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Josef " Jupp" Heynckes (German. [jjʊphahaɪnkəs] ; born May 9, 1945) is a retired German professional football player and manager. As a player, he spent most of his career as a striker for Borussia Monchengladbach in its golden era of the 1960s and 70s, where he won numerous national championships and the DFB-Pokal, as well as the UEFA Cup. During this period, the team played in its only European Champions Cup final in 1977, losing to Liverpool. He is the fourth scorer in Bundesliga history, with 220 goals. He was a member of the West German national team that won the UEFA European Championship and the FIFA World Cup in the first half of the 1970s.
As a manager, Heynckes won four Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich and won the UEFA Champions League twice; with Real Madrid in 1997-98 and Bayern Munich in 2012-2013./It rarely happens that a big player becomes a big coach. Jupp Heynckes is one of the few who succeeded.
Jupp Heynckes was born in Monchengladbach, he was the ninth child in a family where there were 10 children in total, 9 of them girls! His father was a blacksmith, his mother owned a small shop.
Despite the difficult post-war period, parents were able to put their children on their feet. Jupp and his sisters helped them as much as possible, but he had time for sports - in summer he played football, in winter he played hockey. And the childhood idol for Jupp Heynckes was Fritz Walter, the famous scorer of the German national team, which won the World Cup in 1954.
At the age of 11, Heynckes got into the Gruen-Weiss football school, where he was noticed by the scouts of Borussia Monchengladbach.
Jupp Heynckes made his debut for the first team of Borussia, then playing in the Regionliga (the second division of the German championship at that time) at the age of 19. The debut was enchanting – the team won the tournament and entered the Bundesliga, and Jupp Heynckes became the top scorer of Borussia with 25 goals. The young striker was not lost in the elite of German football, scoring 12 goals, which helped the team gain a foothold in the Bundesliga.
Actually, Jupp Heynckes' career at Borussia is divided into two periods – in 1967, the young striker unexpectedly moved to Hannover, where he spent three years.
But there he finally turned into a great master and returned to Borussia at the age of 25. In the meantime, a great team was selected in Monchengladbach, for which such great masters as Gunther Netzer, Bertie Vogst, Allan Simonsen played.
Under the leadership of first Hennes Weisweiler and then Udo Lattek, Borussia reached the leading positions in the Bundesliga, winning four league titles between 1971 and 1977.
The main striking force in the attack of the Menchengladbach was Jupp Heynckes, whose peak came in 1972-1975, when he scored 40 or more goals for three consecutive seasons (taking into account all official matches) and twice winning the Bundesliga goalscoring race. Let me remind you that all this happened at the time when the great scorer Gerd Muller was playing, whom Heynckes managed to bypass in terms of the number of goals scored during the season.
Heynckes' goalscoring exploits extended to European competitions – in 1973 and 1975 he scored the most in the UEFA Cup draws, and both times Borussia reached the final. In the first case, they lost to Liverpool, and in the second, they beat the Dutch Twente. In the second leg (the UEFA Cup final was then a two-masted match), Jupp Heynckes scored a hat-trick on the opponent's field, and his team won 5-1 after a goalless draw at home.
Jupp Heynckes finished his playing career relatively early – at the age of 33. I think he could have spent another couple of seasons at the highest level. I draw this conclusion based on the statistics of his performance in the farewell season (1977-1978) - 27 goals in 31 matches.
"Hanover 96"
1967-1970
To be honest, this period of Jupp Heynckes' career is unremarkable – Hannover occupied places in the middle of the standings, and the striker scored a dozen or a half goals per season.
So Heynckes' decision to return to his hometown club was the right one, and it benefited both the footballer himself and his Borussia.
German national team
1967-1976
Jupp Heynckes played in the German national team for almost ten years, but played only 39 matches for it. This is partly due to the fact that in those years the No. 1 forward (and it could not be otherwise) was Gerd Muller, and the list of his teammates was quite wide – Bernd Helzenbain, Uwe Seeler, Uli Hoeness, Jurgen Grabowski.
But the peak of Heynckes' career coincided with the peak of Helmut Schoen's great team, and Jupp was one of its most important components. He took part in the victorious 1972 European and 1974 World Championships for the German national team.
Just a year after the end of his playing career, Jupp Heynckes entered the coaching path, starting work in his native Borussia. The "golden" time of the Monchengladbach club had come to an end by that time, the outstanding players who took the field with Heynckes had completed their performances, and their shift was, alas, of a slightly different caliber.
