Arno Steffenhagen

Arno Steffenhagen
Arno Steffenhagen 1972
Personnel
birthday	September 24, 1949
place of birth	Berlin ,  Germany
size	169 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	RFC Old Holland
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1967-1968	RFC Old Holland
1968-1972	Hertha BSC	132 (26)
1972-1973	Hellenic FC
1973-1976	Ajax Amsterdam	58 (19)
1976-1988	Hamburger SV	51 (13)
1978	FC St. Pauli	8 0(4)
1978-1982	Chicago Sting	97 (58)
1983	Toronto Blizzard	14 0(0)
1983-1984	Vancouver Whitecaps	8 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1971	Germany	1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Arno Steffenhagen (right) in the game Hellenic Cape Town versus Cape Town City (CTC) in Hartleyvale in the early 1970s. Also recognizable are Frank McLintock (center), who played for CTC and Wilf Du Bruin (right of McClintock) who, like Steffenhagen, played for Hellenic.

Arno Steffenhagen (born September 24, 1949 in Berlin) is a former German football player .

Career

The trained book printer Steffenhagen moved from RFC Alt-Holland in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf to Hertha BSC for 20,000 DM . However, there were always problems with coach Helmut Kronsbein . Since this long-haired player couldn't stand, Steffenhagen was sent back to the team bus for an away game so that his long hair could be cut off there.

On September 8, 1971, Steffenhagen came to his only international match. In Hannover was Mexico with 5 defeats clear 0th Steffenhagen was substituted on for Horst Köppel .

There were no further appointments, mainly because Hertha BSC and Steffenhagen were involved in the Bundesliga scandal. Steffenhagen was initially banned for two years. Therefore, he moved with Volkmar Groß , Wolfgang Gayer and Jürgen Weber , who were also implicated in the scandal , to Hellenic FC in Cape Town , where he won the UTC Bowl and the runner- up in 1972 under the English coach Johnny "Budgie" Byrne .

After the DFB reduced his suspension, he returned to Europe to join Ajax Amsterdam. He was third in the championship three times with the Amsterdam team. He returned to the Bundesliga in 1976. For two years Steffenhagen played for Hamburger SV , with whom he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1977 . Then he said goodbye to the Bundesliga, where he played a total of 183 Bundesliga games. He scored 39 goals.

In 1978 he went to the USA for the North American Soccer League, which caused a sensation around the world after Pelé and Beckenbauer arrived at New York Cosmos . He played there until 1982 with the Chicago Sting . In the fall of 1978 he played, as Chicago could not qualify for the championship finals, a short time for the second division FC St. Pauli . In 1981 he won the North American Championship, the Soccer Bowl, alongside Karl-Heinz Granitza , as well as an ex-Herthaner . At the end of his career, he gave brief guest appearances in Canada in 1983 with Toronto Blizzard and the Vancouver Whitecaps .

After the end of his career, he settled permanently in the USA. There he initially had a bar, a gas station and several properties. Today he runs a small construction company.

successes

• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1977
• North American Champion : 1981
• South African UTC Bowl: 1972
• Vice Championship of South Africa: 1972

Web links

• Arno Steffenhagen in the database of weltfussball.de
• Arno Steffenhagen in the database of fussballdaten.de
• NASL statistics on Arno Steffenhagen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arno Steffenhagen - player profile. Retrieved August 24, 2019 . 
2. ↑ exherthaner.wordpress.com: 03 Arno Steffenhagen , December 2006, accessed on April 1, 2018