Werner Liebrich

FC Kaiserslautern, with whom he also briefly coached. Liebrich was brought up in Kaiserslautern to a worker's family who were members of the Social Democratic German party SPD. At club level, Liebrich played solely for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, and breaking into the first team in the 1940s. He was in the 1950s part of the team that won the German championship in the 1951 and 1953 seasons. He appeared sixteen times for the West Germany national team, and was a member of the West Germany team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup, in which he played in the final. He was the player who injured Hungarian team captain Ferenc Puskás during the two teams' first game in the tournament in the group stage. Puskás was forced to miss the next two matches in the tournament, but played in the final against Germany, not wholly fit, in which the Germans won 3–2, Hungary's first defeat in four years.