Uwe Seeler, the legendary football player of the German national team, an honorary citizen of Hamburg, Uwe Seeler, who underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in 2017, died at the age of 86 in the circle of his family.
“Uwe Seeler was the first footballer I noticed,” quotes the publication of the famous former German national team player Lothar Matthäus. - He and Pele at the 1966 World Cup - that’s something! Uwe has always been a great role model. I knew him as a very, very good, wonderful person. Always loyal, always reliable, with a typical Hamburg spirit. His death is a loss, Uwe will be missed by the whole football family, not only in Germany. My sincere condolences to his family and all friends.”
The famous striker spent almost his entire club career in one club - Hamburg (523 goals!), True, in 1978 Seeler still played one official match in the Irish Cork City T-shirt. The German entered the field at the request of Adidas, with which he was contracted. Cork lost 2-6 to Shamrock, but both goals were scored by Uwe.
From 1954 to 1970, Zehler played for the German national team. In the T-shirt of the national team, the striker played 72 matches and scored 43 goals. For a long time, Uwe was the captain of the national team, with which he took the silver of the 1966 World Cup and the bronze of the 1970 World Cup. The forward is one of four players (along with Pelé, Miroslav Klose and Cristiano Ronaldo) who have scored goals in four World Cups.
By the way, at the entrance to the Hamburg stadium there is a monument to … Uwe Seeler’s right leg (a multi-ton sculpture was made according to an exact cast from the foot of a football player).
Before the World Championship in Germany in 2006, your obedient servant, as part of a group of Ukrainian sports journalists, was lucky to spend almost a week in Hamburg. And one of the evenings in the program of the stay was dinner in a cozy restaurant with the legendary Uwe Seeler. The uncle was nice, sociable. Believe…
Earlier, FACTS reported that the legendary ex-teammate Mikhailichenko and Kuznetsov died of an incurable disease.
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Source: Fakty
