Helmut Haller

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Helmut Haller
Helmut Haller 1971 Ajman stamp.jpg
Haller on a postage stamp from Ajman ,
an emirate of the United Arab Emirates
Personnel
birthday July 21, 1939
place of birth Augsburg ,  Germany
date of death October 11, 2012
Place of death Augsburg ,  Germany
size 177 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1948-1957 BC Augsburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1957-1962 BC Augsburg 85 (24)
1962-1968 Bologna FC 180 (48)
1968-1973 Juventus Turin 116 (21)
1973-1976 FC Augsburg 79 (21)
1976-1977 BSV Schwenningen 2 0(0)
1978-1979 FC Augsburg 15 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1961 Germany U-23 1 0(1)
1958-1970 Germany 33 (13)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1989 FC Augsburg
1 Only league games are given.

Helmut Haller (born July 21, 1939 in Augsburg ; † October 11, 2012 there ) was a German football player . The half-forward or midfielder was in the German national soccer team from 1958 to 1970 in 33 international matches and scored 13 goals. The noble technician, who emerged from BC Augsburg , played 85 league games with the BCA from 1957 to 1962 in what was then the first-class football league south (24 goals) before he became a professional footballer at FC Bologna (1962-68) and Juventus Turin (1968-73) and then returned to Augsburg. He was Italian champion three times in 1964 (Bologna) and 1972 and 1973 (Turin). The internationally celebrated star took part in the three world championships in 1962, 1966 and 1970 with the national team. Along with Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Albert Brülls , Robert Huth and Shkodran Mustafi, he was one of only five players who played in the national team after August 1963 without ever having played in the Bundesliga .

Life

Helmut Haller was born the son of an employee of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and grew up in modest circumstances with six siblings in the Augsburg district of Oberhausen . Because of his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Hemad" (shirt) in the school team. Haller later completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic in a machine factory.

The Federal President awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf on July 30, 1966 for his sporting success.

After the end of his career he worked as a trainer and was vice president of FC Augsburg around 2010. He also worked as a representative for an Augsburg club outfitter and the Zusmarshausen manufacturer of vehicle equipment, Sortimo . He also owned and ran a fashion boutique in Augsburg. Haller later ran for the local electoral association Freie Bürger Union at 15th place on the Augsburg city council. In the election on March 10, 1996, the votes were not enough for entry into the city parliament. Haller also suffered setbacks in terms of health. After a successful hip operation, he was over 60 and played soccer with friends again. On Boxing Day 2006, he suffered a serious heart attack that continued to bother him until his death.

Haller was married three times. His first marriage , which lasted from 1960 to 1977, to Waltraud, a former athlete who also saw herself as his “manager”, had a daughter and a son Jürgen Haller , who also became a professional footballer. From a second marriage, Haller had another son. In 2003 he married Noraimy Rodriguez Guiterrez, a Cuban who is 42 years his junior and whom he is said to have met during a training camp in her home country, in 2003. After a while, she separated from him.

In the last years of his life, Haller suffered from severe dementia and Parkinson's . He died on October 11, 2012 of complications from pneumonia among his family. Haller found his final resting place in the Augsburg North Cemetery . In memory of Haller, the German national football team played on October 12, 2012 in Dublin as part of the qualification for the 2014 World Cup against the selection of Ireland with a black ribbon . On October 16, 2012, there was a minute of silence in his honor before the Germany-Sweden game in Berlin's Olympic Stadium .

After he was laid out in the church of St. Peter and Paul in his home district of Oberhausen, he was buried on October 18, 2012 in the Augsburg North Cemetery. Among the around 1000 mourners were the national team colleagues Franz Beckenbauer , Uwe Seeler , Hans Tilkowski and Sepp Maier, as well as the almost complete Augsburg championship team from 1973/74. DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach read among other things a message of condolence from the UEFA President and multiple European Footballer of the Year Michel Platini , who called Haller a "legend". The Italian clubs Juventus Turin and FC Bologna sent delegations. The spokesman for FC Bologna, Carlo Caliceti stated: "He was the greatest player we have ever had."

Career

societies

BC Augsburg (1948–1962)

In June 1948 Haller made his debut in the 4th student team of BC Augsburg. The young talent Helmut Haller joined the first team at BC Augsburg in 1957. From 1957 to 1959 and in the 1961/62 season he played in the Oberliga Süd . In between, the BCA played its point games in the II. League South with Helmut Haller. Haller's first point goal he scored away against the Offenbacher Kickers in 1957 .

As one of the first German footballers after Ludwig Janda , Horst Buhtz and Horst Szymaniak , Haller went to Italy in 1962 .

FC Bologna (1962–1968)

For a hand money of 300,000 DM, the Augsburg resident moved to the Italian first division club FC Bologna in 1962 . In the 1963/64 season Haller managed to win the Italian championship with Bologna under coach Fulvio Bernardini . In the playoff for the title on June 7, 1964 in Rome , FC Bologna defeated Inter Milan with an own goal by Giacinto Facchetti and a goal by Harald Nielsen .

Juventus Turin (1968–1973)

Fiat boss and club president Giovanni Agnelli arranged for the German to move to Juventus Turin in 1968 . In 1971/72 and 1972/73 it paid off when Juve won the Italian championship . In the following year , the team trained by the Czech Čestmír Vycpálek advanced to the final of the European Cup , but had to admit defeat to Ajax Amsterdam 1-0. Haller then returned to Germany.

FC Augsburg (1973–1976 and 1978–1979)

In the Lech metropolis, BCA and local rival TSV 1847 Schwaben Augsburg had now merged to form FC Augsburg. Haller's return home sparked real football enthusiasm in the entire region. In the 1973/74 season , an average of 23,000 football fans came to the Rosenaustadion for home games . The game against TSV 1860 Munich in the Munich Olympic Stadium wanted to see more spectators than the stadium had seats. FC Augsburg became champions in the Regionalliga Süd as promoted champions . In the promotion round to the Bundesliga, the FCA botched the match against Tennis Borussia Berlin at home and only finished second in the final table.

The club played with Helmut Haller from 1974 to 1976 in the newly created 2nd Bundesliga South . BCA and FCA owe a total of 96 goals to the sport idol, the last he scored on February 25, 1979 (20th matchday) in a 4-1 win in the home game against FSV Frankfurt with the goal of the interim 2-0 in the 18th minute; He played his last league game on April 28, 1979 (22nd matchday) in the 1: 2 defeat at home against TSV 1860 Munich.

BSV Schwenningen (1976–1977)

In 1976/77 Helmut Haller played one season at BSV 07 Schwenningen in the 2nd Bundesliga and came in two consecutive home games (2-2 on October 9, 1976 against FC Bayern Hof and 0-1 on October 30, 1976 against FV 04 Würzburg ). After a year off, he moved back to FC Augsburg, where he played another 15 games.

National team

Helmut Haller played in the German national soccer team from 1958 to 1970 and scored 13 goals in 33 international matches.

On September 24, 1958 Haller made his debut in the senior national team, which scored a 1-1 draw against Denmark's selection in Copenhagen . His first of 13 international goals he scored on March 23, 1960 in Stuttgart in a 2-1 win in the test international match against the selection of Chile with the goal of the interim 1: 1 in the 72nd minute.

On May 13, 1961, he played in Waterschei the only time for the U-23 national team , in whose 3-1 victory over Belgium, he scored a goal.

At the 1962 World Cup in Chile , the German team was eliminated from the tournament in the quarter-finals against Yugoslavia with 0: 1. Helmut Haller was the last FC / BC Augsburg player in the German national team and the 1962 World Cup was also the last World Cup tournament with a FC Augsburg player. It was not until 2014 that a Fuggerstadt-based player, André Hahn, played again in Germany's senior national team, and it wasn't until the 2014 World Cup that FCA players from the Netherlands, Paul Verhaegh and South Koreans, Hong Jeong-ho and Ji Dong-won, played in a World Cup.

In 1966 in England Haller scored six World Cup goals and finished second on the top scorer list behind Eusébio (Portugal) . On June 3, 1970 he was used in the first group game of the World Cup in Mexico , in the 2-1 victory over the selection of Morocco for the last time as a national player.

successes

The ball of the 1966 World Cup final

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The final ball at the National Football Museum: "Unsurpassed symbol of British success in sport"

At that time only one ball was used per game as long as it did not break or had to be given up for other reasons. Typically, one of the referee's duties was to receive and secure the sports equipment after the game. He could then proceed with the ball according to orders or, in the absence of such, at will.

After the final whistle of the final, Helmut Haller grabbed the ball made by Slazenger in Dewsbury . He explained to referee Gottfried Dienst that according to German custom, the loser of a final would get the ball. It would have been a recognized English tradition to give the shooter of a hat trick the ball as a souvenir. Helmut Haller, with the ball tucked under his arm, shook hands with Queen Elisabeth II when he was handed the loser's medal. During the festivities, which followed more or less immediately after the final, Haller managed to collect a few signatures from various personalities, such as Uwe Seeler , the Englishman Bobby Moore and the Brazilian Pelé , at the ball.

