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Uwe Seeler (born November 5 1936 in Hamburg) is a
Germany|German manager manager and retired
football (soccer)|football player. He played for
the Hamburger SV, and also played 72 games for the
Germany national football team|German national
team.

1944-1972 Seeler played for the Hamburger SV.
Despite tempting offers from Italy|Italian clubs
he stayed in Hamburg, working on a second career
as a merchant besides playing football. In those
days, football stars did not earn hundred of
thousands of pounds each month. In 1978 he played
for Celtic Cork for one last year as active
player. His two and a half year tenure as
president of the Hamburger SV starting in 1995
ended in his resignation due to a financial
scandal, for which he took responsibility. Uwe
Seeler, however, was not himself implicated in the
irregularities.

Seeler was a gifted striker who - amongst other
things -was renown for his falling overhead kick.
He scored 137 times in 269 Bundesliga
(football)|Bundesliga games, 43 times in 72
international games for the German national team
and 21 times in 29 European club tournament games.
He was captain of both his club team and the
national team for many years. He and his club won
the German champions (football)|German
championship in 1960 and the DFB-Pokal (German FA
Cup) in 1963. He was top scorer of the first
Bundesliga season 1963/64 and German footballer of
the year in 1960, 1964 and 1970. He participated
in the same four Football World Cups as Pelé did:
Football World Cup 1958|1958, Football World Cup
1962|1962, Football World Cup 1966|1966, Football
World Cup 1970|1970. Germany, alas, reached the
final only once in 1966 – and lost to host
nation England national football team|England in
overtime.

Uwe Seeler was a tremendously popular player due
to his fairness, modesty and kindness and is still
widely called “Uns Uwe”  (northern
German: “Our Uwe”) in Hamburg and
surroundings. The DFB (German FA) made him the
second honorary captain of the German national
team in 1972 (the first one had been Fritz
Walter). In 2003 he became List of Honorary
Citizens of Hamburg|honorary citizen of his
hometown Hamburg, becoming the first sportsman on
which this honor was bestowed. That year, he also
published his memoirs Danke, Fußball (Thank you,
football).