Karl-Heinz Heddergott (27 August 1926 – 27 May 2021) was a German professional
football
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manager.
Career
Coaching career
An alumnus of
German Sport University Cologne, he was a member of the
German Football Association
The German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fußball-Bund ; DFB ) is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of t ...
from 1967 to 1980. He was hired by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) as the director of coaching in 1984. He also managed
1. FC Köln
1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...
, as well as the national teams of
Egypt and
Oman.
References
1926 births
2021 deaths
Sportspeople from Düsseldorf
German football managers
1. FC Köln managers
Egypt national football team managers
Oman national football team managers
20th-century German people
21st-century German people
German expatriate sportspeople in Oman
West German expatriate football managers
West German football managers
West German expatriate sportspeople in Egypt
West German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate football managers in Oman
Expatriate football managers in Egypt
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