Uwe Rahn
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Uwe Rahn is a former German
football
player.
Rahn played 318 Bundesliga matches in his professional career, scoring the majority of his 107 Bundesliga goals in his eight years at Borussia Mönchengladbach
where he grew to a West Germany international and lifted the kicker
-Torjägerkanone award for scoring the most goals in the Bundesliga of 1986-1987. The attacking midfielder scored 24 goals that season, magnificent fourteen in the course of the final nine weeks of the season. Subsequent to this achievement, Rahn was handed the Fußballer des Jahres
award in 1987. Shortly after, he was poised to join PSV Eindhoven as a replacement for Ruud Gullit
, 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, Fortuna Düsseldorf
, Eintracht Frankfurt
and finally Urawa Red Diamonds
of Japan
, 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.
Uwe Rahn, who was from time to time used as striker
, appeared in a total of 14 matches for West Germany 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
on his debut against Sweden
in a World Cup qualifier on October 17, 1984. Hampered by injury, he was part of the 1986 FIFA World Cup
squad of his nation but did not come to action in the tournament. Rahn also competed for West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics
.
Rahn is not related to Helmut Rahn
, the 1954 FIFA World Cup
-winning goalscorer of West Germany.
|1980/81||rowspan="9"|Borussia Mönchengladbach
||rowspan="9"|Bundesliga||14||3||||||||||14||3
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|1981/82||30||2||||||||||30||2
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|1982/83||24||3||||||||||24||3
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|1983/84||31||14||||||||||31||14
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|1984/85||34||14||||||||||34||14
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|1985/86||28||9||||||||||28||9
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|1986/87||31||24||||||||||31||24
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|1987/88||25||12||||||||||25||12
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|1988/89||10||0||||||||||10||0
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|1988/89||rowspan="2"|Köln
||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||20||7||||||||||20||7
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|1989/90||23||6||||||||||23||6
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|1990/91||Hertha Berlin
||Bundesliga||21||5||||||||||21||5
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|1991/92||Fortuna Düsseldorf
||Bundesliga||15||5||||||||||15||5
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|1992/93||Eintracht Frankfurt
||Bundesliga||12||3||||||||||12||3
|-
|1993|| rowspan="2"|Urawa Red Diamonds
||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||7||1||2||0||4||0||13||1
|-
|1994||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
318||107||||||||||318||107
7||1||2||0||4||0||13||1
325||108||2||0||4||0||331||108
|}
|1984||2||1
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|1985||7||3
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|1986||2||1
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|1987||3||0
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!Total||14||5
|}
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
player.
Rahn played 318 Bundesliga matches in his professional career, scoring the majority of his 107 Bundesliga goals in his eight years at Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach is a German association football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the Bundesliga and is one of the country's most well-known, well-supported, and successful teams. Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 40,000 members and is the sixth...
where he grew to a West Germany international and lifted the kicker
Kicker (sports magazine)
kicker Sportmagazin is Germany's leading sports magazine and is focused primarily on football. The magazine was founded in 1920 by German football pioneer Walther Bensemann and is published twice a week, usually Monday and Thursday, in Nuremberg...
-Torjägerkanone award for scoring the most goals in the Bundesliga of 1986-1987. The attacking midfielder scored 24 goals that season, magnificent fourteen in the course of the final nine weeks of the season. Subsequent to this achievement, Rahn was handed the Fußballer des Jahres
German Footballer of the Year
The title Footballer of the Year has been awarded in Germany since 1960. In 1996 the title Women's Footballer of the Year was awarded for the first time. Both awards are determined by a poll of German football journalists from the Association of German Sports Journalists and the publication Kicker...
award in 1987. Shortly after, he was poised to join PSV Eindhoven as a replacement for Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit
OON is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup. He was named the European Footballer of the...
, 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
1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07....
, Hertha BSC, Fortuna Düsseldorf
Fortuna Düsseldorf
' is a German association football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, currently playing in the second tier of German league football, the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga...
, Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...
and finally Urawa Red Diamonds
Urawa Red Diamonds
are a professional association football club playing in Japan's football league, J. League Division 1. One of Japan and Asia's best supported teams, the club has been able to boast the highest average crowds for thirteen of the J-League's twenty season history...
of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, 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.
