 Tilkowski in 2005 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1935-07-12)12 July 1935 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Husen,Dortmund,Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 5 January 2020(2020-01-05) (aged 84) | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1955–1962 | Westfalia Herne | 219 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1963–1967 | Borussia Dortmund | 81 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1967–1970 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 40 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 340 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1957–1967 | West Germany | 39 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1970 | Werder Bremen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1972 | 1860 Munich | ||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1976 | 1. FC Nürnberg | ||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1977 | Werder Bremen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1978 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | ||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | AEK Athens | ||||||||||||||||
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Hans Tilkowski (12 July 1935 – 5 January 2020) was a Germanfootball player and manager. Agoalkeeper.[2] he played forWest Germany, and was a member of the team that lost the1966 World Cup final toEngland.
Born 1935 in Husen,Dortmund, Tilkowski started football at age 11 with SV Husen 19, originally as a right winger. He switched to the goalkeeper position and joined SuS Kaiserau in 1949. He started his professional career with the team in 1952, then joinedWestfalia Herne in 1955.[3] With Herne, he won theOberliga West in 1959. His next team wasBorussia Dortmund. From 1963 to 1967 he played 81 times in the West German Bundesliga for Dortmund.[4] Tilkowski won theDFB-Pokal with Dortmund in 1965[3] and the1965–66 European Cup Winners' Cup.[4] He was chosenGerman Footballer of the Year in 1965.[3] Tilkowski was regarded as one of the world's best goalkeepers during the mid-1960s.[5]
Tilkowski debuted for theWest Germany national team in 1957.[3] He was expected to be the first-choice keeper for the1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, but was demoted by coachSepp Herberger the day before the opening match. Tilkowski destroyed his hotel room in anger and did not play for the national team for two years, but was eventually called up again. Under Herberger's successorHelmut Schön, Tilkowski was the first-choice in goal for the1966 FIFA World Cup in England.[6] The team would lose thefinal 4–2 to the hosts.[7] The final was remembered as English forwardGeoff Hurst scored his controversial second goal en route to a hat-trick. In the 101st minute, 11 minutes into the extra time, Hurst's shot hit the crossbar, the ball then bounced on the ground before being cleared by defenderWolfgang Weber. The goal was given by refereeGottfried Dienst after consultation with linesmanTofiq Bahramov, giving England a 3–2 lead. Photographic evidence would later show that the ball did not cross the line.[4] Unlike most of his team-mates, Tilkowski never resigned himself to the decision, pointing out whenever he could that it was flawed – though with a sense of humour. In 2009 he agreed to unveil a statue inAzerbaijan ofTofiq Bahramov, the linesman who had indicated that the goal should stand.[8] He played for West Germany another year, before being superseded in the national team bySepp Maier.[6]
Tilkowski ended his playing career withEintracht Frankfurt.[9]
He later took up coaching, taking charge of1. FC Nürnberg,Werder Bremen andAEK Athens, among other clubs.[3]
One of three children,[10] Tilkowski was born inDortmund on 12 July 1935. His father, a miner, was descended from the many workers who had left Poland to seek work in the industries of the Ruhr.[11]
Tilkowski grew up in straitened circumstances. He enjoyed boxing as a boy, and he initially played football as a winger before finding his calling when his team lacked a goalkeeper. He became an apprentice locksmith, then joined Westfalia Herne in 1955.[12]
In June 1959, he married Luise; they had two sons and one daughter.[13]
Tilkowski died on 5 January 2020 at age 84 after a long illness.[14]
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