Fans, family and also his youth club mourn Andreas Brehme. This is where the 1990 World Cup winning goalscorer made his first attempts at football.
Andreas Brehme is dead. The former 1990 World Cup hero died on Tuesday in Munich at the age of just 63. As his partner Susanne Schaefer announced, an unexpected cardiac arrest led to his death. Here you can read more about it. Not only the international football world is mourning the Hamburg native, his youth club, HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst, also expressed its dismay. You can read more reactions here.
The club, for which Brehme played 60 times from 1978 to 1980 and scored ten goals, published a Facebook post on Tuesday. It says: “It is with great shock and disbelief that HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst received the terrible news that Andreas Brehme died unexpectedly in Munich at the age of 63.” Many people know “Andi” as the winning goal scorer in the 1990 World Cup final against Argentina, according to the club. But Brehme was also a “Barmbeker Jung”.
Brehme’s first football station: The “cult club in the middle of the city”
At HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst, the “cult club in the middle of the city – in the middle of Barmbek”, as the club’s homepage says, Brehme learned to play football from “a young age”. “He was even on the ball for us in the top league,” those responsible continue, before he “made a name for himself in world football.”
The Brehmes youth club also remembered his father and coach Bernd “Eisenfuß” Brehme, “who, as a club legend, was there at our 100th anniversary celebration in October.” Andi Brehme was unable to take part for personal reasons.
HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst: Today the club plays in the 6th league
The club did not reveal whether the club, which is usually just called BU, has any concrete plans to commemorate the occasion. A request from t-online remained unanswered on Tuesday. It said that “in order to protect the privacy of the relatives, we will not answer any media inquiries.”
Brehme told the “Hamburger Abendblatt” last year: “When I think of BU, I feel great gratitude.” He spent his entire youth there. “This great time shaped me and helped me significantly to achieve my big goals later.”
HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst was founded in October 1923. The club was particularly successful in the 1960s and made the leap into paid football. However, immediate relegation followed at the end of the 1963/64 season. In the years that followed, the club always fluctuated between the fourth and sixth division. Today HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst plays in the Hammonia regional league, which is equivalent to the 6th league.