Full name Josef Herberger Role Football player | Name Sepp Herberger Years Team Date joined 1914 | |
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Date of birth (1897-03-28)28 March 1897 Date of death 28 April 1977(1977-04-28) (aged 80) Died April 28, 1977, Weinheim, Germany Similar People Helmut Schon, Fritz Walter, Otto Nerz, Berti Vogts, Jupp Derwall | ||
Sepp herberger
Josef "Sepp" Herberger (28 March 1897 in Mannheim, German Empire – 28 April 1977 in Weinheim-Hohensachsen, West Germany) was a German football player and manager. He is most famous for being the manager of the West German national team which won the 1954 FIFA World Cup – The Miracle of Bern. Previously he had also coached the Breslau Eleven, one of the greatest teams in German football history.
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Herberger played three times for the German football team between 1921 and 1925 before becoming assistant to Dr. Otto Nerz in 1932. Herberger succeeded him as national coach after Germany's uninspired loss to Norway at the 1936 Olympics. After the war he had a short club spell with Eintracht Frankfurt before being recalled as national team coach in 1950. He remained national coach until 1964, when he was succeeded by Helmut Schön. He died of pneumonia in Mannheim aged 80.
Controversy
Herberger joined the Nazi Party in 1933. His nomination to the Germany's Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 caused a lot of criticism because of his Nazi past.
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