Name: Herbert Neumann



Country: Germany
Club: 1. FC Köln
Position: *AMF, CMF
Side: RF/BS
Age: 21-26 years (14/11/1953)

Height: 180 cm
Weight: 82 kg

Attack: 81
Defence: 55
Balance: 80
Stamina: 81
Top Speed: 77
Acceleration: 79
Response: 75
Agility: 81
Dribble Accuracy: 85
Dribble Speed: 77
Short Pass Accuracy: 84
Short Pass Speed: 78
Long Pass Accuracy: 86
Long Pass Speed: 82
Shot Accuracy: 77
Shot Power: 85
Shot Technique: 76
Free Kick Accuracy: 76
Curling: 83
Header: 71
Jump: 76
Technique: 84
Aggression: 77
Mentality: 75
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 83

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

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

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Middle Shooting - Passing - Outside

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


INFO:

Herbert Neumann was supposed to be Wolfgang Overath's successor, but he never fulfilled that expectations, remained eternal talent. Herbert was midfielder with very good long balls from midfield, almost always using outside of the boot when making passes on short distances. He was good technician with strong shot from distance but lacked consistency. The midfielder learned to play football at his home club Porz until the spring of 1969 when he moved to Koln. 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 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. He won with the first FC Cologne 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 a failed trial with Arsenal returned Neumann to FC Köln. 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.