Helmut Haller
Helmut Haller ( born July 21, 1939 in Augsburg, † October 11, 2012 ) was a German football player.
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 build him the nickname " Hemad " (shirt ) was placed in the school team. Haller later graduated from a fine mechanic apprenticeship in a machine shop.
After the end of his career he worked as a trainer and was by 2010 Vice-President at FC Augsburg. He also worked as a representative for a Augsburger Club Provider and the Zusmarshausener manufacturer for vehicle equipment Sortimo. In addition, possessed and he led a fashion boutique in Augsburg. Haller ran later on List No. 15 to the Augsburg city council for the local constituency association Free Citizens Union. In the election on 10 March 1996, the voter votes for a place in the city parliament were not sufficient. Even health had to take Haller setbacks. After successfully completing the hip surgery he played with over 60 once again with friends football. On Boxing Day 2006 he suffered a massive heart attack which busied him until his death.
Haller was married three times. From the first marriage lasted until 1977 with Waltraud, a former track and field athlete who also saw himself as his " manager ", emerged a daughter and son Jürgen Haller, who is also a professional football player was. From a second marriage Haller had another son. In 2003 he married his third wife 42 years younger Cuban Noraimy Rodriguez Gutierrez, he is said to have met during a training camp in their home country. This separated after some time from him.
In his last years, Haller suffered from severe dementia and Parkinson's. He died on October 11, 2012 from the effects of pneumonia, surrounded by his family. 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 crape. On October 16, 2012 There was a minute of silence in his honor before the match Germany - Sweden in Berlin's Olympic Stadium.
After he was laid in the church of St. Peter and Paul in his home district of Oberhausen, he was buried on 18 October 2012 at the Augsburg North Cemetery. Among the 1,000 mourners were the team-mate Franz Beckenbauer, Uwe Seeler, Hans Tilkowski and Sepp Maier and the almost complete Augsburg master team from 1973 / 74. DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach leaving including a message of condolence to the UEFA president and multiple European footballer of the year, Michel Platini, the Haller called a " legend". The Italian clubs Juventus and Bologna FC sent delegates. The speaker of the FC Bologna, Carlo Caliceti stated: " He was the greatest player we have ever had. "
Career
Clubs
BC Augsburg (1948-1962)
The young talent Helmut Haller came in 1957 in the first team of BC Augsburg. From 1957 to 1959, and in the 1961/62 season he played in the Oberliga Süd. Between denied the BCA in the Second League South with Helmut Haller 's point games. Haller's first Punktspieltor he scored 1957 away against the Offenbacher Kickers.
As one of the first German soccer players after Ludwig Janda, Horst Buhtz and Horst Szymaniak Haller went in 1962 to Italy.
FC Bologna (1962-1968)
For a signing bonus of 300,000 DM Augsburger moved in 1962 to the Italian first division club FC Bologna. In the season 1963/64, Haller succeeded with Bologna under coach Fulvio Bernardini winning the Italian championship. In the playoff for the title on June 7, 1964 in Rome, FC Bologna Inter Milan defeated by an own goal by Giacinto Facchetti and a hit by Harald Nielsen.
Juventus (1968-1973)
Fiat boss and club president Giovanni Agnelli threaded 1968 correspondence from the German to Juventus one. 1971/72 and 1972/73 be paid from the by winning the Italian championship for Juve. The following year, coached by the Czechs Čestmír Vycpálek team came to the final in front of the European Champion Clubs' Cup, but there had to admit defeat with 0:1 Ajax Amsterdam. Then Haller returned to Germany.
FC Augsburg (1973-1976 and 1978-1979)
In the Lech metropolis BCA and local rivals TSV Schwaben Augsburg in 1847 had become fused to FC Augsburg. Haller's homecoming sparked across the region from a true passion for football. On Games home found themselves in the 1973/74 season on average 23,000 football fans at Rosenau Stadium a. The match against TSV 1860 Munich Olympic Stadium in Munich wanted to see more spectators, when the stadium had seats. FC Augsburg was promoted as champions in the Regionalliga Süd. In the Bundesliga promotion round to the FCA botched home encounter against Tennis Borussia Berlin and took only second place in the final table.
The club played with Helmut Haller 1974 to 1976 in the newly created 2nd Bundesliga Süd. A total of 96 gates owe BCA and FCA sports idol, the last he achieved on 25 February 1979 ( 20th Round ) in a 4-1 victory in the home match against FSV Frankfurt reduce the deficit to intermediate 2-0 in the 18th minute; his last league game he played ( 22 Matchday) on 28 April 1979 by the 1-2 defeat at home against TSV 1860 Munich.
