Football World Cup 1970 / Germany

The German national football team at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico :

qualification

Germany met Scotland, Austria and Cyprus. After arduous victories against Austria and 1-0 in Cyprus, Scotland was the main rival with star striker Denis Law . On April 16, 1969, the German team played in Glasgow and fought 1-1. Gerd Müller had put the Germans in the lead in the first half, Murdoch was able to equalize in the 85th minute. The decision had to bring the second leg in Hamburg.

On the rainy October 22, 1969, the Scots took the lead after just three minutes through Johnstone. Klaus Fichtel from FC Schalke 04 was able to equalize before half-time. After Gerd Müller took the lead for the German team in the second half, the Scots still didn't give up and fought for an equalizer through Gilzean. Stan Libuda finally brought the decision in the 79th minute and Germany went to the World Cup in Mexico.

Gerd Müller scored nine of the 20 German goals in qualification. The FC Bayern Munich player scored at least one goal in all six group matches. Most of Germany's players were playing for Bayern at the time. Four players had 17 appeals in the qualifying games. This was followed by 1. FC Köln, Eintracht Braunschweig, Werder Bremen and Borussia Mönchengladbach, each with eight assignments.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Germany	20: 3	11: 1
2	Scotland	18: 7	7: 5
3	Austria	12: 7	6: 6
4th	Cyprus	2:35	0:12

Vienna , October 13, 1968 Prater Stadium	Austria-	Germany	0: 2 (0: 1)	Goal: 0: 1 G. Müller (16th), 0: 2 Eigenstiller (49th, own goal)
Nicosia , November 23, 1968 GSP Stadium	Cyprus-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 0)	Goal: 0: 1 G. Müller (90.)
Glasgow , April 16, 1969 Hampden Park	Scotland-	Germany	1: 1 (0: 1)	Goals: 0: 1 G. Müller (38.), 1: 1 Murdoch (85.)
Nuremberg , May 10, 1969 Frankenstadion	Germany-	Austria	1: 0 (0: 0)	Goal: 1-0 G. Müller (88.)
Essen , May 21, 1969 Georg Melches Stadium	Germany-	Cyprus	12: 0 (7: 0)	Goals: 1: 0 G. Müller (3rd), 2: 0 and 3: 0 Overath (5th), (12th), 4: 0 Haller (17th), 5: 0 Lorenz (39th), 6th : 0 Held (42nd), 7: 0 G. Müller (44th), 8: 0 Haller (46th), 9: 0 G. Müller, (48th), 10: 0 Höttges (50th), 11th : 0 Overath (63.), 12: 0 G. Müller (85.)
Hamburg , October 22, 1969 Volksparkstadion	Germany-	Scotland	3: 2 (1: 1)	Goals: 0: 1 Johnstone (3rd), 1: 1 Fichtel (38th), 2: 1 G. Müller (60th), 2: 2 Gilzean (62nd), 3: 2 Libuda (79th)

Contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	Caps / Goals (a)	Sp.	goal	red	yellow
goalkeeper
1	Sepp Maier	FC Bayern Munich	02/28/1944	19 ( 00)	5	0	0	0
21st	Manfred Manglitz	1. FC Cologne	03/08/1940	04 ( 00)	0	0	0	0
22nd	Horst Wolter	Eintracht Braunschweig	06/08/1942	12 ( 00)	1	0	0	0
Defense
4th	Franz Beckenbauer	FC Bayern Munich	09/11/1945	38 ( 08)	5	1	0	0
11	Klaus Fichtel	FC Schalke 04	11/19/1944	13 ( 01)	5	0	0	0
2	Horst-Dieter Höttges	Werder Bremen	09/10/1943	39 ( 01)	4th	0	0	0
15th	Bernd Patzke	Hertha BSC	March 14, 1943	19 ( 00)	3	0	0	0
3	Karl-Heinz Schnellinger	AC Milan	March 31, 1939	41 ( 00)	5	1	0	0
5	Willi Schulz	Hamburger SV	04/10/1938	63 ( 00)	3	0	0	0
18th	Klaus-Dieter Sieloff	Borussia Monchengladbach	02/27/1942	09 ( 04)	0	0	0	0
7th	Berti Vogts	Borussia Monchengladbach	12/30/1946	24 ( 00)	6th	0	0	0
6th	Wolfgang Weber	1. FC Cologne	06/26/1944	37 ( 01)	2	0	0	0
midfield
19th	Peter Dietrich	Borussia Monchengladbach	03/06/1944	01 ( 00)	0	0	0	0
8th	Helmut Haller	Juventus Turin	07/21/1939	32 (13)	1	0	0	0
16	Max Lorenz	Eintracht Braunschweig	08/19/1939	18 ( 01)	1	0	0	0
12	Wolfgang Overath	1. FC Cologne	09/29/1943	49 (13)	6th	1	0	1
attack
20th	Jürgen Grabowski	Eintracht Frankfurt	07/07/1944	07 ( 00)	5	0	0	0
10	Sigfried Held	Borussia Dortmund	08/07/1942	27 ( 04)	3	0	0	0
14th	Reinhard Libuda	FC Schalke 04	10/10/1943	15 ( 02)	5	1	0	0
17th	Johannes Löhr	1. FC Cologne	07/05/1942	13 ( 05)	6th	0	0	1
13	Gerd Müller	FC Bayern Munich	11/03/1945	19 (17)	6th	10	0	2
9	Uwe Seeler	Hamburger SV	05/11/1936	65 (40)	6th	3	0	0
Trainer
	Helmut Schön (national coach )		September 15, 1915
	Jupp Derwall ( Assistant Trainer )		03/10/1927

