Jürgen Werner (15 August 1935 – 28 May 2002) was a German

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player, journalist and official. Werner, a midfield player, came from the youth of

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right into the first team, in a similar path to

Uwe Seeler Uwe Seeler (; 5 November 1936 – 21 July 2022) was a German Association football, footballer and football official. As a Striker (association football), striker, he was a prolific scorer for Hamburger SV and also made 72 appearances for the Ger ...

did, and, for his eight years of first-team experience between 1955 and 1963, has the 1960 German Championship title to prove his credentials. He refused to sign a professional contract in 1963, and was to become a teacher, retiring from the game of football. He also played a part-time role as journalist for weekly newspaper ''

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'', and later became the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the

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, a role he took up in 1986. In the second half of the 1990s, he was a member of HSV's supervisory board. Werner played four games for the

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team, between 1961 and 1963, and was picked for the

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, however, due to a training injury, did not pick up a World Cup appearance. He was a technically sound half back and intelligent player, who later became headmaster for lawyer education in

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.Bitter, Jürgen. ''Deutschlands Fußball Nationalspieler'', Sportverlag, 1997, p. 537. Jürgen Werner died of cancer on 28 May 2002. In honour of Jürgen Werner, the academy of Hamburger SV got named ''Jürgen Werner Schule''.

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