Heinz Flea

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Heinz Flea
Heinz Flohe.jpeg
Personnel
birthday January 28, 1948
place of birth Euskirchen ,  Germany
date of death June 15, 2013
Place of death Vettweiß ,  Germany
size 175 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1952-1966 TSV Euskirchen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1979 1. FC Cologne 329 (77)
1979-1980 TSV 1860 Munich 14 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1965-1966 DFB junior selection 3 0(1)
1967-1973 Germany U-23 4 0(0)
1974 Germany B 1 0(0)
1970-1988 Germany 39 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1. FC Köln (assistant coach)
1981-1991 TSC Euskirchen
TuS Olympia Ülpenich
1 Only league games are given.

Heinz Flohe , also called "Flocke" (born January 28, 1948 in Euskirchen ; † June 15, 2013 in Vettweiß ), was a German football player .

life and career

In his hometown club TSV Euskirchen the talent of the technically outstanding offensive player Heinz Flohe developed. On November 7, 1965, he made his debut in the DFB junior team , which lost 1-0 to the Yugoslav team in Belgrade . In May 1966 he took part with the DFB team in the UEFA youth tournament in Yugoslavia, in which, however, he only participated in the 1-1 draw against Scotland. His only goal for this national team was in his second international match, on April 19, 1966 in Grenchen , in a 3-2 win against hosts Switzerland. For the 1966/67 season he was signed by the first German champions of the Bundesliga era , 1. FC Köln . Cologne's new coach Willi Multhaup brought in international players alongside the young talent Flhe with goalkeeper Milutin Šoškić and winger Roger Magnusson . In his first Bundesliga season, Flea made 18 appearances and scored two goals.

On May 3, 1967, he made his debut in the U-23 national team of the DFB against Czechoslovakia in Mönchengladbach on the side of Günter Netzer , Jupp Heynckes , Horst Köppel and Herbert Wimmer . Winning the DFB Cup was the first title for the midfield technician. On June 9, 1968, the Cologne team defeated VfL Bochum 4-1 in Ludwigshafen . National coach Helmut Schön used Flohe for the first time on November 22, 1970 in the senior national team . Flhe came on in the 79th minute for Günter Netzer; Germany defeated Greece in Athens with 3-1 goals. He scored his first of eight international goals on June 30, 1971 in Copenhagen in a 3-1 victory over host Denmark with the goal of the interim 2-1 in the 83rd minute.

Between 1966 and 1979, Flohe played 343 Bundesliga games for 1. FC Köln and for 1860 Munich . With the "Billy Goats" he won in 1978 , the German football championship and in 1968 , 1977 and 1978 the German Cup .

Between 1970 and 1978 Flohe played 39 international matches for the senior national team, in which he scored eight goals, including the 1000th international goal of the German national soccer team with the 1-0 goal against Czechoslovakia on November 17, 1976. He participated in the soccer world championships 1974 and 1978 part. In 1974 he became world champion . He was used three times, against the GDR from the start, but only sat on the bench in the final . He scored two goals in his seven World Cup appearances. In 1976 he became vice European champion with the national team. Germany lost the final on penalties , where Flhe was able to convert his penalty.

On December 1, 1979, Flohe suffered a complicated fracture of the tibia and fibula due to a foul by Paul Steiner , then a player in MSV Duisburg , which meant the end of his active career. Fleas suffered from the nerve damage they suffered for a long time. Later attempts to sue Steiner for damages ultimately failed because no intent could be proven.

After his active career, Flohe worked as an assistant coach at 1. FC Köln. He also coached two football clubs in the district of Euskirchen - his home club TSC Euskirchen, which he was in charge of from 1981 to the 1990/91 season and with which he was promoted to the regional league in 1982 and the Mittelrhein association league in 1983 , as well as the TuS Olympia Ülpenich . For TSC Euskirchen he was a member of the board of directors in the field of talent scouting (most recently 2005-2007), in the 2009/10 season he was only involved as a talent scout without a board function. He also supported his son Nino in his daily work as a trainer.

Flea was operated on for the first time in 1992 and had to undergo another operation on January 7, 2004 due to persistent cardiac arrhythmias . A new heart valve was inserted into it. On May 11, 2010, Heinz Flohe collapsed after a fit of weakness, after which he was put into an artificial coma , from which he did not wake up: he remained in a vegetative state until his death . First he was in the Cologne University Clinic, then in a rehabilitation center in Düren .

