Five great players who became good managers

3. Jupp Heynckes

As a player, Jupp Heynckes spent the majority of his career as a striker for Borussia Mönchengladbach during their golden era of the 1960s and 1970s, where he won four Bundesliga titles, the DFB-Pokal as well as the UEFA Cup once each. He also played in the club’s only European Cup final in 1977, which they lost to Liverpool and ended his club career as the third highest goal scorer in the history of the Bundesliga, with 220 goals. Internationally, he is one of an elite band of footballers to have won both the European Championship and the World Cup.

As a manager, Jupp Heynckes has won three Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich across three different spells. He also won the DFB Pokal and the Super Cup in both Spain and Germany and also won the Intertoto Cup twice with Schalke. And to top it all off, he has also won the UEFA Champions League twice, with two different clubs, Real Madrid in 1997–98 and Bayern in 2012–13, a unique achievement in itself.