Net Worth: | € 105 million |
Age: | 68 |
Born: | 05.09.1951 |
Country of origin: | Germany |
Source of wealth: | Soccer player |
Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
Former defender and midfielder FC Bayern Munich and Real Madrid and Eintracht Braunschweig became European champions in 1972 and world champions with the German national team in 1974. He also won several national titles with his horns. After his active career, he worked in public, especially as a TV expert for football. In addition, he is also a surveillance for FC Bayern Munich and as a real estate agent.
Early life
Breitner, who was born in Kolbermoor in the Rosenheim district in the early 1950s, played football from an early age. From 1957 to 1961 in his hometown, Kolbermoor, from 1961 to 1970 at ESV FreiLassing, where his father was one of the youth coaches. In early 1968, he was appointed to the DFB youth election, which he completed 16 missions. In 1970 he moved to Bayern Munich, where he made his debut in the Bundesliga on the first day of playing.
Paul Breitner Career
After that he experienced a meteoric increase, at least because with Udo Lattek he was a man who trained Bayern Munich who was previously in his order in the DFB election. Breitner won a number of titles at the club and country level in just 4 years. He was German champion three times in 1972 to 1974, in 1971 he won the DFB Cup with Bayern Munich. In 1972 he became European champions with the German national team, he had done in 1971. Followed in 1974 by winning the European Champion Cup Cup before Breitner won a 2-1 world champion in the Netherlands at the Olympic Stadium at home in the 1974 World Cup. Breitner himself has converted a penalty given to Germany to 1-1, even though it was not meant for it.
After the 1974 World Cup, he moved to Real Madrid, where he formed the midfield duo with Günter Netzer. In 1975 they won the Championship and Trophy Double, and again in 1976 the championship in Spain. Last year in Spain, they finished 9th in the championship. Breitner then moved back to the Bundesliga. Because the high transfer fee is needed for him, only Eintracht Braunschweig with a strong Jägermeister sponsor can serve breitner again. After only one season, which was disappointing even though ten goals from Breitner, he returned to Bayern Munich.
Here he lives for five seasons until the end of his career, where he was German champions twice and once won the DFB Cup. During this time, along with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, he formed the Munich game axis called the press called “Breitnegge”.
On the national team, he has stopped for years after a dispute about the celebration after the 1974 World Cup title. New in 1981 he was persuaded to return. He played the 1982 World Cup again, where he scored another goal in the final, making it one of the few players in the history of football to score in the two World Cup finals.
Furthermore, he repeatedly had the appearance of the media as an expert in football but also worked outside. So he deals with real estate and is also involved in the social area. He ended his work as a brand ambassador to FC Bayern Munich, for whom he had previously served as a surveillance, in a dispute with his long club.
Amazing facts
It was unknown to the public for a long time, Breitner helped once a week to share the Munich table that distributed food to the need.
At his residence, he struggled for a long time with local administration about the height of hedging in his house.
Paul Breitner married and had three children. One of his sons-sons, Max Breitner, worked at the Department of Press at Bayern Munich.
In 1976 he played a role in the “Potatoe Fritz” west. In addition, after the 1978/79 season, the “Profis” documentary film appeared, where Paul Breitner and Uli Hoeneß were accompanied by their way through the season in the Bundesliga.