A major force in two World Cups - he scored the winning goal for West Germany in the 1954 final - Helmut Rahn, who has died aged 73, was the kind of muscular, bulldozing rightwinger once famous in ...

They buried Helmut Rahn last week. The world he lived and played in was laid to rest long, long before. Rahn was one of Germany’s sporting heroes, a man revered for the two goals he scored on a ...

Helmut Rahn, 74, who scored the winning goal for Germany in the 1954 World Cup final, died Thursday at his home in Essen, Germany. The cause of death was not reported by the German Soccer Federation, ...

Helmut Rahn, the German football (soccer) legend who scored the winning goal to give Germany the 1954 World Cup title has died at age 73. The cause of death Wednesday night was not given, but Rahn had ...

Helmut Rahn lived as a recluse for more than 20 years. When former friends phoned he told his wife, Gerti, to hang up. The couple's ground-floor flat on a quiet street in Essen was furnished as if ...

The 1954 World Cup final in Switzerland is known as the Miracle of Bern in German football folklore and rightly so. West Germany were up against strong favourites Hungary, whose team included players ...

Helmut Rahn, who has died aged 73, scored West Germany's winning goal in the 1954 World Cup Final. A tall, hefty outside-right, Rahn was the bad boy of his era of German football and almost did not ...

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