Paul Breitner

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Paul Breitner
Paul Breitner 2011.jpg
Paul Breitner (2011)
Personnel
birthday 5th September 1951
place of birth Kolbermoor ,  Germany
size 176 cm
position Defense / midfield
Juniors
Years station
1957-1961 SV-DJK Kolbermoor
1961-1970 ESV Freilassing
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1970-1974 FC Bayern Munich 109 (17)
1974-1977 real Madrid 84 (10)
1977-1988 Eintracht Braunschweig 30 (10)
1978-1983 FC Bayern Munich 146 (66)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1970 DFB youth selection 16 0(1)
1971 Germany U23 1 0(0)
1971-1982 Germany 48 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Breitner (born September 5, 1951 in Kolbermoor ) is a former German national soccer player .

Breitner, who initially played on a offensive interpreted position of the left full-back, but later mutated into the playmaker in midfield, won with FC Bayern München the 1973-74 European Cup , five German championships and twice the DFB Cup . With Real Madrid he won two Spanish championships and once the cup . He also played one season for Eintracht Braunschweig . With the national team he was in 1972 Euro and 1974 world champion and 1982 runner-up .

Paul Breitner was accepted into the team of the season seven times by the trade journal kicker and in 1980 he was Germany's footballer of the year . In 2018 he was inducted into the founding eleven of the Hall of Fame at the German Football Museum. In 2004 he was named to the list of the 125 best footballers still alive by Pelé ( FIFA 100 ). The FIFA has just 2014 him in 1994 as the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo -Star team All received their 2014 world championships.

Breitner, who has always been the initiator and subject of numerous debates as a lateral thinker, was one of the leaders of a player revolt at FC Bayern in 1979, alongside goalie Sepp Maier , which led to the resignation of long-time club president Wilhelm Neudecker .

youth

As the only son of an administrative officer, Breitner grew up in Freilassing in Upper Bavaria and attended the Chiemgau-Gymnasium in Traunstein . During his school days he played in the SV DJK Kolbermoor until he was ten and then in the ESV Freilassing, where his father was a youth coach. In 1968 he got into the squad of the DFB national youth team . During the courses there, he shared a room with Uli Hoeneß . On September 22, 1968 Breitner played in Augsburg in the 1: 4 defeat against Yugoslavia, his first A junior international match, which was followed by another 15 missions. In 1970 he finished high school with the Abitur and then began studying ( pedagogy , psychology , sociology ) at the University of Education in Munich-Pasing with the professional goal of special education teacher.

Club career

FC Bayern Munich (1970 to 1974)

In March 1970, DFB youth coach Udo Lattek took over as coach at FC Bayern Munich and brought his former protégés Uli Hoeneß, Rainer Zobel and Paul Breitner into the Bundesliga . The 18-year-old Breitner accepted the offer, signed a professional contract and then broke off his studies at the pedagogical college. He made the leap into the Bundesliga squad straight away and made his debut on August 15, 1970 ( 1st matchday 1970/71 ) in a 1-1 draw against VfB Stuttgart .

Lattek immediately made him a regular and successfully converted him from a striker to a left full- back. As an offensive defender, he embodied the type of a modern defensive player who did not limit himself to the defensive, but also repeatedly contributed to the attacking game with runs across the flank . At the end of the season Bayern were only runner-up, but Breitner won his first trophy with the DFB Cup (2-1 against 1. FC Köln ). Bayern Munich won the championships in 1972 , 1973 and 1974 with Breitner . In public, Breitner was politically left-wing . He posed with a Mao Bible for the media and declared that he was an admirer of Che Guevara . Due to his political stance and his criticism of the club, he inevitably attracted the displeasure of the conservative club president Wilhelm Neudecker , who even wanted to sell the cross-driver Breitner in 1973. But when the team rebelled against it, Breitner was allowed to stay and won the most important European club cup in 1974 with the European Cup (4-0 win in the replay against Atlético Madrid ). After winning the World Cup in 1974 , Breitner moved to Real Madrid in the Primera División for a transfer fee of around three million marks .

Real Madrid (1974 to 1977)

Real Madrid coach Miljan Miljanić did not want to use Breitner as a defender, but instead retrained him as a midfielder . Together with Günter Netzer , who had already played for Real for a year, Breitner formed a duo in the central midfield, which steered and accelerated the game. The Madrilenians won the championship and cup double in 1975 . 1976 succeeded in defending the title in the Primera División, but Real was eliminated in the semifinals of the European Cup against Bayern Munich.

Breitner's third year ( 1976/77 ) in the Spanish capital was disappointing. Real only achieved ninth place in the table - just four points from the relegation ranks - and Miljanić was removed from office.

