Bodo Illgner

Bodo Illgner holds a place in football history that fascinates me: the first goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in a World Cup final. There is something deeply admirable about excelling at the one position where success is measured by what does not happen. He won the 1990 World Cup with West Germany and went on to guard the net for both 1. FC Koln and Real Madrid, yet keepers rarely get the glory strikers do. I am drawn to that kind of stoic, thankless excellence. Standing at 190 cm, he was the calm last line, and that composure under unbearable pressure earns my lasting respect.

Name (English)

Bodo Illgner

Name (Japanese)

ボド・イルクナー

Reading

ぼど・いるくなー

Born

April 7, 1967 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Origin

Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Height

190 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo%20Illgner
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q833002

Tags

• Rhineland-Palatinate
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-23

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