^(a) A international matches (international goals in brackets) before the start of the tournament

As a team doctor, Professor Hans Schoberth supervised the German contingent.

German games

León (Q + VR + VF) Mexico City (HF + S3)

Venues and district (Q)

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Germany	10: 4	6-0
2	Peru	7: 5	4: 2
3	Bulgaria	5: 9	1: 5
3	Morocco	2: 6	1: 5

Germany - Morocco 2: 1 (0: 1)
Data	Wednesday 3rd June 1970 in León , Estadio Guanajuato
Germany	Maier - Höttges (77th Löhr) - Willi Schulz, Haller (45th Grabowski), - Beckenbauer, Vogts, Overath, Seeler - Held, Fichtel, G. Müller
Morocco	Allal Ben Kassou (goalkeeper), Abdallah Lamrani, Boujamaa Benkhrif, Driss Kanoussi, Kassem Slimani, Mohamed Maaroufi, Ghandi Said, Driss Bamous (72nd Ahmed Faras ), Mohamed El Filali, Mahjoub Ghazouani (56th Abd Jarelkader El Khyati), Houmaneir
Gates	0: 1 Houmane Jarir (21st), 1: 1 Seeler (56th), 2: 1 G. Müller (78th)

Germany competed as runner-up against World Cup newcomers Morocco on June 3rd and fell behind after just 12 minutes. After a mistake by Horst-Dieter Höttges from Bremen, Jarir scored. Only in the 56th minute was Seeler able to overcome the strong goalkeeper Allal Ben Kassou with a low shot. In the 80th minute, Gerd Müller headed the ball to the winning goal.

Germany - Bulgaria 5: 2 (2: 1)
Data	Sunday 7 June 1970 in León , Estadio Guanajuato
Germany	Maier - Vogts, Höttges (45th Patzke), Fichtel, Schnellinger, Beckenbauer (72nd Weber), Overath, Löhr (58th Grabowski), Libuda, Seeler , G. Müller
Bulgaria	Simeon Simeonov (goalkeeper), Dimitar Penew , Hristo Bonev, Dinko Dermendschiew (45th Vasil Mikov), Milko Gaidarski, Dobromir Zhechev, Boris Gagalenov (58th Aleksandar Schalamanov), Asparuch Nikodimow, Todor Kolev, Dimitar Marashliev, Georgi Asparuchow
Gates	0: 1 Nikodimov (12th), 1: 1 Libuda (20th), 2: 1 G. Müller (27th), 3: 1 G. Müller (52nd penalty kick), 4: 1 Seeler (70th), 5: 1 G. Müller (88.) 5: 2 Kolev (89.)

Germany returned to Leon and had to catch up again: Bulgaria took the lead with an 11th-minute free-kick from Asparuch Nikodimov. Libuda, who made a very good game, equalized eight minutes later. National coach Schön replaced Helmut Haller with Libuda and Held with Löhr from the start. Müller and Seeler gave Germany a 5-1 lead. Shortly before the end of the game, Bulgarian Bojl Kolev scored a consolation goal .

