Joachim Löw, the world champion coach from Freiburg, is still the former player most frequently shown in the stands there. As a striker from Schönau in the Black Forest, he served SC in two spells and today is one of the club’s honorary captains. He scored 63 goals in 181 second-division matches, the most in club history at that level.
His best season as a player was 1983/84, with 17 goals in 31 games. The Bundesliga took notice, but a broken shin suffered while with Stuttgart prevented a great playing career. As a coach he had much more luck: after a sensational Bundesliga debut with Stuttgart’s magic triangle in 1996/97 and a DFB-Pokal win, and after up-and-down spells in Switzerland, Austria, Turkey and Karlsruhe, Jürgen Klinsmann brought him into the Germany set-up in 2004. The rest is history: World Cup bronze in 2006 and 2010, Euro runners-up in 2008, world champions in 2014, and World Coach of the Year in 2014. World careers can begin by the Dreisam too.