Frank Mill

Frank Mill
Frank Mill (2013)
Personnel
birthday	July 23, 1958
place of birth	Essen ,  Germany
size	176 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1964-1972	BV Eintracht Essen 1916
1972-1976	Red and white food
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1976-1981	Red and white food	120 (74)
1981-1986	Borussia Monchengladbach	153 (71)
1986-1994	Borussia Dortmund	187 (47)
1994-1996	Fortuna Dusseldorf	55 0(7)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1980	Germany U-21	2 0(0)
1983-1988	Germany Olympic selection	20 (10)
1982-1990	Germany	17 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Frank Mill (born July 23, 1958 in Essen ) is a former German football player .

Career

In the club

At the age of six, Mill learned to play football at BV Eintracht 1916 in Essen-Altenessen. As a teenager, he was then spotted by the scouts of the city rival Rot-Weiss Essen in 1972 and taken under contract.

Red and white food

The striker became a crowd favorite even as a teenager when he shot the A-youth from Rot-Weiss Essen into the final of the German championship. At the beginning of the 1976/77 season, Mill joined the Rot-Weiss professional squad , who were playing in the Bundesliga at the time, and received his first professional contract. There he found himself in competition with Horst Hrubesch , who stormed for the Essenes at the time. In his first season, Mill played 19 games and hit the opposing net 3 times. He made his debut on matchday 3 against FC Schalke 04 when he was substituted on for Flemming Lund by then coach Ivica Horvat in the 55th minute . The game ended 0: 3 from the point of view of Essen. The then young striker had to wait another five games before scoring his first Bundesliga goal. Against Eintracht Frankfurt Mill scored the 1: 3 consolation goal for his team in the 90th minute on November 27th . At the end of the season, Essen was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga North as bottom of the table with just six wins this season . Mill was only used for two of the only six wins this season. In the DFB Cup, however , the team surprised and was only eliminated in the semifinals with a 4-0 defeat against 1. FC Köln .

In the second division, the talented striker developed into a regular player and regularly scored goals. In the 1980/81 season he was the top scorer with 40 goals in 38 games. He scored eleven times from the penalty spot. He scored the most goals with all of his team's goals in the 5-3 win over 1. FC Bocholt .

Borussia Monchengladbach

For the following season, Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach secured the services of the striker with coach Jupp Heynckes . Mill stayed there for five years, scoring 71 goals in 153 games. In his first season for Borussia he formed a good pair of strikers with Kurt Pinkall and they both scored 29 goals in 34 games, with Pinkall scoring 15 more than Mill. Nevertheless, it was only seventh in the table. Thus, the goal of participating in an international competition was not achieved. Nevertheless, the fast attacker made a good impression and was called up for the national team for the first time. The following year was even worse and the foals were only twelfth, Mill scored nine goals, the least in five seasons at Mönchengladbach. Nevertheless, he was, next to the defender Wilfried Hannes and the midfielder and libero Hans-Günter Bruns , the best shooter. The 1983/84 season was then more successful again. Frank Mill scored 19 goals, leading his team to third place. The first two Bundesliga places were missed only because of the worse goal difference. They also reached the final of the DFB Cup . There the team met FC Bayern Munich . The 1: 0 by Mill in the 32nd minute, Wolfgang Dremmler equalized eight minutes before the end of the game. After extra time did not produce a winner, the penalty shoot-out had to decide. There Michael Rummenigge converted the last 911 in favor of Bayern. Mill himself didn't shoot. With two fourth places and 16 and 13 goals respectively in the following two years, these were also quite successful for Mill. In both years he was Mönchengladbach's best shooter. In the round of 16 first leg of the 1985/86 UEFA Cup against Real Madrid , Mill scored the 1-0 in the historic 5-1 win over Real Madrid. The second leg lost the Green-Black-Whites 0: 4, so that despite the home success, the quarter-finals were missed. The Gladbach manager at the time, Helmut Grashoff , blamed Mill, among others, for this departure, as he carelessly missed many opportunities. Because of ongoing problems with the club's officials, Mill decided to leave the club.

Borussia Dortmund

In the summer of 1986 he moved to Dortmund for the sum of 1.3 million DM. In addition to him, the club also signed Norbert Dickel and Thomas Helmer . All three players became important pillars of the team structure in the 1986/87 season. At the end of the season, Borussia was fourth, the best placement since the 1966/67 season . The offensive trio Frank Mill (17 goals), Norbert Dickel (20 goals) and Michael Zorc (14 goals) scored 51 of a total of 70 goals in this season; his 17 hits remained his best result for the club until he left in the summer of 1994. In 1989 Mill won the DFB Cup with Dortmund . In the final against Werder Bremen he scored the 2-1 opening goal for Dortmund, which won 4-1 in the end. It was the only national success for Mill. After he had scored nine goals in the 1987/88 season, he got fewer and fewer goals in the following years. Strikers like Michael Rummenigge , Jürgen Wegmann , Stéphane Chapuisat and Flemming Povlsen pushed Mill more and more into the second member, so that the number of his appearances steadily decreased. In his last year for Dortmund, the 1993/94 season, he only made twelve appearances and did not score a goal. Mill only played one game over 90 minutes, namely in the 0-1 defeat against VfB Leipzig .

