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Full name | Josef Herberger | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 28 March 1897 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Mannheim, German Empire | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 28 April 1977 | (aged 80)|||||||||||||
Place of death | Mannheim, West Germany | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1914–1921 | Waldhof Mannheim | 127 | (101) | |||||||||||
1922–1926 | VfR Mannheim | 66 | (55) | |||||||||||
1926–1930 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | 43 | (30) | |||||||||||
Total | 236 | (186) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1921–1925 | Germany | 3 | (2) | |||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
1928–1929 | SV Nowawes 03 | |||||||||||||
1930–1932 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | |||||||||||||
1932–1933 | Western Germany | |||||||||||||
1932–1936 | Germany (assistant coach) | |||||||||||||
1936–1942 | Germany | |||||||||||||
1945–1946 | Eintracht Frankfurt (interim) | |||||||||||||
1950–1964 | West Germany | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Josef "Sepp" Herberger (28 March 1897 – 28 April 1977) was a German football player and manager. He is most famous for being the manager of the West Germany national team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup final, a match later dubbed The Miracle of Bern, defeating the overwhelming favourites from Hungary. Previously he had also coached the Breslau Eleven, one of the greatest teams in German football history.