Eintracht Braunschweig (1977/78)

After three years in Spain, there was no club in the Bundesliga that wanted to pay the transfer fee of 1.6 million DM required for Breitner - except for Günter Mast . The main sponsor of Eintracht Braunschweig and managing director of the Jägermeister company provided the sum and brought Breitner to Eintracht with an annual salary of 400,000 marks. The integration of Breitner into the existing environment failed. Nevertheless, he scored ten goals for Braunschweig this season.

FC Bayern Munich (1978 to 1983)

Breitner (front) in the FC Bayern jersey, 1982

In the summer of 1978 Breitner returned to FC Bayern for 1.75 million marks.

In the next season ( 1979/80 ) Breitner was team captain under the new coach Pál Csernai . In 1980 Bayern won their first championship in six years and defended the title a year later. After the season, the sports journalists voted Breitner Footballer of the Year and in the election for European Footballer of the Year he finished second behind his club mate Karl-Heinz Rummenigge . In 1982 Bayern won the DFB Cup with a 4-2 win over 1. FC Nürnberg (Breitner scored 3-2 with a penalty). Bayern Munich lost 1-0 to Aston Villa in the final of the European Cup .

After a season marked by injuries, Paul Breitner said goodbye to professional football in the summer of 1983 during a trip to Asia with Bayern. He had played his last competitive game on May 28, 1983 in the 0-1 home defeat against FC Schalke 04 as a substitute from the 74th minute.

National team

Breitner played his only game for the U-23 national team on June 11, 1971 against Albania (2-0) and was then taken by national coach Helmut Schön on the so-called north country trip of the senior national team . There he made his debut in Oslo on June 22, 1971 in a 7-1 victory over Norway and made the leap to a regular as a left-back, just like at the club.

In 1972 the national team with Breitner became European champions after a 3-0 win over the Soviet Union .

1974 World Cup

Breitner's penalty kick in the 1974 World Cup final

In 1974 the Federal Republic of Germany hosted the soccer World Cup . Breitner scored the 1-0 winner in the first group game against Chile with a long-range shot . In the second round he scored his second tournament goal in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia . In the final against the Netherlands, he converted a penalty kick to equalize 1-1 in the 25th minute , although he was not intended as a shooter.

Continuous dispute with the DFB (1974 to 1981)

After winning the title in 1974, Breitner fell out with national coach Schön and declared his resignation from the national team. The two European Championship qualifiers against Bulgaria and Greece in October 1975, when Breitner returned, were an exception , with Schön complaining that he had to ask Real Madrid every time whether Breitner would be released for an international match. Schön's successor Jupp Derwall brought Breitner back in early 1981. On April 29, 1981 Breitner made his comeback in the national team against Austria (2-0) in Hamburg .

World Championship 1982

In the semifinals of the 1982 World Cup against France, the night of Seville , Breitner showed strong nerves on penalties , so that he finally reached a World Cup final for the second time in his career. In the final, the German team met the Italian "Squadra Azzurra" . Breitner scored the goal to make it 1: 3 (83rd minute) and is one of the few players with Pelé , Vavá and Zinedine Zidane to have scored a goal in two World Cup finals. The World Cup final on July 11, 1982 was Breitner's last international match. After 48 appearances (10 goals) he announced his resignation.

Achievements and Awards

National team

societies

Personally

Others

Breitner also appeared as an actor in the Western Potato Fritz (1976) and as a columnist for the Bild newspaper. In 1978, Bavarian television produced a six-part series with him, “Paul Breitners Fußballmagazin”, in which he and his team Eintracht Braunschweig and youth players presented the technical basics of the game and insights into the everyday life of a football professional. Breitner also published the anecdotal book Kopfball . Before the 1982 World Cup in Spain, he trimmed his trademark, the beard, into a beard as part of an advertising campaign for the Pitralon aftershave and received 150,000 DM from the company.

Political activities

In 1972 Breitner offered himself to the SPD as an election campaigner. He later complained that political activity by top athletes was suppressed by sports officials and the sporting community.

Post-retirement activities

After retiring from active sport, Breitner once again emerged as a vehement critic of German football; For example, he dubbed Derwall's successor as national coach, team boss Franz Beckenbauer, in his picture column as the “gravedigger of German football”. After Berti Vogts resigned as national coach in 1998, Breitner was designated for a short time by DFB President Egidius Braun as Vogts' successor in the position of team boss of the national team. However, about 17 hours after an agreement had apparently already been reached, Braun withdrew from this option because - according to Braun - Breitner had not kept silent about a telephone conversation he considered confidential about this matter and had reported it to third parties. Der Spiegel, on the other hand, wanted to see the real cause of the nebulous process in the fact that Braun had meanwhile learned of critical remarks that Breitner had previously made about the DFB and the DFB President himself.

