- Jimmy Hartwig
William "Jimmy" Hartwig (b.
October 5 ,1954 inOffenbach ) is a retired German soccer player. He played forKickers Offenbach ,TSV 1860 München ,Hamburger SV ,1. FC Köln andFC Homburg of the Bundesliga and forAustria Salzburg of Austria. The son of anAfrican-American soldier and a German mother was one of the first colored players in German and Austrian soccer.Hartwig won the Europa Cup I in 1983 with Hamburger SV, and was three times German champion in 1979, 1982 und 1983 and triple vice champion with the "Hanse" club. He also earned 2 caps for the German national soccer team, making him the first non-white player to achieve this feat.
After his player career, Hartwig unsuccessfully worked as a coach at
Sachsen Leipzig in 1990. He entered the TV business, where he has been working ever since.Personal life
In his 1994 autobiography, Hartwig described his tough childhood in the city of
Offenbach . He recounted a childhood full of poverty and anti-blackracism , with only his mother as support; his biological father never took care of him. Jimmy Hartwig married a German woman and had a child called Daniel Hartwig (an actor). They divorced. Jimmy remarried and fathered a daughter.In the 1990s, Hartwig's life deteriorated, as he became addicted to drugs and was often spotted in red-light districts.Fact|date=January 2008 After getting his act together, he suffered the next blow when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, but managed to defeat his illness. However, in 2007 he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Autobiography
* Jimmy Hartwig: "„Ich möchte noch so viel tun …“ Meine Kindheit, meine Karriere, meine Krankheit"; Bergisch Gladbach 1994; ISBN 3-404-61309-0
External links
* [http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/hartwigwilliam/ Jimmy Hartwig career stats]
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