Udo Lattek
Udo Lattek as coach of Bayern Munich in 1973
Udo Lattek ( born January 16, 1935 in Bosemb, County Sensburg, East Prussia ) is a former German football player and coach.
As a coach Lattek won with FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Moenchengladbach total of eight German championship title, he is with this balance sheet the most successful club coach in Germany. He also won all three contests in the European Cup ( European Champion Clubs 'Cup, UEFA Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup ).
After Lattek was for many years active as a television expert, he worked until the announcement of his Parkinson 's disease as a columnist.
Origin and Youth
Lattek comes from East Prussia, was driven against the end of World War II from his home, so arrived with his family to West Germany and settled in the Rhineland. From a young age he was an avid soccer player. He played as an amateur for the SSV Marie Heath, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and VfR Wipperfuerth. In 1962 he moved to VfL Osnabrück, where he played for three years in the top and Regionalliga Nord, and in 70 league matches scoring 34 goals.
Besides football Lattek 1955 was a high school. From 1955 to 1958 he studied mathematics and physics in Münster for the teaching profession. He then spent a year at the Engelbert von Berg Gymnasium Wipperfuerth, his former school, working, 1961, he taught at the high school Altenforst in Troisdorf as a sports teacher.
Work as a trainer
DFB ( 1965-1970 )
In the spring of 1965 Lattek accepted an offer of the DFB and took over the training of the youth national team. In addition, he was employed as assistant to the coaching staff of head coach Helmut Schön for the senior national team, so he mitreiste also the 1966 World Cup to England.
Bayern Munich ( 1970-1975 )
On March 14, 1970 Lattek took over as coach at Bayern Munich. Franz Beckenbauer said to have caused him to, as the player with the acting coach Branko Zebec had problems and vehemently spoke out for Lattek. Lattek they knew from the national team. His appointment was controversial because he could produce no experience as a club coach and was just 35 years old. Lattek and Bayern finished the season as runner-up.
In the ranks of Munich were with Beckenbauer, Sepp Maier, Gerd Müller and Georg Schwarzbeck four national players. Lattek added the team still with the youth internationals Paul Breitner, Uli Hoeness and Rainer Zobel, who had followed the call of their former taskmaster to the Isar. Lattek was considered tactically and psychologically shrewd, preferred in dealing with his players talking openly and thus contributed to form a functioning unit of this squad. He built on Bayern 's strongest German club team and launched the most successful phase of the club's history. After winning the DFB Cup in 1971, he was with Bayern 1972-1974 German champion three times in a row. In 1974, the European coronation, the first German team Bayern won the European Cup of Champions (1-1, 4-0 against Atlético Madrid). In the summer of 1974, the Bayern players were - six were during the tournament regulars - the core of the German World Cup team that won the world title in their own country.
1974/75 Bayern played the worst Bundesliga season in its history, while also tore a series of 73 home games without defeat. After disagreements with club president Wilhelm Neudecker Lattek was released on January 3, 1975 and replaced by Dettmar Cramer.
Borussia Mönchengladbach ( 1975-1979 )
For the 1975/76 season Lattek had actually signed with Rot-Weiss Essen, but then went to Borussia Mönchengladbach: " What would you do then, if you had the choice between a bicycle ( food ) and a Mercedes ( Monchengladbach )? "
In Mönchengladbach Lattek took over an intact team with players like Uli Stielike, Jupp Heynckes, Herbert Wimmer, Allan Simonsen, Rainer Bonhof and Berti Vogts, but he changed the game system of " foal ". Instead of "Hurrah - style" of his predecessor Hennes Weisweiler he put the emphasis more on the defensive area and won with a stable defense the next two championships in 1976 and 1977. During the second year he was with Gladbach in the final of the European Champions' Cup (later Champions League) 1976/77, where you had to give but beaten Liverpool with 1:3.
1979 defeated Borussia in the final of the UEFA Cup Red Star Belgrade (1:1, 1:0) and celebrated their second international success. After four years, Lattek adopted by Bökelberg and handed over his office to Jupp Heynckes, who had ended his playing career.
Borussia Dortmund (1979 to 1981)
With the BVB Lattek spent two unspectacular years in mediocrity in the Bundesliga. This time was overshadowed by the serious illness of his 15 - year-old son Dirk, who eventually died in 1981 from leukemia. This took Lattek as an opportunity to leave Germany and seek a new challenge abroad. He asked BVB president Rauball to the early release and took over as coach at the Spanish traditional club FC Barcelona.
