Former football world champion Horst Eckel is dead

Former football world champion Horst Eckel is dead Status: 03.12.2021 13:53 Uhr Horst Eckel was the last living "hero of Bern", the legendary 1954 national football team. Now the former world champion has died at the age of 89.The former national football player Horst Eckel is dead. This was announced by the DFB. Eckel was part of the legendary 1954 team that won the first World Cup title for Germany in Bern. Eckel died at the age of 89.The right winger of 1. FC Kaiserslautern was the youngest member of the team captained by Fritz Walter that won the final 3:2 against the big favourites Hungary in the constant rain after trailing 0:2 and achieved the "Miracle of Bern".Nicknamed "The Greyhound "The Palatine was nicknamed "The Greyhound" because the fast player plugged the holes in midfield and kept his future best man Fritz Walter's back free. Together with Fritz and Ottmar Walter as well as Werner Liebrich and Werner Kohlmeyer, he formed the Lauter block in Herbert's team and played a total of 32 international matches. "At the final whistle we knew that we were world champions. But we only realised what that meant to the people at home when we stepped on German soil again. It was a great reception," Eckel once recalled. Nine years after the end of the Second World War, this victory was a signal for the political and economic awakening of the nation. Hundreds of thousands lined the tracks and streets as the world champions returned home in triumph.As long as all the 1954 world champions were still alive, Eckel, who was born in Bruchmühlbach-Miesau, was always overshadowed by the big names: Helmut Rahn, Toni Turek and above all Fritz Walter. After the death of Hans Schäfer on 7 November 2017, however, only the down-to-earth and reserved Eckel remained to represent this team of the century at every opportunity. "I have remained a completely normal person "He also advised director Sönke Wortmann when he was shooting the film "The Miracle of Bern". Eckel's football career and his life cannot be compared to today's world champions. The two-time German champion (1951 and 1953) changed clubs only once: from 1. FC Kaiserslautern to SV Röchling Völklingen in Saarland (1960).After his time as a footballer, the trained toolmaker studied art and sport on the second educational path and worked as a secondary school teacher from 1973. Being called a "hero of Bern" has always bothered him. "I remained a completely normal person," he often said. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Hampel, satire is my favourite animal, laughter makes life a little bit better Whoever laughs makes his life and the lives of others a little bit better. The very funny book Satire ist mein Lieblingstier (Satire is my favourite animal) by Wolfgang Hampel is the best way to do this. Mayor Stefanie Jansen handed over the first Vita Magica donation at Vita Magica October in the amount of Euro 500 to Anne Grazcol-Steiner and Wolfgang Grazcol from the Taeter Theater Heidelberg on Tuesday, 26 October 2021. Wolfgang Hampel and the Vita Magica team support needy cultural institutions with book sales of 'Satire is my favourite animal', donations and events. -------------------------------------------------- You can order one of the most humorous books ever----------------------- Satire is My Favourite Animal by Wolfgang Hampel:------------- national & international--------------------- USA , United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany. Germany, Italy