Dieter Hecking

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Dieter Hecking
Dieter Hecking - Press conference for the introduction of Luiz Gustavo 2013 (cropped) .jpg
Dieter Hecking (2013)
Personnel
Surname Dieter-Klaus Hecking
birthday September 12, 1964
place of birth Castrop-Rauxel ,  Germany
size 178 cm
position Midfield , attack
Juniors
Years station
Westfalia Soest
Soester SV
Borussia Lippstadt
0000-1983 1. FC Paderborn
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1985 Borussia Monchengladbach 6 0(0)
1985-1990 KSV Hessen Kassel 162 (57)
1990-1992 SV Waldhof Mannheim 54 (14)
1992-1994 VfB Leipzig 61 0(1)
1994-1996 TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus 71 (24)
1996-1999 Hannover 96 74 (22)
1999-2000 Eintracht Braunschweig 18 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany U18 11 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2000-2001 SC Verl
2001-2004 VfB Lübeck
2004-2006 Alemannia Aachen
2006-2009 Hannover 96
2009–2012 1. FC Nuremberg
2013-2016 VfL Wolfsburg
2017-2019 Borussia Monchengladbach
2019-2020 Hamburger SV
1 Only league games are given.

Dieter-Klaus Hecking (born September 12, 1964 in Castrop-Rauxel ) is a former German soccer player and today's coach and functionary . Since the end of July 2020 he has been the sports director of 1. FC Nürnberg .

Player career

society

Hecking began his playing career at Westfalia Soest . The next stops were Soester SV , Borussia Lippstadt and 1. FC Paderborn . In 1983 he signed his first professional contract with Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach . In two years he played six Bundesliga games.

For the 1985/86 season he moved to Hessen Kassel in the 2nd Bundesliga . At Hessen, the midfielder under coach Jörg Berger and Lothar Sippel became a top performer and scored 18 goals in 102 second division games. He rose with the club in the Oberliga Hessen and was 1989 top scorer in this league. During his time in Kassel, Hecking was mainly used as an attacking midfielder and striker.

Between 1990 and 1992 he played for the second division club SV Waldhof Mannheim . In 54 games he scored a total of 14 goals, 11 of them in his first season. His teammates included u. a. Christian Wörns, who is at the beginning of his career, and the veteran Norbert Nachtweih .

In 1992 he moved within the second division to VfB Leipzig , for which he completed 31 games in the 1992/93 season and scored one goal. He rose to the Bundesliga with the club , was one of its top performers in 1993/94 and played 30 Bundesliga games. With the team he was relegated at the end of the season.

In 1994 Hecking moved to TuS Paderborn-Neuhaus in the then Regionalliga West / Südwest . During the first half of the 1996/97 season he signed with Hannover 96 in the Regionalliga Nord . 1997/98 he rose with Hannover 96 in the second division and played there in the following season 16 games (five goals). At Eintracht Braunschweig in the Regionalliga Nord, he let his playing career end.

In addition to 36 Bundesliga games, he played a total of 203 second division games (38 goals), 141 regional league games (46 goals) and 61 top division games (39 goals).

National team

Hecking was called up eleven times for the German U-18 national team and scored eight goals.

Trainer and functionary career

SC Verl

For the 2000/01 season Hecking was head coach of SC Verl , who played in the Regionalliga Nord . On January 29, 2001 Hecking was released from his duties despite sporting successes after he had expressed his intention to leave the club.

VfB Lübeck

On March 27, 2001, Hecking took over the training at the regional league club VfB Lübeck . At the end of the season, Lübeck just missed promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, a year later it succeeded. In the 2002/03 season, Hecking and the team held the class in the 2nd Bundesliga. The second division season 2003/04 was more difficult; The club made it to the semi-finals in the DFB Cup and narrowly failed at the eventual cup winners and champions Werder Bremen , but Lübeck fought relegation in the league. The team was relegated on the last day of the match and Hecking announced his resignation.

Alemannia Aachen

For the 2004/05 season Hecking took over the second division Alemannia Aachen . The club also started in the UEFA Cup , having reached the cup final last season , which was lost to Werder Bremen. Since Werder Bremen also won the German championship, Bremen was not only qualified for the UEFA Cup, but also for the UEFA Champions League . Alemannia Aachen as final opponent in the DFB-Pokal was allowed to take the place of Werder Bremen in the UEFA-Cup. Aachen played some very good games and defeated OSC Lille (France) and AEK Athens (Greece) , among others . In the second division, the Alemannia just missed promotion to the 1st Bundesliga. This succeeded in the 2005/06 season. After the third match day of the 2006/07 season, Hecking dissolved his contract with Alemannia Aachen to accept an offer from Bundesliga club Hannover 96 .