FC Barcelona ( 1981-1983 )
Lattek: "I needed a new challenge, Barcelona was already the hardest club that has called me 24 hours a day and thus also distracted. I also had to learn a new language, have done it in three months, never needed an interpreter and have held a short speech in Spanish first training session at the Camp Nou in front of 45,000 spectators. "
1982 reached Lattek with " Barça " the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, could be defeated in the Standard Liege 2-1. This summer, the Argentine exceptional player Diego Maradona moved to Barcelona, with the old Migueli, Carles Rexach, Quini, Bernd Schuster and Latteks friend Allan Simonsen anyway already had many stars in the squad. For Maradona Lattek had a difficult relationship. As this was late 1983 with a departure of the team bus, leaving the bus depart Lattek without the superstar. A little later Lattek was dismissed and replaced by the Argentine César Luis Menotti. Lattek suspected that he was terminated due to a complaint Maradona at the Association President.
FC Bayern Munich ( 1983-1987 )
After his release in Spain, he returned to the Bundesliga and took over the 1983/84 season Bayern a second time. His former players Uli Hoeness, Bayern manager meantime, had brought him back to the Isar. Lattek able to build on his success from the early seventies, he followed by another title hat-trick (1985, 1986, 1987 ) - 1986 even the "Double" league and cup. 1987 defeated his team, however, in the final of the European Champions' Cup FC Porto 1-2.
In Bavaria, he again worked with many top players such as Karl -Heinz Rummenigge, Lothar Matthäus, Dieter Hoeness, Jean -Marie Pfaff and Klaus Augenthaler and its reputation as " the most successful German coach " justice. Became famous for the image of the coach, who after winning the title in 1987 (the tenth of Bavaria, so that they were giants ) the spectators in the Olympic Stadium threw his pants and then celebrated only in underwear.
As early as 1979 with Borussia Mönchengladbach succeeded him as coach Jupp Heynckes here again.
Director of Sport at FC Cologne 1 (1987 to 1991)
Then announced Lattek to retire as a coach to work as sports director for the 1st FC Cologne because he also lived near the city. In 1991 he returned once for a game as interim coach on the bench back ( 1-1 against Bayern Munich).
FC Schalke 04 ( 1992-1993 )
For six months the master maker in charge of FC Schalke 04, before dismissing him as the " Sun King" became known club president Günter Eich mountain during the winter break. Then Lattek announced his retirement from active football business.
Borussia Dortmund ( 2000)
2000 took over the now 65 -year-old the last time a coach office. Borussia Dortmund ranked with five games left in the season only one point above the relegation places. Lattek and his assistant Matthias Sammer managed to keep Dortmund in the league. After a final 3-0 victory against Hertha BSC the successful coach of 75,000 fans at the Westfalen Stadium was celebrated frenetically. A commitment over the season, he refused. For its short-term use Lattek to about 500,000 DM have received Gage.
Success as a coach
Internationally
- Vice World Champion in 1966 as assistant coach of the national team
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1974 (FC Bayern München )
- UEFA Cup: 1979 (Borussia Mönchengladbach )
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1982 (FC Barcelona)
Germany
- German Champion ( 8x): 1972, 1973, 1974 (FC Bayern München ), 1976, 1977 ( Borussia Mönchengladbach ), 1985, 1986, 1987 (FC Bayern München )
- DFB-Pokal (3x): 1971, 1984, 1986 ( FC Bayern München )
After coaching career
Lattek lives with his wife in Cologne and worked as a columnist for "The World " and the " kicker ". On 22 May 2011, he was (formerly DSF) after 16 years and 786 shows, in which he had long since reached a so-called expert " cult status ", solemnly adopted as a commentator in the Sunday program " double pass " on Sport 1.
In August 2010 Lattek suffered a stroke. Due to the rapid use of his wife consequential damages could be prevented. 2001 and 2012 he had to undergo to remove benign tumors two operations on the brain. On October 13, 2013 his wife announced over the Bild newspaper that Lattek suffering from Parkinson 's disease.
Awards
Lattek was awarded by the German Academy for football culture for the best football award 2010. His award-winning statement about the he once trained 1.FC Cologne was:
" In the Cologne stadium is always such a great atmosphere, there really only disturbs the team. "
In 2011 he was awarded the Sport Bild Award for his life's work.