Dietrich way

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Dietrich way
Personnel
birthday November 21, 1934
place of birth GroebenGermany
date of death December 20, 2020
Place of death HeilbronnGermany
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
BSG Tractor Teuchern
BSG progress Weissenfels
SpVgg Neckarsulm
VfR Heilbronn
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1958-1967 VfR Heilbronn and Neckarsulm
1967-1973 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1973-1976 Eintracht Frankfurt
1976-1988 Fortuna Dusseldorf
1978-1983 Germany U-18 / Germany U-20
1983 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1983-1986 Eintracht Frankfurt
1987-1989 al Ahly Cairo
1990 Egypt (voluntary)
1990-1996 Liechtenstein
1 Only league games are given.

Dietrich Weise (born November 21, 1934 in Gröben ; † December 20, 2020 in Heilbronn ) was a German football player and coach .

In the Bundesliga he worked as a coach for 1. FC Kaiserslautern , Eintracht Frankfurt and Fortuna Düsseldorf between 1967 and 1986 . With Kaiserslautern he reached the DFB Cup final in 1972 and with Düsseldorf in 1978. With Eintracht he won the DFB Cup in 1974 and 1975. In 1989, he led Al-Ahly Cairo to the double of the cup and championship in Egypt. Between 1978 and 1983 he was a junior coach at the DFB, where he won the U-18 European Championship and the Junior World Championship in 1981. In 1990 he was national coach for Egypt and between 1990 and 1996 national coach for Liechtenstein at the end of his career.

Career

Weise began his footballing career in Teuchern at BSG Traktor there. Before he left the GDR in 1958 , he played another year for the BSG Progress Weissenfels in the GDR Oberliga .

In the Federal Republic of Germany he played first for SpVgg Neckarsulm and later for VfR Heilbronn , before the trained tax advisor turned off a job in industry and started a coaching career. Between 1958 and 1967 he worked as a player coach at VfR Heilbronn and in Neckarsulm. With SpVgg Neckarsulm, he won the association cup of the Württemberg Football Association in 1964 .

At the sports university in Cologne , where Weise acquired the B and then the A license, he met Otto Knefler from Halle , with whom he then went to Kaiserslautern .

In the Bundesliga he coached Fortuna Düsseldorf , 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1970s and 1980s . With 1. FC Kaiserslautern he reached the DFB Cup final in 1972 and in the 1972/73 season the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup , with Eintracht he won the 1974 and 1975 DFB Cup . In 1976 he made it to the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup against West Ham United with Eintracht Frankfurt . After a 2-1 home win, they lost 3-1 in London, with a Frankfurt player just hitting the post instead of the empty goal shortly before the end. During his time as coach of Düsseldorf Fortuna, which lasted from 1976 to 1978, he and his team advanced to the DFB Cup final in 1978 , which was lost 2-0 to 1. FC Köln .

He then worked as a junior coach for the DFB from 1978 to 1983 and had his greatest successes here. He won the title with the German U18 national team in 1981 at the U18 European Championship in Germany . With the same team he then competed in Australia in the same year at the junior soccer world championship and also won this title. No other U18 or U19 national team was able to repeat these successes until 2004.

In October 1983 he was signed by Klaus Mank as the successor to Branko Zebec from the Bundesliga bottom Eintracht Frankfurt after an interim of two match days . At the end of the season he managed to improve the team to 16th place and to keep the class in relegation games against MSV Duisburg with results of 1: 1 and 5: 0. In the following seasons he reached positions twelve and 15. In the 1986/87 season he was released from the concord, which was in twelfth place at this time, at the end of November 1986 after the 16th matchday. Under his successor Timo Zahnleiter , Eintracht ended the season in 15th place.

In the summer of 1983 he first returned to 1. FC Kaiserslautern and from October 1983 to 1986 he worked again as a trainer for Frankfurter Eintracht, before moving to North Africa in 1987. Here he won the Egyptian championship and the cup in 1989 with the Cairo club Al-Ahly . In 1988, Al-Ahly defeated the Japanese champions Yomiuri in the Afro-Asian Cup (similar to the World Cup between the Champions League champions of Europe and South America) . In 1990 he also volunteered for the Egyptian national team . From 1990 to 1996 he took over the Liechtenstein national football team as the first national coach of the Principality of Liechtenstein . He coached the national team 17 times and led them to the first qualifying game in Liechtenstein football history in 1994.

Dietrich Weise died on December 20, 2020.

literature

  • Hartmut Scherzer: The football way of Liechtenstein. In: Sport-Bild , December 29, 1992, pp. 18-20.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for ex-trainer way. In: Sport1 . December 20, 2020, accessed December 20, 2020 .
  2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Bundesliga mourns Dietrich Weise. Accessed December 21, 2020 .
  3. Former Bundesliga coach Dietrich Weise is dead. In: Spiegel Online . December 20, 2020, accessed December 20, 2020 .