During the Soccer World Cup in Japan and South Korea in 2002 , Breitner and Oliver Welke formed the moderator duo for the corresponding reporting on the private TV station Sat.1 . From spring 2007 Breitner was a consultant and scout , and since the 2009/10 season chief scout at FC Bayern Munich. He later became the club's brand ambassador. In the spring of 2017, he announced that he would be stepping down on March 31. Breitner wanted to dedicate himself more to his work in the real estate industry.

He has been working on a voluntary basis at Münchner Tafel with his wife Hildegard since 2006 .

In 2007 he became a founding member of the Children's Sports Foundation of the former SPD MP Jörn Thießen .

Private life

Paul Breitner is married and has three children. His son Max Breitner has been working as a sports journalist in the FC Bayern Munich press office since 2006. Breitner is fluent in Spanish .

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Paul Breitner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Champions. 100 great footballers and their successes. Gondrom-Verlag, Bindlach 2004, ISBN 3-8112-2342-9 , p. 30 ff.
  • Günter Netzer: From the depths of space. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-499-61921-0 , pp. 101, 135ff., 162, 164.
  • Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia. 1930-2010. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-290-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Hall of Fame": This is the eleven of the century in German football , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 22, 2018
  2. ↑ Marcelo Leme de Arruda: World All-Time Teams , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , July 24, 2014
  3. ↑ Play with millions , Der Spiegel 24/1977, June 6, 1977 on spiegel.de
  4. ↑ Braunschweig: Paul Breitner: "Braunschweig was bad" , rp-online.de, November 30, 2013
  5. ^ World champion Breitner in Braunschweig Province , NDR television , sports club , September 16, 2012
  6. ↑ TV documentary “Profis” about the Bundesliga season 1978/79 of the FCB on DVD - Paul Breitner with… Referee frustration: “Geh 'lick mi am Arsch” , onetz.de , June 10, 2016
  7. ^ The Merkel Putsch , bundesliga.de, March 25, 2014
  8. ^ Spontanously excited , Der Spiegel 38/1981, September 14, 1981, spiegel.de
  9. ^ Paul Breitner - Pictures of his career , sport.de, September 5, 2011
  10. ↑ DFB Cup 1982: Bayern-Nürnberg 4: 2 - The white and red turban , 11 friends, March 10, 2009
  11. ^ FC Bayern finals in the premier class - 1982: Aston Villa - FC Bayern 1: 0 (0: 0) , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2012
  12. ↑ Bundesliga kicker - then and now: Paul Breitner , msn.de, November 7, 2014
  13. ↑ Bayern Munich - Schalke 04 0: 1 , DFB data center, dfb.de
  14. ^ With bumps to Athens spiegel.de November 25, 1974
  15. ↑ I found myself good spiegel.de November 17, 1975
  16. ↑ Alte Kameraden spiegel.de April 27, 1981
  17. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Paul Breitner - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. April 18, 2004. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
  18. ↑ Eleven football legends and a coach icon ( Memento from November 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Red and Black. In: Der Spiegel, issue 43/1972.
  20. ↑ Spoiled by half. In: Der Spiegel, issue 9/1989.
  21. ↑ 1990. Süddeutsche Zeitung WM-Bibliothek ISBN 978-3-86615-154-3 .
  22. ↑ a b "Papa, it's a Mr. Braun's turn" , Der Spiegel 38/1998, September 14, 1998 on spiegel.de
  23. ↑ The near-national coach: "A younger man with charisma" , 11freunde.de, October 11, 2016
  24. ↑ RUB online study: Winners and losers of the 2002 World Cup , Ruhr University Bochum , August 13, 2002
  25. ↑ FC Bayern Munich: Paul Breitner no longer a brand ambassador: Breitner stops at FC Bayern , sport1.de, March 7, 2017
  26. ↑ Studies instead of brand ambassadors Breitner leaves Bayern Munich , Spiegel Online , March 8, 2017
  27. ↑ Paul Breitner: The unknown side of the former soccer star. Remscheider General-Anzeiger, accessed on August 1, 2017 .
  28. ↑ https://www.tz.de/muenchen/stadt/muenchen-ort29098/paul-und-hildegard-breitner-im-interview-armut-ist-ein-unaufhaltsamer-ice-9543149.html from January 20, 2018, accessed on December 1, 2019
  29. ↑ Highly invested in waiting stand 11freunde.de on May 11, 2012, accessed on September 23, 2015
  30. ↑ Marca : Breitner: "Son las mejores semifinales de la historia" , April 24, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Breitner, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolbermoor