Eintracht Frankfurt: German football mourns around Grabowski
German football mourns around Jürgen Grabowski. The World Champion of 1974 died on Thursday evening at the age of 77 years.
Until recently, Jürgen Grabowski was on everyone's lips - and the Football World Champion of 1974 will be this even after his death. If the Thrash Metal band Tankard with the club hymn "black and white such as snow" sounds before the games of Eintracht Frankfurt in the Arena, the fans will also sing the text line named Grabowskis in the future, even if he on Thursday evening in the Age died of 77 years.
No wonder. Finally, the lines are a tribute to the idol of the Bundesliga club, which is still appreciated by many sides as "the best player of Hesse of Hesse of the Times". "We have taken the harmony in the final. With the Jürgen, with the Jürgen," it says in the song about the Frankfurt honor play guide: "She played so well, and she played so beautiful - with the Jürgen Grabowski!"
Listening is GRABOWSKI, which had already been struck health in recent years and had to regularly for dialysis, which no longer had lines. "Full of gratitude and respect, Eintracht Frankfurt borders from one of the largest who ever played this game. All sympathy is his wife Helga and the family," said the club on Friday.
"That Jürgen Grabowski died, is all incomprehensible to us," said President of Peter Fischer deeply affected. CEO Axel Hellmann also mourned Grabowski. "In his active time, Jürgen Grabowski might be the most perfect player who played for Eintracht", Hellmann said, "His aura looks to the present. Grabi, who was so liked to be at the games of our Eintracht, was co-generation identity foundation the club. "
Grabowski played 44 internationals for the DFB and 441 encounters in the Bundesliga for Eintracht, was World and European Champion, UEFA Cup winner 1980 and 1974 and 1975 DFB Cup winner.
Overath: "He could do everything" with the ball
In Frankfurt, Grabowski was the playmakers, in the national team, he usually acted as rights - because of his competitors Wolfgang Overath and Günter Netzer. "For me he was one of the biggest artists we had at the Eintracht - if not the biggest," says Bundesliga record player Karl-Heinz Körbel once.
For Overath he was "a very fine man, a super boy. With the ball he could do everything." Together with his club colleague Bernd Wölzbein belonged Grabowski to the World Champion Team of 1974.
At his 30th birthday, GRABOWSKI initiated the 2-1 winner in the World Cup Final of Munich: Pass to Rainer Bonhof, Flank, Gate and Prize Gerd Müller. At that 7 July 1974 Grabowski thought: "The world belongs to you." He was after the blamblen 0: 1 against the GDR from the team flown, which hit him deeply.
As a substitute he succeeded in the preliminary decision 3: 2 against Sweden - and he was again in the first eleven. "This game," he said again and again, "I owe everything."
40,000 at the farewell game
After the World Cup title win, Grabowski returned from the national team, in the Eintracht he trumped on. From 1965 to 1980 he played for the Hesse, before only in Biebrich.
In the UEFA Cup win in 1980, Grabowski stretches the heavy cup in civilian clothing. Bernd Wörzbein had handed him his with-world champion and friend as the first. A foul of Lothar Matthew and a heavy foot injury had finished a short time Grabowski's famous career.
To his farewell game between the Eintracht and the World Cup team of 1974 in the former Waldstadion came over 40,000 fans.
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