Jupp Heynckes

Jupp Heynckes has been married to his wife Iris since 1969. They have a daughter named Kerstin.

Jupp Heynckes was born on May 9, 1945, in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He grew up in one of the most turbulent periods in German history. The country had lost two world wars and its infrastructure and economy were in shambles. Raised in Western Germany, Heynckes witnessed it undergo a complete transformation under its democratically chosen government.

Heynckes started off his youth career at Grün-Weiß Holt in his hometown. After playing there for six years, he came to play for Borussia Mönchengladbach’s youth team in 1962. A year later, he earned a position in the senior team.

Jupp Heynckes played as a forward. In 1963, he debuted in professional football for Mönchengladbach and scored 50 goals in 82 matches during his four-year and first tenure with the team.

When he joined the club, Mönchengladbach was playing in the second division. However, in 1965, the club rose to Bundesliga under the management of Hennes Weisweiler. Heynckes, who was still a teenager, registered 23 goals in 25 matches in his first season.

He then signed with Hannover 96, where he scored 25 goals in 85 matches during his three-year tenure. Subsequently returning to Mönchengladbach, which had become the Bundesliga champion the previous year, he scored 19 goals in 33 matches and led Mönchengladbach’s successful campaign to retain the title. They were the first team in the history of the league to do so.

Heynckes was also part of the 1972-73 DFB-Pokal winning team. In the 1974-75 Bundesliga, he scored an impressive 27 goals in 31 matches and was pivotal in the team’s third Bundesliga win. The club went on to win that year’s and their first UEFA Cup, with Heynckes once more playing an important role. In the second leg of the finals, he scored a hat-trick in their 5-1 win against the Dutch club Twente.

Heynckes would win two more Bundesliga with Mönchengladbach, in 1975–76 and 1976–77. He scored 12 times in 24 matches in the former season and 15 times in 20 matches in the latter season. In 1977-78, which was to be last season as a player, Heynckes scored 18 goals in 21 matches.

During his final years as a player at Mönchengladbach, Jupp Heynckes adopted the role of a mentor to the young players. He retired as a player in 1978 and immediately began his career as an assistant manager at Mönchengladbach under Udo Lattek.

In 1979, he replaced Lattek as the manager of the team. In the first season, he guided Mönchengladbach to the 1980 UEFA Cup final, where they were defeated by Eintracht Frankfurt.

Heynckes spent the next eight years with Mönchengladbach. Under him, the team played 343 matches, winning 169 of them. In July 1987, he joined Bayern Munich as the new manager. This was the first of his four tenures with the club. He led the team to the DFB-Supercup win in his first season. Forming a strong team, Heynckes orchestrated two back-to-back Bundesliga wins for Bayern. They also won the DFL-Supercup in 1990.

He left Bayern and Germany in 1992 to be the manager of the Spanish club Athletic Bilbao. He was the only third German manager in Spain's La Liga besides Hennes Weisweiler and Lattek. In his first season there, he led the Basque club to a fifth-place finish. They went on to reach the third round of the 1992-93 Copa del Rey.

After spending two years with Bilbao, Heynckes returned to Germany to manage Eintracht Frankfurt. He encountered a lot of issues during his tenure there, including disagreements with star players Anthony Yeboah, Jay-Jay Okocha and Maurizio Gaudino. Heynckes completed the season in Eintracht with 12 wins, 10 draws and 12 losses and resigned from his post soon after.