Uwe Rahn, who was from time to time used as striker
Striker
Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...
, appeared in a total of 14 matches for West Germany 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
Felix Magath
Wolfgang-Felix Magath is a former German football central midfielder and current manager of VfL Wolfsburg.-Playing career:...
on his debut against Sweden
Sweden national football team
The Swedish national football team represents Sweden in association football and is controlled by the Swedish Football Association, the governing body for Football in Sweden. Sweden's home ground is Råsunda Stadium in Stockholms län and their head coach is Erik Hamrén. Sweden made their first...
in a World Cup qualifier on October 17, 1984. Hampered by injury, he was part of the 1986 FIFA World Cup
1986 FIFA World Cup
The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia had been originally chosen to host the competition by FIFA but, largely due to economic reasons, was not able to do so and officially...
squad of his nation but did not come to action in the tournament. Rahn also competed for West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...
.
Rahn is not related to Helmut Rahn
Helmut Rahn
Helmut Rahn, known as Der Boss , was a German football player. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final game of the 1954 FIFA World Cup .- Career :...
, the 1954 FIFA World Cup
1954 FIFA World Cup
The 1954 FIFA World Cup, the fifth staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzerland was chosen as hosts in July 1946. The tournament set a number of all-time records for goal-scoring, including the highest average goals scored per game...
-winning goalscorer of West Germany.
Club career statistics
|-|1980/81||rowspan="9"|Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach is a German association football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the Bundesliga and is one of the country's most well-known, well-supported, and successful teams. Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 40,000 members and is the sixth...
||rowspan="9"|Bundesliga||14||3||||||||||14||3
|-
|1981/82||30||2||||||||||30||2
|-
|1982/83||24||3||||||||||24||3
|-
|1983/84||31||14||||||||||31||14
|-
|1984/85||34||14||||||||||34||14
|-
|1985/86||28||9||||||||||28||9
|-
|1986/87||31||24||||||||||31||24
|-
|1987/88||25||12||||||||||25||12
|-
|1988/89||10||0||||||||||10||0
|-
|1988/89||rowspan="2"|Köln
1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07....
||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||20||7||||||||||20||7
|-
|1989/90||23||6||||||||||23||6
|-
|1990/91||Hertha Berlin
Hertha BSC Berlin
Hertha Berliner Sport-Club von 1892, commonly known as Hertha BSC or Hertha Berlin, is a German association football club based in Berlin. A founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900, the club has a long history as Berlin's best-supported side...
||Bundesliga||21||5||||||||||21||5
|-
|1991/92||Fortuna Düsseldorf
Fortuna Düsseldorf
' is a German association football club based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, currently playing in the second tier of German league football, the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga...
||Bundesliga||15||5||||||||||15||5
|-
|1992/93||Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...
||Bundesliga||12||3||||||||||12||3
|-
|1993|| rowspan="2"|Urawa Red Diamonds
Urawa Red Diamonds
are a professional association football club playing in Japan's football league, J. League Division 1. One of Japan and Asia's best supported teams, the club has been able to boast the highest average crowds for thirteen of the J-League's twenty season history...
||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||7||1||2||0||4||0||13||1
|-
|1994||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
318||107||||||||||318||107
7||1||2||0||4||0||13||1
325||108||2||0||4||0||331||108
|}
International career statistics
|-|1984||2||1
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|1985||7||3
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|1986||2||1
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|1987||3||0
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!Total||14||5
|}
Honours
- 1986 FIFA World Cup1986 FIFA World CupThe 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia had been originally chosen to host the competition by FIFA but, largely due to economic reasons, was not able to do so and officially...
runner-up. - BundesligaFußball-BundesligaThe Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
runner-up: 1989, 1990. - Bundesliga 3rd place: 1984, 1987, 1993.
- Bundesliga top scorer: 1987.
- DFB-PokalDFB-PokalThe DFB-Pokal or DFB Cup is a German knockout football cup competition held annually. 64 teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga. It is considered the second most important national title in German football after the Bundesliga...
finalist: 1984.