Franz "Bulle" Roth (born 27 April 1946 in Memmingen) is a former

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. He earned four caps for the Germany national football team and was nicknamed "the Bull" due to his physical playing style.

Career

Roth was a big game player and had a knack of scoring important goals in massive games for

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. He scored the only goal of the

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against

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, which was enough to give Bayern victory, and their first triumph in European competition. He opened the scoring in the

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win over Leeds United, a game in which Roth won the midfield battle against

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. Roth scored for the third time in the final of a European competition, with his 57th-minute strike against

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enough to give Bayern a 1–0 victory, and retain the

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for the third straight season. On the domestic scene he scored 72 goals in 322 West German top-flight matches. With Roth FC Bayern won 4 Bundesliga titles. Roth is one of the most decorated players in Bayern's history and has been voted into their Hall of Fame.

Honours

* Bundesliga: 1968–69, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74 * DFB-Pokal: 1965–66, 1966–67, 1968–69, 1970–71 *

: 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76 * UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1966–67 * Intercontinental Cup:

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* * * 1946 births Living people German men's footballers Germany men's international footballers Germany men's under-21 international footballers FC Bayern Munich footballers Bundesliga players Sportspeople from Memmingen Footballers from Swabia (Bavaria) Men's association football midfielders UEFA Champions League winning players West German men's footballers West German expatriate sportspeople in Austria FC Red Bull Salzburg players West German expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria {{germany-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub