Jupp Heynckes has received the German Football Association's (DFB) Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming the fifth German coach to be honoured in such a manner.
Heynckes, 69, retired from his coaching career on a high, winning the Treble with Bayern Munich and being named the 2013 FIFA World Coach of the Year in his final season.
Heynckes was involved in more than 1,000 Bundesliga games -- 369 as a player for Borussia Monchengladbach and Hannover, as well as 642 as coach of Gladbach, Bayern, Eintracht Frankfurt, Schalke and Bayer Leverkusen.
The coach led Real Madrid to their Champions League triumph in 1998, but his stay at the Bernabeu lasted just one year with Los Blancos finishing fourth in La Liga.
Along with his spell in Madrid, Heynckes -- who won the 1974 World Cup as a player -- also twice led Athletic Bilbao as well as spending time in charge of Tenerife and Benfica.
In total Heynckes won the Champions League twice, three Bundesliga titles and one DFB-Pokal as a coach. He became one of only four coaches to win the biggest European club competition with two different sides in 2013, joining Ottmar Hitzfeld, Jose Mourinho and the late Ernst Happel.
"Both as a player and a coach, Jupp Heynckes helped to shape German football over the past decades," DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach said. "His exceptional results in the Bundesliga and abroad speak for themselves, but what really characterises him is the way he dealt with everything. He always carried himself impeccably."
Heynckes' former Gladbach and Germany teammate Gunter Netzer praised his body of work, saying it "will help to shape the new generation of coaches."
The DFB Lifetime Achievement Award was first handed out in 2010. Previous recipients are Dettmar Cramer, Udo Lattek, Gero Bisanz and Otto Rehhagel.