Heinz Hermann (born 28 March 1958) is a Swiss former professional

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who played as a

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. With 118 international matches (15 goals) between 1978 and 1991 for the Switzerland national team he is record national player ahead of

Alain Geiger Alain Geiger (born 5 November 1960) is a Swiss international football manager and a former defender. He is the current manager for Servette FC. He played mainly as a centre-back despite being only 1.80m in a career that lasted 20 years, and mad ...

and

Stéphane Chapuisat Stéphane Chapuisat (born 28 June 1969) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a striker. A prolific goalscorer for both club and country (for which he appeared more than 100 times), he spent most of his career with Bundesliga ...

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Herrmann was born in

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. On 1 July 1977, he moved from FC Seefeld Zürich to

Grasshopper Club Zürich Grasshopper Club Zürich, commonly referred to as simply GC, GCZ, or Grasshoppers, is a multisports club based in Zürich, Switzerland. The oldest and best known department of the club is its football team. With 27 titles, Grasshopper holds the ...

, where he became Swiss league champion four times and cup champion once. At the end of the season 1984–85 he changed to

Neuchâtel Xamax , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France ...

, and he later played for

Servette FC Servette FC is a Swiss football club based in Geneva, founded in March 1890 with rugby as its first sporting activity, and named after the Geneva district of the same name. The football section was created on 17 January 1900. They play in the S ...

and

FC Aarau FC Aarau is a Swiss football club based in Aarau. They play in the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier of Swiss football after being relegated from Swiss Super League. History FC Aarau was formed on 26 May 1902 by workers from a local ...

. Between 1984 and 1988 he was awarded Player of the year five years in a row. Hermann's first international match came in September 1978 with the 2–0 victory against the USA. In November 1991 he ended his international match career after a 1–0 loss to Romania. His clubs as a coach include

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(manager),

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in Liechtenstein,

SV Waldhof Mannheim SV Waldhof Mannheim is a multi-sports club, located in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. It is most known for its association football team; however, there are also professional handball and table-tennis sides. The club today has a membership of over ...

(assistant coach) and

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, where he had filled a number of roles. In July 2012 he became new sports director of

FC Luzern Fussball-Club Luzern (), or simply abbreviated to FCL, is a Swiss sports club based in Lucerne (german: Luzern). It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Super League, the top tier of the Swiss football league syste ...

, but he was sacked on 6 February 2013.

Honours

Grasshoppers * Nationalliga A: 1977–78, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84 *

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: 1982–83 Neuchâtel Xamax * Nationalliga A: 1986–87, 1987–88 *

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: 1987 Individual *

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: 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88

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