Ex-Premier League star Lutz Pfannenstiel quizzed by cops over theft of prized PENGUIN from animal park
FORMER Nottingham Forest keeper Lutz Pfannenstiel has been quizzed by police … over a stolen PENGUIN.
Amazingly it is not the first time the 43-year-old has been accused of the same crime.
Lutz Pfannenstiel, who has turned out for 25 different clubs, has been accused of stealing a penguinDPA/Press Association Images
Pfannenstiel, who now works for Hoffenheim as a scout, was contacted by German police after the bird went missing from a park in Mannheim.
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Pfannenstiel played for Forest in the mid-1990s. He also had spells with Wimbledon, Huddersfield and Bradford Park Avenue.
The globe-trotting goalie, who has played on all six continents, has previous form. He confessed in his autobiography The Unstoppable Keeper to “borrowing” a penguin from a New Zealand beach during his time with Dunedin.
Pfannenstiel said: “The police phoned me about a stolen penguin. They had received an anonymous tip-off that I might be involved.
“But it wasn’t me. I urge the thief to return the penguin, as this is no joke. I know it well from the sins of my youth.
Lutz Pfannenstiel has also spent time in jail and was declared dead on the pitchDPA/Press Association ImagesThe keeper has previous when it comes to pinching penguins which he revealed in his autobiographyGetty Images
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“In 2003 I took a penguin home from its colony and put it in my bathtub. But I returned it inside two days after my club chairman explained penguins were a protected species.
“Besides, my housemates were not delighted, as it stank like a fish factory. I did not steal it – I just borrowed it.”
Lutz Pfannenstiel is the only player to play football in six different continentsGetty Images
Pfannenstiel coached an Antarctica XI seven years ago. He has also played and managed in Malaysia, Namibia, Albania and Cuba among a long list of countries.
His remarkable story also involves spending 101 days in a Singapore jail when he was accused of match fixing and not long after was declared dead on the pitch when his lungs collapsed following a collision during a game in England.
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