1. Hans-Peter Briegel was born on 11 October 1955 and is a German former professional football player and manager who played as a defender or midfielder.
15 Facts About Hans-Peter Briegel
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Hans-Peter Briegel ran 100 metres in 10.8 seconds, aged 16.
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Hans-Peter Briegel was known primarily for his physical abilities as well as his technical abilities and goal scoring abilities for a defensive player.
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Ribbeck was aware that Hans-Peter Briegel struggled to combine football need with his physical power and presence, but as practice makes perfect, Hans-Peter Briegel was improving.
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Hans-Peter Briegel was an immediate key to success for his new club, surprisingly capturing the Serie A title in 1985 with the Gialloblu.
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Hans-Peter Briegel's nickname Die Walz von der Pfalz is referring to both, his playing style as well as to his origin.
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Hans-Peter Briegel, who scored 47 goals in 240 Bundesliga matches, was a keen proponent of the idea of playing without shin pads and did not wear any in his career.
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Hans-Peter Briegel was, then, part of the runner-up campaign of West Germany at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and featured alike in the less successful Euro 1984, all under the coaching of Jupp Derwall.
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Derwall's successor Franz Beckenbauer kept him in his squads and, so, Hans-Peter Briegel was able to take part in his second successive World Cup in Mexico in 1986.
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Hans-Peter Briegel was a regular, still, but finally the key to Argentina's winning goal in the final.
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Power-house Hans-Peter Briegel tried to catch Burruchaga up in an attempt to dispossess him, indeed, but Burruchaga game-winning shot happened before Hans-Peter Briegel's desperate tackle came to happen.
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Hans-Peter Briegel then took the ropes of German lower league side SV Edenkoben before he was given the role of manager at then relegated Bundesliga side SG Wattenscheid 09 in 1994, a stay that didn't work out well.
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Hans-Peter Briegel resigned from that job in October 1997 following a hefty question of authority with the team's manager, Otto Rehhagel.
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Hans-Peter Briegel accepted the offer of the Football Association of Albania to become head coach of Albania in December 2002.
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Hans-Peter Briegel 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.