Dietmar Bruck

Footballer (born 1944)

Dietmar Bruck
Personal information
Date of birth	(1944-04-19) 19 April 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth	Danzig, Germany
Position(s)	Full-back
Youth career
	Coventry City
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1961–1970	Coventry City	189	(7)
1970–1972	Charlton Athletic	56	(0)
1972–1974	Northampton Town	41	(0)
1974–1975	Nuneaton Borough
1975–1977	Weymouth
Managerial career
1975–1977	Weymouth (player-manager)
1977–19xx	Redditch United
1985	Leamington (caretaker manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dietmar Bruck (born 19 April 1944) is a former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a full-back for Coventry City, where he spent the majority of his career, Charlton Athletic and Northampton Town.^[1]

Career

Bruck began his football career as an apprentice with Coventry City, and made his league debut at home to Swindon Town on 28 April 1961, aged just 17 years 9 days.^[2] He became the first substitute used by Coventry City when he replaced Ron Farmer in a 3–3 draw against Manchester City on 4 September 1965.^[3] He was part of the Coventry team that won the Second Division title in 1967,^[4] and played 189 league games for the club.^[1]

He moved to Charlton Athletic in October 1970 for a fee of £15,000,^[5] and two years later joined Northampton Town.

After leaving Northampton he was part of the Nuneaton Borough team that reached the first round proper of the 1974–75 FA Cup^[6] before moving to Weymouth as player-manager. He was sacked from his post at Weymouth in January 1977,^[7] subsequently managed Redditch United and Racing Club Warwick,^[4] and in the 1985–86 season had a week as caretaker manager of Leamington.^[8]

Personal life

Bruck was born in Danzig, then in Germany, and came to England as a child. He was raised in Coventry and attended Bishop Ullathorne RC School.^[9] After his football career came to an end, he worked as a financial consultant for an insurance company,^[4] and after retirement worked as a "community champion" with Tesco in Coventry. Bruck also worked part time as a PE Teacher at Abbotsford School in Kenilworth in the late 1970s.^[10]^[11] He was married to Maureen until her death, and in 2003 survived a car crash in which his partner, Sue, was killed.^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b Dietmar Bruck at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
^ Padgett, Richard (29 August 2009). "Jeffers enters top ten of Coventry City youngsters". Coventry Telegraph. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
^ Brown, Jim (28 August 2004). "The City subs who scored at the double" (reprint). Coventry Telegraph. FindArticles. Retrieved 26 November 2009. ^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c Struthers, Greg (19 September 2004). "Caught in Time: Coventry win the Second Division title, 1967". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
^ "Campbell and Rodrigues transferred". The Times. 15 October 1970. p. 21.
^ "Tooting gain 1,200 tickets for cup tie". The Times. 26 November 1974. p. 13.
^ "Terras' Timeline". Weymouth F.C. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
^ Edwards, Paul. "Southern League Midland Division 1985–1986". Leamington F.C. Archived from the original on 9 March 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
^ ^a ^b Nanda, Samantha (1 October 2003). "Ex-Sky Blues star tells of crash tragedy" (reprint). Coventry Telegraph. FindArticles. Retrieved 26 November 2009. ^{[dead link]}
^ "Ex-Coventry star Dietmar Bruck runs fun day at Ricoh Arena Tesco". Coventry Telegraph. 25 June 2009. Archived from the original on 3 July 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
^ "Donation brightens up day". George Eliot Hospital. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2009.