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Josef Emanuel Hubertus "Sepp" Piontek (born 5 March 1940) is a German former footballer[1] and manager.

Sepp Piontek

Piontek in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Josef Emanuel Hubertus Piontek
Date of birth	(1940-03-05) 5 March 1940 (age 82)
Place of birth	Breslau, Nazi Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1949–1958	VfL Germania Leer
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1960	VfL Germania Leer
1960–1972	Werder Bremen	278	(15)
National team
1961–1962	West Germany U23	2	(0)
1965–1966	West Germany	6	(0)
Teams managed
1971–1975	Werder Bremen
1975–1976	Fortuna Düsseldorf
1976–1978	Haiti
1978–1979	FC St. Pauli
1979–1990	Denmark
1990–1993	Turkey
1993-1995	Bursaspor
1995–1996	Aalborg BK
1997–1999	Silkeborg IF
2000–2002	Greenland
2004	Greenland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Born in Breslau, now Wrocław. Piontek started his playing career with VfL Germania Leer. Between 1963 and 1972, the full-back played 203 Bundesliga matches with 14 goals[2] for SV Werder Bremen (he previously registered 75 matches and one goal with the side in Oberliga Nord (1960–1963), prior to the creation of Bundesliga), adding six caps (no goals) for the West German national team.[3]

Coaching career

After retiring he managed, in Germany, Werder Bremen (1971–1975), and later Fortuna Düsseldorf (1975–1976) and FC St. Pauli (1978–1979). In 1979, Piontek became Danish national team coach after having previously managed Haiti (1976–1978). He sat through 115 international matches, leading Denmark to their first ever World Cup participation in the 1986 tournament. His period as national team coach came just after the introduction of professional players in the national team, and under his reign the Denmark team became known as "Danish Dynamite". He quit as Denmark coach in April 1990 after the Danish national team failed to qualify for 1990 FIFA World Cup, and later coached Turkey from an advice by fellow German and Piontek's teacher Jupp Derwall[4] from May 1990 to 1993, in which though failed to qualify for neither UEFA Euro 1992 and 1994 FIFA World Cup, helped sparking a massive revival in Turkish football fortunes which would be witnessed by the time Piontek left.[5]

In the 1990s, Piontek returned to Denmark, where he coached Danish clubs Aalborg BK and Silkeborg IF, and subsequently worked with the Greenland national team. He currently earns a living as a lecturer.

Honours

Player

Werder Bremen

• Bundesliga: 1964–65, runners-up 1967–68
• DFB-Pokal: 1961

References

External links

• Danish national team profile (in Danish)
• Sepp Piontek at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Sepp Piontek at National-Football-Teams.com
• Sepp Piontek Interview
• German foundation beneath Turkey's rise to greatness
• The forgotten story of...Danish Dynamite, the Denmark side of the mid-80s

На других языках

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[de] Josef Piontek

Josef Emanuel Hubertus „Sepp“ Piontek (* 5. März 1940 in Breslau) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Fußballspieler und -trainer. Als Spieler gewann er mit dem SV Werder Bremen den DFB-Pokal 1960/61 und wurde 1965 deutscher Meister. Als Trainer machte er sich insbesondere durch seine Arbeit mit der dänischen Fußballnationalmannschaft einen Namen.

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- [en] Sepp Piontek

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[fr] Sepp Piontek

Josef « Sepp » Emanuel Hubertus Piontek, plus connu sous le nom de Sepp Piontek, né le 5 mars 1940 à Breslau en Allemagne, actuellement Wrocław en Pologne, est un ancien joueur international puis entraîneur de football allemand.

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[it] Sepp Piontek

Sepp Piontek, all'anagrafe Josef Emanuel Hubertus Piontek (Breslavia, 5 marzo 1940), è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore tedesco.

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[ru] Пионтек, Зепп

Йозеф Эмануэль Хубертус «Зепп» Пио́нтек (нем. Josef Emanuel Hubertus «Sepp» Piontek; 5 марта 1940, Бреслау, Германия) — немецкий футболист, тренер.

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