nationalcaps manageryears birth_date years caps goals image_size nationalyears image name caption birth_place nationalteam height nationalgoals clubs position managerclubs article_title
1 1998 10 november 1945 1976 -- 1979 1979 1979 -- 1981 172 70 25 67 89 13 15 23 250px 1971 willi lippens.jpg willi lippens `` ente '' lippens in 1970 . bedburg-hau , niederrhein , germany netherlands 1.70 m ftin on 1 borussia dortmund dallas tornado rot-weiss essen midfielder rot-weiss essen willi lippens

willi lippens

willi lippens -lrb- born 10 november 1945 -rrb- is a former german-dutch football player .
he is nicknamed `` ente '' -lrb- german for `` duck '' -rrb- due to his waddling .
born near the german-dutch border to a dutch father and a german mother , lippens spent most of his career playing for german clubs .
he played for rot-weiss essen from 1965 -- 76 and in 1980 -- 81 .
between 1976 and 1979 he played for borussia dortmund before leaving to play one season for the dallas tornado in the nasl -lrb- north american soccer league -rrb- .
lippens played in 242 bundesliga matches , scoring 92 goals , making him the player who appeared most often for `` rot-weiss '' at that level of play , as well as their top scorer .
lippens also played an international match for the netherlands , making him one of only six dutch football players to have been selected for the dutch national team while never having played in the dutch eredivisie .
the other capped players are tim krul , jordi cruyff , jerrel hasselbaink , rob reekers and wim hofkens .
lippens , who spoke only very basic dutch , is the only native german-speaker ever to have played for the dutch national team .
lippens received several invitations to join the german national selection as well , but always declined as his dutch father had forbidden him to play for germany .
lippens has said that he would have liked to have played for germany , but that his respect for his father , and the experiences his family lived through during the second world war outweighed this .
lippens was known for his imaginative footwork , which earned him the nickname `` ente '' -lrb- duck -rrb- , and was a fan favorite because of his irreverent good humour .
one particular anecdote about lippens has become a cliché in german football culture : a referee once gave lippens a yellow card , saying : `` ich verwarne ihnen ! ''
-lrb- `` i book you ! '' -rrb-
, in defective german grammar , using a dative pronoun instead of accusative .
lippens replied : `` herr schiedsrichter , ich danke sie ! ''
-lrb- `` sir , i thank you ! '' -rrb-
, sarcastically using an accusative pronoun instead of a correct dative this time .
lippens was immediately sent off by the referee .
