Rico Steinmann (born 26 December 1967 in
Karl-Marx-Stadt
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 28th largest city of Germany as ...
) is a German former professional
footballer
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who played mostly as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
He made 23 appearances for the
East Germany national team from 1986 to 1990.
Steinmann played over 300 top-flight matches in (East) Germany and the Netherlands.
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1967 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Chemnitz
Association football midfielders
German footballers
East German footballers
Footballers from Saxony
East Germany international footballers
DDR-Oberliga players
Bundesliga players
Eredivisie players
Chemnitzer FC players
1. FC Köln players
FC Twente players
German football managers
German expatriate footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
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