Career
Foreign other uses of "Zimmermann", see Zimmermann (disambiguation). Herbert Zimmermann (born 1 July 1954) is a former German football player. A successful striker, Zimmermann was signed by Football Club Bayern Munich and also appeared as central defender for 1.
Football Club Köln, the club he joined after he did not get enough games at Bayern.
Injury worries of his new club made him appear as defender and doing well on that adopted position prevented him from giving up his new role. Hampered by injuries in his final years in the game, Zimmermann played in 204 Bundesliga matches (22 goals).
As defender he debuted for West Germany in a friendly at Wales in October 1976. In 1979 he even found the Netto, scoring vital goals in 1980 Union of European Football Associations European Championship qualifiers against Wales and Turkey.
These goals brought him a call-up to the 1980 Union of European Football Associations European Championship winning squad of his nation, not knowing that the mentioned qualifying fixture against Turkey would remain his final cap.