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German footballer
Michael Tönnies
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German footballer
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Essen, Germany
Place of death
Essen, Germany
Age
57 years
Stats
Height:
182 cm
Weight:
80 kg
Sports Teams
Rot-Weiss Essen
FC Schalke 04
SpVgg Bayreuth
1. FC Bocholt
MSV Duisburg
Wuppertaler SV
Germany national under-18 football team
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Biography
Michael Tönnies (19 December 1959 – 26 January 2017) was a German football player.
Club career
He played in the (West) German top-flight for FC Schalke 04 and MSV Duisburg and scored in 40 matches 13 goals.
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 only 57, of unknown causes.
Honours
- Scorer of the second fastest hat-trick in Bundesliga history: 6 minutes (10th, 11th and 15th minute, 27 August 1991 in a 6:2 win against the Karlsruher SC, he scored 5 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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