former professional football player and longtime Manager Rudi Assauer is on the afternoon of the 6. February passed away. Confirms his life partner.

Rudi Assauer is on Wednesday, 6. February, surrounded by his family, former Pro and Ex deceased Manager was 74 years old, The football world mourns the passing of a legend

Update from 21.44 at: , Uli Hoeness said in the ARD during the half-time break of the game Hertha BSC vs. FC Bayern Munich*: “We have fought many battles. We have speeded often, but then always understood. He was a robust guy who is missing the football.“

Update from 21.31 at: Clemens Tönnies, the current Supervisory Board of Schalke: “Without Rudy, we would all not be here today. He was the architect of the modern Schalke. Rudi, we are very sad and will never forget you.“ The Ex-captain of the Royal Blues, Benedikt Höwedes, posted his condolences.

Reinhard Grindel (DFB President) said: “With Rudi Assauer, the German football loses an outstanding personality. He has moved in 307 Bundesliga matches as a player, as a coach and especially as a Manager of FC Schalke 04 a lot for the Association football in Germany. My sympathies are especially with the family.”

Rudi Assauer is dead – Schalke, Dortmund and Bochum mourn

Update 21.15: , The football world mourns the loss of the legend. Rudi Assauer has dominated the Bundesliga and, above all, the FC Schalke 04. Before the DFB Cup game of the Scarce a minute’s silence was held.

FC Schalke 04 took on Twitter to the news position, and announced, as well, against Fortuna Düsseldorf with a black ribbon

VfL Bochum has sent sincere condolences in the direction of the Royal blue.

Borussia Dortmund Rudi Assauer was in his active career successfully. The BVB has also expressed his grief.

Gerald Asamoah, a former Schalke player, had also left some touching words.

Schalke legend Rudi Assauer’s dead – wife, also a salvation”

Gelsenkirchen – Schalke football mourns: “it is Sad but legend Rudi Assauer, has died. Beate Schneider, the wife of the 74-Year-old, confirmed this Info. “Rudi died today afternoon. It is sad but also a relief for him. We are all so sad,“ Schneider quoted on bunte.de . In 2012, it was announced that Assauer is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. He addressed his illness in the autobiography.

especially for FC Schalke 04 he coined over the decades. Never forget the Almost championship from the year 2001, as Assauer cheered, Bayern scored a hit and the dream of League-burst title. Until 2006, he was Scarce as a Manager. During his time as the person in charge of the Royal Blues in 1997 lifted the UEFA Cup – the predecessor of the Europa League – and were in 2001 and 2002 DFB-Cup winner.

Rudi Assauer – forever be linked with FC Schalke 04

His Name is forever linked inextricably with FC Schalke 04. In the past few decades, no one coined the tradition club from the area as sustainably as Rudi Assauer. “Without these Fans, without Tradition, without religious would-like admiration of this club dead already. This is the philosophy of Schalke 04,“ said Assauer. And described so vividly, what the football club meant.

was Already during his lifetime, he as a powerful Manager, the considered Schalke as his life’s work, a Royal blue legend. Now Rudolf “Rudi” Assauer, who had suffered for years from Alzheimer’s, died on Wednesday at the age of 74 years. This has been confirmed by the German press Agency from circles of the family. First, the “Bunte had reported” the death of Assauers. He is survived by two daughters, Katy and Bettina.

+ Rudi Assauer and Huub Stevens, with the UEFA Cup in 1997.©picture alliance / dpa / Ferdinand Ostrop

“Either I’ll be Schalke or Schalke get me” is one of the most famous phrases Assauers. In retrospect, one can say that he has managed to Schalke. In two terms (1981 to 1986 and 1993 to 2006) he was a total of 18 years for the turf club as a Manager. The big success came, however, when the then-President, “sun king,” Günter Eichberg, in highest Emergency in April 1993. Schalke was financially at the bottom, it is the license threatened withdrawal. In painstaking work, Assauer and his colleagues on the Board, recovered in the following years, the confidence of the banks and sponsors, and thus laid the Foundation for later athletic success.

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