Bernd Lorenz

Bernd Lorenz (born December 24, 1947 in Hamburg ; † April 6, 2005 ) was a German soccer player who won the DFB Cup as a striker for Eintracht Frankfurt in 1975 .

career

amateur

On April 12, 1967, the 19-year-old attacker of TSV Duwo 08 made his debut in the storm of the German national soccer team of amateurs at the international match in Gladbeck against Holland. In the two Olympic qualifying games against Great Britain in October / November 1967 he was not used. When the amateur national team traveled to Asia in late 1967 / early 1968, he was a member of the DFB squad and played two international matches against Malaysia and the Philippines. Lorenz played his sixth international match for the DFB amateurs on March 20, 1968 in Grieskirchen against Austria. With Duwo 08 the talent rose in 1968 to the amateur upper house of Hamburg. In the 1968/69 season he finished tenth with Duwo in the Hamburg regional league and stood with the Hanseatic city's association in the final of the amateur country cup against North Baden. The Bundesliga club Werder Bremen signed the amateur national player Bernd Lorenz from the Wohldorf-Ohlstedt district in the north of Hamburg for the 1969/70 round .

Football Bundesliga and Austria, 1969 to 1976

The newcomer from Hamburg's amateur football team formed the attack of SV Werder mostly in the 1969/70 round together with Werner Görts . As things weren't going so well for the Bremen team, Hans Tilkowski replaced coach Fritz Rebell on March 17, 1970. At the end of the round Werder finished eleventh and Bernd Lorenz had played 25 games with five goals. In his second round on the Weser, Lorenz had to deal with coach Robert Gebhardt . Again he played 26 games with five goals and Werder came in tenth. That was not enough for Bremen and they invested spectacularly in the next round with the newcomers Peter Dietrich , Herbert Laul (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Willi Neuberger , Werner Weist (Borussia Dortmund), Jürgen Weber (Hertha BSC) and Carsten Baumann from VfL Osnabrück. Bernd Lorenz moved to Austria for SK Rapid Vienna ; but Björnmose, Coordes and Meyer also looked for new clubs.

With the “Green-Whites” from Rapid, Lorenz took fifth place in the Bundesliga in the 1971/72 season and took part in the UEFA Cup through the games against Dinamo Zagreb and Juventus Turin. When Hans Krankl had become his strike partner at Rapid from 1972, it was enough for the runner-up and winning the ÖFB Cup . In the third year, the ex-Hamburger reached third place with Rapid and made it into the cup final . In the rounds of 1972/73 and 1973/74 he took part with Rapid in the European Cup Winners' Cup. After the surprising 0-0 draw at Milan's San Siro Stadium on October 24, 1973 against their home team, Rapid lost the second leg in the 1973/74 competition on November 7, 1973 with a 2-0 draw. From 1971 to 1974 Bernd Lorenz played 76 Bundesliga games for Rapid Vienna and scored 27 goals. For the 1974/75 round he signed a contract with Eintracht Frankfurt and returned to the German Bundesliga.

With the team of coach Dietrich Weise around the two world champions Jürgen Grabowski and Bernd Hölzenbein , " Jason " Lorenz reached third place in the 1974/75 season and won the DFB Cup final against MSV Duisburg on June 21, 1975 in Hanover with 1: 0. In the second season he was also in Frankfurt in the European Cup Winners' Cup at games against FC Coleraine, Atletico Madrid and in the semi-final second leg on April 14, 1976 at West Ham United with their national players Trevor Brooking and Frank Lampard senior . In total, he made 30 Bundesliga appearances with 13 goals in two rounds at Eintracht, eight appearances in the DFB Cup (3 goals) and five games in the European Cup with one goal.

Finale

After the 1976/77 round at Young Boys Bern (twelve goals), Bernd Lorenz played another 13 games with three goals in the 2nd Bundesliga South at FC Augsburg in the 1977/78 season, before returning to Austria one more time Season with Vienna (26 games, twelve goals) and Admira / Wacker (7 games, 2 goals). After that, his career in professional football ended.

literature

• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
• KICKER, Football Almanac 1993, Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9 .
• Ulrich Matheja: Schlappekicker and sky striker. The story of Eintracht Frankfurt. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-89533-427-8 . P. 360.

Web links

• Bernd Lorenz in the database of weltfussball.de
• Bernd Lorenz in the database of fussballdaten.de