Fortuna Dusseldorf

In order to come back to the appropriate operating times, Mill decided in the summer of 1994 to switch to the 2nd Bundesliga and joined Fortuna Düsseldorf . With a 2-0 win against Chemnitz on the last matchday, the team secured third place and thus the right to promotion to Germany's top division. Mill contributed five goals to the promotion and was the second best attacker of the Fortunes behind Richard Cyron (six goals). Midfielder Vlatko Glavas and defender Ralf Voigt were better shooters . Mill returned to the Bundesliga once more and scored twice in the opposing goal, on the second matchday against 1. FC Köln and on the third matchday against Schalke 04. These goals were also his last in an almost 20-year professional career. In the end, Düsseldorf managed to stay in league position in thirteenth place and Mill then ended his active career.

National team

After only eight months at Bökelberg , with Borussia there, national coach Jupp Derwall appointed him to the DFB selection for the first time. He made his debut on March 21, 1982 in the friendly against Brazil , when he came on in the 85th minute for Pierre Littbarski . Because of a back injury, he did not manage to earn a nomination for the 1982 World Cup . At the European Football Championship in 1984 he was not in the squad and from the squad of the tournament team of 1986 he was deleted shortly before the tournament began. In 1988 he took part in the European Championship in Germany as a substitute . In the 2-0 win against Spain on June 17, 1988 in Munich, he was substituted on in the 85th minute. He played the first 79 minutes of the semi-final against the Netherlands on June 21 in Hamburg. He then played the last game in the DFB dress under Franz Beckenbauer in preparation for the World Cup on May 30, 1990 against the Danish national team . In the 67th minute he was substituted on for Uwe Bein . 1990 Mill became soccer world champion with the national team in Italy , but was not used. That's why he once said about the tournament: “I'm not actually a world champion.” Behind Rudi Völler , Jürgen Klinsmann and Karlheinz Riedle , Mill was only striker number 4 for Franz Beckenbauer.

For winning the world championship, he received the silver bay leaf.

For the national soccer team he was active seventeen times from 1982 to 1990. He did not score a goal in the national team. He was used twelve times as a substitute and substituted three times.

With the Olympic selection, he took part in the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988. With nine games at the Olympic Games, he is the record holder of the DFB. In 1988 the team he was captain won bronze in Seoul. He is also with ten goals, scored in qualifying and preparatory games as well as in the finals, the record goalscorer of the Olympic team ( Gottfried Fuchs scored the most goals at the Olympic Games ). In total, he played 20 games for the Olympic selection.

See also:

• Germany at the 1990 World Cup in Italy

useful information

• In the first game in the Borussia Dortmund jersey, he scored one of the most famous post-war goals in the opening game of the 1986/87 Bundesliga season at Bayern Munich (final score 2: 2). After Mill had advanced due to a failed offside trap for Bayern and played goalkeeper Pfaff , he enjoyed the sight of the empty goal until Pfaff caught up with him again and he hastily shot against the post.
• Mill, who was also called "Franky" by fans, was known for playing without shin guards in the 1980s, which earned him the nickname "hanging sock".
• Norbert Dickel , former teammate of Frank Mill, said of him: “The Mill has been washed with all sewage.” The reason for this was the edgy and uncomfortable appearance of the then heated striker.
• Before Mill became a footballer, he began an apprenticeship as a florist with his mother, who was then running a flower shop.
• When he played for Borussia Dortmund in the late 1980s, he became an actor on what was then local television in Dortmund. In the mystery thriller In the death claws of Dr. Thu , Mill played himself and was caught by the crazy Dr. Do ( Piet Klocke ) kidnapped.
• In his 2017 biography, Mill admitted to taking a drug pill before an important Bundesliga game .

Career after football

After completing his football career, Mill was manager at Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 1996/97 season , but was dismissed there at the end of the season.

Today he is an entrepreneur and runs a football school for children and young people throughout Germany under the name Kidsactive . Former professional soccer players work as practical instructors in these schools, including Uwe Bein , Maurizio Gaudino and Michael Schulz .

Mill is a member of the traditional Borussia Dortmund team.

Web links

• Frank Mill in the database of weltfussball.de
• Frank Mill in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Frank Mill - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
2. ^ Frank Mill - The games of the 2nd Bundesliga North 1980/1981 for Rot-Weiss Essen on fussballdaten.de.
3. ↑ Match statistics Rot-Weiss Essen - 1. FC Bocholt 5: 3 (3: 2) from December 13, 1980 ( memento of the original from June 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fussballdaten.de.  
4. ↑ Borussia Mönchengladbach: Der Kader 1981/1982 ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fussballdaten.de.  
5. ↑ Borussia Mönchengladbach: The squad 1982/1983 ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fussballdaten.de.  
6. ↑ Match statistics FC Bayern Munich - Borussia M'gladbach 8: 7 n.E. from May 31, 1984 ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fussballdaten.de. 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Frank Mill turns 50 on July 23, 2007 on handelsblatt.de.
8. ↑ Match statistics Borussia Dortmund - VfB Leipzig 0: 1 (0: 1) from September 7, 1993 on fussballdaten.de.
9. ↑ Match statistics Brazil - Germany 1: 0 (0: 0) from March 21, 1982 on fussballdaten.de.
10. ↑ Player portrait Frank Mill on borussia.de.
11. ↑ Match statistics Germany - Denmark 1: 0 (1: 0) from May 30, 1990 on fussballdaten.de.
12. ↑ World Champion Frank Mill on dfr-nrw.de.
13. ^ New Germany of October 16, 1990, page 12
14. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Frank Mill - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
15. ↑ Player info Mill on dfb.de.
16. ↑ How Frank Mill made a fool of himself. Spiegel Online / 11 friends
17. ↑ Frank Mill puts doping confession in his biography from Kölner Stadtanzeiger 10.09.17
18. ↑ ^{a b} Note in: Drei Karrieren, ein Verein, in: WAZ Essen from 23 August 2014.