Manfred Burgsmueller - No luck at the end: Manni Burgsmueller was the fifth-highest scorer in Bundesliga history, a clever striker and an old fox. His misfortune was that with Gerd Mueller around he barely figured for the national team, winning only three caps. He scored 213 top-flight goals for Rot-Weiss Essen, Borussia Dortmund, Nuernberg and Werder Bremen.
At BVB it is still Burgsmueller, not Aubameyang, Chapuisat or Zorc, who holds the club scoring record with 135 Bundesliga goals. He ended his sporting life by playing six years of American football for Rhein Fire Duesseldorf and made the record books as the oldest player ever in that sport. The long career left its mark: arthrosis.
Bild once launched a solidarity appeal and described his suffering in detail. Burgsmueller died in May 2019 at the age of 69.