Helmut Rahn
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Rahn in 1962 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 16 August 1929 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Essen, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 14 August 2003 (aged 73) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Essen, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Wing forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1938–1946 | SV Altenessen 1912 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1946–1950 | SC Oelde 1919 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1950–1951 | Sportfreunde Katernberg | 30 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 1951–1959 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 280 | (97) | ||||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | 1. FC Köln | 29 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 1960–1963 | SC Enschede | 69 | (39) | ||||||||||||||
| 1963–1965 | Meidericher SV | 19 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 427 | (162) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1951–1960 | West Germany | 40 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Helmut Rahn (16 August 1929 – 14 August 2003), known as Der Boss (The Boss), was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup (West Germany vs. Hungary 3–2). Rahn, along with the German team, were decorated by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972.