.twoht on when Uwe Seeler played one match in the League of Ireland by accident...
As professional footballers go, few have ever been loved in Germany in quite the way Uwe Seeler was. At club level, Seeler terrorised German club defences for Hamburger SV for almost two decades, and also featured in four World Cups for West Germany between 1958 and 1970, including captaining them against England in the 1966 final and scoring one of the goals that knocked them out in Mexico four years later. At the time of his international retirement in 1970, his 72 caps were a record.
But his playing career didn’t quite end with him as a one-club player, after a strange set of circumstances resulted in him playing one game in the League or Ireland, several years after the end of his career. He’d started working as an advisor to the sportswear giants Adidas in the late 1960s while still playing professionally, and after his retirement from the game at the age of 36 in 1972 he settled into his position there as a fairly comfortable post-playing career.
Seeler’s arrival in Turner’s Cross, it seems, came about almost by accident. An Adidas sales rep in Ireland asked him to make a guest appearance for Cork and Seeler, believing it to be an exhibition match for charity, agreed. Another former German international, Wolfgang Overath, had been due to travel with him, but when Overath became unavailable to make the trip another former Hamburg teammate, Franz-Josef Honig, travelled instead.
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