Uli Hoeneß

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Personal information
Uli Hoeneß
Full name	Ulrich Hoeneß
Date of birth	January 5, 1952 (age 55)
Place of birth	Ulm, Germany
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	retired
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1970-1978 1978-1979	FC Bayern Munich 1. FC Nürnberg	239 (86) 011 0(0)
National team²
1972-1976	Germany	035 0(5)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of January 19, 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of January 19, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Ulrich "Uli" Hoeneß, (alternative spelling: Hoeness), (born 5 January 1952) was a German football (soccer) player and is now general manager of the football club Bayern Munich.

[edit] Career

Uli Hoeneß - c. 1972.

Hoeneß was born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg. The offensive midfielder and forward initially played for amateur side VfB Ulm. In 1970 Udo Lattek, the coach of Bayern Munich recruited Hoeneß who was to stay for ten years with the club. In this period he enjoyed great successes, winning the Intercontinental Cup, three times the European Cup of Champions, four German championships and once the German Cup. In 250 Bundesliga matches he scored 86 goals.

In the rematch of the European Champions Cup final 1974 against Atlético Madrid he gave one of his most outstanding performances whem he contributed two memorable goals to the 4-0 victory, demonstrating his excellent counter-attacking skills. In the European Cup final of 1975 against Leeds United he suffered a knee injury from which he never fully recovered and which eventually led to the end of his career at the age of 27. In his last season he was placed on loan with league competitors 1. FC Nürnberg, where it was hoped he could get more match practice, but Hoeneß' recovery failed.

Hoeneß also played 35 times for Germany. With the national side he won as one of six players from Bayern the 1972 European Football Championship and the 1974 FIFA World Cup. In the 1974 World cup final he caused a penalty in the 1st minute. In the final of the 1976 European Football Championship in Belgrade against the CSSR he missed the decisive penalty in the shootout after extra-time.

Hoeneß retained his amateur status until 1972, allowing him to take part in the Summer Olympics in that year. There he played for the German "Olympic Selection", amongst others with the later Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld. The German team failed to qualify for the semifinals of the tournament due to a 2-3 defeat at the hands of East Germany, with Hoeneß scoring his sole tournament goal in this match. This match was also the first encounter of German national teams from East and West on the football pitch.

Since 1979 he has been appointed as commercial/general manager of Bayern Munich, where he has overseen a period in which the club had continued sporting success, winning the Intercontinental Cup, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup, 15 more German championships and seven German Cups. In this time also the financial side of the club has experienced strong growth: the revenue increased approximately by a factor of 20 and membership increased tenfold to more than 100 000, making Bayern the second largest membership based football club in the world. Between 2000-05 Bayern has also built at a cost of € 340m an own football stadium, the Allianz Arena, which was also a venue of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

In his combined career as player and general manager of Bayern Munich Hoeneß was involved in altogether 2 Intercontinental and 4 European Cups, 17 national championships and 9 national cups plus one UEFA Cup. Before Hoeneß arrived, the club had won a total of seven major trophies.

[edit] Private life

In 1982 Hoeneß was the sole survivor of the crash of a light aircraft in which three others died. He sustained only minor injuries and shortly after the crash the disoriented Hoeneß was found by a forest warden. The warden, who recognised him on the spot, reported that all Hoeneß could whisper was "I'm feeling so cold." Nearly 25 years later Hoeneß still does not have any memory of the accident.

A trained butcher, Uli Hoeneß owns a Nürnberg-based sausage factory.

Brother Dieter Hoeneß (* 7. January 1953, Ulm) also had a very successful career as a player in the Bundesliga and is now the general manager of Hertha BSC Berlin.

[edit] Honours

German Champions: 1972, 1973, 1974
German Cup: 1971
European Cup/UEFA Champions League: 1974, 1975, 1976
Intercontinental Cup: 1976
World Cup: 1974
European Championship: 1972

	West Germany squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup Champions (2nd Title)
1 Maier \| 2 Vogts \| 3 Breitner \| 4 Schwarzenbeck \| 5 Beckenbauer \| 6 Höttges \| 7 Wimmer \| 8 Cullmann \| 9 Grabowski \| 10 Netzer \| 11 Heynckes \| 12 Overath \| 13 Müller \| 14 Hoeneß \| 15 Flohe \| 16 Bonhof \| 17 Hölzenbein \| 18 Herzog \| 19 Kapellmann \| 20 Kremers \| 21 Nigbur \| 22 Kleff \| Coach: Schön