Name: Herbert Neumann



Country: Germany
Club: 1. FC Köln
Position: *CMF, AMF, SMF
Side: RF/BS
Age: 21-27 years (14/11/1953)

Height: 183 cm
Weight: 77 kg

Attack: 80
Defence: 57
Balance: 81
Stamina: 83
Top Speed: 82
Acceleration: 81
Response: 75
Agility: 82
Dribble Accuracy: 84
Dribble Speed: 77
Short Pass Accuracy: 87
Short Pass Speed: 80
Long Pass Accuracy: 84
Long Pass Speed: 84
Shot Accuracy: 75
Shot Power: 86
Shot Technique: 76
Free Kick Accuracy: 75
Curling: 87
Header: 72
Jump: 76
Technique: 86
Aggression: 78
Mentality: 77
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 83

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Fitness: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Growth Type: Early Peak


CARDS:
P13: Long Ranger
S02: Passer
S06: Outside Curve

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Tactical Dribble - Playmaking - Middle Shooting - Passing - Outside

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


INFO:

Former Koln midfielder, supposed to be Wolfgang Overath's successor but he somehow never fulfilled that expectations rather remained something like "eternal talent". Herbert was midfielder with very good passing range, almost always using outside of the boot when making passes on short distances. Meanwhile his crosses from set pieces were very sharp and strong. He was good technician with solid pace, decent strength and strong shot which he used often to shoot and eventually score from distance. He was ambitious and useful player who had also problems with various injuries. The midfielder learned to play football at his home club sports association Porz until the spring of 1969 the first coach of the youth FC Cologne, Joseph Roehrig, the talent with the strikingly blond hair waving in a game between a youth group selection in the district Hürther Efferen discovered. Although he at first FC after joining at the beginning some good games finished, he had initially denied the permanent breakthrough. One of the few highlights in the early 1970s was his goal in the final of the DFB Cup against Borussia Moenchengladbach in 1973, but the team is defeated yet. Günter Netzer scored in extra time 2-1 winner. Neumann was similar in playground Wolfgang Overath, but could not fulfill the hopes of his successor in this position and threatened the "eternal talent" to end. Neumann had received after his problems in the form of gastric ulcers, sprains and protracted growth disturbances in the handle, paid to the patience of the club. The former youth national team with Heinz Flohe was part of a central axis of the team and thus found himself back in the planning of national coach Helmut Schoen for the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina. Neumann then made his debut in Munich in the same year in the dress of the national team, which beat England 2-1. Other countries should not follow games anymore. Although the trained industrial business always sonny boy and his reputation as a bon vivant and asked to prove not be subordinate everything to football, he can look back on some successes in that time. He won with the first FC Cologne of the DFB Cup in 1977 and 1978, even the double of championship and cup. Yet his relationship with coach Hennes Weisweiler suffered more clearly under the constant disagreements. Two years later he moved to around one million DM to Italy for Udinese and came to the end of the season in the best choice for foreigners to fifth place. Despite this good upfront Neumann joined a year later to AC Bologna. After he had with Bologna suffered the descent, he was again on the search for a new club. After a failed trial with Arsenal and fruitless contract negotiations with FC Basel in the first FC Nuremberg returned to the first Neumann FC Köln back. After being in 1983 compared to SC Fortuna Köln had won again the DFB Cup, he went to Greece for Olympiakos Piraeus in 1984 and then to Switzerland for FC Chiasso. Two years later he took over as player-coach and the sporting management of the team and led the team for three years in this constellation, until he moved to FC Zurich. His breakthrough as a trainer he succeeded at the latest at its next station, the Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem. Together with the former Dutch national goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed as an assistant coach he worked with great success and was held in the Netherlands, his homeland. After brief employment with RSC Anderlecht and an interlude with the Turkish Istanbulspor AŞ he returned in 1997 and served in the First Division NAC Breda. In the first season, the class could be held in the 1998/99 season was the decline but not unstoppable. Neumann then returned to Vitesse. From June 2005, Neumann coach of second division side VVV-Venlo, in the 2005/06 season just failed to rise. In June 2006 he was released there.