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East G ...
. The players of BFC Dynamo was nominally employees of the
Volkspolizei
The ''Deutsche Volkspolizei'' (DVP, German for "German People's Police"), commonly known as the ''Volkspolizei'' or VoPo, was the national police force of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1945 to 1990. The Volkspolizei was a h ...
or the
Stasi. Rudwaleit held a rank in the Volkspolizei. However, he has stated that he would rathered had been hired by the Stasi, as that would had meant more money. Hower, Rudwaleit had a grandmother in
West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...
, which meant that path was blocked for him.
Rudwaleit played the first nine matchdays of the
1989-90 DDR-Oberliga season and all four matches in the
1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup
The 1989–90 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won for the only time by Sampdoria in the final against Anderlecht, 2–0 at Nya Ullevi in Gothenburg, on 9 May 1990. They went on to win 1990–91 Serie A, also being runners-up in the 199 ...
for BFC Dynamo. Coach Helmut Jäschke then decided to give goalkeeper Oskar Kosche a chance in the next few matches. Kosche made his debut in the cup match against
HFC Chemie in the
1989–90 FDGB-Pokal
The 1989–90 FDGB-Pokal was the 39th and penultimate FDGB-Pokal, East German Cup, the last before German reunification, reunification. The competition was won by Dynamo Dresden, who sealed their seventh cup win, and Double (association football) ...
on 11 November 1989.
Kosche was more than ten years younger than Rudwaleit. Rudwaleit then announced his immediate retirement from football.
He did not want to stand in the way of Kosche and decided it was time to retire from playing.
A
process of great sociopolitical change had begun in East Germany and parts of the
Berlin wall was opened on 9 November 1989. Rudwaleit eventally backed down from his decision to retire and instead joined
BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt on 1 January 1990. He quit the Volkspolizei and returned his membership card of the
Socialist Unity Party at the same time.
BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt had qualified for the
DDR-Oberliga in the 1988-89 season. Rudwaleit would serve as reserve goalkeeper behind Andreas Hawa during the 1989-90 season.
Rudwaleit commuted between Berlin and
Eisenhüttenstadt
Eisenhüttenstadt (literally "ironworks city" in German; , dsb, Pśibrjog) is a town in the Oder-Spree district of the state of Brandenburg, Germany, on the border with Poland. East Germany founded the city in 1950. It was known as Stalinstadt ( ...
. He had received a new
Lada only a year before. A prominent player in BFC Dynamo could order a new car every third year. He traded in his Lada for a used
Mercedes 280 after ''
Die Wende
The Peaceful Revolution (german: Friedliche Revolution), as a part of the Revolutions of 1989, was the process of sociopolitical change that led to the opening of East Germany's borders with the West, the end of the ruling of the Socialist Unity ...
''.
There were also a few other Berliners in the team who commuted, but Rudwaleit held the speed record for the journey between Berlin and Eisenhüttenstadt by car. He had managed to complete the journey in just 35 minutes with his Mercedes 280.
Rudwaleit became the first-choice goalkeeper of the successor club
Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl
Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl was a German association football club based in Eisenhüttenstadt in Brandenburg. The club dissolved in 2016 and merged into FC Eisenhüttenstadt. FC Eisenhüttenstadt plays in the sixth tier Brandenburg-Liga as of ...
in the
1990–91 NOFV-Oberliga
The 1990–91 season of the former DDR-Oberliga, renamed NOFV-Oberliga for this season, was the last season of the top East German league.
After the season, all East German leagues were dissolved and their teams placed in the German football lea ...
.
Rudwaleit joined
Tennis Borussia Berlin
Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Westend in Berlin.
History
The team was founded in 1902 as ''Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong-Gesellschaft Borussia'' taking its name from its origins as a tennis and ta ...
in the 1991-92 season. He played two seasons for Tennis Borussia Berlin in the third tier
NOFV-Oberliga Nord
The NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of the former East Germany and West Berlin. It covers the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and northern Saxony ...
. Tennis Borussia Berlin reached the final of the 1992-93
Berlin Cup. The team defeated
Türkiyemspor Berlin 2-0 in the final at the
Mommsenstadion on 6 May 1993. Rudwaleit missed only two of the 66 league matches during his two seasons Tennis Borussia Berlin and helped Tennis Borussia Berlin qualify for the
2. Bundesliga
The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...
at the end of
1992-93 season. Rudwaleit retired from professional football after the 1992-93 season, to continue in amateur football. He played for BSC Marzahn in the
Verbandsliga Berlin
The Berlin-Liga (VI), formerly the Verbandsliga Berlin, is the highest league for football teams exclusively in the German capital. Since German reunification in 1990, it has been the highest level of domestic football in the city, replacing the A ...
from 1993 to 1997 and then for FV Erkner 1920 in the Spreeliga from 1997 to 1998.