Back in Germany, he formally gave the ball to his son Jürgen as a present for his fifth birthday. Over the course of the next three decades, the playground equipment was occasionally used and sometimes loaned, for example to innkeepers and other business people.

At a meeting in London, three-time final scorer Geoff Hurst first made claims on the orange leather. Haller now referred to a German tradition according to which the shooter of the first goal in a final may keep the ball.

In the run-up to the 1996 European Football Championship, which took place in England, the tabloid The Sun then sparked an emotionally charged campaign to “return” the gaming device to its “rightful owner”, namely the World Cup final hat-trick shooter Geoff Hurst. Hurst announced that he would give the ball "a place of honor in his home". It can be assumed that discussions about the financial processing of the "retrieval" took place in the background. The rival tabloid Daily Mirror was soon in charge of the topic.

The ball took its own place on the plane next to Jürgen Haller on the flight to London. After the arrival, the Daily Mirror finally organized a handover to Geoff Hurst and published on April 27, 1996 a picture of a ball-kissing Hurst together with pathos-laden accompanying text. That was Geoff Hurst's last intimate contact with the sports equipment. Under the fanfare of Richard Branson's Virgin group of companies and the Eurostar railway company , the ball was given a "place of honor" as soon as possible, a permanent exhibition space behind glass on the international terminal of Waterloo Station - the "most modern railway terminal in the world".

According to the Sun , Haller is said to have received £ 80,000 for the donation , of which he is said to have donated £ 20,000 to institutions dealing with infantile cancer.

The ball, jointly owned by Daily Mirror, Eurostar and the Virgin Group, who “saved it for the nation”, was moved to the National Football Museum in Preston , Lancashire in 2002 , which in turn moved to Manchester in 2010. On the occasion of the game between England and Sweden at the 2006 World Cup, it was also exhibited at short notice in Cologne .

In the case of Bitter , the following is recorded about the story of the 1966 World Cup ball: “In the end, he didn't win the title, but he snatched the final ball. He only gave it back thirty years later - through the mediation of a major English tabloid. ” Horn's episode is written down almost word for word (p. 103) and the incident is also described in the gaming dictionary.

Others

  • Helmut Haller got involved in the team of the Augsburg benefit football team Datschiburger Kickers , which is committed to fundraising for charitable purposes.
  • Helmut Haller was Christian Hochstätter's uncle .
  • In his honor, the square in front of the new FC Augsburg stadium was named after him in December 2009. However, this is not an official street name, but a symbolic gesture.
Opposite the Helmut-Haller-Platz at the Augsburg-Oberhausen train station is his parents' house (pink house in the background).
  • In May 2014, the city of Augsburg renamed part of the station forecourt in Augsburg-Oberhausen to Helmut-Haller-Platz . The square is diagonally across from Haller's parents' house at Grafstrasse 5. In contrast to the forecourt of the stadium, which bears the same name, this is an official street name.

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 161 f .
  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 128 .
  • Michael Horn: Lexicon of international soccer stars. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-466-9 , p. 103.

Web links

Commons : Helmut Haller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mission data with the exception of the two second division seasons 1959/60 and 1960/61
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Haller . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 25/1999 from June 14, 1999, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 46/2011 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  3. ↑ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on 29.09. 1973, printed matter 7/1040, Appendix 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 59
  4. ↑ Helmut Haller released from the hospital: EJZ-Online
  5. ↑ https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/helmut-haller-33-laenderspiele-nie-bundesliga-205289/
  6. ↑ Jan David Sutthoff, Klaus Schlütter: The tragedy of the great footballer Helmut Haller. In: Welt Online , November 6, 2011.
  7. ↑ Haller died after pneumonia. In: sport1.de , October 12, 2012, accessed on October 12, 2012.
  8. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Helmut Haller
  9. ↑ kem / sid / dpa: Deceased international striker buried: Football celebrities say goodbye to Helmut Haller , Spiegel Online , October 18, 2012.
  10. ↑ funeral: "Helmut, dribble continue in Paradise" , Augsburger Allgemeine , October 18, 2012 found.
  11. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Helmut Haller - Matches and Goals in Oberliga . RSSSF . February 2, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  12. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Helmut Haller - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . February 2, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  13. ↑ Peter Allen, Daily Mirror, April 27, 1996
  14. ↑ Germans borrow our 1966 World Cup ball , Mail Online . June 19, 2006
  15. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 162 .
  16. ^ Helmut Haller Platz: FC Augsburg, December 14, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2012
Place of death augsburg