Egon Schmitt

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Egon Schmitt (born November 12, 1948 in Mühlheim am Main ) is a former German soccer player . Schmitt played a total of 156 league games and scored 12 goals for the clubs Kickers Offenbach and 1. FC Saarbrücken in the Bundesliga from 1968 to 1978. With Offenbach, the record player of the German amateur football team won the DFB Cup in 1970 . In Saarbrücken there were 163 additional league appearances with three goals in the 2nd Bundesliga from 1974 to 1981.

career

Offenbach, 1965 to 1973

From his hometown club SG Dietesheim, Schmitt moved to Kickers Offenbach's youth in 1965. In his second A youth year, 1966/67, the all-rounder made his debut in the DFB youth national team and in May 1967 he took part in the UEFA youth tournament in Turkey with the DFB talents . In the three group matches against France (0: 1), Austria (2: 1) and Hungary (3: 1) he took the position of the stopper and directed defensive teammates like Josef Pirrung , Rainer Zobel and Roland Weidle . Just 16 days after the last group game in the UEFA youth tournament, the young talent from Offenbach made his debut in the amateur national team of the DFB. On May 25, he made his debut in the amateur national team at the international match in Konstanz against Italy alongside Rainer Stiller , Peter Anders , Horst Pohl and Dieter Zettelmaier in a 0-0 draw. Under Kickers coach Kurt Baluses , the talent from the Kickers youth made his debut on August 13, 1967 in the then second -rate regional soccer league south . The OFC team scored a point with a 0-0 draw at SSV Reutlingen and the young player made such a good impression on the side of teammates such as Hermann Nuber , Rudolf Wimmer (goalkeeper), Ferdinand Heidkamp , Roland Wabra , Lothar Weschke , Dieter Fern and Gerd Becker left that he made 28 league appearances with six goals in his first senior year. The young man from the youth formed the right wing of the Kickers wing with Weschke as the right connector in the World Cup system at that time . As runner-up in the Regionalliga Süd, Offenbach moved into the Bundesliga promotion round, where he beat Bayer Leverkusen, TuS Neuendorf, Tennis Borussia and SV Arminia Hannover and was promoted to the Bundesliga. Schmit had played all eight promotion games and scored two goals. His first season in senior football was more than good.

Offenbach made his debut with Schmitt in midfield on August 17, 1968 in a 1: 2 away defeat at 1. FC Cologne in the Bundesliga. Under coach Paul Oßwald , the former youth international played in 29 league games for Offenbach and scored eleven goals as a midfielder. He led the internal goalscorer list, but the climber from Offenbach rose as 18th immediately back to the regional league. The hopes for reinforcement in the offensive had not been fulfilled by the newcomers Janos Kondert , Dieter Koulmann and Helmut Siber . With 42 goals in 34 round games, the offensive did not meet expectations and the indisputable 5:29 points in the away games led to relegation. For the 1969/70 regional round, President Horst-Gregorio Canellas reinforced his team with players such as Walter Bechtold , Horst Gecks , the Kremers twins Erwin and Helmut , Hans Reich and Klaus Winkler . After an exciting three-way battle with 1. FC Nürnberg and Karlsruher SC, Schmitt and colleagues - the amateur national player had played 35 league games with two goals - moved into the Bundesliga promotion round as champions . There the team from Bieberer Berg prevailed against VfL Bochum, Hertha Zehlendorf, VfL Wolfsburg and FK Pirmasens and immediately moved back into the Bundesliga. The reliability in person had made its contribution in all eight promotion round games.

The sporting climax for Schmitt and Offenbach followed in the DFB Cup in July and August 1970. Through the World Cup from May 31 to June 21, 1970 in Mexico, the cup was in 1970 from the round of 16 on July 28 before the beginning / beginning of the the new Bundesliga season 1970/71. The Hessians beat Borussia Dortmund (2: 1 a.s.), Eintracht Frankfurt (3: 0), 1. FC Nürnberg (4: 2 a.s.) and in the final on August 29, 2: 1 the favorites 1. FC Köln. It was a great sporting, even historical, success for captain Egon Schmitt like his Kickers colleagues. But the disillusionment followed on the foot: In September 1970 Offenbach failed with Schmitt in the European Cup Winners' Cup at Club Bruges (2-1, 0-2), in September Aki Schmidt's short coaching time was over, followed by an unsuitable interlude from 28 September 1970 to February 23, 1971 from Rudi Gutendorf and at the end of the round under Kuno Klötzer he was relegated to the Bundesliga again. Offenbach failed not least because of the circumstances of the Bundesliga scandal . Schmitt had played 33 of 34 league games.

