.JPG) Briegel in 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Hans-Peter Briegel[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1955-10-11)11 October 1955 (age 70) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rodenbach, West Germany | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Left back Centre back Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1972–1974 | SV Rodenbach | |||||||||||||
| 1974–1975 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1975–1984 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 240 | (47) | |||||||||||
| 1984–1986 | Hellas Verona | 55 | (12) | |||||||||||
| 1986–1988 | Sampdoria | 51 | (9) | |||||||||||
| Total | 346 | (68) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | West Germany Amateur | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1978–1979 | West Germany B | 2 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1979–1986 | West Germany | 72 | (4) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1992 | FC Glarus | |||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | SV Edenkoben | |||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | SG Wattenscheid 09 | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Beşiktaş | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Trabzonspor | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2006 | Albania | |||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Bahrain | |||||||||||||
| 2007 | Ankaragücü | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Hans-Peter Briegel (born 11 October 1955) is a German former professionalfootball player andmanager who played as adefender ormidfielder.
One of the most popular German players in his days, Briegel's original sport wasathletics, being successful in various events such aslong jump (personal best: 7 metres 44 cm, aged 16),triple jump and specifically inheptathlon-forerunnerpentathlon. Briegel also ran 100 metres in 10.8 seconds (officially; hand-timed), aged 16. At the age of 17, he left athletics behind him, playing club football with hometown side SV Rodenbach nearKaiserslautern. During his playing days, Briegel usually played as aleft back anddefensive midfielder. He was known primarily for his physical, technical and goal scoring abilities for a defensive player.
Two years after that he was picked up byErich Ribbeck and Ribbeck took him to training with1. FC Kaiserslautern, being impressed by the power and stamina the youngster had to offer. Ribbeck was aware that Briegel struggled to combine football need with his physical power and presence, but as practice makes perfect, Briegel was improving. Failing to cope the needs asstriker, he did a lot better asdefender. On 10 April 1976, Ribbeck brought him on as a sub in a 4–3 win overFC Bayern Munich. Until 1984 he stayed with local side1. FC Kaiserslautern before he moved on toHellas Verona in Italy. It should be seen as one of the best efforts of his career that he also gained his sort of reputation and importance in a league such as the ItalianSerie A, largely seen as one of the most technical in Europe. Briegel was an immediate key to success for his new club, surprisingly capturing theSerie A title in 1985 with theGialloblu. The same year, Briegel was namedFußballer des Jahres(Footballer of the Year) in Germany, remarkable as he was the debut foreign-based awardee in the history of the award.
Subsequent to the end of his contract atHellas Verona, Briegel changed clubs to join fellow Italian top division outfitU.C. Sampdoria of Genoa with whom he won theCoppa Italia before his retirement as a player in 1988. Hans-Peter Briegel's success in football, based on his physical constitution, his speed and his tireless running, made him the clearest symbol for the soldier-like reputation of German football in between the years. His nicknameDie Walz von der Pfalz (literally "The steamroller from Palatinate") is referring to both, his playing style as well as to his origin. Briegel, who scored 47 goals in 240 Bundesliga matches,[2] was a keen proponent of the idea of playing withoutshin pads and did not wear any in his career.
AEuro 1980 qualifying fixture against Wales in October 1979[3] gave Briegel his first chance to shine forWest Germany and he did, enjoying his final breakthrough for his country in the mentioned tournament from which they emerged victorious. He was, then, part of the runner-up campaign ofWest Germany at the1982 FIFA World Cup and featured alike in the less successfulEuro 1984, all under the coaching ofJupp Derwall. In the 1982 World Cup final, he was responsible for conceding a penalty early in the game by fouling Bruno Conti. Luckily, the penalty was missed but it did not save West Germany from losing the final. Derwall's successorFranz Beckenbauer kept him in his squads and, so, Briegel was able to take part in his second successive World Cup in Mexico in1986. He was a regular, still, but finally the key to Argentina's winning goal in the final. Three minutes pastRudi Völler's equaliser and seven minutes short of the proposed extra-time, Briegel was, alongside his defending colleagues, hovering near the centre circle of theEstadio Azteca pitch on 29 June whenDiego Maradona's pass was going to get on its way to strikerJorge Burruchaga. With his teammates aware, all moving forward quickly before that pass happened (to put the Argentinian striker offside), Briegel's hesitation worked as backfire for the West Germans, giving Burruchaga the chance to pounce decisively on them. Power-house Briegel tried to catch Burruchaga up in an attempt to dispossess him, indeed, but Burruchaga game-winning shot happened before Briegel's desperate tackle came to happen. WithBeckenbauer not a true fan of his way of playing and him not having any intention to stand in the way of the coach to build a new team ahead ofEuro 1988, to be held in West Germany, the tall defender quitDie Nationalmannschaft with this, his 72nd, appearance.
His first job in coaching Briegel did at FCGlarus, a second-tier club from Switzerland. He then took the ropes of German lower league sideSV Edenkoben before he was given the role of manager at then relegatedBundesliga sideSG Wattenscheid 09 in 1994, a stay that didn't work out well. As a consequence he turned his back on coaching, re-joining1. FC Kaiserslautern as sporting director in 1996. He resigned from that job in October 1997 following a hefty question of authority with the team's manager,Otto Rehhagel. He, later on, returned as a director to the club, a decision that saw him being involved in a financial scandal.
He accepted the offer of theFootball Association of Albania to become head coach ofAlbania in December 2002. Before accepting the role Briegel had had various other job offers as his coaching experience, however limited, had been that of assistant to Karl-Heinz Feldkamp atBeşiktaş J.K. in Turkey, and the successor of Feldkamp atBeşiktaş J.K. (from September 1999 to 30 June 2000) and further on top of coaching at fellowTurkish Super League teamTrabzonspor (7 November 2001 – 30 June 2002). However, he went ahead and accepted the Albania job with very much success for four years (2002–2006). To date he is the most successful coach of Albania of all times because of the number of points per match in the two qualifiersUEFA Euro 2004 Qualifications and theFIFA World Cup 2006 Qualification. He resigned from the role on 9 May 2006, after the extension of the contract offered him by the Albanian Federation was linked to the results that would be obtained.
In June 2006, he agreed to a deal with the Football Association of Bahrain, taking over theBahrain squad fromLuka Peruzović. However, he was dismissed on 20 January 2007 during the2007 Gulf Cup.
Briegel's most recent engagement was coaching Turkish Super League sideAnkaragücü, before leaving his post by the end of the 2006–07 season.
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 1975–76 | Bundesliga | 7 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1976–77 | 15 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1977–78 | 22 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1978–79 | 31 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1979–80 | 33 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 1980–81 | 34 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 1981–82 | 32 | 13 | ||||||||||
| 1982–83 | 33 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 1983–84 | 33 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Total | 240 | 47 | ||||||||||
| Hellas Verona | 1984–85 | Serie A | 27 | 9 | ||||||||
| 1985–86 | 28 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Total | 55 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Sampdoria | 1986–87 | Serie A | 24 | 6 | ||||||||
| 1987–88 | 27 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Total | 51 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Career total | 346 | 68 | ||||||||||
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 19 November 1980 | Niedersachsenstadion,Hanover, West Germany |  France | 2–0 | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 2 | 24 May 1981 | Keskusurheilukenttä,Lahti, Finland |  Finland | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1982 World Cup qualifier |
| 3 | 22 May 1984 | Letzigrund,Zürich, Switzerland |  Italy | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 4 | 12 March 1986 | Waldstadion,Frankfurt, West Germany |  Brazil | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
| Albania | 29 March 2003 | 22 March 2006 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 033.33 |
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