Name: Ronald Worm
Nickname: ''Ronnie/Ronny''



Country: Germany
Club: MSV Duisburg
Position: *CF, WF, SS
Side: LF/LS
Age: 22-26 years (07/10/1953)

Height: 179 cm
Weight: 80 kg

Attack: 85
Defence: 35
Balance: 80
Stamina: 79
Top Speed: 83
Acceleration: 86
Response: 84
Agility: 81
Dribble Accuracy: 77
Dribble Speed: 82
Short Pass Accuracy: 72
Short Pass Speed: 77
Long Pass Accuracy: 78
Long Pass Speed: 79
Shot Accuracy: 84
Shot Power: 86
Shot Technique: 83
Free Kick Accuracy: 66
Curling: 76
Header: 85
Jump: 80
Technique: 76
Aggression: 87
Mentality: 76
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 70

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Fitness: 7
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 6
Growth type: Early/Lasting

Cards:
P13 - Goal Poacher
S01 - Marauding

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Reaction - Scoring

Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Attack-Minded


INFO:
"Ronnie" Worm's talent blossomed at a very early age. Coach Widmayer was more and more delighted with Worm. “Kicker” wrote on him: “Worm, the captain from Duisburg, is a goal scorer on duty. He now plays the role – to draw a popular comparison – like Uwe Seeler in Mexico. Ronald shows a number of parallels with Uwe: his nose for goals, his shooting power, but above all his excellent header game commuted to the top division, this homegrown could have been a blessing. However, it was all too much in the early years, he stagnated in terms of play in the first two years of his regular Bundesliga time, searched in vain for the lost freshness and carelessness and was only able to confirm the level of a good Bundesliga striker in the “Zebras” dress from the mid-1970s.

When Ronnie stuck his duck ass out in the penalty area, you had no chance to get to the ball. Even if you knew what he was going to do next, you couldn't stop it. With his turns in a confined space, he was in no way inferior to Gerd Müller. He was still a different type of player and came more on the wings. He had a damn strong left foot and was enormously fast despite his usual five kilos too much. Dietz put him in his top 11: "Ronnie raised the alarm on the left, he went off with his speed and was able to hit good crosses. In addition, he was agile, tricky and also very dangerous with his left foot. With his qualities, no wonder he made it to the national team and was in the squad for the 1978 World Cup."

Worm began his career at his hometown club MSV Duisburg, for which he made 231 appearances in the Bundesliga between 1971 and 1979, scoring 71 goals. Worm was often deployed as a lone fighter or as a "special guard" for strong opponents for the MSV. At MSV Duisburg, the centre-forward, left winger and goal scorer always fluctuated between two extremes: either he was loved by the fans or he was ridiculed. Both sides did not get this relationship in the long run. After the 1978/79 season - MSV was in 13th place and Worm had scored 10 goals in 32 appearances - he changed clubs and went to Eintracht Braunschweig for a transfer fee of more than 1 million Deutschmarks. Worm was the first "million transfer" within the Bundesliga.

Worm managed to reach DFB final in 1975, losing to HSV and ended up 6th with Duisburg in 1977/78, allowing them to participate in the UEFA Cup. In Europe, Worm celebrated with the "Zebras" in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup alongside Gerhard Heinze, Kees Bregman, Ditmar Jakobs, Bernard Dietz, Herbert Büssers, Kurt Jara and Rudolf Seliger. Only in the semi-finals did the team's run of success for the eight-time goal scorer in this competition, "Ronnie" Worm, against their Lower Rhine competitor Borussia Mönchengladbach end.

Worm was capped seven times for the West Germany national team between 1975 and 1978, scoring five goals. He was part of the West German squads for the 1976 Euro and 1978 World Cup, but did not play in either tournament. Worm also competed for West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

With 71 goals, Worm leads the internal MSV top scorer list in the Bundesliga ahead of Dietz (70) and Seliger (65). With references like that, you should be the leader of the pack. But "Ronnie" Worm was not one of the loudest in the country - despite his many hits, the outstanding shooting technique with the left strong foot and the unprecedented lateral pull. Off the field "Ronnie" was always inconspicuous, on the lawn a man in the limelight. MSV's home-grown talent tended to prefer restraint, leaving interviews and analyses of just-completed games to work colleagues. On the other hand, how far does the description in the MSV book "Im Revier der Zebras" with "the sensitive striker often get in his own way, was always afraid of critics, rarely looked for his own faults after bad games" applicable to the not entirely successful one Glorious career of the once highly praised, that would be speculation.