Klaus Augenthaler is an icon of FC Bayern. Born in Fürstenzell, he won the German championship seven times and the DFB Cup three times with the Munich team. In addition, there is the world championship title from 1990. Today “Auge” turns 65.
404 games and 52 goals in the Bundesliga: These are just two numbers from an impressive sports career. Born in Fürstenzell, Klaus Augenthaler has remained loyal to FC Bayern Munich throughout his professional career. Today “Eye” celebrates its birthday. He turns 65.
Still on the ball
Klaus Augenthaler loves fishing. Here he comes to rest. This year, the former soccer world champion only came on Father’s Day. Whenever he goes into the garage, he sees the equipment and hopes that it will work again this year, Augenthaler says in an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk.
With his free time, it’s one of those things. The former world-class libero is not only a player-coach for the “Bayern legends”. Augenthaler, who lives peacefully not far from Lake Ammer, became the father of a son two and a half years ago. “A good left-footer who always wants to play football with me,” said Augenthaler happily on BR.
From porter to boss
Augenthaler is a big name in German football. He was one of the defining figures at FC Bayern and in the Bundesliga. From “porter to boss”, as Dieter Hoeneß once put it, the defender worked his way up the ranks. “It was a big step for me to go from Vilshofen to Munich at the age of 17,” he once admitted. A biting sentence from the former youth national coach Herbert Widmayer about the young Augenthaler fits in with this. “He comes from the Bavarian Forest. He first has to learn to eat with a knife and fork,” Widmayer once said.
An impressive record
With FC Bayern, Augenthaler was German champion seven times and won the DFB Cup three times. Legendary was his “Goal of the Decade” in 1989 against Uli Stein, a 50-meter shot from the center circle. In his 27th and last international match, “Auge” crowned his performance 1990 in Italy and became world champion with the national team.
In addition to the World Cup title, it is above all the first championship with Bayern that has a particularly high priority for him. The stadium in Vilshofen now bears his name. He is also proud of that, says Augenthaler in the BR interview.
Career as a coach with a legendary press conference
After his active career, Augenthaler went into the coaching business. Graz, Nuremberg, Leverkusen, Wolfsburg are the stations. Unforgotten as “Eye” with biting humour In 2007, shortly before his leave of absence in Wolfsburg, he asked four questions of his own accord at a 42-second press conference and sent in the short answers himself. In the meantime he has often thought about the action and believes that he would not do it again, said Augenthaler to BR. Today, a coaching job would not be for him anymore. Even if it means that you never really get out of the coaching carousel once you’ve been in it.
the Desert World Cup in Qatar will follow Augenthaler from afar. He trusts the German national team to win the title. “As at every European Championship or World Cup, the German team is one of the favourites. I don’t see any other team that is considered the sole top favourite.”
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Source: Midday in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate 09/26/2022 – 12:20 p.m
