Name: Wolfgang Frank
Nickname: "Wölfchen" | "Der Floh" - (the Flea)



Country: Germany
Club: Eintracht Braunschweig
Position: *CF, SS
Side: RF/BS
Age: 24-26 years (21/02/1951)

Height: 172 cm
Weight: 66 kg

Attack: 84
Defence: 35
Balance: 73
Stamina: 79
Top Speed: 81
Acceleration: 84
Response: 87
Agility: 84
Dribble Accuracy: 76
Dribble Speed: 78
Short Pass Accuracy: 73
Short Pass Speed: 70
Long Pass Accuracy: 68
Long Pass Speed: 70
Shot Accuracy: 84
Shot Power: 79
Shot Technique: 85
Free Kick Accuracy: 66
Curling: 73
Header: 82
Jump: 86
Technique: 76
Aggression: 83
Mentality: 71
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 75

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Fitness: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 6
Growth type: Standard

CARDS:
P13 - Goal Poacher
P19 - Fox in the Box

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Positioning - Scoring - Reaction

Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Attack-Minded


INFO:
Small, agile and yet strong header attacker with fantastic reaction. Despite a height of 1.72 m, he was a feared header, as he was superior to many tall defenders in terms of jumping power – the low weight of 66 kg helped him with the jumps – and technical skills. His teammate Zembski would say: "Little Wolf" was incomparable. His instincts, his way of recognizing situations, reacting coolly, and making exactly the right decision was phenomenal! Branko Zebec had a significant influence on Wolfgang's arrival at Eintracht Braunschweig in 1974/75 – he had already recognised his potential when he was still working for Stuttgart and brought Wolfgang from the amateur team to the first team."

Frank took his first steps as a youth footballer at his hometown club TSV Schlierbach. After a stint at VfL Kirchheim, the attacking talent joined VfB Stuttgart's youth team in 1968. In the 1970/71 season, he won the 1st Amateur League Nord-Württemberg with the VfB amateurs under coach Karl Bögelein, scoring 25 goals. This was followed by the matches in the competition for the German Amateur Championship. For the 1971–72 season, he was included in the Swabians' first-team squad. Under coach Branko Zebec – who was replaced by Karl Bögelein on 19 April 1972 – he scored 12 goals in 29 league appearances in his debut round in the Bundesliga. He was the top scorer for Stuttgart thatyear. In his second year in the Bundesliga, he scored eleven goals in 26 league games under Zebec's successor Hermann Eppenhoff and VfB finished sixth in the table. Next year, he signed a contract in the Eredivisie in North Holland with AZ Alkmaar for the 1973–74 season.

Alongside team-mates such as Kees Kist and under coach Joop Brand, the striker scored six goals in 26 league games and Alkmaar finished seventh in 1974. After playing abroad, he accepted an offer from the Bundesliga and joined Eintracht Braunschweig for the 1974/75 season. In Lower Saxony, he met former VfB team-mate Handschuh and coach Zebec. Frank scored ten goals in 32 league games and the newly promoted team safely held their own in ninth place. The most prolific seasons in which he finished seventh and fourth respectively on the Bundesliga scorer list were 16 goals in 1975/76 and 24 goals in 1976/77, putting him level with Klaus Fischer in fourth place on the Bundesliga scorers' list. He thus contributed to the successes of Eintracht in the 1970s, who finished fifth and third respectively in the 1976 and 1977 seasons and were also league leaders on several occasions. In the European Cup, he scored 5 goals in 5 games for Eintracht Braunschweig. Among them were crucial goals such as the 1-0 lead away to Dynamo Kiev in September 1977, which led to Braunschweig knocking out Kiev 1-1 and 0-0 in the UEFA Cup

The striker scored 89 goals in 215 Bundesliga games, most of them for Eintracht Braunschweig between 1974 and 1977, 52 in 106 games. His other Bundesliga clubs were VfB Stuttgart (1971–1973; 55 games, 23 goals), Borussia Dortmund (1977–1980; 34 games, 10 goals) and 1. FC Nürnberg (1980–1982; 20 games, 4 goals). The 'club' paid 800,000 DM to Dortmund for Frank. After making 17 appearances in his first season, he was only a reserve player for the club in his second season, making only three appearances. Frank proved to be the biggest flop in the club's history up to that point. Even in Dortmund, the former pedagogy student was considered a failure.

He also played six times for the B national team from 1972 to 1977, scoring three goals.