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Jürgen Werner

1935 - 2002

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Jürgen Werner (15 August 1935 – 28 May 2002) was a German football player, journalist and official. Werner, a midfield player, came from the youth of Hamburger SV right into the first team, in a similar path to Uwe Seeler did, and, for his eight years of first-team experience between 1955 and 1963, has the 1960 German Championship title to prove his credentials. He refused to sign a professional contract in 1963, and was to become a teacher, retiring from the game of football. He also played a part-time role as journalist for weekly newspaper Die Zeit, and later became the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the German Football Association, a role he took up in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jürgen Werner is the 5,211th most popular soccer player (up from 5,636th in 2019), the 5,452nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,579th in 2019) and the 332nd most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jürgen Werner ranks 5,211 out of 21,273Before him are Pau Torres, Yusuke Suzuki, Józef Kałuża, Salaheddine Bassir, Masahiro Fukuda, and Víctor Aristizábal. After him are Cole Palmer, Katatau, Kári Árnason, Osamu Taninaka, Lisandro López, and Mark Iuliano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Jürgen Werner ranks 481Before him are Don McCullin, Antonio Jasso, Larry Williams, Valdis Muižnieks, Eldridge Cleaver, and Marilee Stepan. After him are Vicente Cantatore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Anaid Iplicjian, David Pegg, Claude Esteban, and Prem Chopra. Among people deceased in 2002, Jürgen Werner ranks 307Before him are Mitsuo Ikeda, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Desmond Hoyte, Sylvia Rivera, Joyce Cooper, and Lev Kulidzhanov. After him are Marga Petersen, Davey Boy Smith, Martin Kamen, Pierre Rapsat, Stanley Wagner, and Daniel Pearl.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jürgen Werner ranks 5,455 out of 7,253Before him are Volker Weidler (1962), Liesel Westermann (1944), Christiane Krause (1950), Rick J. Jordan (1968), Christian Wörns (1972), and Karl Lauterbach (1963). After him are Ralph Giordano (1923), Marga Petersen (1919), Lida Heymann (1868), Vera Zorina (1917), Jürgen Sundermann (1940), and Harald Konopka (1952).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Jürgen Werner ranks 332Before him are Julian Brandt (1996), Reinhard Häfner (1952), Marcell Jansen (1985), Marcel Schmelzer (1988), Jörg Heinrich (1969), and Christian Wörns (1972). After him are Jürgen Sundermann (1940), Harald Konopka (1952), Karl Del'Haye (1955), Rolf Rüssmann (1950), Georg Volkert (1945), and Olaf Marschall (1966).