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Dieter W. Ficken (born June 14, 1944 in Bremen ) is a former German-American football player and coach .

life and career

Dieter Ficken was born on June 14, 1944 in Bremen and spent his first years on the family farm in or near Bremen. In the summer of 1953, the then nine-year-old came to the United States with the TSS Neptunia from Bremerhaven , accompanied by his aunt Elsie Wohltmann, who was already living in the United States. His father lived in the United States from 1928 to 1938, but then returned to Germany to get married here. Subsequently, his father took part in the Second World War and served the Wehrmacht for five years . In Brooklyn , in the metropolis of New York City in the US state of New York , Dieter Ficken from then on lived with said Aunt Elsie, his father's sister, who ran a butcher shop here with her husband. They were childless and treated her nephew as her own child, which is also fucking decades later confirmed and said that he always his aunt my mother ( dt. My mother) called. His sister was supposed to go to the United States first, before the nine-year-old was sent away. At the age of twelve he stopped speaking German and adopted his new language. Although his parents visited him several times over the years, he did not return to Germany for 21 years. It was not until the mid-1970s that he paid his first home visit.

In New York he played American football at John Jay High School in Brooklyn before a group of foreign-born schoolmates needed another player for their soccer team. Subsequently, he planned to study at Brooklyn College , a state college. However, since he was now fluent in English, he helped other classmates with language problems and accompanied two Italians and a Turk to interviews at Long Island University , a private college in downtown Brooklyn . As a result, he was offered a half-scholarship himself in the course of these interviews, which he then accepted. After four years with the Long Iceland Blackbirds , the name of the sports department at the LIU, with whom he first time in 1963 and 1965 in the history of the football program to operations in the post-season came, he did his military service in the United States Marines and played amateur soccer in New York City. In qualifying for the soccer tournament of the 1968 Summer Olympics , Dieter Ficken was used in May 1967 in the first and second leg of the first qualifying round against Bermuda in the US Olympic selection . He then completed three more games for the United States in the same year in the football competition of the Pan American Games in 1967 .

After he was used for this Olympic selection of the United States, he soon played on a semi-professional level with SC Eintracht in the German-American Soccer League (GASL), a regional league with amateur and semi-professional teams. At least from 1970 to 1974 he appeared for this team and was called up during this time surprisingly for the senior team of the USA . In the last game of qualifying for the 1974 World Cup , the inability of the association and some injuries meant that the only briefly employed coach Bob Kehoe only ten field players were available. Ficken was flown in at short notice together with Fred Kovacs , an Austrian-born player he knew from GASL, with both players arriving at the stadium two hours before the start of the game. Since the team still needed a player at the time, it was Ficken who spotted Barney Djordjevic , a former New York team player Intergiuliana who Ficken knew from the league, in the stands at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Subsequently, Djordjevic was hired for the game, got his kit and signed the necessary papers to take part in the international match. The team lost the game against Mexico on September 10, 1972 with 1: 2 and thus failed to participate in the World Cup. After 1974 Ficken largely withdrew from active footballing career and concentrated on his work in banking and investment. He also tried his hand at real estate trading in Brooklyn, where he lived with his college colleague's sister, Franca, and their two sons. In 1974 he took over his first coaching activity as a voluntary assistant coach at his alma mater . There he appeared after two years as head coach and reached the postseason with his team for three seasons in a row.

In 1979 Ficken moved to Upper Manhattan as a trainer at Columbia University . With the Columbia Lions from the Ivy League , players with a later professional career came early during his activity there. Among other things, Greg Varney , who made Egypt originating Amr Aly or from England coming Steve Sirtis , who subsequently over a decade at the professional level in Greece played. The Lions were not considered a great sports division at the time; the previous championship titles were mostly won in fencing or swimming . In football, apart from a few successes at the beginning of the 20th century, the sports department was still largely a blank slate. That changed significantly under Ficken's leadership; from 1979 to 1985 the team won the Ivy League championship seven times in a row and finished second in the 1983 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship behind the Indiana Hoosiers , who lost 1-0 in extra time in the final. For this success, Ficken was voted NSCAA Coach of the Year in the same year . In his first year with the team, he was voted Regional Coach of the Year . Since no sports scholarships are awarded in the Ivy League and the academic standard is high, Ficken traveled to numerous countries in search of suitable players, although he also relied on local players.

In 2006, after 27 years as the head coach of the Columbia Lions men's soccer team, Ficken ended his coaching career and went into early retirement. Nevertheless, at this point in time he was planning to practice his coaching skills at local youth training clubs. By his retirement he scored 252 wins in 443 games with the team; Both values ​​are a school record to this day (as of 2018). In his first seven seasons as head coach of the Lions alone, his teams won 88.8% of the completed Ivy League games, including three undefeated conference seasons. During his 27 years in office, he trained ten players who were named Ivy League Player of the Year , as well as an equal number of All-Americans . The aforementioned Amr Aly also won the Hermann Trophy in 1984 , which has been awarded to the best college soccer player every year since 1967. Kevin Anderson , former Ficken's assistant coach and former professional footballer, took over the team as interim coach after Fickens retired. In spring 2007 it was announced that Ficken was hired as the new head coach of his alma mater. He was active at LIU until the following year 2008, before he concentrated on his private life and on training junior teams. After the merger of Blau Weiss Gottschee , the oldest club in the US Soccer Development Academy , with Manhattan Kickers FC to form the new BW Gottschee NYC , Ficken was elected Director of Coaching in summer 2009 . Curt Rosenthal, founder of the Manhattan Kickers , appeared as technical director .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neptunia passenger list (July 30 to August 11, 1953) (English), accessed on December 29, 2018
  2. ↑ Donn Risolo: Soccer Stories: Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore, and Amazing Feats . Ed .: Bison Books. Bison Original, 2010, ISBN 0-8032-3014-1 , pp. 221 .
  3. ^ David Wangerin: Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game . WSC Books Limited, London 2006, ISBN 0-9540134-7-6 , pp. 161 .
  4. ↑ Men's Division I Championship Brackets , accessed January 19, 2018
  5. ↑ SOCCER NOT FOREIGN TO LIU (English), accessed on January 19, 2018
  6. ↑ DIETER FICKEN: Coach returns to lead CW Post , accessed on January 19, 2018
  7. ^ Clubs merge to form BW Gottschee NYC , accessed January 19, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Fuck, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ficken, Dieter W. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen , Germany