Name: Klaus Stürmer



Country: Germany
Club: Hamburger Sport-Verein
Position: *AMF, SS, WF
Side: LF/LS
Age: 22-26 years (09/08/1935)

Height: * 172 cm
Weight: * 74 kg

Attack: 86
Defence: 44
Balance: 78
Stamina: 81
Top Speed: 76
Acceleration: 78
Response: 77
Agility: 79
Dribble Accuracy: 88
Dribble Speed: 76
Short Pass Accuracy: 89
Short Pass Speed: 78
Long Pass Accuracy: 85
Long Pass Speed: 76
Shot Accuracy: 86
Shot Power: 83
Shot Technique: 82
Free Kick Accuracy: 73
Curling: 75
Header: 77
Jump: 74
Technique: 88
Aggression: 78
Mentality: 80
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 89

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 7
Weak Foot Frequency: 7
Consistency: 6
Growth Type: Early Peak

CARDS:
P20 Talisman
S02 Passer
S05 1-touch Play

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Playmaking - Passing - 1 touch Pass

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded

INFO

Klaus Stürmer was one of the best HSV playmakers ever, although he was great scorer as well. Mainly inside right, had excellent understanding with Uwe Seeler forming very dangerous duo. Great playmaker who run a lot, commanding the attaccking play of the team and scoring himself, good passer, very mobile and skillful on the ball, but slow. An elegant, technically versed inside right who spent the first half of his career playing for Hamburg and the rest in Switzerland. Klaus Stürmer was an important player in the rise of Uwe Seeler. When Stürmer died in 1971 of cancer, ‘kicker’ wrote: “Klaus Stürmer was the thinker – Uwe the executor. What Stürmer plotted, Uwe put into action. Seeler anticipated Stürmer’s ideas. A harmonious duo in total unison. Rarely did two players complement each other like Klaus and Uwe.” President Carl-Heinz Mahlmann made sure that the two outstanding offensive talents Seeler and Sturmer could be used in friendlies before their first league round to the north, in 1954/55. The first game in the league team denied the two friends 15 August 1953 in a friendly against Göttingen 05 On the start date of the league round in 1954/55, 29 August 1954, debuted as "twins" on and off the field titled young talents in the 3-0 home win against VfB Oldenburg in the Oberliga Nord. From 1955 to 1961, the "arm" of the HSV-game, the distinguished but also for goal and tireless dedication in addition to his dazzling technique, in 35 games with 12 goals in the final round of the German Cup football part. With HSV it was in 1958 against FC Schalke 04 in the final and won with him on 25 June 1960 with a 3-2 victory against 1 FC Köln, the German championship. In the European Cup of Champions 1960/61, with the matches against Young Boys Bern, Burnley FC and the three games against Barcelona playmaker Hamburg also convinced in this competition. For financial reasons, substitute striker in October 1961 in the Switzerland for FC Zurich. His last league game he played for Hamburg on 17 September 1961 in a 3-1 home win against FC St. Pauli, where he shot his comrades and a 1-0 lead. Overall, the man from Glindemann from 1954 to 1961 completed for Hamburger SV in the Oberliga Nord 158 matches and scored 114 goals. Teammate Gerhard Krug later described the change of Klaus Stürmer to Zurich "a serious mistake" for HSV. After just six league games debuted Klaus Stürmer on 16 October 1954 in the German national football team at international match in Hanover against France. Previously, he was already in the squad of the national coach Sepp Herberger for the international match on 26 September 1954 in Brussels against Belgium. Two missions in the B national team followed in 1955 and 1956. For Northern Germany joined the playmaker and scorer of Hamburger SV in several representative games. His second international appearance, he was appointed by Herberger, after a seven year hiatus. At the World Cup qualifier on 10 May 1961 in Berlin against Northern Ireland he played in the crucial 2-1 success to attend the World Cup in Chile in 1962. Forward did not participate in the World Cup tournaments in 1958 and 1962, not even belonged to the then 40-banns. This alone through his "blind trust" with Uwe Seeler, the HSV-arm could set the scene like no other, the only two countries for many games of Klaus Stürmer were not evident. Now he lives in Stallikon, off of Lake Zurich ex-Hamburg won in 1963 and 1966 with FC Zurich, the Swiss championship. Due to the 2-0 win in the Cup final on 11 April 1966 in Bern against Servette Geneva, along with his team-mates Jakob Kuhn and Fritz Künzli 1966, he was cup winner. In Europe Champions Cup in 1963/64 he moved with FC Zurich after wins against Dundalk FC, Galatasaray and PSV Eindhoven in the semi-final against Real Madrid one. In the round of 1964/65, played striker for FC Young Fellows Zurich in the National League B. From 1967 to 1969 worked as a striker player-coach at FC Grenchen before still from 1969 to 1971 the station joined FC Winterthur. In 1970, a cancer was diagnosed with Klaus Stürmer, what the trained radio mechanic died in June 1971 at the age of 35 years. Rothbaum on the World Cup team came in 1954, led by former Federal coach Sepp Herberger, a memory game to honor the deceased and to support a wife and son.