# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralf-zumdick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:18:09.944Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralf-zumdick"
name: "Ralf Zumdick"
slug: "ralf-zumdick"
description: "Ralf Christoph Bernard Zumdick is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. After his career Zumdick was assistant coach at VfL Bochum from 1995 until 1999. Zumdick is often cited as the player who pioneered the practice of the penalty-taking-goalkeeper when he scored against Andreas Köpke in 1988. He was most recently manager Thomas Doll's assistant coach at APOEL."
tagline: "German association football player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralf_Zumdick_and_Thomas_Doll_(2016).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1958-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.51
  momentum:             0.7377049180327869
  historical:           8.558677333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Zumdick"
    title: "Ralf Zumdick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "رالف زومديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Zumdick"
    title: "Ralf Zumdick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Zumdick"
    title: "Ralf Zumdick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Zumdick"
    title: "Ralf Zumdick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Zumdick"
    title: "Ralf Zumdick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Zumdick"
    title: "Ralf Zumdick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Zumdick"
    title: "Ralf Zumdick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Zumdick"
    title: "Ralf Zumdick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84"
    title: "Цумдик, Ральф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317325"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump