Jupp Heynckes

Jupp Heynckes (2011)

Josef " Jupp " Heynckes ( born May 9, 1945 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German former football player and coach. In his career he scored more victories in the German Bundesliga than any other as a player and coach.

During his active career as a striker, he was considered versatile, fast and above all a goal threat. In the 1970s, he won as a player four German championships, the DFB and the UEFA Cup and became European and world champions. As a coach, he was in 2013 German football champion, winner of the Champions League and DFB Cup winner with Bayern Munich. His subsequent withdrawal from the coaching profession he had previously announced.

• 2.1 1979-1987: Borussia Mönchengladbach
• 2.2 1987-1991: FC Bayern Munich
• 2.3 1992-1994: Athletic Bilbao
• 2.4 1994-1995: Eintracht Frankfurt
• 2.5 1995-2003: trainer in Spain and Portugal
• 2.6 2003-2004: FC Schalke 04
• 2.7 2006-2007: Borussia Mönchengladbach
• 2.8 2009: FC Bayern Munich
• 2.9 2009-2011: Bayer 04 Leverkusen
• 2:10 2011-2013: FC Bayern Munich
• 2:11 successes as a coach

Playing career

Clubs

In the German Bundesliga, Heynckes played as a striker from 1965 to 1967 and from 1970 to 1978 for Borussia Moenchengladbach and 1967 to 1970 for Hannover 96

His most successful period as a player were the 1970s at Borussia Moenchengladbach. With the Borussia he won in 1971, 1975, 1976 and 1977, four German championships, the 1973 DFB Cup and the 1975 UEFA Cup. Between 1970 and 1978 Heynckes scored 168 goals in 226 Bundesliga matches, corresponding to an average of 0.74 goals per game. 1974 and 1975, he came Bundesliga top scorer with 30 and 27 goals, while he shared the 1974 title with Gerd Müller.

In the football match Borussia Monchengladbach - Borussia Dortmund on 29 April 1978, he was instrumental in the today 's biggest win in the history of the Bundesliga at 12:0 because he scored five goals, including the 10:0. Heynckes achieved this for the second time (previously at 11-0 against FC Schalke 04 in the season 1966/67 ). Besides it managed the Bundesliga only his teammates Herbert Wimmer and Wilfried Hannes (one time only).

After a total of 369 league games Heynckes ended his playing career in 1978. With 195 league goals he is top scorer for Borussia Mönchengladbach, the total number of 220 gates means third place in the eternal scorer in the Bundesliga behind Gerd Müller with 365 and Klaus Fischer with 268 gates. With 51 goals, he is also among the top scorers in European club competitions. In his 64 games, he reached an average of 0.80 goals, which is only surpassed by Gerd Müller with 0.89.

In the history of the UEFA Cup is Heynckes, together with Dieter Müller, who played for the 1st FC Cologne and Girondins Bordeaux - both scored 29 goals - the third top scorer behind Henrik Larsson with 40 gates, which for Celtic and Helsingborgs IF took, and Walter Machado da Silva from Valencia with 31 goals.

National

For the German national football team, he completed 1967-1976 39 caps and scored 14 goals. With the national team he won the 1972 European Championship title in Belgium in 1974 and the world title in their own country. In the course of this tournament he came, however, only used twice.

Successes as a player

• World Champion: 1974
• European Championship: 1972
• UEFA Cup: 1975
• German champion: 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977
• German Cup: 1973

Top scorer:

• European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1976 (6 goals)
• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1974 (8 goals)
• UEFA Cup: 1973 ( 12 goals ), 1975 (10 goals)
• Bundesliga: 1974 ( 30 goals ), 1975 (27 goals)

Coaching career

1979-1987: Borussia Mönchengladbach

Even in the last year of his active career Heynckes completed the training to become football coach at the Sports University in Cologne. In 1979 he followed Udo Lattek as coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach and was 34 years to become the youngest head coach in the Bundesliga. Although the club performers had to let to various top clubs at this time, Heynckes kept his newly formed team almost constantly in the upper third of the table - with the exception of the 1982/83 season with a longer danger of relegation. He completed his most successful season since 1983 /84 when he reached the third place with Mönchengladbach, level on points with champions VfB Stuttgart and the runner-up Hamburger SV. In the same year the club reached under Heynckes the DFB Cup final, where he lost on penalties with 7:8 (1:1 aet) against Bayern Munich. In the 1986/87 season Mönchengladbach landed again in third place in the Bundesliga and presented with Uwe Rahn again a top scorer in the Bundesliga. Rahn finished the season with 24 goals from top scorer. In the DFB Cup, the club pushed on to the semifinals in the same year. In Mönchengladbach he won as a coach no titles. April 22, 1987 the team dropped out after a 0-0 draw at the Scottish club Dundee United followed by a 0-2 home defeat in the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup from. After this season Heynckes moved to Bayern Munich.

Heynckes is considered as the discoverer of Lothar Matthaus, who in 1979 as a 18 -year-old was taken from Herzogenaurach to Mönchengladbach and continued to develop first-team regular under Heynckes.

Due to the strong reddening that takes his face in agitation, Heynckes was in his Mönchengladbacher the nickname " Osram ", after the same manufacturer for lamps. For the first time Rudi Gores wants to have used the term. The same is, however, also rumored Wolfram Wuttke. Later, the nickname was also known in the media.

1987-1991: FC Bayern Munich

1987 Heynckes was hired by Bayern Munich - again Udo Lattek was his predecessor, who had led the team in the preseason for the championship title. Heynckes ' first year was very successful from the perspective of Bavaria. In the championship only finished second, remained in the other competitions without a title, Heynckes built the team of FC Bayern to strong and was rewarded in 1989 by winning the German championship. This track defended Bayern under Heynckes in the following year. After the club in 1990/91, only second to the first FC Kaiserslautern was, it came in the season 1991/92 to a crisis for Bayern, by the disposals of Jürgen Kohler and Stefan Reuter and injuries by Raimond Aumann and Brian Laudrup was weakened. After four games without a win and a 1:4 home defeat against newly promoted Stuttgarter Kickers Heynckes was sacked on 8 October 1991 and replaced by Søren Lerby. Bayern general manager Uli Hoeness described this decision against Heynckes later as the "greatest mistake " of his career. Bayern had only been Tabellenzwölfter with four wins, four draws and four defeats. On the equally unsuccessful Lerby followed in mid-March Erich Ribbeck. Bayern finished the season in tenth place. For the first time since 1979, FC Bayern did not qualify for an international competition.

1992-1994: Athletic Bilbao

In the summer of 1992 Heynckes signed with Spanish side Athletic Bilbao a contract and, after Hennes Weisweiler and Udo Lattek the third German coach in Spain's top soccer league.

His time at the Basque club was a tradition from the beginning to be successful. Despite the handicap, to be allowed to sit only on players from the Basque Country, Heynckes formed a team that climbed in the first year from 15th to 8th place and qualified for the second year with space 5 for participation in the UEFA Cup.

During this time Heynckes again demonstrated a flair for young talent and brought, among others, the Basque Star Julen Guerrero out.

1994-1995: Eintracht Frankfurt

1994 Heynckes was hired along with Horst Koeppel as an assistant coach of Eintracht Frankfurt. Heynckes took over the concord in the first season after the departure of Uwe Bein and Uli Stein and initially pursued the goal of bringing calm to the team in order to subsequently make again for success. However, this project did not succeed.

The Hessians had with Andreas Koepke committed a new goalkeeper and the team around their star players Anthony Yeboah, Maurizio Gaudino ( which a change to the 1 FC Kaiserslautern was denied) constructed and Jay- Jay Okocha. Ironically, these three players attended by a moderate cost for a scandal: The final training of Concord on Friday before an important game against HSV according to coach Heynckes had " badly trained some players ". This included the three stars above. Then continued Heynckes, angry about their setting, a 30-minute drive to the forest. Yeboah told the coach that he would not appear for the game against Hamburg. Okocha pretended not mentally to be able to play football and Gaudino felt after two training sessions on Friday physically broken. All three players made ​​themselves sick for the 16th matchday of the 1994/95 season and were a couple of days later deleted entirely from the squad. Only Okocha was used in the second half for Eintracht. Yeboah criticized the measure: " The expulsion was completely unnecessary and a big mistake. He has the club Frankfurt busted with this action for years. "

Even without the three reached the Eintracht short time later, after two victories over Napoli the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, but in the league success was missing. After only nine months in the club Heynckes finally solved on 2 April 1995 to his contract and gave up a settlement.

