Jürgen Kurbjuhn is a former German

Germany

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 football player.

Kurbjuhn had excelled as a youth-international for West Germany during his time with amateur club Buxtehude

Buxtehude

Buxtehude is a town on the Este River in Northern Germany in the district of Stade and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region . Buxtehude is a steadily growing medium-sized town and the second largest in the district of Stade. It lies on the southern borders of the Altes Land within easy reach of...

r SV and joined Hamburg

Hamburg

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's biggest, Hamburger SV

Hamburger SV

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, in 1960 when the club had just been crowned German football champion

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. In 1961 he was part of the Hamburg side reaching the semi-final of the European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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 against Barcelona

FC Barcelona

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 and part of the 1963 German Cup

DFB-Pokal

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 winning side of the club. He retired, because of injury, after ten goals in 242 Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga

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 matches in 1972, mostly as a left back.

His West Germany career lasted for only five matches in the space of April 1962 to May 1966, allowing him to stay unused by Sepp Herberger

Sepp Herberger

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 at the 1962 FIFA World Cup

1962 FIFA World Cup

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 but keeping him off another participation as he did not make it into the squad of Herberger's successor Helmut Schön

Helmut Schön

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 for the 1966 FIFA World Cup

1966 FIFA World Cup

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. He played his last international on 4 May 1966, when the West Germans beat Ireland

Republic of Ireland national football team

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 4-0 in a friendly.

Since 1988 he has owned an insurance company in Buxtehude

Buxtehude

Buxtehude is a town on the Este River in Northern Germany in the district of Stade and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region . Buxtehude is a steadily growing medium-sized town and the second largest in the district of Stade. It lies on the southern borders of the Altes Land within easy reach of...

.

Honours

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...
  
   finalist: 1968
• DFB-Pokal
  DFB-Pokal
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  winner: 1963
• DFB-Pokal finalist: 1967.