Coaching career
Rudwaleit continued as a youth coach at FV Erkner 1920 after retiring as a football player. He then became the coach of the first team FV Erkner 1920.
Rudwaleit returned to BFC Dynamo as goalkeeping coach at the beginning of 2000 and joined the coaching staff of
Jürgen Bogs
Jürgen Bogs (born 19 January 1947) is a German football coach who led BFC Dynamo to ten consecutive DDR-Oberliga titles from 1979 to 1988. Bogs was a youth coach at BFC Dynamo before becoming the coach of the first team in 1977. The ten consec ...
. He served as goalkeeping coach at BFC Dynamo alongside his role as coach of FV Ekner 1920 in the Kreisklasse.
Rudwaleit made a brief return as a player of BFC Dynamo in 2001. He agreed to help the team as a reserve goalkeeper behind first-choice goalkeeper
Nico Thomaschewski during the match against
VfB Lichterfelde
Lichterfelder FC was a German association football club from the Berlin district of Lichterfelde. The club had approximately 1,300 members and included the country's largest youth department.
History
The history of the association was marked ...
at the beginning of
2001-02 season on 18 August 2001. The new reserve goalkeeper Lobomir Padalik had not yet received permission to play.
Insolvency proceedings were opened against BFC Dynamo on 1 November 2001. The club had to continue under amateur conditions. Coach Bogs then announced that he would not continue. Assistant coach
Mario Maek took over as new coach, with Rudwaleit as his assistant. The team was drawn against VfB Fortuna Biesdorf in the Round of 16 of the 2001-02 Berlin Cup. The match was played at the Stadion im Sportforum on 13 March 2002. BFC Dynamo had difficulties putting a team together, as the match was played in the middle of the week. Only nine players from the reserve team were available, the rest were either tied to their military service or prevented from participating because of work. Both Rudwaleit and Maek had to join the team. This time, Rudwaleit also got to play. At the age of 44 years, 7 months and 10 days, he became the oldest player ever in BFC Dynamo. During the match he also got to play together with his son Robert Rudwaleit, who had then made his third appearance for BFC Dynamo.
The German writer Steffen Karas writes that Rudwaleit played the match as goalkeeper, and that regular goalkeeper Luke Naughton played up front, with Maek as
libero. In such a case, Rudwaleit has never previously conceded more goals during a match for BFC Dynamo, his negative record until then was 0-5 against
SV Werder Bremen in the
1987-88 European Cup.
However, Rudwaleit himself states that he helped the team as a libero during the spring.
Rudwaleit left his coaching role at FV Erkner in 2001. He served as assistant coach of BFC Dynamo until 2003 and then continued as goalkeeping coach. Rudwaleit again became an assistant coach after the resignation of coach
Christian Backs in the spring of 2005. Rudwaleit initially took over as interim coach in the first match after the resignation of Back, away against FC Schönberg 95 on 21 April 2005. Assistant coach Rajko Fijalek then took over as interim coach, with Rudwaleit as his assistant. Fijalek and Rudwaleit led the team for the rest of the 2004-05 season.
Jürgen Piepenburg then became the new coach. However, Piepienburg was soon dismissed, after an 8-0 debacle away against
rival
A rivalry is the state of two people or groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship. Rivalry is the "against each other" spirit between two competing sides. The relationship itself may also be called "a rivalry", and each participant o ...
1. FC Union Berlin
1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V., commonly known as 1. FC Union Berlin () or Union Berlin, is a professional German football club in Köpenick, Berlin.
The club's origins can be traced to 1906, when its predecessor FC Olympia Oberschöneweid ...
in the
2005-06 NOFV-Oberliga Nord on 21 August 2005. Rajko Fijak again took over as interim coach, with goalkeeping coach Rudwaleit as his assisant. Fijalek then officially became the new coach and Rudwaleit continued as goalkeeping coach and assistant coach.
Rudwaleit was appointed new sports director of BFC Dynamo at the general meeting on 6 June 2006. He thus also took a seat in the club's presidium. Fijalek resigned with immediate effect due to personal reasons on 8 September 2006. Shortly thereafter, Rudwaleit also resigned. Rudwaleit then retired from all his positions in BFC Dynamo. However, Rudwaleit returned as goalkeeping coach at BFC Dynamo in January 2008. He would once again be involved in coaching the team, after the resignation of coach Volkan Uluc during the spring of 2009. Assistant coach Hakan Pinar took over, with the help of goalkeeping coach Rudwaleit and team manager
Jörn Lenz. Rudwaleit served as goalkeeping coach at BFC Dynamo until the end of the 2008-09 season.
Rudwaleit has since served as goalkeeping coach at SV Woltersdorf and FV Erkner 1920.
International career
Rudwaleit was part of the
East Germany national football team for nearly a decade. He was the first-choice goalkeeper of the national football team, until
René Müller became the undisputed number one in the middle of the 1980s. He was part of the
East German Olympic team that won the silver medal in the
1980 Summer Olympics. He played five matches out of six in the tournament, including the final. Together with his teammates, he was awarded the
Patriotic Order of Merit
The Patriotic Order of Merit (German: ''Vaterländischer Verdienstorden'', or VVO) was a national award granted annually in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It was founded in 1954 and was awarded to individuals and institutions for outstanding ...
in bronze the same year. Rudwaleit made 33 appearances for the East Germany national football team until 1988.
Miscellaneous
Rudwaleit is the father of Robert Rudwaleit, who played as defender for BFC Dynamo from 2001 to 2010. He started a taxi company in
Erkner
Erkner () is a town in the Oder-Spree District of Brandenburg, Germany, located on the south-eastern edge of the German capital city Berlin.
Geography
The town is located between the lakes Dämeritzsee, a part of the river Spree, and Flakensee, s ...
in 1997.
The taxi company is owned by his wife and Rudwaleit worked for the company as an emplyee.
Rudwaleit has stated that he is a fan of
FC Bayern Munich. He was a club member of FC Bayern Munich as of 2021.
Honours
BFC Dynamo
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East German Champion
** Winner: (10)
1978–79,
1979–80,
1980–81,
1981–82,
1982–83,
1983–84,
1984–85,
1985–86,
1986–87,
1987–88
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FDGB-Pokal
The FDGB-Pokal (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Pokal or Free German Trade Union Federation Cup) was an elimination football tournament held annually in East Germany. It was the second most important national title in East German football af ...
** Winner:
1987–88,
1988–89
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DFV-Supercup
The DFV-Supercup (also known as ''Pokal des Deutschen Sportechos'') was the super cup of East German football, played between the winners of the DDR-Oberliga and the FDGB-Pokal.
History
It was originally planned to start in 1988, but was postpo ...
** Winner: 1989
Tennis Borussia Berlin
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NOFV-Oberliga Nord
The NOFV-Oberliga Nord is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the northern states of the former East Germany and West Berlin. It covers the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and northern Saxony ...
** Winner:
1992-93
*
Berlin Cup
** Winner: 1992-93
Gallery
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-W0426-0300, Fußball-Olympiaauswahl der DDR, Mannschaftsfoto.jpg, Bodo Rudwaleit (second from left) with the East Germany national football team at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark on 26 April 1980.
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0503-032, BFC Dynamo - Dynamo Dresden 1-1.jpg, Rudwaleit prevents a goal by Dynamo Dresden
Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, are a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Ka ...
during the match between BFC Dynamo and Dynamo Dresden in the 1988-89 DDR-Oberliga on 5 March 1989.
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0401-021, FDGB-Pokal, Finale, BFC Dynamo - FC Karl-Marx-Stadt 1-0.jpg, Rudwaleit with supporters of BFC Dynamo after the successful 1988-89 FDGB-Pokal final at the Stadion der Weltjugend
Stadion der Weltjugend was a multi-use stadium in the locality of Mitte in the eponymous borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. It was inaguruated on 20 May 1950 by the First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, Walter Ulbricht for the first ...
on 1 April 1989.
References
External links
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1957 births
Living people
People from Oder-Spree
People from Bezirk Frankfurt
German footballers
East German footballers
Footballers from Brandenburg
Berliner FC Dynamo players
Eisenhüttenstädter FC Stahl players
Tennis Borussia Berlin players
Berliner FC Dynamo managers
DDR-Oberliga players
Association football goalkeepers
East Germany international footballers
East Germany under-21 international footballers
Olympic footballers of East Germany
Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
German football managers