Jürgen Friedl (soccer player, 1959)
Hans-Jürgen "Fuzzy" Friedl (born February 23, 1959 ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper .
Friedl was almost 30 years the youngest player in the Bundesliga history after 17 years and 26 days on March 20, 1976 as the fourth-budgetary keeper of Eintracht Frankfurt in the 64th minute against Hannover 96 for the replacement goalkeeper Peter Kunter was tagged in and the had undercut the record set by Rüdiger Abramczik three years earlier . On August 6, 2005, this statistical record was replaced by the 16-year-old and 335-day-old Nuri Şahin . Friedl's only assignment in the 1975/76 season was followed by two more in the 1978/79 season; this season he was Eintracht's third goalkeeper behind Heinz-Josef Koitka and Jürgen Pahl . In the same season he also played two DFB Cup games, namely the quarter-finals and the semi-finals. Eintracht Frankfurt won all three Bundesliga games with Friedl.
Because of his small height for a goalkeeper (1.75 m), he was not given a new contract in Frankfurt. Friedl then switched to amateur football and played for SSV Heilsberg (1979) and FV Bad Vilbel (1984–1990 and 1992–1993).
Web links
- Jürgen Friedl in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Jürgen Friedl in the Eintracht archive
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedl, Jürgen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friedl, Hans-Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1959 |