Dieter Schulz (soccer player, 1939)

Dieter Schulz
Personnel
birthday	May 17, 1939
place of birth	Bielefeld ,  German Empire
date of death	January 31, 2018
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1960	VfB 03 Bielefeld
1960-1974	Arminia Bielefeld	292 (16)
1974–	TSG Harsewinkel
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	TuS Dornberg
	SuS location
	SV Avenwedde
1 Only league games are given.

Dieter "Stopper" Schulz (born May 17, 1939 in Bielefeld ; † January 31, 2018 ) was a German football player .

Career

Schulz began his football career at VfB 03 Bielefeld , where he became a top performer in the defense in the late 1950s. In 1960, according to other sources as early as 1959, Schulz switched to Arminia Bielefeld . For the change, for which Arminia's then president Alfred Rahe had strongly advocated, the Schulz association gave a moped as a gift . The change heralded the end of the sporting rivalry between the two big Bielefeld clubs. In the 1959/60 season , VfB 03 was still third and Arminia fifth in the then third-class Association of Westphalia . Afterwards, the athletic paths of the decades-long rivals parted forever.

In the 1961/62 season Schulz was with the Arminia Westphalia champion after the Bielefeld could prevail in the finals against BV Brambauer . A year later , coach Hellmut Meidt's team succeeded in qualifying for the newly created Regional League West with a 4-1 win on the last day of the match against Dortmund's SC 95 . At this time he got his nickname "Stopper" from his teammate Harry Garstecki . With the Arminia, Schulz experienced eventful times in the Regionalliga West in the following years. In 1966 the club won the West German Cup with a 3-2 win over Alemannia Aachen . Four years later, Arminia was runner-up and made the leap into the Bundesliga in the following round of promotion .

In the following seasons 1970/71 and 1971/72 Schulz completed 28 Bundesliga games and scored two goals for the Armines. At that time he lost his regular place after a red card . In addition, Arminia's then coach Egon Piechaczek is said to have preferred other players. After another non-nomination for a game, Schulz went with his wife at the time to the Berlebeck Eagle Observatory . When the Bielefeld team was forced to relegate as a result of the Bundesliga scandal in the summer of 1972, he played for Arminia for two more years in the Regionalliga West before ending his career as a player-coach for club promoted TSG Harsewinkel in 1974 . This was followed by coaching positions at TuS Dornberg , SuS Lage and SV Avenwedde from Gütersloh before he retired from football.

Style of play

While he was still playing as a middle runner in his early years at Arminia Bielefeld , he switched to the libero position during the first regional league era . Schulz was considered a player with strong headers and a level of physical fitness that was unusual for his time. He enjoyed the reputation of a tough defender who spared neither himself nor his opponents. In the early 1960s, Schulz suffered a tear on his forehead during a game at Germania Datteln . In the hospital he was bandaged around his head, returned to the field and scored the 3-2 winner with his head. After an injury to the elbow joint , Schulz only took a break for 14 days, after a cheekbone fracture he only had to pause for four weeks. Only a nerve paralysis put him out of action for three months.

One of his specialties is tackling , which his teammate Harry Garstecki calls “jumped in flight tackle” . A famous photo shows Schulz as with in flight and with an outstretched leg to the ball carrier Johnny Hansen from Bayern Munich attack. According to Schulz, the referee recognized that Schulz was playing the ball and decided on a corner kick . Despite his toughness, Schulz was always considered a fair sportsman who was only sent off the field twice : once for insulting the referee at a game against SC Viktoria Köln , another time after assaulting Ludwig Denz von Rot-Weiß Oberhausen .

Achievements and honors

In total, the tough defender played 292 games for Arminia Bielefeld from 1962 to 1974, scoring 16 goals. Of these, 28 games and two goals are in the Bundesliga, 228 games and 13 goals in the Regionalliga West, eight games and one goal in the promotion round to the Bundesliga and one goal in the II. Division West. Dieter Schulz is Arminia Bielefeld's record player in the second-rate Regionalliga West. Schulz is the only player in Bielefeld who went all the way from the association league to the Bundesliga. After disagreements about his farewell game, Schulz later broke with Arminia for a few years, but a reconciliation later came about.

In 2005 Dieter Schulz was elected to the DSC eleven of the century as part of the celebrations for the club's centenary , where he forms the defense together with Günther Schäfer and Thomas Stratos . Since the same year there has been an Arminia Bielefeld fan club, which bears the name “Stopper Schulz” in his honor. In 2014 the authors Michael König and Philipp Kreutzer published the book 111 Reasons to Love Arminia Bielefeld - A declaration of love to the greatest football club in the world . The 27th reason was that nobody straddled as terribly beautiful as Schulz. Even today, rustic fouls with comments such as “Almost like Stopper Schulz!” Are being commented on on football fields in Bielefeld and the surrounding area.

After the career

After the end of his coaching career, Schulz first ran a gas station before he ran the restaurant "Zum Stopper", named after his nickname, in Bielefeld . Oddly enough, Schulz never drank alcohol during his playing career . Until 2012 Schulz ran the restaurant "Im Heeper Felde" in the Bielefeld allotment garden colony near the cycling track .

Dieter Schulz died after a short serious illness on January 31, 2018 at the age of 78.

Web links

• Dieter Schulz in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Dieter Schulz in the database of weltfussball.de
• Dieter Schulz in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter "Stopper" Schulz passed away. Arminia Bielefeld , accessed on February 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 177-178 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hans-Joachim Kaspers: A stopper called Schulz. Neue Westfälische , accessed on November 12, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Michael König, Philipp Kreutzer: 111 reasons to love Arminia Bielefeld - a declaration of love to the greatest football club in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86265-415-4 , pp. 70 .
5. ^ ^{A b} Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 460.
6. ^ German Sports Club for Soccer Statistics: Soccer in West Germany 1958-1963 . Hövelhof 2013, p. 216 .
7. ↑ The DSC eleven of the century. (No longer available online.) Arminia Bielefeld, archived from the original on November 27, 2016 ; accessed on November 12, 2017 .