Horst Hrubesch
Hrubesch coaching Germany U21 in 2016
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 17 April 1951 | ||
| Place of birth | Hamm, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1958–1970 | FC Pelkum | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971 | Germania Hamm | ||
| 1971–1972 | Hammer SpVg | ||
| 1972–1975 | SC Westtünnen | ||
| 1975–1978 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 93 | (80) |
| 1978–1983 | Hamburger SV | 159 | (96) |
| 1983–1985 | Standard Liège | 43 | (17) |
| 1985–1986 | Borussia Dortmund | 17 | (2) |
| National team | |||
| 1980–1982 | West Germany | 21 | (6) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1986–1987 | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||
| 1988–1989 | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
| 1991–1992 | Swarovski Tirol | ||
| 1993 | |||
| 1994–1995 | Dynamo Dresden | ||
| 1995–1996 | Austria Wien | ||
| 1997 | Samsunspor | ||
| 2000–2016 | Germany U21 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Horst Hrubesch (German: [ˈhɔʁst ˈʁuːbɛʃ]; born 17 April 1951) is a retired German football player who is still active as a manager. His nickname was Das Kopfball-Ungeheuer (the Header Beast) for his heading skills as a centre-forward.
Hrubesch was a late bloomer. He played in small clubs until the age of 24 when he was signed by Rot-Weiss Essen. There he played well enough that in 1978 Hamburger SV (HSV) bought him. At Hamburg he blossomed into one of the most productive forwards of the Bundesliga with 96 goals in only 159 matches and was soon called up for the West German national team. Hrubesch formed an attacking partnership with fellow HSV player Manfred Kaltz, a right wingback whose crosses Hrubesch often headed into the goal.
West Germany's match-winning hero in the UEFA Euro 1980 Final in Rome against Belgium, Hrubesch scored two goals, the second a trademark bullet header, in the 89th minute. It was a day of redemption for the big Hamburger SV centre forward who a few weeks earlier had hobbled around the field with an ankle injury as his club lost the European Champion Clubs' Cup final to Nottingham Forest FC. A latecomer to the international scene, Hrubesch had only been called into the West Germany squad after Klaus Fischer broke his leg, and the game against Belgium was only his fifth international appearance. He would win just 21 caps in all, the last of them in the 1982 FIFA World Cup final. A German champion three times, he also won the European Cup with Hamburg in 1983, captaining the team to a 1–0 win against favourites Juventus in the Athens final.
His other great success apart from the victory in the European Championship in 1980, was winning the Champions Cup against Juventus in 1983. He also was German champion in 1979, 1982 and 1983. He scored 136 goals in 224 games in the Bundesliga and was capped 21 times.
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