Therefore, Borussia had to forget about the championship titles and focus on more mundane tasks. Two sets of bronze medals and reaching the final of the German Cup - these are all the achievements of the Menchengladbach team under the leadership of Heynckes, which, however, is very good.
In 2006, Jupp Heynckes will lead Borussia once again, but the club will be very bad and will leave the Bundesliga.
Bayern"
1987-1991
And then, in 1987, the young coach was noticed in Munich. Standing at the helm of Bayern, Heynckes faced completely different problems. If in Monchengladbach he was an indisputable authority for everyone, then here he had to reckon with both the management and the players.
To be considered, but not to concede. Jupp Heynckes has always been considered a tough and demanding coach, but at the same time he always knew how to find contact with football players, who often came to him for advice, and not only football.
Having won two consecutive league titles with Bayern, Jupp Heynckes left the team. This was largely due to the fact that the Munich club had already begun to turn into the notorious FC Hollywood, tormented by internal contradictions.
Other clubs
Jupp Heynckes had a lot of football clubs in his coaching career. I don't see the point in telling about all of them, and therefore I will limit myself to listing them with an indication of the period of work and a small comment. I would like to draw the attention of fans of statistics that the chronology is not broken here, because about the work of Heynckes at Real Madrid (1997-1998 season) - a little lower.
Athletic (Bilbao) in the 1993-1994 season and Tenerife in the 1995-1996 season under the leadership of Heynckes finished in fifth place in the Spanish championship, having received the right to compete in the UEFA Cup. Well, the third place in the Portuguese championship with Benfica is hardly a success.
As for the success in the international arena, it should be noted that Tenerife reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup 1996-1997, when Jupp Heynckes' team beat Lazio, Feyenoord and the successful Danish Bronbdy in those years.
And Bayer Leverkusen in the 2010-2011 season, Jupp Heynckes led to silver awards.
Real Madrid
1997-1998
Heynckes' success with medium-sized Spanish clubs attracted the attention of Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz. This was especially true of Tenerife's performance in Europe, because Real Madrid was dominated by a kind of curse – since 1996, the team could not win the Champions League (Cup).
Heynckes lifted this curse, and, interestingly, on the way to the final, Real Madrid defeated two German clubs – Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund, the current winner of the trophy.
But here's the bad luck – Jupp Heynckes was fired for an unsatisfactory result in the Spanish championship, where Real Madrid took only fourth place. What can you do, this is a "royal" club, and even in the case of such victories, the coach is not immune from dismissal.
Bayern Munich again
2009, 2011-2013, 2017-2018
In April 2009, Jupp Heynckes was called back to Bayern Munich. However, this time he was offered a temporary contract – after the dismissal of Jurgen Klinsmann, he had to lead the team for only six rounds.
Bayern were in third place in the table by that time. Heynckes managed to slightly reduce the gap from the leading Wolfsburg and finish the championship in second place.
Jupp Heynckes' third coming to Bayern took place in 2011, and at the end of the season, Bayern became "three times second". The Bavarians lost the championship title to Borussia Dortmund, they also lost to it in the final of the German Cup. And the most disappointing defeat happened in the Champions League final. The match took place at the Allianz Arena, home to Bayern, and she was a clear favorite in the meeting with Chelsea.
The hosts held the advantage throughout the match, and the goal scored by Thomas Muller in the 83rd minute turned out to be the winning goal. But Chelsea managed to get away from defeat and win in a penalty shootout.
Despite this, Jupp Heynckes was left on the coaching bridge, everyone saw that the team has a game, and a healthy atmosphere reigns in the locker room. And Jupp justified the trust - Bayern won the championship, the German Cup and won the Champions League for the first time since 2001. Moreover, the Bavarians staged a kind of "revenge" for Dortmund. Not only were the national titles taken away from Borussia, it was Bayern that beat it in the quarterfinals of the National Cup, and then in the Champions League final.
Paradoxically, during that season, the management of Bayern agreed with Josep Guardiola, the Spaniard was supposed to lead the club from July 2013. And the football world saw for the first time how the team was saying goodbye to the coach who had just led it to the "treble". I doubt that this will ever happen again.
And in September 2017, after the dismissal of Carlo Ancelotti, Jupp Heynckes again had to act as a "firefighter". He led the club to another league title, and in the Champions League he reached the semi-finals, where he lost to Real Madrid with a very controversial refereeing.
