“I received three death threats. They were so serious that I had to be accompanied by plain-clothes policemen. Last weekend things reached such a level that I could no longer expect my wife to put up with it.”
— Jupp Heynckes, explaining why he quit as coach of German club Borussia Moenchengladbach on Wednesday. Gladbach, whose captain is American Kasey Keller, faces relegation to the Second Division.