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Hans Hubert "Berti" Vogts (born 30 December 1946,
Büttgen, Germany) is a former Germany national
football team|German international football
(soccer)|football player and manager.

==Playing career==
Vogts joined the boys' football team of local
sports club VfR Büttgen in 1954 when he was
seven, staying with them until his 1965 transfer
to Borussia Mönchengladbach. A right-side
defender, his tenacity earned him the nickname
"Der Terrier". He was one of the key figures
during Borussia's golden years in the 1970s, when
it won the Bundesliga (football)|Bundesliga five
times, the German Cup once, and the UEFA Cup
twice.  Vogts made 419 Bundesliga appearances for
Mönchengladbach, scoring 33 times.    He also
appeared 64 times for the club in European
competition, scoring 8 goals.  Vogts remained with
Mönchengladbach until he retired from playing in
1979.

He was also a member of the German national team
that won the Football World Cup 1974|1974 World
Cup.  Overall he played 9 international boys'
games for West Germany, made 3 appearances for the
under-23s team, and has 96 senior cap
(football)|caps, making him one of Germany's most
capped players. He was captain for 20 of the
senior games, and scored one international goal.

==Management career==
After his playing career ended, he became a coach
for Germany's under-20 national team, and
continued in that role until 1990. Starting in
1986, he became an assistant manager of the senior
national side. In 1990, he was promoted to manager
of the national team, leading Germany to a 1996
European Football Championship|EURO 96 win. He
stepped down as manager in 1998 after Germany's
shock quarter-final exit at the Football World
Cup|World Cup finals in France. After some time
out of managing, he was appointed manager of Bayer
Leverkusen in November 2000. The following May,
despite earning Bayer Leverkusen Champions League
qualification, he was fired. He became manager of
the Kuwait national football team|Kuwait national
team in August 2001. 

After six months with Kuwait, Vogts resigned to
assume the position of manager of the Scotland
national football team|Scottish national team.
During his 2½-year tenure there, the Scots'
international record was poor, with home defeats
by Norway national football team|Norway and
Hungary national football team|Hungary, and a
humiliating 2-2 draw with the team of the tiny
Faroe Islands national football team|Faroe
Islands. Although most football pundits credited
much of the squad's performance to the low quality
of the player pool from which Vogts had to draw,
he nonetheless took the brunt of the increasingly
vitriolic tabloid press criticism. An October
2004|October 2004 draw with Moldova national
football team|Moldova essentially put paid to
Scotland's hopes of qualifying for the Football
World Cup 2006|2006 World Cup, and Vogts came
under renewed pressure to quit.  He resigned the
following month, with a year and a half remaining
on his contract, citing "disgraceful abuse" from
the fans and the media. He later vowed never to
return to football management following this abuse
although has not ruled out a return to football on
a coaching basis. 

==References==
* http://sport.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3622700
Scotsman newspaper biography
* http://www.planetworldcup.com/LEGENDS/vogts.html
Planetworldcup's biography of Berti Vogts

==External links==
* http://www.top-info.de/thein/gs/berti.html
Unofficial fansite (German) - Vogts has no
official website
* http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/squad/vogts.htm The
Scottish Football Association's page on Vogts