Franz Krauthausen (born 27 February 1946 in

Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...

) is a German former professional

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who played as a

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. He spent seven seasons in the

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with

1. FC Köln 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...

, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen,

FC Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which play ...

and

FC Schalke 04 Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhi ...

, after which he finished his career playing in the US league.

References

Honours

: 1971–72, 1972–73

External links

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Franz Krauthausen
at VI.nl 1946 births Living people German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders 1. FC Köln players Rot-Weiß Oberhausen players FC Bayern Munich footballers FC Schalke 04 players FC Volendam players Bundesliga players Las Vegas Quicksilvers players San Diego Sockers (1978–1996) players California Surf players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players West German expatriate men's footballers West German expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands West German expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Footballers from Oberhausen West German men's footballers {{germany-footy-forward-1940s-stub