Udo Lattek
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Udo Lattek is a former German
football player and coach
, and is now a television sportscaster
.
With 14 major titles, Lattek is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game, and the most successful coach with German teams, especially Bayern Munich. He further won important trophies with Borussia Mönchengladbach
and FC Barcelona
. Further to that he coached Borussia Dortmund
, Schalke 04 and 1. FC Köln
. Alongside the Italian Giovanni Trapattoni
he is the only coach to have won all three major European club titles, and the only one to do so with three different teams.
and VfR Wipperfürth. 1962 he joined VfL Osnabrück. There he played in his first season in the first division (the northern division of the "Oberliga"), and the remainder of his time in the second division as the club did not qualify for the new Bundesliga at its inception 1963. The centre forward, who was famed for his headers, scored between 1962 and 1965 34 goals in 70 league matches.
Early 1965 Lattek was prematurely released from his contract to join the German football association DFB
as coach for their youth team and, beside Dettmar Cramer
as one of the assistants to head coach Helmut Schön
. In this role he was also part of the coaching staff which led Germany into the final of the 1966 World Cup
.
. He was recommended to the club by their star Franz Beckenbauer
, but his appointment was controversial as he had no coaching experience with a club. Besides Beckenbauer Bayern had the striker legend Gerd Müller
and the superb goal keeper Sepp Maier amongst their ranks. Lattek complemented the team with the young talents of Paul Breitner
and Uli Hoeneß and formed the global top team of its era. Until 1975 he led the club to a win in the national cup competition and three consecutive championships, a first in German football history. The highlight of this time was the win of the European Champions Cup
in 1974
in the finals against Atlético Madrid (1-1, 4-0) - the first triumph for a German team in this tournament.
Six players from this Bayern side were also part of the German team that won with Germany the World Cup
in the same year and the European Championship
in 1972. Motivational shortcomings were a natural outcome. A dry spell in the domestic league in the 1974–75 season saw Lattek's tenure terminated prematurely and Bayern replaced him with Dettmar Cramer
, who was also recommended to the club by Beckenbauer. "I told the president Wilhelm Neudecker 'we need some changes'. 'That's right, you are sacked' he replied", Udo Lattek recalls this episode.
at league rivals Borussia Mönchengladbach
, where he stayed until 1979. In this period he added two more German championships and the 1979 UEFA Cup
- won against Red Star Belgrade
(1-1, 1-0) - to his record. A third consecutive championship for him and a record fourth consecutive championship for the club eluded Mönchengladbach only due to having conceded three goals too many. 1. FC Köln
under Latteks predecessor Hennes Weisweiler
were the beneficiaries.
In 1977 the club reached the European Champions Cup final against Liverpool FC which was lost 1-3 in Rome. As Liverpool declined to participate in the ensuing matches for the Intercontinental Cup, Borussia as finalists were given an opportunity of playing in their stead against South American champions Boca Juniors
in the finals of this competition. After a respectable 2-2 away, regretfully the club abused the return match as a warm up for the 1978-79 season and lost in Karlsruhe
quite unspectacularly with 0-3. By the end of that season, Lattek quit Mönchengladbach and spent two undistinguished years with Borussia Dortmund
. In Mönchengladbach he was followed by the legendary striker Jupp Heynckes
(226 goals in 375 league matches / 51 goals in 64 European competition matches). Heynckes - besides the diminutive, but great Danish forward Allan Simonsen
, Berti Vogts
, Rainer Bonhof
, Uli Stielike
and Herbert Wimmer
- was also one of the great players that accompanied Lattek through his years with Mönchengladbach.
at Spanish club FC Barcelona
. He led the club to the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1982
where Barcelona defeated Standard Liège
in the final 2-1. Barcelona's probably most distinguished players in this era were Migueli
, Alexanco
, Rexach, Asensi, Quini
, the German Bernd Schuster
and the old acquaintance from Mönchengladbach days, Dane Allan Simonsen
. In the second season, Diego Maradona
, then just 22 years of age, was signed up for a record transfer fee. Nevertheless, perceived lack of success on the domestic scene saw him being replaced at the end of the 1982-83 season by the World Cup winning Argentine coach César Luis Menotti
, who was also hoped to be better able to bring out the best in Maradona.
. In the next years he won two more national cups and another championship hattrick with the club - the 'Double" in 1986 was only the fourth in German football history. The ultimate farewell gift was denied to him, when Bayern lost the 1987 European Champions Cup final against FC Porto with 1-2. Great players of his second stint with Bayern were amongst others Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
, Lothar Matthäus
, Klaus Augenthaler
, striker Dieter Hoeneß
, the delightful Danish midfielder Søren Lerby
and the Belgian goal keeping legend Jean-Marie Pfaff
. As it was with Borussia Mönchengladbach, his former player Jupp Heynckes followed him as coach here, too.
for one match as coach, where he achieved a home draw against Bayern. The rest of the season he spent with the club as technical manager. 1992 he returned once more to the dugout and led Schalke 04 through the first half of the season. Incidentally, there he drew his last match in Munich with 1-1 against Bayern.
" and the bi-weekly sports magazine "kicker
". Were it not for the 1997 Champions League winners Borussia Dortmund reaching panic mode by the end of the 1999-2000 season as they found themselves in free fall and only one point removed from the relegation ranks five match days before the end of the season, the story could have ended here. For what is rumored to be a most generous lump sum, some say 250,000 Euros, the then 65 year old Lattek let himself be reactivated as saviour. His magic did the job once more. Two wins, two draws and only one defeat - against Bayern Munich - were enough to keep the club in the league. His last match was dignified by a 3-0 away triumph against Hertha Berlin in front of a crowd of 75,000. At Dortmund he left a working base for his successor Matthias Sammer
, who two years later, at the age of 34, became the youngest coach ever to lead a team in Germany to championship honours.
Lattek presently lives in Cologne
, remains renowned for his continuous fondness of beer ("all great coaches have enjoyed a drink"), and works as a commentator with the German TV sports channel DSF
.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
football player and coach
Head coach
A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches...
, and is now a television sportscaster
Sportscaster
In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
.
With 14 major titles, Lattek is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game, and the most successful coach with German teams, especially Bayern Munich. He further won important trophies with Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach is a German association football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the Bundesliga and is one of the country's most well-known, well-supported, and successful teams. Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 40,000 members and is the sixth...
and FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
. Further to that he coached Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia Dortmund, commonly BVB, are a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. Dortmund are one of the most successful clubs in German football history. Borussia Dortmund play in the Bundesliga, the top league of German football...
, Schalke 04 and 1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07....
. Alongside the Italian Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni , sometimes known as "Trap" or "Il Trap", is an Italian football coach and former player, considered the most successful club coach in the history of Serie A. As a player he was part of Italy's squad at the 1962 FIFA World Cup....
he is the only coach to have won all three major European club titles, and the only one to do so with three different teams.
Early life
Whilst Udo Lattek was preparing for a career as a teacher, he played football with SSV Marienheide, Bayer LeverkusenBayer Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a German football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the most well-known department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a sports club whose members also participate in athletics, gymnastics, basketball and other sports.-Origins and early years:On 27 November...
and VfR Wipperfürth. 1962 he joined VfL Osnabrück. There he played in his first season in the first division (the northern division of the "Oberliga"), and the remainder of his time in the second division as the club did not qualify for the new Bundesliga at its inception 1963. The centre forward, who was famed for his headers, scored between 1962 and 1965 34 goals in 70 league matches.
Early 1965 Lattek was prematurely released from his contract to join the German football association DFB
German Football Association
The German Football Association is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB organises the German football leagues, including the national league, the Bundesliga, and the men's and women's national teams. The DFB is based in Frankfurt and is...
as coach for their youth team and, beside Dettmar Cramer
Dettmar Cramer
Dettmar Cramer is a German former football player and coach who led Bayern Munich to the 1975 and 1976 European Cups. Cramer is commonly considered to be the father of modern football in Japan and is a member of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class...
as one of the assistants to head coach Helmut Schön
Helmut Schön
Helmut Schön was a German football player and manager. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of West Germany....
. In this role he was also part of the coaching staff which led Germany into the final of the 1966 World Cup
1966 FIFA World Cup
The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup, was held in England from 11 July to 30 July. England beat West Germany 4–2 in the final, winning the World Cup for the first time, so becoming the first host to win the tournament since Italy in 1934.-Host selection:England was chosen as...
.
Bayern Munich
In March 1970 Lattek took over the reins of Bayern Munich as successor of the Croatian Branko ZebecBranko Zebec
Branislav "Branko" Zebec was a Croatian football player and coach...
. He was recommended to the club by their star Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed Der Kaiser because of his elegant style, his leadership, his first name "Franz" , and his dominance on the football pitch...