Hannover 96

On September 10, 2006, Hecking took over responsibility as the trainer of Hannover 96, succeeding Peter Neururer . Shortly before, on August 26, 2006, Neururer and his team lost 3-0 at home against Alemannia Aachen, Hecking's previous team. With no points in the last place in the table, Neururer was on leave. Hecking led the Bundesliga club out of the relegation zone during the season and was temporarily on a UEFA Cup pitch. At the end of the season, the performances decreased and Hannover 96 finished the 2006/07 season in 11th place. The 2007/08 season got off to a strong start again, with good prospects for qualifying for the UEFA Cup. Due to a weaker second half of the season, the team finished the season in eighth place. In the 2008/09 season, the team fell short of the expectations that Hecking had stoked after the successful previous season with the announcement of reaching a UEFA Cup place. After a 1: 3 in the first away game of the second half against Energie Cottbus and only one away point during the entire season, Hannover 96 slipped close to the relegation places. Nevertheless, President Kind strengthened the coach's back, but expected an upward trend from the team and coach in the future. Hanover ended the season in 11th place.

After 101 Bundesliga games as a coach, Hecking resigned at Hannover 96 on August 19, 2009. At that time, with this number, he was the coach with the most games in the history of the "Reds". Mirko Slomka later beat this record with 169 games.

1. FC Nuremberg

Hecking at 1. FC Nürnberg (2010)

On December 28, 2009, Hecking took over the Bundesliga team of 1. FC Nürnberg as the successor to Michael Oenning . He signed a contract until the end of the 2009/10 season , which was extended by one year with relegation. After the second half of the season, the Bundesliga team was on a relegation spot at the end of the season and had to play two more games against the third-placed team in the 2nd Bundesliga. The club won the first leg of the relegation against FC Augsburg 1-0, in the second leg they won 2-0. This secured the league.

In the following year, Hecking built a successful team in Nuremberg from loan and junior players and deployed ten Bundesliga debutants under the age of 23. After winning several points v. a. In spring 2011 the club reached 6th place at the end of the season. Only twice in its Bundesliga history was the club better off in a final table.

Before the 2011/12 season, Hecking extended his contract for the Bundesliga until June 30, 2014. After the departure of some key players, Hecking had to reorganize the team again in important positions. The team, which was still in danger of relegation at the end of the preliminary round, finished in a safe midfield position. After the preliminary round of the 2012/13 season , the club was in a place in the lower midfield and was eight points behind the relegation place.

VfL Wolfsburg

Hecking at a press conference on a Europa League game (2014)

Hecking moved to league competitor VfL Wolfsburg at the turn of 2012/13 . There he received a contract until 2016. He took over VfL in 15th place in the table and finished the season with the team in 11th place. In his second year he reached the Europa League with VfL . In his third year he was runner-up and entered the Champions League . On May 30, 2015, he won the DFB Cup with Wolfsburg against Borussia Dortmund (3-1) . This was Hecking's first title in German football. Two months later, Hecking won his second title as coach when his team won the Supercup. In the 2015/16 season , VfL Wolfsburg failed to qualify for the European competitions as eighth in the table. Hecking's contract was extended to 2018 in the summer of 2015. After the seventh matchday of the 2016/17 season, Hecking was given early leave.

Borussia Monchengladbach

In January 2017, Hecking took over the Bundesliga team from Borussia Mönchengladbach as the successor to André Schubert to prepare for the second half of the 2016/17 season . At this time the club was in 14th place in the table. Hecking initially received a contract that ran until June 30, 2019. He ultimately led the team to 9th place in the table in the 2016/17 season , as well as in the 2017/18 season . In November 2018, his contract term was extended to June 30, 2020. The team finished the first half of the 2018/19 season in 3rd place. In the second half of the season, in which you took 10th place in the second half of the table, you could not build on the performance of the first half. At the beginning of April 2019, the club announced that it would end the cooperation with Hecking at the end of the season. Hecking finally ended the season with Borussia in 5th place, which qualified them for the Europa League .

