Hans-Jürgen Hellfritz

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Hans-Jürgen Hellfritz (born September 25, 1947 in Munster (Örtze) ) is a former German soccer player who, as an active member of the Hamburger SV and Eintracht Braunschweig clubs, played 152 league games in the Bundesliga between 1966 and 1976 , scoring seven goals has achieved.

career

The A youth player from SV Munster was first appointed to the German national youth football team by the DFB in April 1966 in the 1965/66 round . With the youth selection he took part in the UEFA youth tournament in Yugoslavia in May 1966 and was used in the group matches against Scotland and Spain alongside teammates Norbert Nigbur , Horst Köppel , Heinz Flohe , Rainer Budde and Karl-Heinz Handschuh . For the round 1966/67 he became a licensed player with the Bundesliga club Hamburger SV.

Elmar May from Borussia Neunkirchen and Hans Schulz from Werder Bremen joined the HSV team in 1966 . Under the sporting direction of trainer Josef Schneider and the technical director Georg Knöpfle , the young footballer made his debut in the Bundesliga on January 28, 1967 in the 2: 4 away defeat at Borussia Mönchengladbach as a half-forward. Bernd Dörfel stormed on the right wing and Uwe Seeler in the attack center. In the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1967/68 , the talent was used in the quarter-finals in February and March 1968 in the return match against Olympique Lyon . He was also part of the successful HSV team in the semi-finals against Cardiff City on April 24 and May 1, 1968. In Ninian Park in Cardiff, Franz-Josef Hönig decided the game for HSV with a goal in the 90th minute of the game. At the end of the season 1967/68 he was nominated by the DFB on June 3, 1968 for the international match of the junior national team U 23 in Kassel against England. In the 0-1 defeat of the DFB talents, Hellfritz formed the German attack on half right with Gustav Jung , Karl-Heinz Handschuh , Rainer Budde and Horst Köppel . It was only in his fourth season, 1969/70, that he won a regular place at HSV. He came to 28 appearances in this round and scored four goals. Together with Klaus Zaczyk , Hans Schulz and Franz-Josef Hönig , he usually formed the midfield of the HSV team now officially trained by Georg Knöpfle. On September 24, 1969 he came to his second assignment in the U23 team of the DFB. In Bucharest the German team lost with 1: 2 goals against Romania and the man from HSV formed the runner- up with Horst Blankenburg and Bernd Hölzenbein . In the 1971/72 round, Ole Björnmose and Manfred Kaltz under coach Klaus-Dieter Ochs pushed two more players into the regular formation, so that Hellfritz was only used in 14 league games. In addition to the league games, the farewell game of club idol Uwe Seeler on May 1, 1972 in front of 61,000 spectators against an international selection - Franz Beckenbauer , Ferenc Bene , Georg Best , Geoff Hurst , Eusébio , Kalman Meszöly , Gerd Müller - became one of the highlights of his missions as he occupied the headquarters of the Hamburg defense together with Willi Schulz . On 27./28. May he took part with HSV in a tournament in Spain against the teams of Palmeiras Sao Paulo and Real Zaragoza. The man from Munster played his last Bundesliga game for Hamburg on June 28, 1972 in a 2-2 home draw against 1. FC Köln. For the round 1972/73 he joined Eintracht Braunschweig.

In coach Otto Knefler's team , he counted with 33 missions and one hit alongside the players Bernd Franke , Wolfgang Grzyb , Franz Merkhoffer and Bernd Gersdorff , these four had played all 34 rounds, to the core of the regular line-up. On the last match day, June 9, 1973, Eintracht's 2-1 home defeat against Fortuna Düsseldorf brought about the relegation of Braunschweig due to the surprising 4-0 away win of Hannover 96 at Wuppertaler SV. In the Regional Football League North , Hellfritz and colleagues - he was active in 24 games with two goals - but after 36 competitive games with 125:23 goals and 63: 9 points - 36: 0 home points - the championship and thus moved into the last time Played promotion round to the Bundesliga. There Braunschweig prevailed against their main competitor 1. FC Nürnberg with the same number of points with the better goal difference and immediately returned to the Bundesliga. The start had failed with 0: 4 points and Hellfritz had completed seven games in the promotion round.

In the Bundesliga, Branko Zebec took over as coach from the 1974/75 round and led the BL returnees to ninth place with the introduction of space coverage, absolute discipline and excellent physical condition. The midfield was mostly occupied by Aleksandar Ristic , Karl-Heinz Handschuh , Bernd Gersdorff and Dietmar Erler . Hellfritz shared the options with the talent Wolfgang Dremmler if one of the regular players failed and played eleven other Bundesliga games. In the 1975/76 season Braunschweig came in fifth and Hellfritz in ten missions. With the game on June 12, 1976 at Eintracht Frankfurt, he ended his career in the Bundesliga. He joined the 1976/77 round of the Lüneburger SK , which played its round games in the Lower Saxony Association League.

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  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Hellfritz - All gates. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hellfritz, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster (Örtze)