Bernd Schmidt (soccer player, 1943)

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Bernd Schmidt (born December 1, 1943 ) is a former German soccer player who was active in the clubs KSV Hessen Kassel and Werder Bremen . From 1967 to 1974 the all-round player played 150 games in the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen and scored eleven goals.

career

Schmidt began playing football at SV Alsfeld and played his way into the selection of Hesse in the regional cup in 1964 and 1965 . From there he moved for the 1965/66 season to KSV Hessen Kassel in what was then the second -rate regional soccer league south . The champions of the debut year 1963/64 brought with Kurt Haseneder also the goalscorer from Swabia Augsburg to Kassel. Under coach Herbert Widmayer , Schmidt made his debut on the first round matchday, August 15, 1965, in a 2-2 home draw against ESV Ingolstadt in the regional league. He stormed the right winger in the World Cup system that was still in use at the time and Rolf Fritzsche , Kurt Haseneder, Karl-Heinz Bente and Ernst Kuster completed the KSV attack series. The team from the Auestadion landed in 6th place at the end of the round, Schmidt had scored four goals in 19 league games. During the course of the round, coach Widmayer was replaced by ex-player Willi Hellwig . Before Schmidt's second season, 1966/67, Kassel had to cope with the valuable sporting losses caused by the move from Bente to Freiburg FC, Kuster to Arminia Bielefeld and Hasender returned to Augsburg. In return, Bernd Michel and Horst Schaub were two newcomers from the Hessian amateur sector. Kassel took 8th place, but Bernd Schmidt had made a name for himself with 31 league appearances and seven goals. After 50 regional league games with eleven goals, he, like his two team- mates Karl Loweg and Horst Schaub, was newly signed by Bundesliga club Werder Bremen for the 1967/68 season.

Schmidt made his debut on the first round matchday, August 19, 1967, in a 1: 4 home defeat against Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga. He was substituted on by coach Günter Brocker in the 60th minute for right winger Gerhard Zebrowski . After three defeats with 4:13 goals, Brocker was replaced by Fritz Langner and the team from the Weserstadion then played their way up to the surprising runner-up in the table. With 12 league appearances (1 goal) Schmidt did not belong to the narrow circle of the regular cast - the attack usually ran with Werner Görts , Diethelm Ferner , Ole Björnmose , John Danielsen and Bernd Rupp - but played an active part in the runner-up championship. In the next two rounds he increased his stakes to 23 league games each time, but Werder fell back into midfield. When Rudolf Assauer and Karl-Heinz Kamp came to the Green-Whites for the 1970/71 season and Robert Gebhardt took over the coaching office, Schmidt had even played in 32 Bundesliga games (4 goals) when he reached 10th rank.

Bremen, however, wanted to get out of the middle and invested heavily in the so-called "million eleven" before the 1971/72 season. To the amazement of the competition, Werder had made more money than ever for new stars - more than Bayern, more than Borussia Mönchengladbach. Werder's Presidium had found a clever way to put the club on a much bigger footing financially: “Bremen's industry and trade have given us significant help in signing the new players and guaranteed them exceptional positions in life!”, Managing Director Hansi Wolff praised the Bremen-based company's commitment Economy. But that was only half of the million dollar deal. In 1971 Werder wore the now legendary “Bacon flag jerseys” in the Bremen colors of red and white and even denied the club's identity in favor of this gaudy Bremen advertisement: the Bremen key replaced the “W” on the chest the jersey, and on the back it read “Bremen” - and not “Werder”. In return, the city of Bremen did nothing, waived entertainment tax and tax debts and from then on allowed Werder to share in the advertising income from the Weser Stadium. The SVW had a full bank account in one fell swoop and was able to go on a big shopping spree.Peter Dietrich , Herbert Lektiven (both Mönchengladbach), Willi Neuberger , Werner Weist (both Borussia Dortmund), Jürgen Weber (Hertha BSC), Carsten Baumann came along this way (VfL Osnabrück) and substitute goalkeeper Peter Haak (Bremerhaven 93) for the 1971/72 season for Werder Bremen. In terms of sport, it did not come together, however, because Werder's supposed "championship eleven out of the moneybag" did not get beyond mediocrity. The new stars were either permanently injured, suffered from integration problems or never found their shape. The gap within the team, which no longer existed, seemed insurmountable. Dissatisfied professionals mingled with overpaid ones. That couldn't go well ... Coming and going in the coaching bench did the rest: Robert Gebhardt was in office as a coach for the first eight match days, followed by the short interim solution with the master coach of 1965, Willi Multhaup , before the young one Josef Piontek acted as coach for the majority of the round and finally Fritz Langner was even used for two game days. Bernd Schmidt made 27 Bundesliga appearances in this chaotic year and scored three goals in 11th place.

With 12 missions in the 1973/74 season he ended his time at Werder Bremen and returned to Hessen Kassel for the 1974/75 season. With KSV he played in the Hessenliga and in 1974/75 he played 21 missions in which he scored 4 goals.

Bernd Schmidt has now been running a Werder fan shop in Bremen for over 20 years.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 444.
  • Arnd Zeigler: The W on the jersey ... 40 years of Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. Edition Temmen. Bremen 2003. ISBN 3-86108-695-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 641
  2. ↑ Arnd Zeigler: The W on the jersey ... p. 54
  3. ↑ Visiting the Werder fan shop ( Memento from August 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1943