Former Denmark coach Sepp Piontek has died at the age of 85 after a short illness.<\/p>\n
“Sepp will always be remembered as one of the most influential national coaches in the history of Danish football,” the Danish Football Association (DBU) wrote on Facebook on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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Danish television station TV2 had previously reported on the German’s death, citing his family.<\/p>\n
Piontek played as a defender for Werder Bremen in the early days of the Bundesliga, helping them win the title in 1965.<\/p>\n
After injury ended his playing career, Piontek coached Bremen, Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf, the Haiti national team and St Pauli before becoming coach of the Denmark in 1979.<\/p>\n
He achieved cult status among Danes when Denmark took part in a men’s World Cup for the first time in Mexico in 1986, reaching the round of 16.<\/p>\n
He left in 1990 and took further coaching positions including with Turkey and Greenland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Denmark coach Sepp Piontek has died at the age of 85 after a short illness. “Sepp will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[11733,12992,27,26,190,12994,1555,12993,12991,5663,6187],"class_list":["post-18442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-coach","tag-danish-football-association","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-germany","tag-haiti-national-team","tag-mexico","tag-national-soccer-team","tag-sepp-piontek","tag-st-pauli","tag-werder-bremen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}