Bernhard Metz (soccer player)

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Bernhard Metz
Personnel
birthday May 13, 1950
place of birth Lorsch ,  Germany
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
TV Lorsch
SC Olympia Lorsch
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1971 SC Olympia Lorsch
1971-1979 SV Darmstadt 98 250 (38)
1 Only league games are given.

Bernhard Metz (born May 13, 1950 in Lorsch ) is a former German football player . In the 1978/79 season , the offensive player played 23 games in the Bundesliga for his club SV Darmstadt 98 and scored two goals.

career

Via the TV and SC Olympia Lorsch stations - Olympia is the club of the ex-national player Ludwig Gärtner - the attacker came to the "Lilien" of Darmstadt 98 in the 1971/72 season, in what was then the second division of the South Regional Football League . Under coach Udo Klug , the newcomer made his debut at the start of the round on August 14, 1971, in the 3-0 home win against the Stuttgarter Kickers, in the Darmstadt league team. With his colleagues Joachim "Jockel" Weber , Rudi Koch and Willi Wagner , he formed the attack of the team from the stadium at Böllenfalltor . On December 12, 1971, he scored both goals for the "Lilies" in a 2-2 home draw against the eventual champions and Bundesliga promoted Kickers Offenbach . In front of 16,000 spectators, Darmstadt played in a 4: 3: 3 system with the three attackers Weber, Metz and Wagner. Goal scorer Erwin Kostedde was Offenbach's two-time goalscorer. At the end of the round, Darmstadt was seventh and Metz had scored eight goals in 34 league appearances.

In its second year in the Regionalliga, 1972/73 , Metz was part of the Darmstadt championship team, which won the title in front of Karlsruher SC and Munich in 1860. On March 24, 1973 he was also in the attack of the 98ers, who were able to prevail in the top game in the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium with a 1-0 victory. The regional round ended with a 7-0 home win on May 13, 1973 in front of 21,000 spectators at the local Böllenfalltor against 1. FC Nürnberg . Metz, together with Herbert Dörenberg and Hans Lindemann, formed the midfield of the new master. The "Club" was trained by Zlatko Čajkovski and had established players in the ranks with Manfred Drexler , Kurt Geinzer and Dieter Nüssing . Metz, he could be used in the 4: 3: 3 system in attack as well as in attacking midfield, completed 34 league games in the championship year and scored two goals. In the 1973 Bundesliga promotion round he was used in all eight games against Rot-Weiss Essen, VfL Osnabrück, SV Röchling Völklingen and Wacker 04 Berlin and scored four goals. But the promotion prevented the team around Willi Lippens , the team from Essen-Bergeborbeck, RWE. Metz was also active on the last game day of the old second-rate regional league era on May 4, 1974. The “Lilien” lost the away game with 0-1 goals at Karlsruher SC and finished fourth as defending champions. From 1971 to 1974, Metz played 101 league games for Darmstadt in the Regionalliga Süd, scoring 15 goals.

Since Darmstadt 98 was included in the newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga, Group South, for the 1974/75 season, Metz and colleagues had three years of competition in the immediate sub-structure of the Bundesliga, which ranked ten (1975), seven (1976) and sixth (1977) in the respective final rankings. With coach Lothar Buchmann in the fourth year, 1977/78 , with 58:18 points the surprising win of the championship and thus the direct promotion to the Bundesliga succeeded. As runners-up, 1. FC Nürnberg were five points behind. Bernhard Metz had teammates Dieter Rudolf (goalkeeper), Libero Walter Bechtold , Vorstopper Edwin Westenberger , Willi Wagner, Willibald Weiss , Manfred Drexler , Uwe Hahn , Jockel Weber, Peter Cestonaro , Hans Lindemann, Otto Frey and Gerhard Kleppinger in 28 Scored four goals in league appearances.

Metz made his Bundesliga debut on October 14, 1978, in a 4-4 draw against MSV Duisburg. On matchday 34, June 9, 1979, the promoted team ended the Bundesliga adventure with a 7-1 home defeat against VfB Stuttgart and immediately relegated to the second division. Metz scored the consolation goal of the overwhelmed hosts in the 83rd minute . Metz had a total of 273 league games and 46 goals for SV Darmstadt 98 by the time they were relegated in 1979. The “Darmstadt model”, which relied on after-work professionals, had failed because of the sporting and financial demands of the Bundesliga. The then 29-year-old Bernhard Metz ended his high-class career after 23 league games in the German football club in the summer of 1979 and kept fit at Olympia Lorsch and strengthened the Baden upper division club SV 08 Kuppenheim for almost two years . From 1981 to 1984 he played for Olympia Lorsch in the association league and let his career as a player-coach for four seasons of the then district league club SV 07 Geinsheim end.

He lives in Lorsch with his wife Gisela, née Zach, * 1955, who was an active athlete at the Olympia Lorsch and won twelve Hesse championships in hurdles, sprint and long jump. The marriage resulted in two sons. The trained construction fitter worked until his retirement in 2014 as a district manager in the field service at Nestlé .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiko Weissinger: I thought to myself: I'll show you! In: Darmstädter Echo . April 18, 2018, p. 29 .
personal data
SURNAME Metz, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorsch