Horst-Dieter Hoettges - The trauma of 1966: Hoettges played for Moenchengladbach from 1960 to 1964 and for Werder Bremen from 1964 to 1978, scoring 55 goals in 420 matches for the Hanseatic club. He was also capped 66 times by West Germany between 1965 and 1974. His great sporting misfortune was Geoff Hurst. Hearing the name still made him brood.
Hoettges was a regular in the German side at the 1966 World Cup final against England. He had just come back from injury and was not fully fit. Hurst, by contrast, was in top form, ran riot and scored three times.
England became world champions. For Hoettges, by his own admission, it was a true nightmare.