, but his appointment was controversial as he had no coaching experience with a club. Besides Beckenbauer Bayern had the striker legend Gerd Müller
Gerd Müller
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a former German football player and one of the most prolific goalscorers of all time.With national records of 68 goals in 62 international appearances, 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games and the international record of 66 goals in 74 European Club games, he was one of the...
and the superb goal keeper Sepp Maier amongst their ranks. Lattek complemented the team with the young talents of Paul Breitner
Paul Breitner
Paul Breitner is a former German football player. One of Germany's most controversial players, he was capped 48 times for his country.-Playing career:...
and Uli Hoeneß and formed the global top team of its era. Until 1975 he led the club to a win in the national cup competition and three consecutive championships, a first in German football history. The highlight of this time was the win of the European Champions Cup
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
in 1974
European Cup 1973-74
The 1973–74 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Bayern Munich, beginning their own three year period of domination, in a replayed final against Atlético Madrid...
in the finals against Atlético Madrid (1-1, 4-0) - the first triumph for a German team in this tournament.
Six players from this Bayern side were also part of the German team that won with Germany the World Cup
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
in the same year and the European Championship
1972 UEFA European Football Championship
-Semi-finals:-----Third place play-off:-Final:-Statistics:*Fastest goal: 24 minutes**Raoul Lambert **Gerd Müller -Top scorers:...
in 1972. Motivational shortcomings were a natural outcome. A dry spell in the domestic league in the 1974–75 season saw Lattek's tenure terminated prematurely and Bayern replaced him with Dettmar Cramer
Dettmar Cramer
Dettmar Cramer is a German former football player and coach who led Bayern Munich to the 1975 and 1976 European Cups. Cramer is commonly considered to be the father of modern football in Japan and is a member of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class...
, who was also recommended to the club by Beckenbauer. "I told the president Wilhelm Neudecker 'we need some changes'. 'That's right, you are sacked' he replied", Udo Lattek recalls this episode.
Borussia Mönchengladbach
At the beginning of the 1975–76 season Lattek became the successor of Hennes WeisweilerHennes Weisweiler
Hans "Hennes" Weisweiler was a German football player and coach....
at league rivals Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Mönchengladbach is a German association football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the Bundesliga and is one of the country's most well-known, well-supported, and successful teams. Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 40,000 members and is the sixth...
, where he stayed until 1979. In this period he added two more German championships and the 1979 UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
- won against Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...
(1-1, 1-0) - to his record. A third consecutive championship for him and a record fourth consecutive championship for the club eluded Mönchengladbach only due to having conceded three goals too many. 1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07....
under Latteks predecessor Hennes Weisweiler
Hennes Weisweiler
Hans "Hennes" Weisweiler was a German football player and coach....
were the beneficiaries.
In 1977 the club reached the European Champions Cup final against Liverpool FC which was lost 1-3 in Rome. As Liverpool declined to participate in the ensuing matches for the Intercontinental Cup, Borussia as finalists were given an opportunity of playing in their stead against South American champions Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....
in the finals of this competition. After a respectable 2-2 away, regretfully the club abused the return match as a warm up for the 1978-79 season and lost in Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
quite unspectacularly with 0-3. By the end of that season, Lattek quit Mönchengladbach and spent two undistinguished years with Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund
Ballspielverein Borussia Dortmund, commonly BVB, are a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. Dortmund are one of the most successful clubs in German football history. Borussia Dortmund play in the Bundesliga, the top league of German football...
. In Mönchengladbach he was followed by the legendary striker Jupp Heynckes
Jupp Heynckes
Josef "Jupp" Heynckes is a German football coach and former player. As player he belonged to the core of the team of Borussia Mönchengladbach in its golden era of the 1960s and 1970s where he won many national championships and the Cup as well as the UEFA Cup...
(226 goals in 375 league matches / 51 goals in 64 European competition matches). Heynckes - besides the diminutive, but great Danish forward Allan Simonsen
Allan Simonsen
Allan Rodenkam Simonsen is a former Danish footballer and manager. He most prominently played for German team Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcelona from Spain, winning the 1982 Cup WInners' Cup...
, Berti Vogts
Berti Vogts
Hans-Hubert "Berti" Vogts is a German former footballer. He played for Borussia Mönchengladbach and won the World Cup with West Germany in 1974. He later managed Germany , Scotland and Nigeria...
, Rainer Bonhof
Rainer Bonhof
Rainer Bonhof is a former German footballer. He was a defensive midfielder or wing-back.-Playing career:...
, Uli Stielike
Uli Stielike
Ulrich "Uli" Stielike is a German football manager and former player.-Club career:Stielike was a West Germany youth international for hometown club SpVgg Ketsch when he got signed by UEFA Cup runner-up Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1973, first coming to action as a full back for the then two times...
and Herbert Wimmer
Herbert Wimmer
Herbert "Hacki" Wimmer is a former footballer. Besides winning five national championships and two UEFA Cups with his club side Borussia Mönchengladbach he won the 1974 World Cup and the 1972 European Football Championship with Germany.Herbert Wimmer started his playing career with lowly Borussia...
