German football mourns around Jürgen Grabowski. The World Champion of 1974 died on Thursday evening at the age of 77 years. This announced his longtime club Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday.
Until recently, Jürgen Grabowski was on everyone's lips - and the Football World Champion of 1974 will be this even after his death. If the Thrash Metal band Tankard with the club hymn "black and white such as snow" sounds before the games of Eintracht Frankfurt in the Arena, the fans will also sing the text line named Grabowskis in the future, even if he on Thursday evening in the Age died of 77 years.
No wonder. Finally, the lines are a tribute to the idol of the Bundesliga club, which is still appreciated by many sides as "the best player of Hesse of Hesse of the Times". "We have taken the harmony in the final. With the Jürgen, with the Jürgen," it says in the song about the Frankfurt honor play guide: "She played so well, and she played so beautiful - with the Jürgen Grabowski!"
Listening is GRABOWSKI, which had already been struck health in recent years and had to regularly for dialysis, which no longer had lines. "Full of gratitude and respect, Eintracht Frankfurt borders from one of the largest who ever played this game. All sympathy is his wife Helga and the family," said the club on Friday.
"That Jürgen Grabowski died, is all incomprehensible to us," said President of Peter Fischer deeply affected. CEO Axel Hellmann also mourned Grabowski. "In his active time, Jürgen Grabowski might be the most perfect player who played for Eintracht", Hellmann said, "His aura looks to the present. Grabi, who was so liked to be at the games of our Eintracht, was co-generation identity foundation the club. "
Grabowski had landed almost at Bayern
This also testifies to the club anthyme, which has the gained trophies 1974 and 1975 to content. At the last recorded video, Grabowski, who scored between 1965 and 1980 in 441 games for the Frankfurter 109 goals, even with the game - even if his imitation of an electric guitarist did not look particularly credible.
GRABowski's rise to the club icon hung in 1972 at the silk thread. Bayern Munich wanted to commit the playmaker at that time - but the offer did not reach the Frankfurt Club Management.
Grabowski never regrets the missed change. Why too? At the Eintracht enjoyed "Grabi" the status of a legend. Still on his 70th birthday, the club straightened a big party.
With the big festivals on the square was over 42 years ago. On March 15, 1980, Grabowski suffered such a violent injury against Borussia Mönchengladbach in a duel with Lothar Matthew such a violent injury that he had to end his career. The UEFA Cup victory of the Frankfurter shortly thereafter, the native Wiesbadener experienced only as a spectator.
Grabowski as a scapegoat for bankruptcy against GDR
It was different for Grabowski six years earlier. Although the two-time DFB cup winner had been made for the scapegoat for the 0: 1 in the World Cup preliminary round against the GDR, he stood in the course of the national team against the Netherlands (2: 1) in Munich. "He was the Mister playmaker of the DFB," Rainer Koch honored him in his function as DFB interim president on the Bundestag in Bonn.
After the final, Grabowski finished his career in the German jersey. After only 44 international matches and five goals he went in anger. Grabowski did not come across it that he was blamed for the GDR bankruptcy and in the meantime flew out of the squad.
In addition, he always had to play in the German selection in the right midfield, because in the center there was no room for him. The wormed Grabowski so much that he excluded the comeback offer as a playmaker for the 1978 World Cup.
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With such problems, Grabowski, who came from the SV Biebrich in 1965, never to fight in Frankfurt. For 15 years, the midfield strategists played at the Hesse, of which eleven years as captain. Now the captain has gone from board.
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