Flea died on June 15, 2013, severely weakened, at the age of 65. He left behind his wife and son. The burial took place at the municipal cemetery in Euskirchen.

statistics

National team

  • 39 international matches, 8 goals
  • 1 international B match
  • 4 U-23 internationals

Bundesliga

  • 1. FC Köln: 329 games, 77 goals
  • TSV 1860 Munich: 14 games, 4 goals

Club Cup

  • 63 games, 24 goals

European Champion Clubs' Cup ; European Cup Winners' Cup ; Uefa cup

  • 56 games, 15 goals

successes

National:

International:

Honors

Others

Heinz Flohe had great sympathy for FC Schalke 04. As a youth player he actually wanted to go there, but his mother insisted that her son should play in his "home country".

Heinz Flohe had a difficult relationship with the press throughout his life. He received several invitations for the current sport studio , all of which he turned down, with the exception of an appearance with the entire team of 1. FC Köln on the occasion of the double win in 1978.

Flea was involved in youth football for many years. He was associated with Bonner SC , 1. FC Köln and his home club TSC Euskirchen and regularly watched the B and A youth games in his home district.

He was a big fan of boxing and regularly attended professional and amateur fights in Germany and neighboring countries.

Flhe was the first professional soccer player to receive a disability pension.

Awards and honors

His former club 1. FC Köln founded the "Heinz Flohe Football School" in May 2013.

In October 2014, 1. FC Köln erected a bronze statue of Heinz Flohe in front of the south stand of the Rheinenergiestadion . On the occasion of winning the football World Cup in 1974, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

documentation

In March 2015, the film Heinz Flohe - Danced with the Ball was released on DVD. In addition to illuminating the personality of the footballer, the film primarily aims to redefine the value of Flea for German football. For this reason, many former national players rate the footballer Flea. Jupp Heynckes describes Flea as an "artist". Günter Netzer emphasizes that there was no one in Germany who achieved Flea's technical skills: "He was so incredibly good, did things that none of us could do, not even the really great players in Germany." A statement made by Jupp Kapellmann , 1974 world champion and three-time Champions League winner with Bayern Munich, is supported: “Today, Heinz Flohe would break the 100 million mark or, in general, any transfer record.” For him, this is outside of any discussion. Franz Beckenbauer describes Flohe in the documentation as "one of the best technicians in the world" of his time.

At the 11mm football film festival in 2015, the production took second place in the audience award, making it the best German film in this category.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Mrazek: Heinz Flohe. The way to the German championship. Copress-Verlag, Munich 1978.
  • Frank Steffan : Heinz Flohe - Who danced with the ball - Book, Edition Steffan, Cologne, 2015.
  • Bernd Zettel: Heinz Flohe - memories of '74. Interview with Heinz Flohe on the 1974 World Cup victory. On: Sporthelden.de. Retrieved June 16, 2013.

DVD

Web links

Commons : Heinz Flohe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Heinz Flohe in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Heinz Flohe in the database of fussballdaten.de
  • Heinz Flohe in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de: Heinz Flohe national football player (1948-2013) , accessed on April 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Heinz Flohe is dead. "A fine, clean guy". Cologne city indicator . June 16, 2013.
  3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Heinz Flohe - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. August 20, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Heinz Flohe - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. August 20, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  5. ↑ Thomas Müller scores 2000th German international goal. ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) At: dfb.de. July 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ Heinz Flohe - birthday in a vegetative state. The world. January 25, 2013, accessed March 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ dpa: On the 65th: Coma patient Flea should wake up again. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Kölnische Rundschau. January 28, 2013.
  8. ↑ Achim Schmidt: ". FC.Ehrensache" charity match for Heinz fleas. Kölnische Rundschau. 17th May 2012.
  9. ↑ dpa: Flea died - coma patient fell asleep peacefully. ( Memento from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. June 16, 2013, accessed March 18, 2014.
  10. ↑ The grave of Heinz Flohe at: knerger.de.
  11. ↑ HALL OF FAME opened , fc.de, accessed on November 23, 2018
  12. ↑ Karl-Heinz Mrazek: Heinz Flohe. The way to the German championship. Biography.
  13. ^ 1. FC Köln football school Heinz Flohe. ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Homepage of 1. FC Cologne, May 8, 2013.
  14. ↑ Heinz Flohe dribbles in front of the south stand. Cologne city indicator. October 17, 2014, accessed October 20, 2014.
  15. ↑ Movie pays homage to world champion Heinz Flohe. At: DFB.de.
  16. ↑ Ralf Friedrichs: "Heinz Flohe danced with the ball." Özil, Götze or Reus would not exist without this player. Testimony from contemporary witnesses. At: Focus.de. March 25, 2015, accessed March 26, 2015.
  17. ↑ A wonderful end to the football film festival. Announcement of the winners. At: 11-mm.de. March 24, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Flea, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flake (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Euskirchen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2013
Place of death Vettweiß , Germany