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Michael Tönnies

Michael Tönnies

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club career

Tönnies played in the (West) German top-flight for FC Schalke 04 and MSV Duisburg and scored in 40 matches 13 goals.

Club
Rot-Weiss Essen (1985–1987)
Club
Schalke 04 (1978–1981)
Club
SpVgg Bayreuth (1981–1982)
Club
1. FC Bocholt (1982–1985)
Club
MSV Duisburg (1987–1992)
Club
Wuppertaler SV (1992–1994)
Club
Germany national under-18 football team (1977–1978)
League
Bundesliga
League
2. Bundesliga
National team
Germany

Personal

Personal life and death

Tönnies was known as a chainsmoker and was diagnosed with lung damage in 2005 and had a lung transplant in April 2013. He died in January 2017, aged 57, of unknown causes.

Legacy

Honours

Scorer of the second fastest hat-trick in Bundesliga history: six minutes (10th, 11th and 15th minute, 27 August 1991 in a 6–2 win against the Karlsruher SC, he scored five goals overall in that game). The performance was beaten by Robert Lewandowski on 22 September 2015. Second Fußball-Bundesliga 1990–91 top scorer: 29 goals.

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Identifiers & aliases
Description

German footballer (1959-2017)

Position

forward

Extract from Wikipedia

Michael Tönnies was a German professional footballer who played as a striker.

▸ Source: Wikipedia
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