Gerhard Heinze

Gerhard Heinze
Personnel
Surname	Gerhard Heinze
birthday	November 30, 1948
place of birth	Neu-Ulm ,  Germany
size	176 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	TSV Eggenfelden
	VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1967-1975	VfB Stuttgart	193 (0)
1975-1983	MSV Duisburg	235 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1969-1971	Germany U-23	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Gerhard Heinze (born November 30, 1948 in Neu-Ulm ) is a former German football player . The goalkeeper played a total of 398 league games in the Bundesliga with the clubs VfB Stuttgart and MSV Duisburg from 1967 to 1982 .

career

VfB Stuttgart, 1965 to 1975

In his youth, Heinze moved from TSV Eggenfelden in the Rottal-Inn district in Lower Bavaria to VfB Stuttgart in 1965 . He had played together with the two VfB talents Karl-Heinz Handschuh and Horst Köppel in the southern German youth team and through this made contact with VfB. The talented goalkeeper made his debut in the second half of the 1966/67 season on February 14, 1967 in the international match in Mönchengladbach against England (0: 1) in the youth team . He then played in the two qualifying games against the Netherlands (1-0, 2-1) in March and also played for the DFB team at the UEFA youth tournament on May 5, 1967 in Istanbul against France (0-1) . For the 1967/68 season, like his youth colleague Roland Weidle , he signed his first professional contract with VfB. The 19-year-old talented goalkeeper was in his first season in the shadow of ten-time national player Günter Sawitzki , only at the end of the second half of the season, on April 20, 1968, he made his debut at home against FC Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. In front of 40,000 spectators, he made a brilliant debut behind center runner Klaus-Dieter Sieloff . In the Bundesliga chronicle 1967/68 it is noted: “... but the young Gerhard Heinze in the VfB goal made an outstanding game. For the first time coach Baumann had placed his trust in him and was impressed by the skill of the 19-year-old. ”Sawitzki led the ranking in the 1967/68 goal at VfB Stuttgart with 21, ahead of Dieter Feller with 10 and Heinze with three Bundesliga games. But already in the following season he was able to push the then 36-year-old Sawitzki out of the gate. At the age of 20, Heinze was number one at VfB Stuttgart and remained so by and large until 1975, although he was controversial because of his relatively small height of 176 centimeters. However, Heinze was able to compensate for this deficiency with great jumping ability and great reflexes on the line. His goalkeeping class is also confirmed by his three appearances in the junior national team U 23 from 1969 to 1971. International competition was already given by his two classmates in 1948 with Volkmar Groß and Norbert Nigbur . For the 1971/72 season under coach Branko Zebec his compatriot Zlatko Škorić was obliged as a competitor and actually took over number one with 24 missions. In the next three laps Heinze was again number one under coach Hermann Eppenhoff . When in 1972/73 he qualified for the next year's UEFA Cup with 6th place, Heinze had guarded the goal in 29 league games. The games in the 1973/74 UEFA Cup then became a success story, which only ended in the two semi-finals in April 1974 against Feyenoord Rotterdam . Regarding the first leg that was lost 1: 2 in Rotterdam on April 10th, Weinrich's EC book states: “As expected, Feyenoord pushed almost non-stop in the packed stadium (58,395 spectators) right from the start on what Gerhard Heinze was guarding VfB goal. “The home game ended against the team of coach Wiel Coerver and his top performers Wim Rijsbergen , Wim Jansen and Theo de Jong with 2-2 and VfB just failed to make it into the final. From 1972/73 he had to fight off the young talent Helmut Roleder . In the 1974/75 season, VfB Stuttgart rose from the Bundesliga for the first time in the history of the club . Heinze played on June 14, 1975, in a 3-2 home win against RW Essen, under Eppenhoff's successor Albert Sing with players like Willi Entenmann , Bernd Martin , Egon Coordes and Manfred Weidmann, his last Bundesliga game for the team "with the ring the chest. "

MSV Duisburg, 1975 to 1983

For the 1975/76 season Heinze moved to MSV Duisburg , where he was the support of the "zebras" for years. On the 10th matchday, October 4, 1975, the ex-Stuttgart debut in a 1-1 home draw against VfL Bochum in the team of coach Willibert Kremer . Dietmar Linders had played the first nine league games for the “Zebras” and MSV was 17th with 7:11 points. At the end of the round, Heinze and colleagues finished 10th with 33:35 points and Heinze had also proven his skills in 23 races in Wedau. In the 1976/77 season he was replaced on November 20, 1976, a 2: 3 defeat at FC Schalke 04, in the 60th minute due to an injury. In the MSV chronicle it is stated: “With kidney bleeding, Keeper Heinze was brought to hospital after the 2: 3 on Schalke. The 28-year-old was just as a precaution after a collision by club doctor Dr. Preissler was sent to the clinic. That saved Heinze's life. “When MSV qualified for the next round of the UEFA Cup with 6th place in the 1977/78 season , Heinz had the goal of Bernard Dietz , Michael Bella and Kees Bregman in 31 league games , Theo Bücker , Herbert Büssers , Ditmar Jakobs , Kurt Jara , Rudolf Seliger and Ronald Worm . Coach Otto Knefler was replaced by Carl-Heinz Rühl at the end of November 1977 due to a persistent serious illness . During the round on November 5, 1977, a 6: 3 home win against Bayern Munich stood out, to which MSV icon Dietz had contributed four goals.

In the 1978/79 season, under coach Rolf Schafstall, a “dance across three weddings” was announced: Bundesliga, DFB Cup and UEFA Cup. Heinze's men rushed from one English week to the next. At the beginning of the round, the goalkeeper broke his hand during training before the 2nd Bundesliga matchday (August 19) and was therefore out for two months; he was represented by Wolfgang Schreiner during this time. While things did not go well in the Bundesliga, at the end of the round the MSV finished in 13th place, the "Zebras" prevailed in the UEFA Cup after successes over Lech Posen, Carl Zeiss Jena, Racing Strasbourg and Honved Budapest through to the semi-finals. That led the Heinze team against Borussia Mönchengladbach and the “foals” prevailed on April 25, 1979 with a 4-1 home win and advanced to the final. In three catch-up games in May 1979 Duisburg defeated FC Bayern Munich 3-1, Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 and Eintracht Braunschweig, which means that the final defeats against FC Schalke 04 (1: 2) and Eintracht Frankfurt (0: 2) were not more could prevent relegation. In the second half of the season, from April 4 to June 9, the protégés of coach Schafstall had to compete in 16 competitive games in the Bundesliga, the UEFA Cup and the DFB Cup; Heinze was in the MSV case in all games.

In the 1981/82 round, Heinze and MSV Duisburg were relegated from the German football club, under coaches Friedhelm Wenzlaff and Kuno Klötzer (from November 30, 1981) alongside Bernard Dietz, Manfred Dubski , Thomas Kempe and Herbert Büssers , Frank Saborowski , Uwe Helmes and Rudolf Seliger completed 29 league games. Heinze played his last Bundesliga game on May 29, 1982 in a 2-1 home win against Fortuna Düsseldorf. He stayed in the second division with Duisburg for another year and ended his career after 30 appearances in the second division.

The classic line goalkeeper with extreme jumping ability, excellent reaction and agility and brilliant with spectacular flight inserts, played in top German football from 1967 to 1983. 16 years of competitive football in the Bundesliga and European club football testify to a professional training ethic and an attitude that promotes performance; This long career would not have been possible with his talent alone.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 191.
• BF Hoffmann: The great lexicon of Bundesliga goalkeepers. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-89602-526-0 . Pp. 137-139.
• Hardy Greens: With the ring on your chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8 .
• MSV Duisburg (Ed.): MSV Duisburg. The Chronicle. Mercator Publishing House. Duisburg 2005. ISBN 3-87463-391-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 291
2. ↑ Gerhard Heinze . In: VfB Stuttgart (ed.): Tip top - magazine for sports fans of VfB Stuttgart . Belser Verlag, November 1969, p. 12 .
3. ^ BF Hoffmann: The large lexicon of Bundesliga goalkeepers. P. 137
4. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1967/68. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 978-3-89784-087-4 . P. 171
5. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup, Volume 1, 1955 to 1974. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2007. ISBN 978-3897842-526 . P. 421
6. ^ MSV Duisburg (ed.): MSV Duisburg. The Chronicle. P. 118