“The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.”

German former professional footballer and manager

Jupp Heynckes is a German former professional footballer and manager, known for his long career as a striker and for his place in the successful Borussia Mönchengladbach side of the 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1945, he also played for West Germany, winning major international titles with the national team. Most of his club career was spent at Borussia Mönchengladbach during the club’s golden years, when it won league titles, the DFB-Pokal and the UEFA Cup. The team also reached its only European Cup final in 1977, where it lost to Liverpool. Heynckes finished as the fourth-highest scorer in Bundesliga history, with 220 goals.