1995-2003: Trainer in Spain and Portugal

Again, Heynckes moved to Spain and signed just three weeks after his resignation in Frankfurt a contract with the Spanish side CD Tenerife, where he began his work at the beginning of the 1995/96 season. Together with Ewald Lienen as an assistant coach and later as Egon Coordes conditioning coach Heynckes scored in Tenerife as in Bilbao with modest means a considerable success.

In his first year, he led the club to a UEFA Cup place. The following year, Tenerife eliminated in the semi-final against FC Schalke 04. In the league Tenerife occupied under Heynckes the ninth of 22 seats.

As Real Madrid failed to agree with Ottmar Hitzfeld said the traditional club from the Spanish capital to at Heynckes. Finally Heynckes signed in Madrid and was the successor to the Italian Fabio Capello, who had previously been dismissed after only one year. From the outset, it appeared the media behave towards and skeptical. The departure of the Spanish Cup against a second division team in January 1998 caused unrest first. At the end of Real Madrid finished only fourth place in the Spanish league. Nevertheless Heynckes won with the club, the Champions League in 1998. The finale was obtained at the same time his last game as coach of Real Madrid, as he was released after just one season.

His new employer was 1999 Benfica. With the former from Mönchengladbach goalkeeper Robert Enke Heynckes set equal to the new goalkeeping talent that he appointed to captain a year later. He was in the Portuguese league third with eight points behind champions and local rivals Sporting Lisbon.

In 2001 he was again in the Basque country down, as he signed a two-year contract in Bilbao. At the end of the 2001/02 season, the club improved compared to last year six places and finished eighth. In the season 2002/ 03 Bilbao missed in seventh place on the final day just a UEFA Cup place. Heynckes contract ran out at end of season.

2003-2004: FC Schalke 04

In 2003 Heynckes took over at FC Schalke 04 as coach of the hapless freshman coach Frank Neubarth or the interim coach Marc Wilmot. The first impression of the coach at his new club was positive. After the unsatisfactory course of the season in 2004 and the ambitious signings but the patience of those responsible with the former champion trainer seemed to be at an end; Rudi Assauer said: "The Jupp is a footballer of the old school, but we have 2004. " In the 2004/2005 season is the worst start to the season the club followed for years. After three defeats from four games, most recently a 0-3 at VfL Wolfsburg, Heynckes was sacked. Heynckes himself referred to the time at Schalke still considered one of his most effective coach times.

2006-2007: Borussia Mönchengladbach

On 23 May 2006 Heynckes signed after a half year of health- related timeout again a coach contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach. The 2006/07 season started with four home wins quite successful, but after his team failed to win more game and found himself at the winter break on a relegation again. Nevertheless, the association Heynckes decided to continue to employ. After two more unsuccessful games at the start of the season Heynckes came on 31 January 2007 after a 0-0 draw against Nuremberg after only 215 days in Mönchengladbach back. Later it was announced that there should have been directed against him death threats.

2009: Bayern Munich

From 27 April 2009 to the end of the season 2008/2009 season Heynckes was again used as the interim coach of the German record champions FC Bayern Munich after Jürgen Klinsmann had been on leave five games remaining. The club eventually reached number two, and thus the direct Champions League qualification.

2009-2011: Bayer 04 Leverkusen

On 5 June 2009, Bayer 04 Leverkusen announced the commitment of Heynckes. It replaced the exchanged for Hamburger SV Bruno Labbadia. With Leverkusen, he remained the first 24 days of game of the season unbeaten. He set a new start record in the Bundesliga and exceeded while the held by him with Bayern Munich record from the 1988/89 season. Season Across remained Heynckes even 29 consecutive matches undefeated. The series ended on 25 Round with a 2:3 defeat against 1 FC Nuremberg. After the outstanding start of the season the team sagged in the second half and finished at the end only fourth place.

