Long-time Bundesliga player Georg Volkert is dead

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Schorsch Volkert, Bundesliga icon of HSV and 1. FC Nürnberg

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The long-time Bundesliga professional Georg "Schorsch" Volkert died at the age of 74. FC St. Pauli, for whom Volkert worked as a manager in 1986 and 1990, confirmed his death. The "Hamburger Morgenpost" had previously reported.

Volkert had won the German championship with 1. FC Nürnberg as a player and won the 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup with Hamburger SV. He also played for VfB Stuttgart and FC Zurich.

He completed more than 400 Bundesliga games in his career. He ran twelve times for the German national team.

Volkert became an icon at HSV. As an active player he played between 1971 and 1978 with Uwe Seeler and Kevin Keegan, among others. In 1990 he returned to HSV as a manager for a year after having previously been with city rivals FC St. Pauli.

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Volkert together with Felix Magath, who became a trainer in Nuremberg in 1997

Volkert was most recently active for 1. FC Nürnberg. After he had finished his playing career at the "Club", he was the sporting director between 1996 and 1998. In 2019 Volkert was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit, he was born in Ansbach.

In 2017, Volkert suffered a heart attack from which he never fully recovered.

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