Heinz 'Flocke' Flohe ... FC Köln & West Germany | The Rhine's Overlooked Marvel

Perhaps you may not have heard the name Heinz Flohe, well let me introduce you, a post second World War child blessed with one of the most refined left feet to grace the sport. Fascinated by native Indians and boxing, the man nicknamed ‘snowflake - flocke’ resembled a rock star and became a cult hero for FC Köln and the national team.

It is often said that appreciation from fellow colleagues is the highest form of praise, well comments by former teammates of Flohe reveal how well he was regarded. Franz Beckenbaur saying, "What Heinz Flohe could do with his little toe, almost all the others did not manage with two feet.”. Fellow playmaker Günter Netzer shared a similar sentiment, proclaiming that, ‘He was one of the best players I’ve ever seen, able to perform technical gestures none of us could manage, in that sense maybe he lived during the wrong era for his abilities to be greater appreciated’...

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