Hans-Jörg Criens

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Hans-Jörg Criens
Personnel
birthday December 18, 1960
place of birth Neuss ,  Germany
date of death December 26, 2019
Place of death Mönchengladbach ,  Germany
size 189 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1978 VfR Neuss
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1981 VfR Neuss
1981-1993 Borussia Monchengladbach 290 (92)
1993-1995 1. FC Nuremberg 24 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987 Germany Olympia 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Hans-Jörg Criens (born December 18, 1960 in Neuss ; † December 26, 2019 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German football player .

Career as a player

Criens played for VfR Neuss until 1981 . Between 1981 and 1993 he was a striker with Borussia Mönchengladbach , including many years as team captain . His former trainer Wolf Werner called him “a gifted talent”. During the 1993/94 season , Criens moved to 1. FC Nürnberg , with whom he was relegated from the Bundesliga in 1994 .

He played a total of 303 games in the Bundesliga and scored 94 goals, 92 of them for Borussia Mönchengladbach. This made him the third most successful goalscorer for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga, behind Jupp Heynckes and Herbert Luly .

Third place with Borussia in the 1983/84 season was the head specialist's greatest success. He was also in 1984 (defeat after penalty shootout against FC Bayern Munich ) and 1992 ( team captain ; defeat after penalty shootout against Hannover 96 ) with Borussia in the final of the DFB Cup . Internationally, he reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup with Borussia in the 1986/87 season (0-0, 2-0 against Dundee United ) and on March 25, 1987 in Tel Aviv in a 2-1 win over the B- Selection of Israel an international match for the Olympic team of the DFB .

The then 23-year-old young striker Hans-Jörg Criens was substituted on in the 1984 DFB Cup semi-final against Werder Bremen with a score of 3: 3 by coach Jupp Heynckes after a thrilling game shortly before the end of regular time in the 82nd minute. Within a few minutes the Bremer increased to 3: 4 through Uwe Reinders , and Borussia equalized through Hans-Jörg Criens in stoppage time (90 + 5th minutes) to 4: 4 after Wilfried Hannes scored for Borussia in the 88th minute was not recognized. When it came to extra time , Hans-Jörg Criens scored the 5: 4 for Borussia in the 107th minute after both teams had several chances to score and thus enabled VfL to make it to the DFB Cup final. After that, Criens was given the name "the Joker " by TV reporter Heribert Faßbender . Criens first drew attention to himself as an efficient substitute before he established himself as a regular at Borussia Mönchengladbach and finally became team captain. He scored 14 of his 92 goals for the "foal elf" after being substituted on.

After his contract with 1. FC Nürnberg in 1995, Criens was active as an active footballer in the lower divisions before he finally ended his career in the summer of 2002.

After the active time

After his playing days, Criens occasionally played in the traditional Weisweiler -Elf team from Borussia Mönchengladbach. An Achilles tendon tear suffered in 2009 put him out of action in the meantime.

Criens made his living temporarily as a sales representative in the prefabricated house industry and on a daily basis as a sales representative. From 1996 to 2012 he coached various lower-class teams on the Lower Rhine , such as SC Waldniel , Schwarz-Weiß Elmpt and the women's team from TuRa Brüggen . He later worked as a taxi driver for dialysis patients and people with disabilities.

From 2001 to 2007 Criens was married to the singer Iris Remmertz from the group Wind . Then he was in a relationship with the travel agent Simone Reiners.

He died of a heart attack on Christmas Day 2019 in Mönchengladbach .

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Meine Traumelf - Wolf Werner In: Meine-traumelf.de, April 13, 2018. Accessed December 27, 2019.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Hans-Jörg Criens - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 24, 2014. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Peter Ahrens: The Joker . In: Spiegel Online , December 27, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Karsten Kellermann: Hans-Jörg Criens is Borussia's most famous 14th In: Rheinische Post , January 1st, 2014. Accessed on December 27th, 2019.
  5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Farewell to the Joker. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Borussia mourns Hans-Jörg Criens. Announcement on the Borussia Mönchengladbach website, December 27, 2019. Accessed December 27, 2019.
  7. ^ A b Michael Ryberg: Gladbacher Hans-Jörg Criens was the first football joker. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 14, 2015. Accessed August 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ a b Johannes Ehrmann: How are you actually ...? Hans-Jörg Criens (50) In: Tagesspiegel , March 10, 2011. Accessed December 27, 2019.
  9. ↑ Iris Remmertz (singer in the music group 'Wind'), partner. Photo 180579370 at gettyimages.de . Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  10. ↑ Borussia mourns Hans-Jörg Criens. Announcement on the Borussia Mönchengladbach homepage, December 27, 2019. Accessed December 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Criens, Hans-Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2019
Place of death Mönchengladbach