Uwe Seeler was a German footballer and football official.
14 Facts About Uwe Seeler
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in German football history, Seeler was named one of FIFA's 100 greatest living players by Pele in 2004.
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Uwe Seeler was the first football player to be awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Uwe Seeler followed in his father's footsteps as a player for Hamburger SV, making his first team debut in 1954 in a DFB-Pokal match, aged just under 18, scoring four goals.
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Uwe Seeler was a gifted, powerful, and prolific striker who, among other things, was most of all renowned for his leadership, consistency, overhead kicks, and aerial ability.
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Uwe Seeler scored 137 times in 239 Bundesliga games, 43 times in 72 international games for the German national team, and 21 times in 29 European club tournament games.
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Uwe Seeler was captain of both his club team and the national team for many years.
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Uwe Seeler's 404 goals in German Oberliga and Bundesliga league games is a record that stands as of today, his 406 goals in league games overall making him the second-best German goalscorer behind Gerd Muller.
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Uwe Seeler participated in the same four FIFA World Cups as Pele did: 1958,1962,1966, and 1970.
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Uwe Seeler had a two-and-a-half-year tenure as president of Hamburger SV, which began in 1995, and ended in resignation in 1998 due to a financial scandal, for which he took responsibility.
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Uwe Seeler appeared in a cameo role in the popular 1972 Heinz Erhardt comedy Willi wird das Kind schon schaukeln, playing himself.
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From 1959 until his death, Uwe Seeler lived with his wife in Harksheide, today a district of Norderstedt in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.
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Uwe Seeler died on 21 July 2022, aged 85, in his home in Norderstedt.
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Uwe Seeler was honoured later in the day with a moment of silence before the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 quarter-final between Germany and Austria.