Franz Roth

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Franz Roth
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Roth with the European Champion Clubs' Cup
Personnel
birthday April 27, 1946
place of birth Memmingen ,  Germany
size 179 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-1964 TSV Bertoldshofen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1966 SpVgg Kaufbeuren
1966-1988 FC Bayern Munich 322 (72)
1978-1979 SV Casino Salzburg 31 0(1)
1980 SV Sandhausen 8 0(0)
1980-1985 TSV Mindelheim
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1967-1968 DFB youth selection 11 0(0)
1969 Germany U-23 1 0(0)
1967-1970 Germany 4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Franz "Bulle" Roth

Franz "Bulle" Roth (born April 27, 1946 in Memmingen ) is a former German football player .

The four-time national player, known as “Bull” because of his powerful style of play, spent twelve years at Bayern Munich between 1966 and 1978 , with whom he won numerous national and international titles. So far, it is unique that he managed to score 1-0 in three European Cup finals. Twice his goals were decisive for the game.

Career

societies

Roth began his football career in the C-youth of TSV Bertoldshofen . For the 1964/65 season he moved to SpVgg Kaufbeuren with which he promptly rose to the then third-class Bayernliga . SpVgg came eighth there.

For the 1966/67 season he was signed by the DFB Cup winner FC Bayern . The starting shot of his first of 322 Bundesliga games was on August 27, 1966 on matchday two, when Bayern played a 0-0 draw at Fortuna Düsseldorf . His first goal (of 72) he scored on September 10, 1966 (4th matchday) to mean 3-0 in a 6-1 away win against Karlsruher SC . From the second half of the season he has a regular place in the team that he should keep for the next eleven years. On March 4, 1978 on the 28th matchday - in the 1-1 draw in the away game against Borussia Dortmund - Roth played for the last time in the Bundesliga.

Goals in European Cup finals

He has a special place in the history of FC Bayern for his decisive goals in European Cup finals. The first of these is already achieved at the end of his first season at the club when he 1967 in Nuremberg 1: 0 final victory in Nuremberg against the Glasgow Rangers scored in the 108th minute winner and secured the first European title of Bavaria. He later described the gate as follows:

“After the long ball from Franz [Beckenbauer], he [Smith] holds me, pulls me back over his shoulder. I'm actually already away from the ball, just catch it, lob it towards the goal. Goalkeeper Martin comes towards me and is surprised. There was a margin of maybe half a meter - thank goodness the ball fit exactly. "

In the final of the 1974/75 European Cup against Leeds United in Paris , he gave Bayern the lead against the superior English with ten minutes before the end of the game. Franz Roth recalls:

“I cross Conny Torstensson in the center circle. Walk past him to the half-left side. He plays out to me. The libero comes and wants to push me to the left because he knew that I had a strong shot on the right. On the left, he didn't think I could do that. My left-hand shot, hit cleanly with the full span, went through his legs into the far corner to make it 1-0. They opened up, Gerd Müller made it 2-0. "

A year later in the final of the 1975/76 European Cup in Glasgow against AS Saint-Étienne , a free-kick goal by Roth secured Bayern's 1-0 victory. He describes it as follows:

“There are six men standing in the wall. You have to just miss it. This is then the furthest angle from the goalkeeper standing in the goalkeeper's corner. He didn't stand a chance because I had the ball on my right instep. In contrast, the 1-0 win against Leeds was a Kullerball. "

Franz Roth scored a total of 11 goals in 65 European Cup matches for Bayern Munich.

Career end

In 1976 and 1977, Franz Roth tore two tears of the right Achilles tendon within one year , which ended his career at the highest level. He played another season with the Austrian first division promoted SV Austria Salzburg with whom he was sixth in the ten league. He played for Austria in 31 games, scoring his only goal in the first game at Grazer AK with the winning goal to make it 2-1. With the team around national goalkeeper Herbert Rettensteiner , he also made it to the quarter-finals of the Austrian Cup .

From January 1980 to June 1980 he played 8 games for SV Sandhausen in the amateur league of Baden-Württemberg . He then played for TSV Mindelheim in Unterallgäu until 1985 , where he ended his career.

National team

From February 14, 1967 (0: 1 defeat against England; in Mönchengladbach) to April 11, 1968 (1: 3 defeat against Czechoslovakia; in Monaco) Roth played eleven times for the A-Juniors U-18 team, including five games during the UEFA youth tournament. On October 7, 1967, Roth was appointed to the senior national team for the first time . In the qualifying game for the European Football Championship in 1968 , a 3-1 home win against Yugoslavia was achieved . The next appearances in the senior national team were three years in coming; only in 1970 were Roth's services in three friendly matches against Romania (1: 1) on April 8, Yugoslavia (lost 0: 2) on November 18, and Greece (won 3: 1) on November 22. On May 7, 1969, Roth played intermittently and only once for the junior team U-23, which scored a 2-2 draw against Austria's selection in Graz.

successes

Award

Others

Franz Roth reports on the origin of his nickname "Bulle" in his laudation on Sepp Maier's 70th birthday:

“In 1966, when I was fresh at Bayern, [Sepp Maier] came a little later from vacation at the World Cup. When coach Tschik Cajkovski introduced the new players to the national players in the evening and it was my turn, he said: 'And this is someone from the Allgäu, he has as much strength as moo!' Then [said Sepp Maier]: 'Coach, that means bull in Bavaria and not bull or cow or moo!' The name has remained to this day. "

From 1980, Franz Roth and his wife ran sports shops in Bad Wörishofen and Marktoberdorf , which he gave up or handed over to his son Claus in 2018. For the soccer World Cup 2010 he supported the social project We Help Africa in South Africa .

Roth was married to Inka for over three decades, who died on July 5, 2007 of cancer. Less than a year and a half later, at the Munich six-day race , he met the then 56-year-old Munich antiques dealer Helena von Sarközy, with whom he has been linked ever since.

Web links

Commons : Franz Roth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Strasser: AZ interview: Franz Roth: Bulles Großes Nacht , Abendzeitung , May 31, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Raimund Hinko : Franz Roth exclusive: The rise of FC Bayern began with him 50 years ago , Sportbuzzer, May 31, 2017 (with video)
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Franz Roth - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . January 31, 2019. Accessed February 1, 2019.
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Franz Roth - International Appearances . RSSSF . January 31, 2019. Accessed February 1, 2019.
  5. ↑ Ex-FC Bayern goalkeeper is 70: Sepp Maier is 70: Kahn, Pfaff, Rummenigge, Aumann and Roth congratulate , Abendzeitung , February 28, 2014
  6. ↑ Herbert Jung: "Bulle" Roth gives up sports shop. Bild.de , March 12, 2018, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Herbert Jung: 17 months after the death of his wife: Bavaria's “Mr. Europcup “found a new love , Bild-Zeitung , December 29, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cop
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen