Udo Lattek
Udo Lattek in the early 1970s
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Udo Lattek | ||
| Date of birth | 16 January 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Bosemb, German Empire | ||
| Date of death | 31 January 2015 (aged 80) | ||
| Place of death | Cologne, Germany | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| SSV Marienheide | |||
| Bayer Leverkusen | |||
| VfR Wipperfürth | |||
| 1962–1965 | VfL Osnabrück | 70 | (34) |
| Teams managed | |||
| VfR Wipperfürth | |||
| 1965–1970 | West Germany (Assistant coach) | ||
| 1970–1975 | Bayern Munich | ||
| 1975–1979 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||
| 1979–1981 | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| 1981–1983 | Barcelona | ||
| 1983–1987 | Bayern Munich | ||
| 1991 | 1. FC Köln | ||
| 1992–1993 | Schalke 04 | ||
| 2000 | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Udo Lattek (16 January 1935 – 31 January 2015) was a German football player, coach, and TV pundit.
With 14 major titles, Lattek is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game, and the most successful coach with German teams, especially Bayern Munich. He further won important trophies with Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Barcelona. Further to that he coached Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04 and 1. FC Köln. Alongside the Italian Giovanni Trapattoni he is the only coach to have won all three major European club titles, and he is the only one to do so with three different teams. For his contributions to the European football, Lattek was named among the 10 greatest coaches since the foundation of UEFA in 1954.
Lattek was born in Bosemb, East Prussia, German Empire (now Boże, Poland). Whilst Lattek was preparing for a career as a teacher, he played football with SSV Marienheide, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and VfR Wipperfürth. In 1962, he joined VfL Osnabrück. There he played in his first season in the first division (the northern division of the "Oberliga"), and the remainder of his time in the second division as the club did not qualify for the new Bundesliga at its inception 1963. The centre forward, who was famed for his headers, scored between 1962 and 1965 34 goals in 70 league matches.
Early 1965, Lattek was prematurely released from his contract to join the German football association DFB as coach for their youth team and, beside Dettmar Cramer as one of the assistants to head coach Helmut Schön. In this role he was also part of the coaching staff which led Germany into the final of the 1966 World Cup.
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