Dieter Meyer

Dieter Meyer (born April 7, 1940 ) is a former German football player . The striker was in the 1962/63 season with SV Werder Bremen with 37 goals top scorer of the then first-class soccer Oberliga Nord , ahead of national striker Uwe Seeler with 32 goals. In three rounds of Oberliga Nord, the “Sturmtank” scored 79 goals in 86 league games from 1960 to 1963 and is 25th in the all-time goalscorer ranking together with Walter Schemel , Hans Hagenacker and Werner Heitkamp .

life and career

The 20-year-old amateur soccer player Dieter Meyer from TuS Dassendorf made the move to the contract players' camp of the Oberliga Nord, to ASV Bergedorf 85 , in the 1960/61 season . In the black and white "Magpies" of the Sander Tannen stadium, the offensive hope at the side of the all-time record player of the Oberliga Nord, Otmar Sommerfeld (362-20), immediately completed all 30 league games and scored 18 goals. That in a team that only scored 37 round goals and with 23:37 points just finished 13th. In his second league round, 1961/62, he increased his hit rate in 28 league games to 23 goals and thus ranked behind Uwe Seeler (28 goals), the same-goal Gerd Koll and Peter Osterhoff (each 27), and Jürgen Moll (26 ) in 5th place. Bergedorf had a goal difference of 45:55 goals that season, the striker, who came from TSV Brunstorf-Dassendorf in 1960, was responsible for more than 50 percent with 24 goals. The northern runner-up Werder Bremen submitted an offer to the Bergedorf striker and Meyer switched to league rivals Werder Bremen for the 1962/63 season , where he was the top scorer in the Oberliga Nord with 37 goals in just 28 games. Uwe Seeler (32), Jürgen Moll and Lothar Ulsaß with 23 goals each, ranked among the places.

With Werder Bremen he won the runner-up in the 1962/63 round behind Hamburger SV . The club achieved a record result of 102 goals. Meyer opened the round with Werder against his previous club from Bergedorf. On August 19, 1962 Werder started with a 7-1 home win against the "Elsters" in the last round of the old first-class league and the new center forward immediately scored three goals. Meyer recorded two goals for the 3-2 away win in the second game at Holstein Kie l and even five goals in the second home game against Altona 93 on September 2 with a 9-0. When the long-time conductor and goalscorer Willi Schröder said goodbye to the league on October 7, 1962 with a 1-0 home win against Bremerhaven 93 , Meyer was again the goalscorer of the day. After eleven game days, Werder had 20: 2 points with 42:12 goals and thus led the table. The new goalscorer of the green-whites, the sturdy and extremely powerful center forward Meyer, scored four goals in an 8-1 home win against VfB Oldenburg on November 4, making a total of 22 goals for Werder in the previous eleven league games. In the second half of the season he stood out again on March 17, 1963 in a 5-2 home win against Arminia Hannover as a four-time goalscorer.

The team of coach Georg Knöpfle did not move directly into the final round of the German championship in 1963 as the north runner-up. Before that, there was a qualifying game against 1. FC Nürnberg , the runner-up in the Oberliga Süd , on May 18, 1963 in Ludwigshafen. In front of 58,000 spectators, the Franks prevailed 2-1 in the Südweststadion in front of 58,000 spectators and thus reached the round of the last eight teams. The Werder attack that day consisted of the following players: Gerhard Zebrowski , Klaus Hänel , Arnold Schütz , Willi Soya , Dieter Meyer.

In the debut season of the new Bundesliga, 1963/64, Meyer was only used 15 times under coach Willi Multhaup , but was still able to score nine goals. This meant second place in the club's list of goalscorers for the season behind captain Pico Schütz (11 goals).

After the season, the new German champions 1. FC Cologne with coach Knöpfle wooed Meyer, but Werder Bremen did not approve a change in the Bundesliga. Even Sampdoria Genoa from the football paradise of Italy is said to have been interested in the man who scored a fantastic 45 goals in just 43 league games for Werder between 1962 and 1964. Meyer wanted to force his move cunningly and obtained a clearance from Werder's President Ries for his hometown club Bergedorf 85. After the detour via the cozy Bergedorf to Genoa or Cologne. But the plan didn't work out: Dieter Meyer injured his ankle so badly in a game against Bremerhaven 93 that he never became the same again. His football career ended early and unspectacularly in the Regionalliga Nord.

In the first two regional rounds, 1964/65 and 1965/66, Meyer impressively underlined his scoring qualities with 39 league goals. But Bergedorf was not so well staffed in terms of quality that Meyer's qualifications would have led to a top position.

After a total of 84 regional league appearances with 50 goals for Bergedorf, the striker ended his high-class career in the summer of 1968 and joined TSG Bergedorf in the amateur camp.

In later years he was a cafe operator in Wentorf .

literature

• Sven Bremer, Olaf Dorow: Green and white wonderland. The history of Werder Bremen. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-621-8 .
• Matthias Kropp: Germany's great teams, part 6: Werder Bremen. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1994. ISBN 3-928562-52-5 .
• Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 257 .
• Jens R. Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1991. ISBN 3-88474-463-1 .

swell

1. ↑ Jens R. Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. P. 227
2. ↑ Jens R. Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. P. 240
3. ^ Matthias Kropp: Germany's great soccer teams, part 6: Werder Bremen. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1994. ISBN 3-928562-52-5 . P. 96
4. ↑ Arnd Zeigler: The W on the jersey ... 40 years of Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. Edition Temmen. Bremen 2003. ISBN 3-86108-695-6 . P. 16/17