BSV Schwenningen (1976-1977)
1976/77 Helmut Haller played one season with the BSV 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 30 October 1976 to be the FV Würzburg 04 ) are used. After a year break, he moved again to FC Augsburg, where he again graduated 15 games.
National
Helmut Haller played from 1958 to 1970 in the German national football team and scored in 33 countries playing 13 matches.
On September 24, 1958 Haller made his debut in the senior team, who scored a 1-1 draw against the selection of Denmark in Copenhagen. His first of 13 international goals he scored on 23 March 1960 in Stuttgart 's 2-1 victory in the Test match against the selection of Chile with the results for the interim 1:1 in the 72nd minute.
On 13 May 1961 he played in Waterschei the only time for the U -23 team, on their 3-1 victory over the selection of Belgium, he scored a goal.
At the World Cup in Chile in 1962, the German team retired in the quarterfinals against the selection of Yugoslavia 0-1 in the tournament. Four years later in England Haller scored six championship goals, finishing behind Eusebio (Portugal ) second in the scoring charts. On 3 June 1970, he was last employed in the First Group match of the World Cup in Mexico, in a 2-1 victory over the choice of Morocco as a national player.
Achievements
- Second in the 1966 World Cup
- Third in the 1970 World Cup
- Italian Champion 1963/64, 1971/72, 1972/73
- Master of the Regionalliga Süd 1973/74
- Finalist in the European Champions Cup 1972/73
- Finalist in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1970/71
- Finalist in the Coppa Italia 1972/73
The ball of the FIFA World Cup Final 1966
At that time only one ball was basically used per game until he broke or had to be abandoned for other reasons. Typically, it was one of the duties of the referee to take after the match, the sports equipment in reception and secure. After that, he was with the ball in accordance with procedures of arrangements, or in the absence of such at will.
After the final whistle of the final Helmut Haller grabbed the ball manufactured by Slazenger in Dewsbury He explained referee Gottfried Dienst that according to German practice, the loser would get a playoff of the ball. Recognised English tradition it would have been left to protect a hat-trick to the ball as a souvenir. Helmut Haller shook under his arm clamped ball is still Queen Elizabeth II 's hand as the losers medal was handed to him. In the course of the festivities that followed the more or less directly to the final, succeeded Haller, some signatures of various personalities such as by Uwe Seeler, the Englishman Bobby Moore and Brazilian Pele, to collect the ball.
Back in Germany he gave the ball to his son Jürgen formally to its fifth birthday as a gift. Over the next three decades, the gaming device has occasionally been recorded and sometimes borrowed, for example, to restaurant owners and other businessmen.
1998, at a meeting in London, the three-time Final scorer Geoff Hurst claims on the orange leather made for the first time submitted. Now referred Haller on a German tradition, according to which the scorer of the first goal could keep the ball in a final.
Prior to the European Football Championship 1996, held in England, the tabloid The Sun unleashed a campaign emotionally built up, " return ", the gaming device to its " rightful owner ", namely the World Cup final hat-trick shooters Geoffrey Hurst. Hurst verlautbarte that he would give the ball " a place of honor in his house ." It is likely that in the background discussions on the financial treatment of " retrieval " took place. Immediately the competing tabloid The Daily Mirror was in charge of the subject.
The ball took on the flight to London from its own seat on the plane next to Jürgen Haller. After the arrival of the Daily Mirror hosted finally a handover to Geoff Hurst and published on 27 April 1996, a picture of a ball kissing Hurst along with pathosbeladenem accompanying text. That was Geoff Hurst's last intimate contact with the sports equipment. Among the fanfare of Richard Branson's Virgin group of companies and the Euro Star train company the ball was as soon as possible, a " place of honor ", a permanent exhibition space behind glass on the International Terminal Waterloo Station - the " modern railway terminal in the world '- where.
According to Sun, Haller is for the transfer of 80,000 British pounds have received what he is supposed to have 20,000 pounds of facilities that deal with infantile cancer, donated.
The ball joint ownership of the Daily Mirror, Euro Star and the Virgin Group, have it as their "saved for the nation ", was spent in 2002 to the National Football Museum in Preston in Lancashire, which in turn moved to Manchester in 2010. On the occasion of the match between England and Sweden at the FIFA World Cup 2006, he was once exhibited in Cologne shortly.
Others
- Helmut Haller was committed to the team at Augsburg charity football team Datschiburger Kickers, which is committed to fundraising for charitable purposes.
- Helmut Haller was the uncle of Christian Hochstätter.
- In his honor, the square was named before the new stadium of FC Augsburg to him in December 2009.
- He is the only German player for Germany at three World Cups (1962, 1966 and 1970) took part, but has never played one game in the First Bundesliga.