Friedhelm Schulte

Friedhelm Schulte (born September 11, 1939 ), called "Fips", is a former German soccer player who played 20 international matches in the German national soccer team from 1967 to 1970 .

career

societies

Until the 1966/67 round, goalkeeper Friedhelm Schulte played at TuS Eving-Lindenhorst in the Association League Westphalia, Group Southwest. With the Green-Whites, located northeast of the Dortmund harbor, his performances in the Evinger rose garden in the spring of 1967 led him into the goal of the German amateur national team and into the field of vision of the competitor SG Wattenscheid 09 . For the 1967/68 round, the almost 28-year-old moved to Wattenscheid. In his second round he celebrated the championship and promotion to the Regionalliga West .

In the 1969 promotion round, the SG prevailed against SSVg Velbert , DJK Gütersloh and Borussia Brand . The first game in the Regionalliga West led Wattenscheid to the promotion favorites and local rivals VfL Bochum . On August 17, 1969, the newcomer won with a goalkeeper Friedhelm Schulte who was in great shape with 2-0 goals. Three more successes followed in the next three games and coach Hubert Schieth's team was at the top of the table with 8-0 points. The fifth game day, on September 14, 1969, brought Wattenscheid's first defeat with a 1: 4 defeat at Fortuna Düsseldorf . At the end of the lap, the newcomer landed in eighth place. After the surprisingly good start in the further course of the round, Schulte relinquished the regular place in the gate to Willy Reese and played a total of ten games in the Regionalliga West.

Selection games

As a player in TuS Eving-Lindenhorst, Friedhelm Schulte and his teammates Erhard Ahmann , Dieter Mietz and Dieter Zorc won the state cup with 1-0 goals against Lower Saxony with the Westphalia association in 1966 . On April 12 and May 25, 1967 he was appointed to his first two missions in the amateur national team. The sporting challenge of the Olympic qualifying games against Great Britain was already on the agenda in the fourth and fifth games with the DFB selection. With the 1-0 away win on November 8, 1967 in Hendon, the 0-2 home defeat from the first leg in Augsburg could not be made up and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico took place without the DFB team. At the turn of the year 1967/68 a trip to Asia took place, with Schulte playing five games against Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and against Japan. At the age of 30, he played in the UEFA Amateur Cup matches against Yugoslavia and Austria in September and October 1969 . With his 20th appearance on March 25, 1970 in Meppen against Holland, his career in the amateur national team was over. Hans-Jürgen Bradler made his debut in the next international match on April 7, 1970 in Vienna against Austria in the goal of the DFB amateurs. The amateur national team played 22 international matches from April 12, 1967 to March 25, 1970, with Friedhelm Schulte not guarding the selection goal in only two games.

Trainer

For the round 1972/73 Klaus Steilmann transferred the former goalkeeper Friedhelm Schulte the coaching office at SG Wattenscheid 09 in the Regionalliga West. After five match days and the score of 2: 8 points, "Fips" Schulte was replaced in the Lohrheide Stadium and replaced by Karl-Heinz Feldkamp . Later he trained Eintracht Recklinghausen and the SpVgg Erkenschwick .

literature

• Ulrich Homann (Ed.): Farmer's heads, miners and a pascha. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 1, Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-345-7 .
• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .
• 100 years of football in North Rhine-Westphalia , AGON, 1997, ISBN 3-89609-128-8
• KICKER, Football Almanach '93, Copress-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9