Michael Tönnies


Michael Tönnies was a German football player.

Club career

He played in the German top-flight for FC Schalke 04 and MSV Duisburg and scored in 40 matches 13 goals.

Personal life and death

Tönnies was known as a chainsmoker and was diagnosed with lung damage in 2005 and had a lung transplant in April 2013. He died in January 2017, aged only 57, of unknown causes.

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