Hans Pflügler
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Johannes Christian Pflügler | ||
| Date of birth | 27 March 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Freising, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1967–1975 | SV Vötting-Weihenstephan | ||
| 1975–1979 | Bayern Munich | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1982 | Bayern Munich II | ||
| 1981–1992 | Bayern Munich | 276 | (36) |
| 1992–1997 | Bayern Munich II | 66 | (6) |
| 1995 | Bayern Munich | 1 | (0) |
| 1997–2001 | SE Freising | ||
| 2001–2002 | Bayern Munich II | 32 | (4) |
| 2002–2005 | SE Freising | ||
| Total | 375 | (46) | |
| National team | |||
| 1987–1990 | West Germany | 11 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Johannes Christian "Hans" Pflügler (born 27 March 1960) is a German retired footballer. He could operate as either a left back or a central defender, and played solely for Bayern Munich, winning eight major titles and appearing in nearly 400 official games.
Pflügler represented West Germany at the 1990 World Cup and Euro 1988, winning the former tournament.
Born in Freising, Pflügler made his professional debuts in 1981–82, with the only club he ever knew, local FC Bayern Munich. After two experimental seasons, he became an automatic first-choice, scoring 27 Bundesliga goals from 1983 to 1988 combined and playing all the games and minutes in the 1986–87 European Cup, as the team finally finished second to FC Porto.
After helping the Bavarians to five leagues and three cups, Pflügler only managed to appear in 14 matches in the 1991–92 campaign, and decided to retire. However, a flood of injuries to the side in 1995 prompted a request by manager Giovanni Trapattoni which the player accepted, appearing on 8 April in a home game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern where he was also booked; even more astonishingly, he spent the entire 2001–02 with the B-team in Regionalliga Süd, helping it to a final tenth place at the age of 42.
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