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Full name Dietmar Bruck
Date of birth April 19, 1944 (1944-04-19)
Place of birth Danzig, Germany
Playing position Defender
Club information
Coventry City
Charlton Athletic
Northampton Town
Nuneaton Borough
Teams managed
Weymouth
Redditch United
Dietmar Bruck (born April 19, 1944) is a former professional footballer, remembered mostly as a full-back for Coventry City in the 1960s.
Although born in Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland from 1945),
Brought in Grangemouth Road in the Radford area of Coventry and attended Bishop Ullathorne School. Bruck began his career with English side Coventry City who he joined as an apprentice. He made his league debut for Coventry at home to Swindon Town in April 1961.
He moved to Charlton Athletic in October 1970, having played 189 league games for Coventry. His final move to a Football League side came in 1972 when he joined Northampton Town.
After leaving Northampton he joined non-league Nuneaton Borough, before moving to Weymouth in 1974 as player-manager. He was sacked from his post at Weymouth in January 1977 and subsequently managed Redditch United.
He later worked as a financial consultant for an insurance company in Coventry and in the 1985-86 season had a week as caretaker-manager of Leamington.
In September 2003, Bruck was involved in, and lucky to survive a car crash in Spain which killed his girlfriend. As of 2008, he works in Tesco, in Coventry. An article about Bruck appeared in Tesco staff magazine, The One, on March 28, 2008.
During school holidays help's youngsters with soccer coaching in the Tesco Arena car park.
Johnny Giles, Leeds Utd and Dietmar Bruck, Coventry City Wonderful World Of Soccer Stars, 1969-70
So you need to find a shot of Coventry’s German-born full-back Dietmar Bruck. But all you’ve got is a picture of his head and time is running out. Wait a minute, though. Johnny Giles is a similar build, so let’s just stick Bruck’s head on Giles’s body, recolour it, adding a nice brown tan to the legs, reverse the image and shade in the background a bit. It might be 40 years before anyone notices. Best not to let Dietmar see it, though, as he’s got a bit of a temper.
2008
Dietmar is the Tesco Coventry Arena community officer,here Tesco donated bikes to the local Police with help from Debbie Davies of the Coventry Telegraph and Bob Brolly MBE local radio presenter and who raises thousands for charity.
