Dieter Zettelmaier

Dieter Zettelmaier (born August 18, 1941 in Bamberg ; † August 25, 2010 there ) was a German soccer player who made 20 appearances with 13 goals in the German national soccer team from 1961 to 1967 .

career

society

Dieter Zettelmaier spent his entire football career with the "Violets" of 1. FC Bamberg in Upper Franconia . After relegation from the 2nd League South in the 1959/60 round, the 19-year-old center forward scored 43 goals in the 1960/61 season in the 1st Amateur League North Bavaria. Nevertheless, the return to the 2nd League South did not succeed. On March 19, 1961 Bamberg lost at 1. FC Hassfurt in front of 12,000 spectators with 1: 4 goals and the team around Heinz-Herbert Kreh and Ludwig Müller won the championship and promotion. Zettelmaier had to make do with the runner-up and the top scorer's crown, which he was able to defend in the next two rounds with 32 and 33 goals respectively. When the scorer in the 1962/63 round scored the 1. FC with 33 goals to the championship, he and his team could not move into the promotion round to the second division. Due to the class re-classification for the 1963/64 round - the Bundesliga and the regional leagues came - this round was canceled in the summer of 1963 and Bamberg belonged to the 1963/64 round of the single-track Bayern League. Although the "Violets" were no longer part of the top group, Zettelmaier shot himself to the top of the scorers list again in 1966 with 30 goals. In 1968 he could not prevent relegation from the Bayern League. Knieriem / Greens state in their 2006 player lexicon about Zettelmaier: “Legendary goal getter of 1. FC Bamberg, who would certainly have caused a sensation at the highest level if he had switched to contract players or professional business”.

Selection appointments

At the age of 19, the 1. FC Bamberg goalscorer was first appointed to the German amateur football team by DFB coach Helmut Schön . In the only international match of the DFB amateurs in 1961, on June 1st in Oberhausen, the talented striker made his debut in the attack row in a 5-3 win against Holland. He contributed one hit to the win. Harry Behre from Hamburger SV also celebrated his debut with Zettelmaier . Heinz Höher , Bayer 04 Leverkusen's half right, led the storm with six international appearances. The attack was supplemented with Hans-Jürgen Himmelmann and Gerhard Neuser . Despite his impressive hit rate in the 1st Amateur League North Bavaria from 1961 to 1963 with a total of 108 goals, it took almost two years before the second appointment to the amateur national team followed. In 1963, the German-German elimination games for the 1964 Olympic qualification in Tokyo were the highlight of the season in September, Zettelmaier was a member of all four tournament encounters of the DFB team in May, which made it into the final in the anniversary tournament of the English Association. Outstanding was the performance of the center forward in the game for a place in the final on May 20 in North Shields against France, where he contributed three goals to the 4-2 success. After the summer break, the two qualifying games against the GDR were on the agenda. The amateur team of Helmut Schön lost in Karl-Marx-Stadt with 0: 3 goals and with the 2: 1 victory with two goals by Zettelmaier eight days later in Hanover could not equalize the amount of the defeat from the first leg and thus not into the move in actual Olympic qualification. In 1964, Zettelmaier's participation with the amateur national team in an international tournament in Italy stood out. The DFB-Elf was declared the winner after a 1-1 draw in the final on June 2 in Genoa against Spain by drawing lots. With five goals in three international matches, he achieved his best record in 1965. When the UEFA Amateur Cup was held for the first time in 1966/67 , Dieter Zettelmaier led the German storm in three games. Outstanding for him was the encounter on June 29, 1966 against Turkey. It ended with a 1-0 home win, and that in the local Bamberg Volkspark Stadium. His use in the Olympic qualifying second leg on November 8, 1967 in Hendon against Great Britain was the last sporting high point of his career in the amateur national team. With his 20th international game on December 30, 1967 in Rangoon against Burma, the Bamberg player said goodbye to the DFB selection. It was not until the beginning of the 1970s that he was replaced as record shooter in the amateur national team by Ewald Hammes (17 goals) and Bernd Nickel (18 goals). Hammes came in 46 and Nickel in 41 internationals on this record. In 1963, Zettelmaier won the state cup with 3-1 goals against Hessen with the amateur selection from Bavaria . Sepp Maier guarded the gate and Wilhelm Zott directed the defense of the BFV selection. Gerhard Faltermeier , who played eight amateur international matches from 1965 to 1967 together with Dieter Zettelmaier, describes the striker from Bamberg with these words: "He was a compact striker who was able to assert himself in duels and who was looking for a goal."

literature

• 50 years of the Bavarian Football Association, BFV (publisher), Vindelicia-Verlag, 1996.
• Southern Germany's football history in tabular form 1897–1988, Ludolf Hyll, Karlsruhe, 1989.
• When the Domreiter turned violet, 100 years of 1. FC Bamberg, Adrian Grodel, Bamberg, 2000.
• KICKER Almanach 1989, Copress-Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .