Football World Cup 1978 / Germany

The German national football team at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina :

qualification

As the reigning world champion, the German team did not have to qualify for the final tournament of the best teams in the world.

Contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	Sp.	goal	red	yellow
goalkeeper
22nd	Dieter Burdenski	Werder Bremen	11/26/1950	0	0	0	0
21st	Rudi Kargus	Hamburger SV	08/15/1952	0	0	0	0
1	Sepp Maier	FC Bayern Munich	02/28/1944	6th	0	0	1
Defense
6th	Rainer Bonhof	Borussia Monchengladbach	03/29/1952	6th	0	0	1
16	Bernhard Cullmann	1. FC Cologne	11/01/1949	0	0	0	0
3	Bernard Dietz	MSV Duisburg	March 22, 1948	5	0	0	0
5	Manfred Kaltz	Hamburger SV	01/06/1953	6th	0	0	0
13	Harald Konopka	1. FC Cologne	11/18/1952	1	0	0	0
4th	Rolf Rüssmann	FC Schalke 04	October 13, 1950	6th	0	0	0
12	Georg Schwarzenbeck	FC Bayern Munich	04/03/1948	0	0	0	0
2	Berti Vogts	Borussia Monchengladbach	12/30/1946	6th	0	0	0
midfield
15th	Erich Beer	Hertha BSC	December 9, 1946	4th	0	0	0
10	Heinz Flea	1. FC Cologne	01/28/1948	4th	2	0	0
17th	Bernd Hölzenbein	Eintracht Frankfurt	March 9, 1946	3	1	0	0
20th	Hansi Mueller	VfB Stuttgart	07/27/1957	4th	1	0	1
18th	Gerd Zewe	Fortuna Dusseldorf	06/13/1950	0	0	0	0
8th	Herbert Zimmermann	1. FC Cologne	07/01/1954	2	0	0	0
attack
7th	Rüdiger Abramczik	FC Schalke 04	02/18/1956	3	1	0	1
9	Klaus Fischer	FC Schalke 04	December 27, 1949	5	0	0	0
14th	Dieter Müller	1. FC Cologne	04/01/1954	4th	2	0	0
11	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	FC Bayern Munich	09/25/1955	5	3	0	0
19th	Ronnie Worm	MSV Duisburg	07.10.1953	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Helmut Schön (national coach )		September 15, 1915
	Jupp Derwall ( Assistant Trainer )		03/10/1927

German games

Buenos Aires (VR + ZR) Cordoba (VR + ZR) Ascochinga

Venues (blue) and district (red)

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Poland	4: 1	5: 1
2	Germany	6-0	4: 2
3	Tunisia	3: 2	3: 3
4th	Mexico	2:12	0: 6

First final round
Germany	-	Poland	0-0
Germany	-	Mexico	6: 0 (4: 0)
Germany	-	Tunisia	0-0

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Netherlands	9: 4	5: 1
2	Italy	2: 2	3: 3
3	BR Germany	4: 5	2: 4
4th	Austria	4: 8	2: 4

Second final round
Germany	-	Italy	0-0
Germany	-	Netherlands	2: 2 (1: 1)
Germany	-	Austria	2: 3 (1: 0)

Match statistics Germany - Austria :

Sepp Maier (B. Munich)
Berti Vogts (Gladbach), Rolf Rüssmann (Schalke), Manfred Kaltz (Hamburg), Bernard Dietz (Duisburg)
Rainer Bonhof (Gladbach), Erich Beer (Berlin), Bernd Hölzenbein (Frankfurt)
Rüdiger Abramczik ( Schalke), Dieter Müller (Cologne), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (B. Munich)
(46th Hansi Müller (Stuttgart) f. Beer, 61. Klaus Fischer (Schalke) f. D. Müller)
46,000 spectators in Cordoba
1: 0 K.-H. Rummenigge (19th), 1: 1 Vogts (59th, own goal), 1: 2 Krankl (66th), 2: 2 Hölzenbein (68th), 2: 3 Krankl (88th)

The German national team was eliminated as third group ( shame of Córdoba ). The Netherlands made it to the final, Italy played the game for third place.

Web links

• dfb.de: "The 1978 World Cup in Argentina - The Shame of Cordoba"