Sepp Herberger

Sepp Herberger
Herberger in 1957
Personal information
Full name Josef Herberger
Date of birth (1897-03-28)28 March 1897
Place of birth Mannheim, German Empire
Date of death 28 April 1977(1977-04-28) (aged 80)
Place of death Weinheim-Hohensachen,
West Germany
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1914–1921 Waldhof Mannheim 127 (101)
1922–1926 VfR Mannheim 66 (55)
1926–1930 Tennis Borussia Berlin 43 (30)
Total 236 (186)
National team
1921–1925 Germany 3 (2)
Teams managed
1928–1929 SV Nowawes 03
1930–1932 Tennis Borussia Berlin
1932–1933 Western Germany
1932–1936 Germany (assistant coach)
1936–1942 Germany
1945–1946 Eintracht Frankfurt (interim)
1950–1964 West Germany

Signature
Sepp Herberger's signature
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Josef "Sepp" Herberger (28 March 1897 – 28 April 1977) was a German football player and manager.

Coaching record

Team From To Record
G W D L Win % Ref.
Germany 1936 1942 70 42 13 15 060.00
West Germany 1950 1964 97 52 14 31 053.61
total record 167 94 27 46 056.29 [1]

Honours

As a player

VfR Mannheim

  • South German Championship: 1925

As a manager

West Germany

Individual

  • Berlin-Britz Manager of the Decade (1950s)[2]
  • World Soccer 20th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013[3][4]

Filmography

  • The Big Game (1942)

References

  1. "Nationaltrainer" (in German). DFB. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  2. Skorobahatko, Anatolii (3 October 2016). "Messi ta Ronal'du: rivnopravni!" Мессі та Рональду: рівноправні! [Messi and Ronald: Equal!]. Ukrayins'kyy futbol Український футбол [Ukrainian Football] (in Ukrainian). Kyiv: Ukrainian Premier League. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  3. Rainbow, Jamie (4 July 2013). Written at Farnborough. "The Greatest manager of all time". World Soccer. London: TI Media. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  4. Rainbow, Jamie (2 July 2013). Written at Farnborough. "The Greatest: – how the panel voted". World Soccer. London: TI Media. Retrieved 23 December 2019.

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