1/5/2024 0 Comments Hive defender icon![]() But it wasn’t, and the result was his only club appearance for anybody other than Hamburg.Ĭork Celtic had originally been known as Evergreen United and had risen to prominence in Irish football during the 1960s, but it was a chance encounter that led to their greatest triumph on the pitch. But in 1978, while he was working for Adidas, Seeler was persuaded to travel to Ireland to play in a match for one of his clients, which he had been led to believe was a charity game. He’d started working as an advisor to the sportswear giants Adidas in the late 1960s while still playing professionally, and after his retirement from the game at the age of 36 in 1972 he settled into his position there as a fairly comfortable post-playing career. In the same summer, Inter broke the world-record transfer fee of £142,000 by signing Luis Suarez – no relation – from Barcelona.īut his playing career didn’t quite end with him as a one-club player, after a strange set of circumstances resulted in him playing one game in the League or Ireland, several years after the end of his career. For context of how vast this offer was in 1961, £44,000 adjusted for inflation from 1961 to 2022 is £910,000. He never did sign for Inter, despite the offer of an annual salary of 155,000 Deutsche Marks, on top of a signing-on bonus of 500,000DM, or £44,000 at the exchange rate. But the reality of the situation was that Seeler simply didn’t want to go. When Inter, who were building what would become the most successful club side in the Europe over the first half of the 1960s, came calling for him in 1961, they mistook his lack of desire to leave Hamburg as him attempting to negotiate a better deal. But the big money offers never seemed to sway a player whose modest lifestyle was well-known and who became known as ‘Uns Uwe’ – ‘Our Uwe’ – while he was playing. The sum total of his medal tally for all those years there was two: a German football championship in 1960 and a DFB-Pokal three years later. He scored 406 league goals in 478 appearance for Hamburg, and refused temptingly lucrative offers to leave the club and try his luck elsewhere, even though they were not a particularly successful side at the time. In the club game, Seeler came to be known as an icon of one-club loyalty. Two years after his retirement, he became the second former captain to be made an honorary captain of the team by the DFB after Fritz Walter, who led their 1954 World Cup-winning team. At the time of his international retirement in 1970, his 72 caps were a record. At club level, Seeler terrorised German club defences for Hamburger SV for almost two decades, and also featured in four World Cups for West Germany between 19, including captaining them against England in the 1966 final and scoring one of the goals that knocked them out in Mexico four years later. It would be nice to get the follow-up story to Hera 2781 out into the world at Christmas, because that story is a sequel to Hera 2781, but also provides the background history for a story already written for the planned second Earth Girl Aftermath Collection.The death of former West Germany striker Uwe Seeler calls to mind the unusual story of how he played a league match in Ireland by accident.Īs professional footballers go, few have ever been loved in Germany in quite the way Uwe Seeler was. ![]() Rather than leave people without anything new to read for Christmas, I’m looking at the possibility of releasing a short piece set in the Portal Future. I know that some of you will regard that as good news. ![]() One of the reasons that the release of Adversary is slipping into early 2021 is simply that it’s turning out to be another long book. My apologies that illness and bereavement have left me way behind schedule all year, so the release has to slip into early 2021. The global pandemic has affected everyone’s plans for 2020. Book 5 in the Hive Mind series is Adversary. The first draft is nowhere near complete, so I daren’t give a book description at this point, but the following cover description should give a strong hint about some of the book content.Ĭover depicts Adversary Aura of Hive Genex.Ĭover art (C) Janet Edwards 2020, Cover Design by The Cover Collection. If you want to make sure that you don’t miss the release of Adversary, please sign up here to get email alerts whenever there’s a new release by Janet Edwards. There is some good news and some bad news on the next release in the Hive Mind series.Įbook Est Release:- End Feb/Early March 2021Īll outstanding paperbacks will be released as soon as the situation allows.
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