Dieter Herzog

Dieter Herzog
Dieter Herzog (2013)
Personnel
birthday	July 15, 1946
place of birth	Oberhausen ,  Germany
size	173 cm
position	Left winger
Juniors
Years	station
1954-1965	Spielvereinigung Sterkrade 06/07
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1965-1967	VfB Bottrop	31 (6)
1967-1970	Hamborn 07	96 (27)
1970-1976	Fortuna Dusseldorf	201 (63)
1976-1983	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	193 (29)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1972-1974	Germany B	2 (0)
1973	Germany U-23	1 (0)
1974	Germany	5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Dieter Herzog (born July 15, 1946 in Oberhausen ) is a former German soccer player who made five international matches for the German national soccer team in 1974 and also took part in the 1974 World Cup in Germany. With Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer 04 Leverkusen , he rose to the Bundesliga in 1971 and 1979 respectively.

career

Clubs: Youth and Football Regionalliga West, until 1971

From the age of eight, Herzog went through the youth classes in the stadium "Am Dicken Stein" at the Spielvereinigung Sterkrade 06/07 , but initially played handball at Sterkrade 69 . Due to his skills, he played in the A-youth of the game association at the age of 14. The talented offensive hope came into contact with higher-class football for the first time after his move to VfB Bottrop , with whom he competed in the second class of the West Regional Football League in 1965/66 . With the black and white team from Jahnstadion, he completed 31 league games alongside goalkeeper Fred-Werner Bockholt and scored six goals. As 17th Bottrop rose again in the amateur league Niederrhein. Herzog celebrated the championship with VfB in 1966/67 and the immediate return to the regional league, but preferred a change to regional league team Hamborn 07 for the 1967/68 round .

With the black and yellow Hamborner "Löwen" he completed 96 regional league games in three rounds from 1967 to 1970 and scored 27 goals. Despite the occasional teammates Hans-Werner Hartl , Klaus Kunkel and Heinz Versteeg , the man from Sterkrade could not play his way up to the top of the table with the sports fans. His class on the left wing was not hidden from Bundesliga aspirants Fortuna Düsseldorf and Herzog accepted the offer from Düsseldorf for the 1970/71 season and switched to the gymnastics and sports club in the Flingern district.

The 1970/71 regional round at the top of the table turned into a three-way battle between the top teams VfL Bochum , Wuppertaler SV and Fortuna Düsseldorf. Far superior to the other western regional division - SC Fortuna Köln came fourth with 39:29 points - a perfectly balanced race for two places to participate in the Bundesliga promotion round developed. In the end, Bochum was 56:12 points ahead of Fortuna with the same number of points, the WSV came third with one point behind. Herzog had scored 13 goals in 34 games and with right winger Reiner Geye formed an above-average wing tong with a goal threat. In the promotion round, both representatives from the West prevailed and were promoted to the Bundesliga .

Bundesliga with Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer Leverkusen, 1971 to 1983

He played his first game in the Bundesliga on the first day of the 1971/72 season, August 14, 1971, in the new Olympic Stadium against Bayern Munich . Under coach Heinz Lucas , Dieter Herzog played all 102 games in his first three Bundesliga rounds from 1971 to 1974 and scored 23 goals. In the rounds of 1972/73 and 1973/74 he finished third with Fortuna twice and moved into the UEFA Cup 1973/74 and 1974/75. Geye and Herzog also confirmed their class as wingers in the Bundesliga and were used in the national soccer team as early as 1972. Herzog made his debut in the B-Elf on November 14, 1972. When Fortuna Düsseldorf was only able to occupy twelfth place in the 1975/76 season under coach Josef Piontek with the points account of 30:38 points, Dieter Herzog ended his engagement with Fortuna with the home game on June 4, 1976 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In the 5-1 success, he said goodbye with three goals. From 1971 to 1976 he had scored 40 goals in 167 Bundesliga games for Düsseldorf. He signed a new contract for the 1976/77 round with Bayer 04 Leverkusen, the second division .

In his third season in Leverkusen, 1978/79, he succeeded under coach Willibert Kremer and with teammates Fred-Werner Bockholt, Jürgen Gelsdorf , Walter Posner , Peter Klimke , Klaus Bruckmann , Thomas Hörster , Peter Szech and Matthias bridges through the championship win Realizing promotion to the Bundesliga in front of Bayer Uerdingen. He had played 110 league games and scored 23 goals in three rounds of the 2nd Bundesliga. In the first year of the Bundesliga, 1979/80, the 33-year-old veteran was one of the top performers in the Bayer-Elf, which reached the league with twelfth place. The 36-year-old offensive technician said goodbye to the Bundesliga when he played in the away game against Fortuna Düsseldorf on May 21, 1983.

From 1971 to 1983, Herzog recorded a total of 250 games with 46 goals in the first division. In his long playing career from 1965 to 1983, there were 161 games with 46 goals in the Regionalliga West and 110 games with 23 goals in the 2nd Bundesliga North.

National team

For the first time the focus of the DFB selection came the fast and dangerous left winger in the second year of the Bundesliga, 1972/73, when he was able to achieve third place with Fortuna Düsseldorf. He was used on November 14, 1972 in the B national team in the 3-1 victory in Winterthur against the Swiss national team. Since Sigfried Held , Jupp Heynckes and Erwin Kremers were strong competitors and Bernd Hölzenbein also made his debut in the national team on October 10, 1973, the Düsseldorf attacker only made it into the team of national coach Helmut Schön in the immediate preparation for the 1974 World Cup . Before that, he played his only international match for the U-23 national team , which lost 3-2 to Poland 's national team on September 5, 1973 in Essen .

In the 0-1 defeat on February 23, 1974 in Barcelona against Spain, he was first used in the A-Elf. On March 27, he and Jürgen Grabowski formed the German wing pair in a 2-1 win against Scotland in Frankfurt. This was followed by another test in the B-Elf in Kiel against Sweden on April 30, before he took part in the final course with the other 21 players in the squad for the World Cup at the Malente sports school from May 29 .

During the 1974 World Cup tournament, he completed the second round games against Yugoslavia and Sweden on June 26th and 30th, which brought the hoped-for victories on the way to winning the World Cup with 2-0 and 4-2 goals. Herzog played his fifth and last game in the national team on September 4, 1974 in a 2-1 win in Basel against Switzerland, where club mates Geye and Wolfgang Seel also played. For his participation in the soccer world championship 1974 he was awarded the silver laurel leaf .

After the career

After completing his playing career, he stayed at Bayer Leverkusen for years and worked there in administration and scouting .

In his hometown of Oberhausen he runs a tobacco shop with a lottery ticket office .

statistics

• Bundesliga (250 games / 46 goals)
• 2. Bundesliga (110 games / 23 goals)
• Regional league (160 games / 46 goals)
• DFB-Pokal (40 games / 22 goals)
• European Cup (12 games / 3 goals)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Note in: RevierSport 98/2011, p. 46.

literature

• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 4: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 2. Goals, crises & a successful trio 1975–1987. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-89784-133-9 .

See also

• Germany at the 1974 World Cup in Germany

Web links

• Dieter Herzog in the database of fussballdaten.de