Hamburger SV

For the season 2019/20 Hecking took over the second division team of Hamburger SV , succeeding Hannes Wolf , who after missing out on promotion back to the pre-season exemption had been. Hecking received a one-year contract, which would have been automatically extended by one year in the event of promotion and then in the event of relegation, and took his long-time assistant coach Dirk Bremser into the coaching staff. Under Hecking, HSV started the season positively and was always on a direct promotion place from the 3rd matchday to the end of the first half of the season. The team finished the first half of the season with 30 points in 2nd place. In the second half of the season, however, the performance collapsed. When the season was interrupted after the 25th matchday due to the COVID-19 pandemic , HSV was still on the relegation place with 44 points. After the end of the two-month break, the team lost 6 points in stoppage time in 4 games. So also on matchday 33 against the fourth-placed 1. FC Heidenheim , against whom they lost 2-1 after a 1-0 lead and were therefore not in the top 3 for the first time since the 2nd matchday. On the last day of the match HSV received their highest defeat of the season with a 1: 5 against SV Sandhausen , although due to the simultaneous defeat of Heidenheim against the champions Arminia Bielefeld a draw would have been enough to reach the relegation. HSV finally ended the season with 54 points - 2 points less than in the previous season - in 4th place. In the second half of the table, the team was only 7th with 24 points. After the end of the season, Hecking and sports director Jonas Boldt decided not to extend the expiring contract.

Sports director at 1. FC Nürnberg

For the 2020/21 season , Hecking became the sports director of 1. FC Nürnberg , who had only been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga in the previous season. He signed a contract until June 30, 2023, succeeding Robert Palikuća . A few days after taking office, he hired Robert Klauss as the new head coach.

Success as a trainer

title

Awards

Private

Until he was three years old, Hecking grew up in his hometown Castrop-Rauxel. Then his family moved to Soest , where he spent the rest of his childhood. Dieter Hecking was a middle-class police officer with the last rank of police officer for three years before signing his first professional contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship and studied sports management . Hecking also has all of the coaching licenses. Today he lives with his family (five children) in Bad Nenndorf ( district of Schaumburg ).

Web links

Commons : Dieter Hecking  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Backing for Hecking. kicker.de, February 11, 2009, accessed on February 18, 2009 : "There is no coach discussion."
  2. ↑ Trainer. hannover96.de, archived from the original on September 4, 2012 ; Retrieved August 25, 2012 .
  3. ↑ 1,000 Lapwings welcome new coach , fcn.de, December 28, 2009, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Hecking new club coach! , fcn.de, December 22, 2009, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ 1. FCN extended with coach Hecking , kicker.de, June 26, 2011, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ n-tv.de: "Hecking trains the VfL Wolfsburg" (accessed on December 22, 2012, 3:24 pm)
  7. ↑ Hecking must go (kicker.de on October 17, 2016)
  8. ↑ First Gladbach training at Hecking , westline.de, January 4, 2017, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  9. ↑ Report on the Borussia Mönchengladbach website, accessed on December 22, 2016
  10. ↑ Borussia extends contract with Dieter Hecking , borussia.de, accessed on November 23, 2018
  11. ↑ Borussia decides to change coach after the end of the season on borussia.de on April 2, 2019, accessed on April 2, 2019
  12. ↑ Dieter Hecking will be the new HSV trainer , hsv.de, May 29, 2019, accessed on May 29, 2019.
  13. ↑ Hecking: HSV a "big challenge" , ndr.de, May 29, 2019, accessed on May 29, 2019.
  14. ↑ Hecking at HSV: “I'm not doing anything to myself here!” , Kicker.de, May 29, 2019, accessed on May 29, 2019.
  15. ↑ HSV and Dieter Hecking go their separate ways , hsv.de, July 4, 2020, accessed on July 4, 2020.
  16. ↑ Dieter Hecking takes over the sporting helm , fcn.de, July 27, 2020, accessed on July 27, 2020.
  17. ↑ Head coach found: Hecking brings Klauß from Leipzig , fcn.de, July 30, 2020, accessed on July 30, 2020.
  18. ↑ Note in: Interview with Hecking, WAZ from May 27, 2015, sports section
  19. ↑ Interview on volkswagen.de from the beginning of 2013
personal data
SURNAME Hecking, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecking, Dieter-Klaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Castrop-Rauxel , Germany