Career
Football Club. Kuntz"s playing career lasted from 1983 until 1999, Kuntz made 449 appearances and scored 179 goals in the Bundesliga. Kuntz played for VfL Bochum, Bayer 05 Uerdingen, 1. Football Club and Arminia Bielefeld.
Kuntz also played in Turkey for Beşiktaş J.K. In 1986 and 1994 Kuntz was the top scorer in the Bundesliga.
Kuntz played for the German national team between 1993 and 1997 and was part of the winning German team of Union of European Football Associations Euro 1996. Kuntz gave a particularly memorable performance in the 1–1 draw with England in the semi-final scoring the crucial equalizer, as well as scoring in the penalty shoot out.
During his international career, Kuntz obtained 25 caps, scoring six goals. None of these caps ended in a defeat for (20 wins and five draws), which is the German record for most caps without defeat.
From 2006 to 2008, Kuntz was the athletic director of VfL Bochum.
Club International Kuntz was mocked in England (notably on Frank Skinner and David Baddiel"s television show and in the video to the 1998 version of "Three Lions") because of the similarity of his surname to the word cunts. Kuntz"s father, Günter Kuntz, played for Borussia Neunkirchen between 1964 and 1968. Kuntz is a first cousin of singer Andy Kuntz of progressive metal band Vanden Plas.