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Helmut Schön

1915 - 1996

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Helmut Schön (15 September 1915 – 23 February 1996) was a German football player and manager. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of the West Germany national team in four consecutive World Cup tournaments, including winning the title in 1974, losing in the final in 1966, and coming in third in 1970. In addition, his teams won the European Championship in 1972 and lost in the final in 1976. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Schön is the 200th most popular soccer player (up from 350th in 2019), the 940th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,427th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Soccer Player.

Helmut Schön is most famous for being the coach of the German National Soccer Team that won the World Cup in 1974.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Helmut Schön ranks 200 out of 21,273. Before him are Andreas Brehme, Tomohiko Ikoma, Paulino Alcántara, Iker Casillas, Gunnar Gren, and Carles Rexach. After him are Grzegorz Lato, Bobby Robson, Javier Zanetti, Yoshimatsu Oyama, Helmut Rahn, and Akira Kitaguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Helmut Schön ranks 40. Before him are Les Paul, Henry Taube, Geraldine of Albania, Paul Tibbets, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Albert O. Hirschman. After him are Thomas Huckle Weller, Modibo Keïta, Aziz Nesin, Brother Roger, Rudolf Kirchschläger, and Mario Del Monaco. Among people deceased in 1996, Helmut Schön ranks 43. Before him are Andreas Papandreou, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Fujiko Fujio, Masaki Kobayashi, Marcel Carné, and António de Spínola. After him are George Davis Snell, Alain Poher, Martin Balsam, Marianne Bachmeier, J. R. Jayewardene, and Max Manus.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Schön ranks 940 out of 7,253. Before him are Ulrich von Jungingen (1360), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Frei Otto (1925), Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666), Edith Frank (1900), and Philipp Otto Runge (1777). After him are John George III, Elector of Saxony (1647), Erich Priebke (1913), David Fabricius (1564), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Hrotsvitha (935), and Johannes Trithemius (1462).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Helmut Schön ranks 13. Before him are Fritz Walter (1920), Paul Breitner (1951), Rudi Völler (1960), Jürgen Klinsmann (1964), Berti Vogts (1946), and Andreas Brehme (1960). After him are Helmut Rahn (1929), Wolfgang Overath (1943), Bert Trautmann (1923), Felix Magath (1953), Harald Schumacher (1954), and Niko Kovač (1971).

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