Hermann Nuber
Bust of Nuber
Personal information
Date of birth (1935-10-10)10 October 1935
Place of birth Offenbach, Hesse, Germany
Date of death 12 December 2022(2022-12-12) (aged 87)
Place of death Offenbach, Hesse, Germany
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Inside forward, libero
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1953–1971 Kickers Offenbach 408 (164)
International career
Germany youth
Managerial career
1984 Kickers Offenbach
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hermann Nuber (10 October 1935 – 12 December 2022) was a German footballer who played as an Inside forward or libero for Kickers Offenbach. A one-club man, he reached the final of the 1959 German football championship with the club.

Club career

Nuber joined Kickers Offenbach as a youth in 1946.[2] In 1953, at the age of 17, he made his senior debut in a DFB-Pokal match against Wormatia Worms.[2] A regular starter from 1955 onwards, he helped the club reach the final of the 1959 German football championship against Eintracht Frankfurt.[2] When the Bundesliga was founded in 1963, Kickers Offenbach started in the Regionalliga, Germany's second tier at the time.[2] In 1968 Kickers Offenbach gained promotion to the Bundesliga while Nuber was placed second behind Franz Beckenbauer in Germany's footballer of the year awards.[2][3] Nuber retired from playing in 1969, after Kickers Offenbach's relegation from the Bundesliga, missing the club's win of the 1970–71 DFB-Pokal.[2] He briefly returned to play in the Bundesliga for coach Rudi Gutendorf in 1971.[2] He made 408 league appearances scoring 164 goals between 1953 and 1971.[2]

International career

Nuber played for Germany at youth level.[2] He was part of the West Germany national team's 22-man squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, being one of four players remaining in Germany waiting to be called up.[2]

Style of play

Nuber played as an Inside forward and later as a libero.[2] He was an ambidextrous free-kick specialist, good on the ball and known for his competitive spirit.[2]

Coaching career

Nuber was twice interim coach at Kickers Offenbach, one of those occasions coming in 1983–84, the club's last season in the Bundesliga.[2] He spent 15 years as amateur and youth coach, discovering and fostering a number of well-known footballers.[2]

Legacy

A bronze bust honouring Nuber was installed at Bieberer Berg Stadion, Kickers Offenbach's home stadium, on his 60th birthday in 1995.[4] In summer 2022 the stadium's grandstand was named "Hermann-Nuber-Tribüne" in his honour.[3] Upon his death, Offenbach local paper Offenbach-Post described him as the club's "most popular" player.[2]

Death

Nuber died on 12 December 2022 in his hometown Offenbach, at the age of 87.[2]

Honours

Kickers Offenbach

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Hermann Nuber". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Appel, Holger (12 December 2022). "Große Trauer um OFC-Idol Nuber". Offenbach-Post (in German). Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Hermann Nuber ist tot". kicker (in German). 12 December 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  4. ↑ "Kickers Offenbach: Vereinslegende Hermann Nuber ist tot". Hessenschau (in German). 12 December 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2022.


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