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Horst Eckel
Sign in to saveGerman association football player (1932–2021)
Key facts
- Date of birth
- ( 1932-02-08 ) 8 February 1932
- Place of birth
- Vogelbach , Bavaria , Germany
- Date of death
- 3 December 2021 (2021-12-03) (aged 89)
- Height
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Position
- Wing-half
- Years
- Team
- 1949 1960
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- 1960 1966
- SV Röchling Völklingen
- 1952 1958
- West Germany
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Horst
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of death
- Landstuhl
- Occupation
- teacher
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 1954 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Germany men's national association football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- Germany
- Mass
- 75
- Image
- Horst Eckel Obersülzen.jpg
- Height
- 180
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- Commons category
- Horst Eckel
- date of birth
- 1932-02-08
- start of work period
- 1949-00-00
- name in native language
- Horst Eckel
- date of death
- 2021-12-03
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Horst Eckel (8 February 1932 – 3 December 2021) was a German footballer who played as a wing-half. He was part of the West Germany national team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He was the last surviving player of the 1954 World Cup Final.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Horst Eckel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.