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 Helmut RAHN 1953-1958 
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Name: Helmut Rahn

Nickname: "Der Boss", "Die Kanone aus Essen"


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Country: :GER: Germany
Club: Rot-Weiss Essen
Position: *WF, (SS)
Side: RF/BS
Age: 24-29 years (16/08/1929)

Height: 178 cm
Weight: 76 kg

Attack: 90
Defence: 34
Balance: 84
Stamina: 77
Top Speed: 84
Acceleration: 83
Response: 77
Agility: 81
Dribble Accuracy: 86
Dribble Speed: 83
Short Pass Accuracy: 78
Short Pass Speed: 75
Long Pass Accuracy: 80
Long Pass Speed: 76
Shot Accuracy: 86
Shot Power: 90
Shot Technique: 91
Free Kick Accuracy: 75
Curling: 73
Header: 78
Jump: 77
Technique: 83
Aggression: 91
Mentality: 86
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Teamwork: 75

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 5
Weak Foot Accuracy: 7
Weak Foot frequency: 7
Consistency: 4
Growth type: Standard

CARDS:
S06 - Outside curve
P03 - Trickster
P09 - Cut Back Pass
P11 - Long Ranger

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Tactical Dribbling - Middle Shooting - Outside

Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded



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Helmut Rahn was born in Essen-Katernberg on August 16, 1929. After finishing school he trained as an electrician. He played with Altenessen from 1938 until 1946 before he joined league club Oelde 1909. He moved to Rot-Weiss Essen from Sportfreunde Katernberg in 1951. It was then he was chosen for the national team by Herberger. The right winger earned a total of 40 caps and scored 21 international goals. In 1953 he won the DFB Cup, and then the 1955 national title with Essen. There was every reason to erect a memorial statue at the Rot-Weiss Essen stadium for such a player.

Rahn was an excellent technician, fantastic dribbler, right winger, joker, a cheerful soul. Rahn left RWE in 1959 and played with 1. FC Cologne for one season, then with the Dutch club SC Enschede for three years. At the start of the Bundesliga in 1963, he joined Meidericher SV (today MSV Duisburg) for two seasons. But the legendary figure which was Rahn began to crumble. He drank more and more pints, the slaps on the shoulder became less, his performance weakened, he scored less goals. Rahn retired in 1965, officially because of a knee injury. He withdrew from public life, very rarely gave interviews. The “Boss” died at his home in Essen at the age of 73 after a long illness on August 13, 2003. But he will always live through the radio commentary of the 3-2 triumph at Berne: “Rahn should shoot from the rear…“

Together with Fritz Walter and Sepp Herberger, Helmut Rahn (known as ‘Der Boss’ in Germany) was the incarnation of the “Miracle of Bern”, the 1954 World Cup victory of Germany. In Germany he has an almost sacrosanct status due to scoring the most legendary goal ever scored by a German – the 3-2 vs. the Mighty Magyars in the mythical 1954 World Cup final. Helmut Rahn was a fast and forceful outside right who was two-footed and thus also frequently deployed on the left wing. Renowned for his very hard shot, Rahn was a real goalgetter. He debuted for Germany at age 22 in 1951. During the 1950s he enjoyed great success with his club RW Essen in first winning the German Cup in 1953 and then the German championship in 1955. He had a reputation of being a committed teamplayer in one moment, but wayward and fickle the next moment. Not an easy character to work with, Germany manager Sepp Herberger did manage to bring the best out of Rahn when playing for the national team. Rahn was known not to care for tactical discipline too much and hence his slogan was ‘I do my thing!’ Herberger once dubbed Rahn ‘master of positive improvisation’ and thus was more than willing to endure Rahn’s individualism on and off the pitch. Helmut Rahn was a joker who could cheer up people and thus Herberger always made sure that Helmut Rahn and the melancholic Fritz Walter would share a room.


Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:40 pm
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He should have *Scoring, I've seen all of his World Cup goals ('54 and '58), and many were really interesting and precise shots with tricky trajectories. He was a great finisher.


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I agree with you..


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