Berti Vogts

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Berti Vogts
Personal information
Full name	Hans Hubert Vogts
Date of birth	December 30, 1946 (1946-12-30) (age 61)
Place of birth	Büttgen, near Düsseldorf, Germany
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position	Defender
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1965–1979	Borussia Mönchengladbach	419 (32)
National team
1967–1978	West Germany	096 0(1)
Teams managed
1990–1998 2000–2001 2001–2002 2002–2004 2007–2008 2008–	Germany Bayer Leverkusen Kuwait Scotland Nigeria Azerbaijan
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Hans Hubert "Berti" Vogts (pronounced /bɛɹtiː foːgts/) (born 30 December 1946 in Büttgen, near Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German football manager and former player. He is currently manager of the Azerbaijan national team.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 Management career 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Club career

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Vogts joined the boys' football team of local sports club VfR Büttgen in 1954 when he was seven, staying with them until his 1965 transfer to Borussia Mönchengladbach. A right-side defender, his tenacity earned him the nickname "Der Terrier".

He was one of the key figures during Borussia's golden years in the 1970s, when it won the Bundesliga five times, the German Cup once, and the UEFA Cup twice.

Vogts made 419 Bundesliga appearances for Mönchengladbach, scoring 32 times and also appeared 64 times for the club in European competition, scoring 8 goals. Vogts remained with Mönchengladbach until he retired from playing in 1979.

[edit] International career

Vogts played 9 international boys' games for West Germany, made 3 appearances for the under-23s team, and has 96 senior caps, making him one of Germany's most capped players. He was captain for 20 of the senior games, scored one international goal and was also a member of the German national team that won the 1974 World Cup. Nicknamed “Der Terrier” for always fighting for every ball as it was his last, Vogts was a big favourite with his home crowd. Vogts famously marked, and subdued, Johan Cruyff, in the final of the 1974 World Cup in Munich, Germany.

[edit] Management career

After his playing career ended, he became a coach for Germany's under-20 national team, and continued in that role until 1990. Starting in 1986, he became an assistant manager of the senior national side. In 1990, he was promoted to manager of the national team, leading Germany to a EURO 96 win. He stepped down as manager in 1998 after Germany's shock quarter-final exit at the World Cup finals in France.

After some time out of managing, he was appointed manager of Bayer Leverkusen in November 2000. The following May, despite earning Bayer Leverkusen UEFA Champions League qualification, he was fired. He became manager of the Kuwait national team in August 2001.

After six months with Kuwait, Vogts resigned to assume the position of manager of the Scottish national team.^[1] During his two and half years tenure there, the Scots' international record was very poor, with home defeats by Norway and Hungary, and a humiliating 2-2 draw with the lowly Faroe Islands. Although some football pundits^[who?] credited much of the squad's performance to the low quality of the player pool from which Vogts had to draw, he nonetheless took the brunt of press criticism.

An October 2004 draw with Moldova essentially put paid to Scotland's hopes of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, and Vogts came under renewed pressure to quit. Scottish fans called for his head over his poor results. He resigned the following month, with a year and a half remaining on his contract, citing "disgraceful abuse" from the fans and the media.^[2] He later vowed never to return to football management following this "abuse" though he did not rule out a return to football on a coaching basis.

Worse was to come for Vogts when Walter Smith took charge of Scotland on 2 December 2004 and the team saw an immediate turn around in fortune; many high profile players including David Weir and Barry Ferguson spoke to the press saying that the team under Vogts suffered from "lack of direction" and "poor man management".^{[citation needed]} Vogts later claimed that Scotland's subsequent success under Smith, and his successor Alex McLeish, was partly due to the young players introduced to the national set up under Vogts' reign.^[3][4] Darren Fletcher, a player who debuted for Scotland under Vogts, also supports this view.^[5]

Despite previously asserting he would never manage again, in January 2007 Vogts was appointed manager of Nigeria and signed a four-year contract. After a 13-month spell, he resigned following a poor performance at the 2008 African Nations Cup.^[6] In April 2008 he was appointed coach of Azerbaijan on a two-year contract.^[7]

[edit] References

• Planetworldcup's biography of Berti Vogts

[edit] External links

• Unofficial fansite (German) - Vogts has no official website
• Leverkusen who's who

Achievements
Preceded by Richard Møller Nielsen	UEFA European Football Championship Winning Coach 1996	Succeeded by Roger Lemerre
Sporting positions
Preceded by Augustine Eguavoen	Nigerian national football team manager 2007–2008	Succeeded by James Peters
Preceded by Gjoko Hadžievski	Azerbaijan national football team manager 2008–	Succeeded by Incumbent

v • d • e West Germany squad - 1970 FIFA World Cup Third Place 1 Maier • 2 Höttges • 3 Schnellinger • 4 Beckenbauer • 5 Schulz • 6 Weber • 7 Vogts • 8 Haller • 9 Seeler • 10 Held • 11 Fichtel • 12 Overath • 13 Müller • 14 Libuda • 15 Patzke • 16 Lorenz • 17 Löhr • 18 Sieloff • 19 Dietrich • 20 Grabowski • 21 Manglitz • 22 Wolter • Coach: Schön

v • d • e West Germany squad - UEFA Euro 1972 Winners (1st title) GK Maier • GK Kleff • DF Beckenbauer • DF Bella • DF Breitner • DF Höttges • DF Schwarzenbeck • DF Vogts • MF Bonhof • MF Hoeneß • MF Köppel • MF Netzer • FW Grabowski • FW Heynckes • FW Kremers • FW Löhr • FW Müller • FW Wimmer • Coach: Schön

v • d • e West Germany squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup Winners (2nd Title) 1 Maier • 2 Vogts • 3 Breitner • 4 Schwarzenbeck • 5 Beckenbauer • 6 Höttges • 7 Wimmer • 8 Cullmann • 9 Grabowski • 10 Netzer • 11 Heynckes • 12 Overath • 13 Müller • 14 Hoeneß • 15 Flohe • 16 Bonhof • 17 Hölzenbein • 18 Herzog • 19 Kapellmann • 20 Kremers • 21 Nigbur • 22 Kleff • Coach: Schön

v • d • e West Germany squad - UEFA Euro 1976 Runners-up 1 Maier • 2 Vogts • 3 Dietz • 4 Schwarzenbeck • 5 Beckenbauer • 6 Wimmer • 7 Bonhof • 8 Hoeneß • 9 Müller • 10 Beer • 11 Hölzenbein • 12 Worm • 13 Danner • 14 Bongartz • 15 Flohe • 16 Nogly • 17 Kaltz • 18 Kargus • Coach: Schön

v • d • e West Germany squad - 1978 FIFA World Cup 1 Maier • 2 Vogts • 3 Dietz • 4 Rüssmann • 5 Kaltz • 6 Bonhof • 7 Abramczik • 8 Zimmermann • 9 Fischer • 10 Flohe • 11 Rummenigge • 12 Schwarzenbeck • 13 Konopka • 14 D. Müller • 15 Beer • 16 Cullmann • 17 Hölzenbein • 18 Zewe • 19 Worm • 20 H. Müller • 21 Kargus • 22 Burdenski • Coach: Schön

v • d • e Germany squad - UEFA Euro 1992 Runners-up 1 Illgner • 2 Reuter • 3 Brehme • 4 Kohler • 5 Binz • 6 Buchwald • 7 Möller • 8 Häßler • 9 Völler • 10 Doll • 11 Riedle • 12 Köpke • 13 Thom • 14 Helmer • 15 Frontzeck • 16 Sammer • 17 Effenberg • 18 Klinsmann • 19 Schulz • 20 Wörns • Coach: Vogts

v • d • e Germany squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup 1 Illgner • 2 Strunz • 3 Brehme • 4 Kohler • 5 Helmer • 6 Buchwald • 7 Möller • 8 Häßler • 9 Riedle • 10 Matthäus • 11 Kuntz • 12 Köpke • 13 Völler • 14 Berthold • 15 Gaudino • 16 Sammer • 17 Wagner • 18 Klinsmann • 19 Kirsten • 20 Effenberg • 21 Basler • 22 Kahn • Coach: Vogts

