Aki Schmidt

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Aki Schmidt
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Aki Schmidt in 2008
Personnel
Surname Alfred Schmidt
birthday September 5, 1935
place of birth Dortmund ,  German Empire
date of death November 11, 2016
Place of death Dortmund,  Germany
size 179 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1956 SpVg Berghofen
1956-1968 Borussia Dortmund 276 (76)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1957-1964 Germany 25 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1968-1970 SSV Jahn Regensburg
1970-1971 Kickers Offenbach
1971-1972 Prussia Munster
1972-1973 FK Pirmasens
1973-1975 SSV Jahn Regensburg
1990-1992 SSV Jahn Regensburg
1993-1994 SSV Jahn Regensburg
1 Only league games are given.
Aki Schmidt scored 2-1 for the German national team in his international debut against the Netherlands on April 3, 1957.

Alfred "Aki" Schmidt (born September 5, 1935 in Dortmund ; † November 11, 2016 there ) was a German football player and coach .

Career as a player

In 1956, the midfielder moved from the Dortmund suburban club SpVg Berghofen to Borussia Dortmund and was German champion with this club in 1956 , 1957 and 1963 and DFB Cup winner in 1965 ; In 1966 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup . He made a total of 195 appearances (57 goals) in the Oberliga West and 81 appearances (19 goals) in the Bundesliga for BVB .

Ironically, a career highlight turned into one of his greatest personal disappointments: in 1957 - as a BVB regular and current national player - he was not used in the final of the German championship against Hamburger SV because coach Helmut Schneider wanted to play exactly the same team as in Won the title last year.

In the national team he played a total of 25 times between 1957 and 1964. In 1958 he was fourth with the national team at the World Cup in Sweden . Schmidt was the first BVB player to be the captain of the national team .

Career as a coach

While still active, Schmidt began to earn his trainer diploma from 1966 at the Sport University in Cologne . After his playing career, he then worked as a coach. From 1970 to 1971 he coached Kickers Offenbach and won the DFB Cup with the club in 1970 . He defeated his old club Dortmund in the second round. At the lower class SSV Jahn Regensburg , he trained 1968-1970, 1973-1975, 1990-1992 (after 15 years of abstinence as a coach) and 1993-1994. With the club he managed, among other things, promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga and later promotion from the fourth to the third division. In Regensburg he was chosen to be the club's “coach of the century”. Other Coach appointments have included in the 1971-72 season Prussia Muenster and 1972/73 of FK Pirmasens .

After the career

Schmidt lived temporarily in Burglengenfeld near Regensburg and worked there as a sports teacher. From 1997 to 2007 he was a fan representative at Borussia Dortmund ; until old age he organized a. a. Guided tours through the Dortmund stadium. He was also the club's auditor from November 2007 to 2013.

Private

Schmidt was the son of a steel worker from the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein . He was married and had two sons.

He had guest appearances in the RTL crime television series Balko . Aki Schmidt last lived in the Dortmund suburb of Neuasseln .

successes

As a player:

As a trainer:

See also

literature

  • Hermann Beckfeld: Aki, the boy from Berghofen. In: Hermann Beckfeld (Ed.): ... the boss continues to play in heaven. Football stories from the Ruhr area. Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2006, ISBN 3-922750-62-1 .
  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The Borussia Dortmund Lexicon. die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-584-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Alfred 'Aki' Schmidt - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . December 1, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Schulze-Marmeling: The Borussia Dortmund Lexicon ; P. 152
  3. ↑ Much praise for Aki Schmidt at the BVB fan club's Christmas party . Online at bvb.de, accessed on February 28, 2015
  4. ↑ The "Hero of Auxerre" checks the cash register . Online at bvb.de, accessed on February 28, 2015
  5. ↑ Schulze-Marmeling: The Borussia Dortmund Lexicon ; P. 151
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Aki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2016
Place of death Dortmund , Germany