Heidi Mohr

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Heidi Mohr (born May 29, 1967 in Weinheim ; † February 7, 2019 there ) was a German soccer player . From 1986 to 1996, the attacker completed 104 international matches in the national team , in which she scored 83 goals.

career

societies

Mohr grew up with four brothers and two sisters in Weinheim . She came into contact with football relatively late at the club. At first she played handball. When she was 15, her parents registered her with SV Unterflockenbach . A year later, the player who was already used as a center forward went to SV Laudenbach . National coach Gero Bisanz discovered the 18-year-old Mohr during a test match of the national team against a Baden selection. The extremely fast forward striker made her debut as a player for SV Laudenbach on May 19, 1986 in Oslo in the EMQ international match against Norway (0-0) in the national team. When the introduction of a two-track Bundesliga for the 1990/91 season was decided at the DFB Bundestag in Trier in 1989, the 1.67 meter tall scorer joined the TuS Niederkirchen , who qualified for the southern season, from the Southwest League .

The native footballer moved to the closest club in the new league. Since Claudia Obermeier from Dossenheim (she was also a member of the Niederkirchen championship team in 1993) also moved to the Palatinate, the tiresome driving problem - Mohr did not have a driver's license - was solved. In the debut year of the two-track Bundesliga, 1990/91 , with the village club from the Deidesheim community , she finished second in the southern season behind champions FSV Frankfurt , two points behind. In the semi-finals for the German championship, she and her team failed in June 1991 against TSV Siegen .

From 1991 to 1995 Mohr was the top scorer in the Bundesliga . In the first year she scored 36 goals, seven of them on March 3, 1991 in an 8-1 win against SG Praunheim . In total, she scored 136 goals in the first five years of the double-track Bundesliga.

After the striker had taken second place in the southern relay with Niederkirchen in the second year, 1991/92 , she and her comrades won the relay championship with 32: 4 points in 1992/93. Of the 52 round hits by the TuS attackers, Mohr contributed 21 goals. In the semi-finals, Niederkirchen prevailed against the northern runner-up, Grün-Weiß Brauweiler , and in the final on June 20, 1993, in the Limburgerhof forest stadium, played against the defending champion TSV Siegen. The goal scorer on duty, Heidi Mohr, scored both goals for Niederkirchen to a 2-1 success after extra time against the star troupe from the Siegerland, which consisted of national players Silke Rottenberg , Jutta Nardenbach , Britta Unsleber , Silvia Neid and Doris Fitschen . Winning the German championship in 1993 was Mohr's greatest success at club level. In August, Niederkirchen also prevailed in the Supercup with another 2-1 win against victories. In the German champions of 1993 only Christine Fütterer had three appearances in the national team in addition to the striker.

In the 1994/95 round, she made a one-year detour to TuS Ahrbach before she went hunting for goals again until 1999 at Niederkirchen. The best time of the TuS-Elf was over. The warehouse clerk switched to the reigning German champions 1. FFC Frankfurt for the 1999/00 round . At the end of her career, she was runner-up with the Frankfurt team and won the DFB Cup .

National team

Her greatest successes were winning the European Championships in 1989 and 1991 and 1995 as well as the 1995 World Cup . The European Championship final on July 2, 1989 in Osnabrück against Norway was a special event for the scorer. The German women celebrated their first European title in front of 22,000 spectators at the Bremer Brücke and Mohr scored a 4-1 victory. The tournament became a milestone for German women's football: the European Championship semi-final on June 28, 1989 in Siegen against Italy was the first women's football game to be broadcast live on German television.

She scored eight goals at European championships and ten goals at world championships. At the 1991 World Cup , she scored at least one goal in every game. The attacker's extraordinary abilities only really came into their own at the 1991 European Championship in Denmark: She scored three goals in a 4-1 win against England, against Italy in a 3-0 win, and contributed two headers in the 3-1 final win against Norway the 1: 1 equalization and in the extension with a solo effort from the center line the 2: 1. The goal was later voted “ Goal of the Month ” July by viewers of the ARD sports show .

Mohr played a total of 104 international matches in which she scored 83 goals. Until June 9, 2005 she was the record scorer in the German national team , before she was replaced on June 10, 2005 by Birgit Prinz , who scored her 84th goal at the European Championship in the game against Italy . The DFB career ended on September 29, 1996 at the Oberwerth stadium in Koblenz during the international match against Iceland under national coach Tina Theune-Meyer .

Awards

For winning the European championship in women's football in 1989 and 1991, she received - together with the German national women's football team - the silver laurel leaf . In 1999 Heidi Mohr was voted “Europe's footballer of the century”. In the same year she was ranked third in the global election for “Woman Footballer of the Century”. In 2019 she was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame . In August 2019, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the house in Weinheim where she last lived.

death

On February 7, 2019, she died at the age of 51 from complications from cancer .

literature

  • Rainer Hennies, Daniel Meuren: Women's football. The long road to recognition. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89533-639-3 , pp. 143-146.
  • Ronny Galczynski: Women's football from A – Z. 2010 Humboldt. ISBN 978-3-86910-169-9 , pp. 204-206.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The silver bay leaf. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed June 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Many advocates for Heidi-Mohr-Straße. In: www.wnoz.de. February 13, 2019, accessed July 14, 2019 .
  3. ^ Günther Grosch: Weinheim honors the late footballer of the century Heidi Mohr. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , August 9, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  4. ↑ welt.de: Century player Heidi Mohr died (February 8, 2019) , accessed on February 8, 2019
  5. ↑ dfb.de: The DFB mourns Heidi Mohr (Feb. 8, 2019) , accessed on February 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinheim
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2019
Place of death Weinheim