Erwin Kremers

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Erwin Kremers
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Erwin Kremers (2009)
Personnel
birthday March 24, 1949
place of birth Munich Gladbach ,  Germany
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
Borussia Monchengladbach
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1969 Borussia Monchengladbach 24 0(1)
1969-1971 Kickers Offenbach 57 (18)
1971-1979 FC Schalke 04 212 (50)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972-1974 Germany 15 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Erwin Kremers (born March 24, 1949 in Munich Gladbach , today Mönchengladbach ) is a former German football player .

Career

Kremers played as a striker from 1967 to 1979 261 times in the Bundesliga for Borussia Mönchengladbach , Kickers Offenbach and FC Schalke 04 and scored a total of 61 goals. His greatest success was winning the DFB Cup in 1970 with Kickers Offenbach and 1972 with Schalke 04. A constant companion was his twin brother Helmut , who accompanied him on all of his stations as a football player. They were the first pair of twins in the Bundesliga.

In 1972 he became European soccer champion with the German national soccer team in Belgium . In total, Kremers played 15 international matches between 1972 and 1974, scoring three goals. The twin brothers played three times for the national team: in 1973 in Hanover against Austria (4-0) and in Gelsenkirchen against France (2-1) and in 1974 against Hungary in a 5-0 win in Dortmund .

After the career

After the end of his career, Kremers retired from football and became managing director of a children's clothing company in Gelsenkirchen. He is now a privateer and heads the Schalke Golfkreis for social purposes . In December 2019 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his commitment . In June 2009 he tried to get a position on the Schalke 04 supervisory board, but received too few votes.

Kremers lives in Haan .

Trivia

His participation in the 1974 soccer world championship, in which Germany became world champions, failed due to a dismissal in the last league game before the World Cup because of a spontaneous insult by the referee. Kremers described the referee in the 85th minute of the game after a clear but not given foul game as a “stupid pig”, which the referee Max Klauser overheard twice. Only when Kremers said "Again for stupid: you are a stupid pig!", The referee had no choice but to send him off. At that time, the DFB had no choice but to not nominate him for the World Cup.

In 1973 Kremers received the bronze Bravo Otto from the youth magazine BRAVO in a readers' poll . Together with his twin brother Helmut, he reached number 44 in the German charts in 1974 as “Die Kremers” with the title The Girl of My Dreams .

With his goal to make it 0-1 on April 2, 1976, Kremers was the first goalscorer in a game of the 1st Bundesliga in Dortmund's Westfalenstadion , but against VfL Bochum , who played this game in Dortmund because of the new construction of the Ruhrstadion .

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 278/279.
  • Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player Statistics from A to Z . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , page 69.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Erwin Kremers - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . January 30, 2020. Accessed January 30, 2020.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Erwin Kremers - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . January 30, 2020. Accessed January 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ www.gelsenkirchen.de - Erwin Kremers honored for social commitment. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Schalke's famous twins, in: Reviersport 24/2014, page 14 f
  5. ↑ Detailed information in: RevierSport 52/2013, page 36 f.
  6. ↑ Game summary. In: kicker.de. Retrieved April 2, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Kremers, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich Gladbach , Germany