Uwe Rahn (born 21 May 1962) is a German former professional
footballer
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who played as an
attacking midfielder
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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 boundari ...
.
Career
Rahn played 318
Bundesliga matches in his professional career, scoring the majority of his 107 Bundesliga goals in his eight years at
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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where he grew to a
West Germany
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international and lifted the
kicker
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-Torjägerkanone award for scoring the most goals in the Bundesliga of 1986–87. The
attacking midfielder
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scored 24 goals that season, fourteen in the course of the final nine weeks of the season. Subsequent to this achievement, Rahn was awarded
Footballer of the Year (Germany)
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in 1987. Shortly after, he was poised to join
PSV Eindhoven
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as a replacement for
Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit (; born Rudi Dil; 1 September 1962) is a Dutch footballer and subsequent manager who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s as a defender, midfielder or forward. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all ...
, but a move stalled and did not take place. Less impressive in scoring the season after, Rahn's form decreased massively then and ended in pittance-like transfers to
1. FC Köln,
Hertha BSC
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,
Fortuna Düsseldorf
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,
Eintracht Frankfurt
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and finally
Urawa Red Diamonds
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of
Japan
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, the club where he finished his career. All the way through those clubs and years he couldn't get his form (and career) back on, something signified by the decreasing length of his spells.
Rahn, who was from time to time used as
striker, appeared in a total of 14 matches for
West Germany
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in between 1984 and 1987. In those games he scored five goals, the most important of them seconds after coming on as a second-half substitute for
Felix Magath
Wolfgang Felix Magath (; born 26 July 1953) is a German football manager and former player.
The most notable spell of his playing career was with Hamburger SV, with whom he won three Bundesliga titles, the 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup Final a ...
on his debut against
Sweden
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in a World Cup qualifier on 17 October 1984. Hampered by injury, he was part of the
1986 FIFA World Cup
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squad of his nation but did not come to action in the tournament. Rahn also competed for West Germany at the
1984 Summer Olympics
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.
Rahn is not related to
Helmut Rahn
Helmut Rahn (16 August 1929 – 14 August 2003), known as ''Der Boss'' (The Boss), was a German footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in 1954 FIFA World Cup Fin ...
, the
1954 FIFA World Cup
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-winning goalscorer of
West Germany
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.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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DFB-Pokal
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runner-up:
1983–84
1. FC Köln
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Bundesliga runner-up:
1988–89,
1989–90
West Germany
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FIFA World Cup
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runner-up:
1986
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Individual
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Footballer of the Year (Germany)
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: 1987
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Bundesliga top scorer:
1986–87
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kicker
Kicker or The Kicker may refer to:
Sports
* Placekicker, a position in American and Canadian football
* ''Kicker'' (sports magazine), in Germany
* Kicker, the German colloquial term for an association football player
* Kicker, the word used i ...
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Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1986–87
References
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1962 births
Living people
Footballers from Mannheim
German footballers
Association football midfielders
Germany under-21 international footballers
Germany international footballers
Kicker-Torjägerkanone Award winners
Bundesliga players
J1 League players
Borussia Mönchengladbach players
1. FC Köln players
Hertha BSC players
Urawa Red Diamonds players
Eintracht Frankfurt players
Fortuna Düsseldorf players
1986 FIFA World Cup players
Olympic footballers of West Germany
Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
German expatriate footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate footballers in Japan