Thus, Bayer played in the 2010/11 season in the UEFA Europa League and reached the second round. In the championship Leverkusen finished second and qualified for the Champions League. Heynckes opted not to renew his expiring contract at the end of the season. His successor was the Freiburg coach Robin Dutt.

Heynckes was the first coach for seven years, of a place in the Champions League managed with Bayer Leverkusen after the club had qualified between 1997 and 2004 a total of six times for participation.

2011-2013: FC Bayern Munich

On 25 March 2011, Bayern Munich announced the commitment of Heynckes as head coach. This has signed a two -year contract from the season 2011/12. This Heynckes followed Andries Jonker, the season until the end of 2011 worked as interim coach after the leave of Louis van Gaal of April.

On March 17, 2012 in an away win against Hertha BSC had Heynckes his 600th game as coach in the Bundesliga; only Otto Rehhagel has over 800 more Bundesliga games as a coach. After Heynckes According to an official press release of the clubs had informed the Bayern board that he would not renew his expiring contract, the obligation of Josep " Pep " Guardiola as his successor was announced on 16 January 2013. A few days later it was announced that Heynckes would have liked to continue his work at the Munich.

On February 23, 2013 Heynckes played in the Bundesliga match of FC Bayern Munich and SV Werder Bremen his 1000th Bundesliga game as a player or coach.

On May 16, 2013 Heynckes announced that he will be with no further league games as manager, but the option on any foreign involvement in the present interest of Moscow, AS Monaco and Real Madrid not want to exclude.

Heynckes is the first coach, who brought a German men's soccer team, FC Bayern Munich, in one season (2012/2013) three titles, a triple. On 28 Round was Bayern ahead of German football champions, on May 25, 2013 Champions League winner and 1 June 2013 DFB Cup winner.

On June 4, 2013 Heynckes declared his preliminary career end.

On January 13, 2014 Jupp Heynckes the award for the FIFA Coach of the Year 2013 was awarded in Zurich.

Success as a coach

• Internationally UEFA Champions League ( 2): 1998 ( with Real Madrid), 2013 ( Bayern Munich ), Finalist 2012 ( Bayern Munich )
• UEFA Cup (1): 1979 ( as assistant coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach ), Finalist 1980 ( with Borussia Mönchengladbach )
• UEFA Intertoto Cup ( 2): 2003, 2004 ( with Schalke 04)

• German master (3): 1989, 1990, 2013 ( with Bayern Munich)
• DFB Cup Winners (1): 2013 ( with Bayern Munich)
• DFB / DFL - Supercup (3): 1987, 1990, 2012 ( Bayern Munich )
• Supercopa de España ( 1): 1997 ( with Real Madrid)

• He is the first coach of a German team that won the great European triple in men's soccer.
• He is the first German coach who won the great European Triple.
• He is after Jock Stein, Ştefan Kovács, Guus Hiddink, Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho, the seventh coach who won the great European triple in men's soccer.
• He is by Ottmar Hitzfeld, José Mourinho and Ernst Happel, the fourth coach who won the UEFA Champions League and the European Champions Cup with two different clubs.
• He is the only coach in the history of the Champions League, the bench had to leave after winning the Champions League in his respective club. At Bayern, his contract was not renewed in favor of a commitment by Pep Guardiola, Real Madrid, he was released eight days after the Champions League victory due to lack of success in the Primera Division ( 4th place).
• Jupp Heynckes took over as coach three times in the Champions League and reached the final each time.

Awards

• FIFA Coach of the Year: 2013
• IFFHS World Club Coach: 2013
• World Soccer Coach of the Year: 2013
• Germany's Coach of the Year: 2013
• Bavarian Lion: 2013
• Bambi in the category Sports: 2013
• DFB fair play medal: 2013

Private

Heynckes was the ninth of ten children of a blacksmith and first learned the trade of plasterer to get his career goal Architect closer. But the way he continued to play football and hockey in the winter also. Jupp Heynckes is married with his wife Iris and has a daughter. He lives on a farm in Schwalmtal near Mönchengladbach.