Sean William Dundee (born 7 December 1972) is a former professional

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who played as a striker. Born in South Africa, Dundee represented Germany national B team once.

Club career

Born in

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, Dundee began his football career in South Africa with local teams Bayview Durban and D'Alberton Callies Durban, before moving to Germany and

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in 1992. After spending the 1994–95 season with

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he signed with

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team

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. Developing to become one of the ace goalscorers in the German league, he scored 16 goals in 1995–96 and 17 goals in 1996–97. He scored 61 goals in 162 Bundesliga games. In July 1998, he joined

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club

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for £2 million, as joint managers

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and

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needed an extra striker to cover for the injured

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, who was unavailable until the winter. However, Dundee failed to break up the partnership of

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and

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during the first quarter of the season, and when Fowler returned from injury his chances of first team action were looking even more remote. He only played three games in the league for Liverpool (all of them as a substitute during the final weeks of the campaign as their bid for a

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place slipped away) and after the end of the season he returned to Germany in a £1 million move to

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. Still struggling to regain his old form, he moved to Austrian team

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in 2003. He failed to score in 18 games before returning to KSC in 2004. For the season 2006–07 he signed a two-year contract with

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. Before finishing the contract he moved back to Stuttgarter Kickers in January 2007. After leaving his German club he signed for

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in his native Durban on 17 August 2008.

International career

Dundee went as far as switching nationality to Germany, but was however never used by the

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, although he did manage a solitary appearance at "B" level, scoring once against

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Off the pitch

Dundee endorsed Sean Dundee's World Club Football, a 1997

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video game. On 13 November 2013, he returned to Germany to join amateur club VSV Büchig in the

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. He played there until the end of the 2015–16 season. Dundee became an analyst/co-commentator for the Bundesliga world feed beginning with the 2017–18 season.

Honours

VfB Stuttgart *

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References

External links

LFChistory.net player profile
*

Sean Dundee Interview with Planetfootball

Sean Dundee Interview with The Kopite
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