Herbert Wimmer

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Herbert Wimmer
Personal information

Date of birth	(1944-11-09) 9 November 1944
Place of birth	Eupen, Belgium
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 ¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
	Borussia Brand
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1966–1978	Borussia Mönchengladbach	366	(51)
National team
1968–1976	West Germany	36	(4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Herbert "Hacki" Wimmer (born 9 November 1944 in Eupen, Belgium) 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 UEFA Euro 1972 with Germany.

Herbert Wimmer started his playing career with lowly Borussia Brand (a place close to the city of Aachen). Between 1966 and 1978 the played in 366 Bundesliga matches for Borussia Mönchengladbach and scored 51 goals.^[1] With the club he won five national championships (1970, 71, 75, 76, 78), the German Cup in 1973 and in 1975 the UEFA Cup.

He started out as a forward, but in Mönchengladbach his role was primarily to cover defensively for the star of the team in this era, midfield playmaker Günter Netzer. His physical endurance, the iron lung, was one of his major assets. He was considered as a paragon of a player that never runs out of steam.

Between 1968 and 1976, Wimmer also played in 36 matches for the German national football team, where he scored four goals. With Germany he won the 1972 European Football Championship – there he scored the second goal in the 3–0 win in the final against the USSR – and the 1974 FIFA World Cup, where he took part in two matches.

Honours

1974 FIFA World Cup winner
UEFA Euro 1972 winner
UEFA Euro 1976 runner-up
European Cup runner-up: 1977
UEFA Cup winner: 1975
UEFA Cup finalist: 1973
Bundesliga champion: 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977
Bundesliga runner-up: 1974, 1978
DFB-Pokal winner: 1973

References

↑ "Herbert Wimmer" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 12 February 2010.

v t e UEFA Euro 1972 Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Evgeny Rudakov

Defenders	Revaz Dzodzuashvili Paul Breitner Murtaz Khurtsilava Franz Beckenbauer

Midfielders	Herbert Wimmer Uli Hoeneß Günter Netzer

Forwards	Jupp Heynckes Gerd Müller Raoul Lambert

v t e West Germany squad – UEFA Euro 1972 winners (1st title)

GK Maier GK Kleff DF Beckenbauer (c) 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 t e West Germany squad – 1974 FIFA World Cup winners (2nd title)

1 Maier 2 Vogts 3 Breitner 4 Schwarzenbeck 5 Beckenbauer (c) 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 t e West Germany squad – UEFA Euro 1976 Runners-up

1 Maier 2 Vogts 3 Dietz 4 Schwarzenbeck 5 Beckenbauer (c) 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

Persondata
Name	Wimmer, Herbert
Alternative names
Short description	German footballer
Date of birth	9 November 1944
Place of birth	Eupen, Belgium
Date of death
Place of death

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