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German Veteran Football Manager Rudi Gutendorf Passes Away

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Munich: German football manager Rudi Gutendorf passed away on Sunday, according to German media reports. Gutendorf was 93 as per an ESPNFC report. He guided a record 55 teams, including 18 national sides.

Rudi Gutendorf’s management career spanned half a century as he coached Chile (1972-73), Australia (1978-79) and China (1988, 1991-2) and others. Gutendorf was in charge of Rwanda in 1999-2000 as the central African country was recovering from the 1994 civil war. His last assignment with a national team was with the Pacific island nation of Samoa in 2003. IANS