John Herberger

Johann Herberger ( born November 9, 1919 in meadow valley; † 13 June 2002 Altbach ) was a German football player and football coach.

Biography

Prior to his career as a professional footballer Herberger worked as wage laborers in his hometown meadow valley. In 1936, he left his hometown club FV 1912 Wiesentalstrasse and initially played four years for the Phoenix Karlsruhe. In November 1939, Herberger moved to Hesse and denied there four league games in the former Gauliga as a guest player at Eintracht Frankfurt. Further stations of his career included the 1st FC Nuremberg, where he played with Max Morlock and later with Bayern Munich with international Jakob Streitle. Just like his uncle Sepp Herberger, he looked very much like he stormed prefer to half right, but also played in midfield.

Johann Herberger took in the late 1930s in courses for the German national football team. Coach Sepp Herberger once said about John: "If I set up, then it says the same, that's his nephew. So you have to be twice as good as the other. " Because of the game business interruption during the Second World War, there was also reason never to use one of the Badeners.

1942 had Herberger on the side of fellow athletes like Fritz Walter and Hermann Eppenhoff and movie greats René Deltgen and Gustav Knuth, in the film " The Great Game " with.

In 1954 he emigrated to the United States to New York. He first player and player-coach, later only coach. Herberger was responsible, inter alia, the " German - American League Junior All-Stars " from New York (1960) and for a game of the national team of the United States. During his U.S. time he was called " John Herberger ".

In 1971 he returned to Germany and moved to Altbach in the Stuttgart area, where he lived until his death in 2002.

Achievements

German vice-champion in 1943 ( 0-3 against the Dresdner SC in Berlin's Olympic Stadium ), third in the German Championship in 1942 and 1944. Gaumeister 1940 in Hesse, 1942 Berlin- Brandenburg, 1943 Westmark, 1944 Northern Bavaria.

Selection of players for the Gau Baden, Select City Berlin, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, selection Baden -Württemberg. Participation in courses of DFB national football team from 1937 to 1944. Vice- champion of the International Soccer League ( ISL) 1965.