Berti Vogts

Vogts lost both parents at the age of twelve. He then lived with an aunt. He began his career as a player at the local VfR from 1956 to 1965. In 1965 he moved to "Borussia Mönchengladbach" and with this club became German champions five times (1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977) and once DFB Cup winner in 1973 and won the UEFA Cup in 1975 and 1979. In the 1970s he was one of the most powerful German defensive players. Vogts played a total of 419 Bundesliga games and scored 33 goals. Between 1967 and 1978 he played 96 times for the national team. However, his greatest international success was winning the World Cup in 1974; In the final, the German team defeated the Netherlands 2-1. In 1976 Vogts was runner-up at the European Championships. After ending his active career, Vogts became a coach at the German Football Association (DFB) in 1979. He coached the U16 (1984 European champions) and U21 teams.

After the 1990 World Cup, he took over the position of national coach from Franz Beckenbauer. Under Vogts, Germany became European runner-up in Sweden in 1992. At the 1994 World Cup in the USA, the German team was eliminated in the quarterfinals. In 1996 at the European Championships in England he led his team to win the title; Germany defeated the Czech Republic 2-1 in the final. After the German team's disappointing performance at the World Cup finals in France in 1998 - Germany lost 3-0 to Croatia in the quarter-finals - Vogts initially remained in office despite severe criticism in order to start rebuilding after the resignation of some long-time regular players. At the beginning of September 1998, however, he finally said goodbye in the face of public pressure. Vogts, who, as Beckenbauer's successor, had a difficult time in public throughout his term in office, can boast a better record than his predecessors Sepp Herberger, Helmut Schön, Jupp Derwall and Franz Beckenbauer, with 67 wins, 23 draws and twelve defeats in 102 international matches .

Vogts was elected to the supervisory board of "Borussia Mönchengladbach" at the end of February 1999. As the successor to Rudi Völler, who had taken over the position at short notice from the resigned Christoph Daum, he worked as head coach at "Bayer Leverkusen" from November 2000 to May 2001 with moderate success. After being employed as national coach in Kuwait from August 2001 to January 2002, he took over the Scottish national team in March of the same year. After a poor start to the qualifying round for the 2006 World Cup, the collaboration ended on November 1, 2004. From 2007 to 2008 he looked after the Nigeria team and from 2008 to 2014 the Azerbaijan national football team. From March 2015, Vogts worked again as an advisor to the Americans and supported coach Jürgen Klinsmann in 2016, among other things, at the Copa América Centenario.