Hans-Dieter Seelmann

Autograph from the late 1970s

Hans-Dieter Seelmann (born September 18, 1952 ) is a former German soccer player who was mostly used in defense.

career

Hans-Dieter Seelmann's talent led him to the DFB's A-Juniors selection as early as the 1970/71 season. On November 25, 1970, he made his debut at the international match of the DFB youth in Lübeck against Sweden on the side of goalkeeper Rudi Kargus , Manfred Kaltz and Ronald Worm . Seelmann directed the German defensive. In 1971, the Munich defensive hope was used in eight other youth international games, including the UEFA tournament in May in Czechoslovakia.

For the 1971/72 season, Seelmann made the leap from the TSV 1860 Munich junior team to the professional squad. In his first year as a professional in the old, second-class Regionalliga Süd , he played 32 games (out of a possible 36) and scored a goal in the home game against KSV Hessen Kassel , which ended 1: 1. In the second half of his first senior year, DFB coach Jupp Derwall appointed him three times to the German amateur soccer team in February, March and April 1972 . He also came to Germany on March 29, 1972 for a job in the German national B soccer team . But it was not enough to be included in the squad for the 1972 Olympic tournament in Munich. 1860 occupied Seelmann in the last three rounds of the old Regional - 1972-1974 - respectively ranked third and missed so against Kickers Offenbach , Bayern Hof , SV Darmstadt 98 , Karlsruher SC , FC Augsburg and 1. FC Nuremberg a place in the Bundesliga promotion round.

Seelmann remained loyal to the lions for a total of five seasons until the end of the 1975/76 season. But when the targeted promotion to the Bundesliga was repeatedly missed and the club was forced to take rigorous austerity measures due to the increasing debt, Seelmann went to the amateur league team Wormatia Worms . In total, Seelmann, who recently rose to team captaincy, played 131 point games in a white and blue jersey - from 1974 to 1976 in the 2nd Bundesliga : 43 games with one goal - and scored four goals.

In the first season without Seelmann (1976/77), of all things, the Munich Lions managed to get promoted to the first division. Seelmann was present in the all-important 2-0 win of his former team in the Waldstadion in Frankfurt against Arminia Bielefeld . Actually, he should have been happy about the rise of his favorite club, especially since he had even bet 500 German marks on their victory. But he was disappointed to find in the circle of his former comrades that it was always his dream to go up with the lions, but that he no longer belongs to them and that his heart is bleeding because of it.

Perhaps it was a little consolation for him that his new club Wormatia Worms also managed a promotion just a few days later: Worms prevailed in the promotion round in the south-west against Borussia Neunkirchen and TuS Neuendorf and rose to the second Bundesliga south that his former club had just left for the Bundesliga.

But because the Munich team relegated again after one season and Wormatia Worms held the class, Seelmann faced his old comrades for the first time on the field in the 1978/79 season. When Munich was promoted to the Bundesliga again at the end of the season in 1860, after 60 games and three goals from 1977 to 1979 in the 2nd Bundesliga for Worms, Seelmann moved back to the sixties, but never made a single appearance and left the club before the 1980 season / 81 in the direction of SpVgg Fürth . For the shamrocks he completed a total of 87 games in three seasons (in which he scored two goals) before ending his active career at the end of the 1982/83 season.

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• Profile of Hans-Dieter Seelmann at www.fussballdaten.de
• The Lions - 1860 Munich (Dasbach Verlag, Taunusstein 1977), p. 23.