- was also one of the great players that accompanied Lattek through his years with Mönchengladbach.
FC Barcelona
In 1981, he was appointed successor to Helenio HerreraHelenio Herrera
Helenio Herrera Gavilán was a Franco-Argentine football player and manager.Although born in Argentina, Herrera's parents were both Spanish, his father being a well-known Spanish anarchist in exile...
at Spanish club FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
. He led the club to the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1982
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1981-82
The season 1981-82 of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by FC Barcelona in the final against Standard Liège at the Nou Camp. It was their second title in the competition.-Preliminary round:-First round:-Second round:-Quarter-finals:-First leg:...
where Barcelona defeated Standard Liège
Standard Liège
Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (Dutch: Standard Luik [], German: Standard Lüttich , is a Belgian football club from the city of Liège....
in the final 2-1. Barcelona's probably most distinguished players in this era were Migueli
Migueli
Miguel Bernardo Bianquetti , aka Migueli, is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a central defender....
, Alexanco
José Ramón Alexanko
José Ramón Alexanko Ventosa , also referred to as Alesanco or Alexanco, is a retired Spanish footballer and manager....
, Rexach, Asensi, Quini
Quini
Enrique Castro González , aka Quini, is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a striker.In a career totally connected with Sporting de Gijón and FC Barcelona, he was widely regarded as one of the country's best strikers, having won a total of seven Pichichi Trophy awards, five of those in La...
, the German Bernd Schuster
Bernd Schuster
Bernhard Schuster is a German football manager and former player, currently unemployed. His nickname is "der Blonde Engel" .-Club career:...
and the old acquaintance from Mönchengladbach days, Dane Allan Simonsen
Allan Simonsen
Allan Rodenkam Simonsen is a former Danish footballer and manager. He most prominently played for German team Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcelona from Spain, winning the 1982 Cup WInners' Cup...
. In the second season, Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona is a retired Argentine football player and widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time. Over the course of his professional club career Maradona played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla and Newell's Old Boys, setting...
, then just 22 years of age, was signed up for a record transfer fee. Nevertheless, perceived lack of success on the domestic scene saw him being replaced at the end of the 1982-83 season by the World Cup winning Argentine coach César Luis Menotti
César Luis Menotti
César Luis Menotti, known as El Flaco is an Argentine football coach and former player, who as coach, won the 1978 FIFA World Cup for Argentina.-Playing career:...
, who was also hoped to be better able to bring out the best in Maradona.
Bayern Munich
Lattek got his next engagement from his former player Uli Hoeneß, who was by then in charge as commercial manager with his old side Bayern Munich. There existed a vacancy after the exit of the Hungarian coach Pal CsernaiPál Csernai
Pál Csernai was a Hungarian football player and coach. As a player he was denied great successes, but as a coach he revived the fortunes of Bayern Munich in the early 1980s after the end of their golden era.-The Player:...
. In the next years he won two more national cups and another championship hattrick with the club - the 'Double" in 1986 was only the fourth in German football history. The ultimate farewell gift was denied to him, when Bayern lost the 1987 European Champions Cup final against FC Porto with 1-2. Great players of his second stint with Bayern were amongst others Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge is a German former football player.He had his greatest career success with German club Bayern Munich, where he won the Intercontinental Cup, the European Cup, as well as two league titles and two domestic cups.A member of the German national team, Rummenigge won the...
, Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Herbert Matthäus , is a German football manager and former player.In 1990, he was named European Footballer of the Year and World Soccer Player of the Year after captaining West Germany to victory in the 1990 World Cup...
, Klaus Augenthaler
Klaus Augenthaler
Klaus "Auge" Augenthaler is a former football player and now manager.-Playing years:...
, striker Dieter Hoeneß
Dieter Hoeneß
Dieter Hoeneß is a former German footballer, who played as a striker.In his playing career, he was mainly associated with Bayern Munich...
, the delightful Danish midfielder Søren Lerby
Søren Lerby
Søren Lerby, is a Danish former football player, manager, and licensed agent. As a player, he spent the bulk of his career in Dutch football, winning five Eredivisie championships with Ajax Amsterdam as well as the 1988 European Cup and two further Eredivise titles with PSV Eindhoven...
and the Belgian goal keeping legend Jean-Marie Pfaff
Jean-Marie Pfaff
Jean-Marie Pfaff is a Belgian former football goalkeeper.-Biography:At the age of 16, Pfaff joined K.S.K. Beveren with whom he won a Belgian champions title and a Belgian Cup . The same year, he received the Belgian Golden Shoe...