It was followed again by the immediate championship in the Regionalliga Süd 1971/72 and after the successful promotion round the return to the Bundesliga, as well as under coach Gyula Lóránt there reaching the 7th place in the table. Schmitt was on the side of Sigfried Held and Erwin Kostedde in 26 league games in action (1 goal). But he accepted the contract offer for the 1973/74 season from 1. FC Saarbrücken and moved to the Southwest Regional Football League . The man from Dietesheim appeared for Offenbach 88 times in the Bundesliga (12 goals), 83 times in the Regionalliga Süd (9 goals) and in 18 games in the Bundesliga promotion round (3 goals). During this time he had won two regional league championships and the DFB Cup victory with the OFC and in 1972 he took part in the amateur national team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Saarbrücken, 1973 to 1981

With defense organizer and Libero Schmitt, Saarbrücken reached the runner-up in the last year of the old second-rate regional league, 1973/74, under coach Herbert Binkert, and the man from Hesse added eight more games in the Bundesliga promotion round. In terms of sport, the Southwest representative played a subordinate role with 3:13 points. In the debut year of the 2nd Bundesliga, Saarbrücken was in 7th place and Schmitt had scored two goals in 34 league appearances. Under coach Slobodan Cendic , the championship win and promotion to the Bundesliga was celebrated in 1975/76 . Schmitt had, alongside teammates such as the Traser twins Ernst and Heinz , Ludwig Denz , goalkeeper Dieter Ferner , Werner Greth , Frank Holzer , Felix Magath , Metodija Spasovski and Reinhold Zech in 30 league games, ensured that with only 28 goals conceded in 38 league games laid the foundation for promotion. In the next two rounds, the Saarbrücken defense chief was not missing in any of 68 league games. In the first year, 1976/77 , the men around Libero Schmitt managed to stay in the second half of the season with a 9-1 series of points from the 26th to the 30th match day. The crowning glory was the 6-1 home win on April 16, 1977 against the record champions FC Bayern Munich. In front of 39,000 spectators, Schmitt led his teammates Ferner (goalkeepers), Nikolaus Semlitsch , Zech, Bernd Förster , Heinz Traser, Denz and Jovan Aćimović , Ludwig Schuster , Harry Ellbracht and Roland Stegmayer under trainer Manfred Krafft on this clearly unexpected success.

In the Bundesliga he played 156 times from 1968 to 1978 (88 times 1968–1973 for Kickers Offenbach , 68 times 1976–1978 for 1. FC Saarbrücken , all of his 11 Bundesliga goals he scored for Offenbach). His 68 games for Saarbrücken mean the Bundesliga record for the Saarlanders to this day. For Saarbrücken he was on the ball in 163 games in the 2nd Bundesliga (3 goals). After the end of his career, he worked in the independent sporting goods distributor for 25 years and was elected to the supervisory board of 1. FC Saarbrücken in 2007.

Selection player

He is a little-known German national record player . This has to do with the fact that as a league player he continued to maintain his formal status as an amateur . At that time there was its own amateur national team , which regularly held international matches from 1952 to 1979 (predecessor of the later Olympic selection). Egon Schmitt played 79 times for this team from 1967 to 1978, mostly as a Libero, occasionally in midfield and in attack , but only scored four goals. In 1970 he was the first captain of this team and held this position almost continuously from 1972 to 1978. In 1972 the team around Egon Schmitt (then captain), Ottmar Hitzfeld , Uli Hoeneß and Manfred Kaltz took part in the Olympic Games . The game against the national soccer team of the GDR on September 8, 1972 in the Olympic Stadium in front of 80,000 spectators with a 2: 3 defeat was one of the highlights of his time with the amateur national team. In 1974 he was a member of the team that was declared the winner of the UEFA Amateur Cup together with the Yugoslav amateur team , as the final fell victim to the boggy field as a result of previous rain showers. He participated in the big trips to Asia at the turn of the year 1967/1968 with international matches against Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines and Japan as well as on the Africa tour 1970/1971 with international matches against Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal participated. With the international match on September 26, 1978 in Bielefeld against China (2-1), the record player said goodbye to the amateur national team after 11 years.

With his 79 games, he leads the list of amateur national players by a wide margin. Jürgen Kalb took second place with 48 appearances. In addition, Egon Schmitt played seven in the youth national team in 1967 and five in the junior national team U-23 in 1971 and 1972 for the DFB.

Playful characteristics

A very dominant Libero, not an outstanding technician, but a tremendously constant, strong-willed leader, a bit more objective than the really big Liberos. Egon Schmitt, the record player for the amateur national team, was an excellent defensively man who had a say in the game, and would have had what it takes for an even more spectacular career.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 447.
  • Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 644.
  • Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. Copress-Verlag. Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. P. 644
  2. ^ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. P. 447
  3. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. P. 409
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. P. 120
  5. ^ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. P. 447
  6. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1966/67. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2005. ISBN 3-89784-086-3 . Pp. 195/196
  7. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronik 1968/69. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 3-89784-086-3 . Pp. 195/196
  8. ^ Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. 35 years of the Bundesliga, part 2: goals, crises & a successful trio 1975–1987. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1999. ISBN 3-89784-133-9 . P. 68
  9. ↑ Heimann, Jens: Kicker-Almanach 1989. P. 121, 122
  10. ^ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. P. 447

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personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlheim am Main