Germany - Peru 3: 1 (3: 1)
Data	Wednesday 10 June 1970 in León , Estadio Guanajuato
Germany	Maier - Höttges (45th Patzke), Schnellinger, Beckenbauer, Vogts, Overath, Seeler , Fichtel, G. Müller, Libuda (75th Grabowski), Löhr
Peru	Luis Rubinos (goalkeeper), Orlando de la Torre, Héctor Chumpitaz , Nicolas Fuentes, Ramon Mifflin, Roberto Challe (72nd Luis Cruzado), Pedro Leon (56th Osvaldo Ramirez), Teófilo Cubillas , Alberto Gallardo, Pedro Gonzales, Hugo Sotil
Gates	1: 0 G. Müller (19th), 2: 0 G. Müller (26th), 3: 0 G. Müller (39th), 3: 1 Cubillas (44th)

In the third group game, which took place again in Leon, it was a matter of group victory against Peru. They defeated Bulgaria 3-2 and Morocco 3-0. The winner would be group winners and should also play in the quarter-finals in Leon, a draw would have been drawn. Germany had the same starting line-up as they did against Bulgaria and were focused right from the start. Gerd Müller then decided the game with three goals within 19 minutes of crosses from Libuda, Löhr and Seeler. In the 43rd minute, the young Peruvian star striker Cubillas scored the connecting goal with a deflected free kick. In the second half, both of them worked out various chances, but the strikers repeatedly failed because of the opposing goalkeepers or missed the goal.

Quarter finals

Germany - England 3: 2 aet (2: 2, 0: 1)
Data	Sunday 14 June 1970 in León , Estadio Guanajuato
Germany	Maier - Schnellinger - Vogts, Fichtel, Höttges (46th Schulz) - Beckenbauer, Overath, Seeler - Libuda (57th Grabowski), G. Müller, Löhr
England	Bonetti - Newton , Cooper - Mullery , Labone , Moore - Lee , Ball , Hurst , Charlton (70th Bell ), Peters (81st Hunter )
Gates	0: 1 Mullery (31st), 0: 2 Peters (49th), 1: 2 Beckenbauer (69th), 2: 2 Seeler (82nd), 3: 2 G. Müller (108th)

Semifinals

Italy quickly took the lead in this game and was able to hold the lead until the 90th minute of the game before Italian legionnaire Karl-Heinz Schnellinger was able to equalize. Germany took the lead in extra time, but the Italians were able to equalize again and make it 3-2 before the break. Gerd Müller scored the equalizer again in the second half, but Rivera scored only one minute later to make it 4: 3. This game is known today as the game of the century .

Italy - Germany 4: 3 a.d. (1: 1, 1: 0)
Data	Wednesday June 17, 1970 in Mexico City , Estadio Azteca
Italy	Albertosi - Cera - Burgnich , Bertini , Rosato (94th Poletti ), Facchetti - Domenghini , Mazzola (46th Rivera ), De Sisti - Boninsegna , Riva
Germany	Maier - Schnellinger - Vogts, Schulz, Patzke (66th hero) - Beckenbauer, Overath, Seeler - Grabowski, G. Müller, Löhr (52nd Libuda)
Gates	1: 0 Boninsegna (7th), 1: 1 Schnellinger (90th), 1: 2 G. Müller (95th), 2: 2 Burgnich (98th), 3: 2 Riva (104th), 3: 3 G. Müller (110.), 4: 3 Rivera (111.)

Game for third place

Germany secured third place with a narrow 1-0 win over Uruguay. The Uruguayans were the stronger team, but failed because of Horst Wolter, who was given the chance to prove himself by Helmut Schön. In addition, the team had to do without Franz Beckenbauer, who had dislocated his shoulder in the semi-final against Italy.

Germany - Uruguay 1: 0 (1: 0)
Data	Saturday June 20, 1970 in Mexico City , Estadio Azteca
Germany	Wolter - Schnellinger (46th Lorenz) - Vogts, Fichtel, Patzke - Weber, Overath, Seeler - Libuda (75th Löhr), G. Müller, Held
Uruguay	Mazurkiewicz - Ancheta , Matosas , Montero , Ubiña , Mujica - Maneiro (67th Sandoval ), Cortés , Cubilla - Morales , Fontes (46th Espárrago )
Gates	1-0 Overath (27.)

swell

1. ↑ Homepage of the DFB The 1970 World Cup has to be selected from the menu.
2. ↑ "WE CANNOT USE INDIVIDUALISTS", Spiegel from June 8, 1970
3. ↑ Match report on Weltfussball.de
4. ↑ Match report on Weltfussball.de
5. ↑ Match report on Weltfussball.de
6. ^ WC 1970 West Germany vs. Peru 3-1 (06/10/1970)

Web links

• dfb.de: "The 1970 World Cup in Mexico - the game of the century at the height of Mexico" ( Memento from August 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )