Career
He later became a football agent. Hägele played for VfL Sindelfingen, VfR Heilbronn and Fortuna Düsseldorf. Hägele later became a football agent, and helped engineer Armin Veh"s move from Borussia Mönchengladbach to Saint Gallen in 1983.
He was also a witness at Christoph Daum"s trial for cocaine abuse.
Hägele jumped from the Koersch Valley Bridge on 18 October 2010, at the age of 70. He left no suicide note.