v • d • e Germany squad - UEFA Euro 1996 Winners (3rd title) 1 Köpke • 2 Reuter • 3 Bode • 4 Freund • 5 Helmer • 6 Sammer • 7 Möller • 8 Scholl • 9 Bobic • 10 Häßler • 11 Kuntz • 12 Kahn • 13 Basler • 14 Babbel • 15 Kohler • 16 Schneider • 17 Ziege • 18 Klinsmann • 19 Strunz • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Eilts • 22 Reck • Coach: Vogts

v • d • e Germany squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Köpke • 2 Wörns • 3 Heinrich • 4 Kohler • 5 Helmer • 6 Thon • 7 Möller • 8 Matthäus • 9 Kirsten • 10 Häßler • 11 Marschall • 12 Kahn • 13 Jeremies • 14 Babbel • 15 Freund • 16 Hamann • 17 Ziege • 18 Klinsmann • 19 Reuter • 20 Bierhoff • 21 Tarnat • 22 Lehmann • Coach: Vogts

v • d • e Germany national football team – Managers DFB committee (1908–27) • Nerz (1928–36) • Herberger (1936–64) • Schön (1964–78) • Derwall (1978–84) • Beckenbauer (1984–90) • Vogts (1990–98) • Ribbeck (1998–2000) • Völler (2000–04) • Klinsmann (2004–06) • Löw (2006–)

v • d • e Bayer 04 Leverkusen – Managers Pliska (1963–65) • Kirchberg (1965–72) • Rummel (1972–75) • Momirski (1976) • Kremer (1976–81) • Kentschke (1981–82) • Cramer (1982–85) • Ribbeck (1985–88) • Michels (1988–89) • Gelsdorf (1989–91) • Hermann (1991) • Saftig (1991–93) • Štepanović (1993–95) • Ribbeck (1995–96) • Hermann (1996) • Daum (1996–2000) • Völler (2000) • Vogts (2000–01) • Toppmöller (2001–03) • Hörster (2003) • Augenthaler (2003–05) • Völler (2005) • Skibbe (2005–08) • Labbadia (2008–)

v • d • e Scotland national football team – Managers Selection committee (1872–1954) • Beattie (1954) • Selection committee (1954–58) • Walker (1958) • Busby (1958) • Beattie (1959–60) • McColl (1960–65) • Stein (1965–66) • Prentice (1966) • McDonald (1966–67) • B. Brown (1967–71) • Docherty (1971–72) • Ormond (1973–77) • MacLeod (1977–78) • Stein (1978–85) • Ferguson (1985–86) • Roxburgh (1986–93) • C. Brown (1993–2002) • Vogts (2002–04) • Smith (2004–07) • McLeish (2007) • Burley (2008-–)

v • d • e Nigeria national football team – Managers Finch (1948–54) • Anyiam (1954–56) • Courtier (1956–60) • Beit haLavi (1960–61) • Vardar (1961–63) • Penna (1963–64) • Anyiam (1964–65) • Ember (1965–68) • Amaechina (1968–70) • Marotze (1970–72) • Penna (1972–73) • Marotze (1973–74) • Tihomir (1974–78) • Glória (1978–82) • Göller (1982) • Onigbinde (1982–84) • Udemezue (1984–86) • Ekeji (1986) • Hoener (1986–89) • Hamilton (1989) • Westerhof (1989–94) • Amodu (1994–95) • Bonfrere (1995–96) • Amodu (1996–97) • Troussier (1997–98) • Sinclair (1998) • Milutinović (1998) • Libregts (1998–99) • Bonfrere (1999–00) • Amodu (2000–02) • Onigbinde (2002) • Chukwu (2002–05) • Eguavoen (2005–07) • Vogts (2007–08) • Peters (2008) • Amodu (2008–)