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Sepp Herberger

1897 - 1977

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sepp Herberger is the 391st most popular soccer player (down from 346th in 2019), the 1,359th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,416th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sepp Herberger ranks 391 out of 21,273. Before him are Hans Krankl, Minoru Kobata, Shunichi Kumai, Mauro Ramos, Sachi Kagawa, and Quini. After him are Josep Samitier, Toshio Iwatani, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Anghel Iordănescu, Carlos Bilardo, and Misao Tamai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Sepp Herberger ranks 68. Before him are Benjamin Lee Whorf, Theodor Busse, Ngô Đình Thục, Yeghishe Charents, Dmitry Pavlov, and Adolf Heusinger. After him are Yuri Kondratyuk, Hans Baur, Marcel Petiot, Karl Löwith, Bernard Lyot, and Sidney Bechet. Among people deceased in 1977, Sepp Herberger ranks 50. Before him are Shogo Kamo, Gangubai Kothewali, Naum Gabo, Stephen Boyd, Kamal Jumblatt, and Gudrun Ensslin. After him are Oskar Morgenstern, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Hans Martin Sutermeister, Leopold Stokowski, Jan Patočka, and Olave Baden-Powell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sepp Herberger ranks 1,359 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Müller (1794), Adolf Heusinger (1897), Heidi Klum (1973), Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1877), Hans von Ohain (1911), and Franciscus Sylvius (1614). After him are Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Franz Gürtner (1881), George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484), Ernst Zermelo (1871), Carl Schuhmann (1869), and Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (1684).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Sepp Herberger ranks 26. Before him are Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939), Michael Ballack (1976), Manuel Neuer (1986), Günter Netzer (1944), Mesut Özil (1988), and Thomas Müller (1989). After him are Helmut Haller (1939), Jens Lehmann (1969), Toni Kroos (1990), Jupp Derwall (1927), Uli Stielike (1954), and Sepp Piontek (1940).

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