Editing Fritz Walter (section)

==Personal life==
[[file:Fritz Walter Trainingslager der Deutschen Fußballnationalmannschaft in der Sportschule Malente (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Walter in 1965]]
Walter's wife of five decades was Italia Walter ([[birth name|née]] Bortoluzzi; 1922–2000), a woman from [[Belluno]], Italy.

It was popular knowledge in Germany that Walter appeared to play better the worse the weather was, and so now the term "Fritz Walter's weather" is used to describe rainy weather conditions, often rendered with odd local dialect grammar "of Fritz, his weather". This is because he, as many other soldiers, had contracted malaria during the war, thus rendering him unable to stand the heat of the sun. The 1954 World Cup final was played in "Fritz Walter's weather" conditions.

On 6 October 1956, Walter scored a spectacular goal in [[Leipzig]] in front of 100,000 East Germans during a friendly against [[Wismut Aue]], when he hit the ball back-heel while diving forward.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,440986,00.html|title = Fritz Walters Hackentrick: Das vergessene Jahrhunderttor| newspaper=Der Spiegel | date=6 October 2006 | last1=Trede | first1=Broder-Jürgen }}</ref>