 That was the last cap (of three) Kargus won in his career, although he was one of three goalkeepers in the West German squad for the 1978 FIFA World Cup.After the end of his career, Kargus had several stints as coach to school kids in goalkeeping and has been active as artist painter since 1996, painting scenes of football in 2006, but exclusively non-footballing themes after that.He attended an art course at the Kunstschule Blankenese before exhibiting his paintings.