World No Tobacco Day – Footballers and Cigarettes: Five Centimeters of Freedom
On the following pages, we present you: smoking footballers. And fans. And coaches. Which is why, of course, Werner Lorant is also included!
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Did he think of that while he was smoking? When asked what the next week would bring, Dragoslav Stepanovic once replied: "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday..."
Klaus Augenthaler and the championship celebration as it should be. Even as a coach, Auge appeared relaxed: "We Germans are more Catholic than the Pope. In Italy or France, it's normal for players to have a glass of wine with lunch. And then a leisurely cigarette after dinner. But here in Germany, the players always quickly disappear to the bathroom or onto the balcony to smoke."
When Rollo Fuhrmann, a field reporter since 1924, still had hair. Another question: Doesn't it say on cigarette packs: "Smoking can cause hair loss?"
The classic! No decent photo gallery of smoking footballers should be without this: Walter Frosch, a national smoking icon, especially after his appearance as a participant in a charity match with a cigarette pack in his socks. Froschi, best man! Froschi, rest in peace!
Tight shirt, long hair, cigarette in mouth: Yugoslavia's national player during the 1974 World Cup. Casual.
Speaking of casual, here's a certain Peter Neururer at the beginning of his coaching career.
On a cigarette with Heribert Bruchhagen.
This eccentric fan has been a St. Pauli fan for at least 54 years, always with a cigarette. You wouldn't even tell their age!
Federal Minister Berti Vogts gazes deeply in love at his burning match. The target: his wife Monika's incense stick (left). A pretty sweater, by the way.
Speaking of being deeply in love: Find someone who looks at you the way Mario looks at his cigarette, or rather, his Claudia, and you will be a happy person.
And another championship: In 1987, Bayern sealed the deal early, with Auge and his friend Dieter Hoeneß lighting a fire. Hoeneß's chest fur is impressive. Be careful, fire hazard!
No photomontage, this is reality. In 2003, Oliver Kahn is pictured with a championship trophy and a cigarette in his fist. Football veteran Karl-Heinz Wild notes in horror in his memoirs of Oli Kahn: "When I first saw Oliver Kahn with a cigarette at the championship celebration in 2003, the image of a former exceptional and super-professional crumbled within me – and the public's image of the world-class goalkeeper increasingly crumbled."
Not a German vacationer on Capri, but Lazio coach and Italy's goalkeeping legend Dino Zoff in Alemannic style: white sneakers, white sports socks, tight jeans, a polo shirt, and a cigarette. Where's the big Leica?
Der Spiegel called him "King Lung Inhaler," and Max Merkel wrote about his first meeting with coaching guru Ernst Happel: "He had his hands in his pockets, his shoes under his arm. There was a cigarette in his mouth. His voice sounded like radish on grater. We called him 'Aschyl.'" Nice.
Game over, cigarette on. Bobby Charlton, model English professional of the sixties and seventies, and his style of post-match analysis.
Possibly the most famous chain smoker in international football: Cesar Luis Menotti was practically never seen without a cigarette. At least Menotti had wonderful excuses at the ready: "I know that smoking is harmful and I try to smoke less often. But otherwise, I'm like Oscar Wilde: 'It's not the smoke that poisons people, but the many idiots who wander through the world.'"
Bundesliga promotion match in May 1970. The FK Pirmasens coaching bench was in constant tension. Reason enough for coach Michael Pfeiffer (center) to reach for his cigarette.
Pioneering work in constant smoke: Sepp Piontek observes the team training of the Chinese national team with a coaching delegation.
Chief Silverlock in the gray haze. A nice anecdote: When Germany was eliminated by Spain at the 1984 European Championship, Toni Schumacher and coach Jupp Derwall did a lonely lap of honor in Paris's Parc des Princes. Schumacher: "Even though I wasn't a non-smoker, we smoked a cigarette. We both knew: It's over." Jupp Derwall resigned from his position as national coach shortly thereafter.
Manchester United's physiotherapist Ted Dalton (right, without ice spray) apparently has nothing against the habits of his goalkeeper Ray Wood, who takes a slap after his work is done.
From the Bild newspaper of May 24, 1996: "After showering, he (Gianluca Vialli) meticulously styled his hair with a hairdryer, brush, and tonic. Briegel: 'He lost the battle with his hair.' With a bald head, stubble, often sunglasses on his nose, and occasionally a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, he looks rather intimidating today. Added to that is his eloquence (hobby: debating) and thirst for knowledge (he only re-qualified for his Abitur in 1993 and also passed the land surveyor's exam)." Do cigarettes make you smart?
Little Dirk Kobluhn conscientiously supplies his father Lothar with a few fresh cartons of cigarettes. Dirk K.: "My old man could never live without them." Seriously: In addition to his work as a goal-scorer (including for Rot Weiss Oberhausen), Kobluhn runs a tobacco shop. Oh, and I see.
He gets caught again and again: Horst Heldt, former professional and former junior manager of Schalke 04. The little man likes to light a cigarette in the stands. The Sportschau commentator's dry comment: "This is a non-smoking stadium!" Snitch.
The dissolute life of Aki W.
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