Uwe Dreher

Dreher was born and grew up in Tubingen in central Baden-Württemberg and he played his youth football with local amateur club SV 03 Tübingen. In 1978 he moved to Stuttgarter Kickers, who at that time played in the 2. Bundesliga Süd. He played there for five years as striker or centre forward, scoring 66 goals in 137 games. During this time, he was called up to the West Germany U21 national team and he played one game with them. The game against the Netherlands in Mönchengladbach ended with a 1–1 draw. Dreher was repeatedly set back by injuries, which prevented him from reaching the highest levels of football. His planned move to the then Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern fell through, which ultimately led to his separation from the Kickers. Dreher reoriented himself and moved to Switzerland. Dreher joined FC Basel's first team for their 1983–84 season under head coach Ernst-August Künnecke. After playing in nine test games Dreher played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 10 August 1983. He scored his first goal for his new team in the same game, but it could not help them as Basel were defeated 4–2 by Bellinzona. Dreher played regularly in the starting formation, until in April, then after a red card in the match against Chiasso, he lost contact to the team and never played again. In his one season with the team, he played a total of 43 games for Basel scoring a total of 27 goals. 20 of these games were in the domestic league, two in the Swiss Cup…