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10 Things to know about Jupp Heynckes

Josef “Jupp” Heynckes (born 9 May 1945 in Germany) is a retired German professional footballer and manager. He spent the majority of his playing career as a striker for Borussia Mönchengladbach during their golden era of the 1960s and 1970s when they won numerous national championships, the DFB-Pokal, and the UEFA Cup. He was a member of West Germany’s national teams that won UEFA Euro 1972 and the FIFA World Cup in 1974. Heynckes won four Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich and two UEFA Champions Leagues, one with Real Madrid in 1997-98 and the other with Bayern in 2012-13. There are a number of unknown facts about Jupp. Discover Walks keeps you up to date, so here we go:

1. He began playing career at Borussia Mönchengladbach 

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Heynckes began his professional career in 1964 with his hometown club Borussia Mönchengladbach, which was then in the second division.

He had previously played for the amateur club Grün-Weiß Holt. Hennes Weisweiler’s club was promoted to the Bundesliga in 1965, with the teenage striker scoring 23 goals in 25 matches in his debut season.

Heynckes scored his first two Bundesliga goals against SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin in August 1965. He scored 27 Bundesliga goals in two seasons for Borussia Dortmund before moving on to Hannover 96 for three years, scoring 25 times in 86 league matches.

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2. Top scorer for consecutive years

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With 30 goals in the 1973-74 season, Heynckes was the joint top goalscorer in the Bundesliga with Gerd Müller. Müller’s Bayern Munich won the Bundesliga for the third time in a row, while his Mönchengladbach finished second.

Heynckes also led the European Cup Winners’ Cup scoring eight goals in 1973-74. Borussia Mönchengladbach was eliminated in the semi-finals of this competition by Milan, losing 2-1 on aggregate. In 1975, Heynckes was a member of Mönchengladbach.

Die Fohlen won their third Bundesliga title in 1974-75, with Heynckes finishing as the league’s all-time leading scorer with 27 goals. Heynckes scored 23 goals in 21 UEFA Cup games, making him the competition’s ninth-highest goalscorer and the only member of the top ten to have scored at a rate of more than one goal per game.

3. Made International debut at 21 

Heynckes appeared in 39 matches for West Germany and scored 14 goals.

At the age of 21, he made his international debut in February 1967, scoring in a 5-1 friendly win over Morocco.

Heynckes was a member of West Germany’s 1972 UEFA European Championship-winning team, playing 90 minutes in the final against the Soviet Union. UEFA named him one of seven German players on the Tournament’s official team.

4. He succeded Udo Lattek

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Heynckes stayed with Borussia Mönchengladbach after his playing career, first as an assistant and then as a manager, succeeding Udo Lattek in this position in 1979 at the age of 34.

Heynckes took over on July 1, 1979, and led Mönchengladbach to the 1980 UEFA Cup final, where they were defeated by Eintracht Frankfurt. They won the first leg 3-2 but fell short in the second leg 1-0.

Mönchengladbach finished seventh in the league.  Despite failing to win a trophy during his tenure as manager of his hometown club, earning him the moniker “the champion without a title,” he was appointed manager of Bayern Munich in the summer of 1987, succeeding the departing Udo Lattek. Heynckes finished with a record of 169 wins, 77 draws, and 97 losses.

5. Bayern Munich Boss

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Between 1 July 1987 and 8 October 1991, Heynckes was the manager of Bayern Munich. Bayern won the DFB Supercup in his first season. Bayern won back-to-back championships in 1988-89 and 1989-90.

Munich fired Heynckes on October 4, 1991, after the team had won only four of its first 12 Bundesliga games. His final game as a coach was a 4-1 loss at home to Stuttgarter Kickers. Bayern was in 12th place at the time of his dismissal.

The team struggled after his departure, eventually finishing tenth, five points clear of relegation. The decision to fire Heynckes was later described as “the biggest mistake of my career” by general manager Uli Hoeneß. Heynckes finished with a 113-win, 46-draw record.

6. Forged for greatness

Born in Mönchengladbach as the ninth of ten children and the son of a blacksmith, he began his career as a plasterer before deciding to pursue a career in football.

He never lost touch with Mönchengladbach, however, and still lives with his wife, Iris, on a small farm outside the Nordrhein-Westphalian city whose most famous sons are him, former teammate Günter Netzer, and Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

It was fitting that his final Bundesliga match in charge of Bayern in May 2013 took place at Borussia Park. That, and the treble that season, made him one of only eight men in European football history to accomplish the feat, joining Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, and Sir Alex Ferguson.

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7. Among the Top 3 German Scorers

Heynckes is a well-known coach, but he used to play for his hometown club. Aside from a three-year stint at Hannover in 1967-1970, Heynckes spent his entire playing career with the Foals.

He scored 195 goals in 283 Bundesliga games for Gladbach, putting him third on the all-time list for the German top-flight behind Bayern’s incomparable Gerd Müller and Schalke’s prolific Klaus Fischer.

8. Pushed Bilbao to UEFA Cup qualification in his second season

After leaving the field, he first entered the dugout at Gladbach, and after his first stint at Bayern, he moved to Athletic Bilbao for the first of five trips abroad.

Heynckes followed in the footsteps of Hennes Weisweiler and Udo Lattek, the only two German coaches to have worked in La Liga before him, by leading Bilbao to UEFA Cup qualification in his second season; he did the same in his first season in Tenerife (95/96), but lost to Schalke in the competition’s semi-final the following season.

9. Four Spells in Bayern

Heynckes was Bayern’s manager for four seasons. Between 1987 and 1991, he won two Bundesliga titles and finished second twice — he appears to have forgiven Uli Hoeness for firing him in October 1991.

He saved Bayern’s 2008/09 season, stepping in after Jürgen Klinsmann’s dismissal in April 2009 to win four of the club’s five remaining league games and finish second, securing Champions League qualification, which had seemed out of reach when he took over.

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10. Retirement

Heynckes announced his retirement at the end of the 2017-18 season. Heynckes managed 1,265 matches in all competitions and three leagues during his career.

He managed 668 Bundesliga matches for five clubs, winning 343, losing 164, and drawing 161. Heynckes won 200 La Liga games with three different clubs.

In La Liga, he won 79 games, lost 62, and drew 59. He also managed 38 matches for Benfica in the Primeira Liga, winning 23, losing 8, and drawing 7.

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