. As it was with Borussia Mönchengladbach, his former player Jupp Heynckes followed him as coach here, too.
Schalke and Cologne
After these heady days Lattek retired for a few years. In 1991 he joined 1. FC Köln1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07....
for one match as coach, where he achieved a home draw against Bayern. The rest of the season he spent with the club as technical manager. 1992 he returned once more to the dugout and led Schalke 04 through the first half of the season. Incidentally, there he drew his last match in Munich with 1-1 against Bayern.
Borussia Dortmund
Lattek officially retired and took up a role as TV commentator and newspaper columnist with the national broadsheet "Die WeltDie Welt
Die Welt is a German national daily newspaper published by the Axel Springer AG company.It was founded in Hamburg in 1946 by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a "quality newspaper" modelled on The Times...
" and the bi-weekly sports magazine "kicker
Kicker (sports magazine)
kicker Sportmagazin is Germany's leading sports magazine and is focused primarily on football. The magazine was founded in 1920 by German football pioneer Walther Bensemann and is published twice a week, usually Monday and Thursday, in Nuremberg...
". Were it not for the 1997 Champions League winners Borussia Dortmund reaching panic mode by the end of the 1999-2000 season as they found themselves in free fall and only one point removed from the relegation ranks five match days before the end of the season, the story could have ended here. For what is rumored to be a most generous lump sum, some say 250,000 Euros, the then 65 year old Lattek let himself be reactivated as saviour. His magic did the job once more. Two wins, two draws and only one defeat - against Bayern Munich - were enough to keep the club in the league. His last match was dignified by a 3-0 away triumph against Hertha Berlin in front of a crowd of 75,000. At Dortmund he left a working base for his successor Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer is a retired German football player and coach who is now working as technical director of the DFB . He played as a midfielder, and later in his career as a sweeper....
, who two years later, at the age of 34, became the youngest coach ever to lead a team in Germany to championship honours.
Lattek presently lives in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, remains renowned for his continuous fondness of beer ("all great coaches have enjoyed a drink"), and works as a commentator with the German TV sports channel DSF
Deutsches Sportfernsehen
SPORT1 is a privately owned commercial German television channel. Until April 11, 2010, it was called DSF . It was founded on January 1, 1993 out of the television channel Tele 5 which had become the successor of the music video channel musicbox on January 11, 1988...
.
Player
- SSV Marienheide
- Bayer LeverkusenBayer LeverkusenBayer 04 Leverkusen is a German football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the most well-known department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a sports club whose members also participate in athletics, gymnastics, basketball and other sports.-Origins and early years:On 27 November...
- VfR Wipperfürth
- VfL Osnabrück (1st and 2nd divisions)
Coach
| Period | Club | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| 1965-70 | German Football Association (DFB) German Football Association The German Football Association is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB organises the German football leagues, including the national league, the Bundesliga, and the men's and women's national teams. The DFB is based in Frankfurt and is... |
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| 1970-75 | FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups.... |
1971 German Cup 1972 Championship 1973 Championship 1974 Championship 1974 European Champions Cup UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It... |
| 1975-79 | Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Mönchengladbach is a German association football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team plays in the Bundesliga and is one of the country's most well-known, well-supported, and successful teams. Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 40,000 members and is the sixth... |
1976 Championship 1977 Championship 1979 UEFA Cup UEFA Cup The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League... |
| 1979-81 | Borussia Dortmund Borussia Dortmund Ballspielverein Borussia Dortmund, commonly BVB, are a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. Dortmund are one of the most successful clubs in German football history. Borussia Dortmund play in the Bundesliga, the top league of German football... |
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| 1981-83 | FC Barcelona FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.... |
1982 European Cup Winners Cup |
| 1983-87 | FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups.... |
1984 German Cup 1985 Championship 1986 Championship 1986 German Cup 1987 Championship |
| 1991 | 1. FC Köln 1. FC Köln 1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07.... |
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| 1992 | FC Schalke 04 FC Schalke 04 Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major... |
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| 2000 | Borussia Dortmund Borussia Dortmund Ballspielverein Borussia Dortmund, commonly BVB, are a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. Dortmund are one of the most successful clubs in German football history. Borussia Dortmund play in the Bundesliga, the top league of German football... |
See also
- List of UEFA club competition winning managers
- List of European Cup and Champions League winning managers
- List of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winning managers
- List of UEFA Cup winning managers