Heinz Müller (soccer player, 1943)

Heinz Müller
Personnel
birthday	April 24, 1943
place of birth	Nuremberg ,  Germany
size	174 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1966	TV 1860 Schweinau
1966-1972	1. FC Nuremberg	153 (15)
1 Only league games are given.

Heinz Müller (born April 24, 1943 in Nuremberg ) is a former German soccer player . The midfielder played 72 league games at 1. FC Nürnberg from 1966 to 1969 in the Bundesliga and scored six goals. He was a regular player in the championship team for the 1967/68 season .

Career

In 1966, at the age of 23, Müller moved from the lower class A-Class from TV 1860 Schweinau to 1. FC Nürnberg in the Bundesliga. When Jenö Vincze replaced his compatriot Jenö Csaknady as coach from November 7, 1966 at the end of the first half of 1966/67 at the “Club” , he immediately accepted Heinz Müller into the Bundesliga squad and the man from 1860 Schweinau made his debut on November 12, 1966 in a 0-1 home defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga. Even after the renewed change of coach from Vincze to Max Merkel on January 1, 1967, Müller belonged to the narrow circle of regular players. From November 12, 1966 to June 3, 1967, the strong-willed and physically strong team player made 15 Bundesliga appearances and scored three goals when he reached 10th place in the table. In contrast, newcomer Jovan Miladinović from Partizan Belgrade was unable to prevail against the Franks. With August Starek (Rapid Vienna) and Zvezdan Čebinac (PSV Eindhoven), Merkel brought two newcomers to his squad for the 1967/68 season, from which he removed Stefan Reisch and Tasso Wild in return . Nuremberg started the round on August 19, 1967 with a 2-0 home win against Karlsruher SC; Heinz Müller ran into half-left, Cebinac and Georg Volkert formed the wing tongs, and Heinz Strehl and Franz Brungs ran into the attack center . From the beginning, Merkel had a suitable permanent line-up, Starek was the omnipresent number 12. Helmut Hilpert (4 games), Hubert Schöll (3 games) and substitute goalkeeper Gyula Tóth (1 game) only completed the squad selectively. After the 17th matchday, December 9, 1967, Nuremberg led the table with 27: 7 points; Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1860 Munich, MSV Duisburg and FC Bayern Munich followed tied with 20:14 points. When the Merkel troops kept their pursuers Mönchengladbach at a distance in the Bökelbergstadion on February 10, 1968 with a 1-1 draw , Heinz Müller was described as the "key to Nuremberg points". The Bundesliga chronicle also noted that “Nuremberg's greatest plus was Heinz Müller's performance, which completely paralyzed Günter Netzer .” With a 2-0 away win at Bayern Munich on May 18, 1968, Nuremberg won the championship. The club attack ran as usual in the line-up with Cebinac, Strehl, Brungs, Müller and Volkert and did not let experts like Sepp Maier , Franz Beckenbauer , Peter Kupferschmidt , Georg Schwarzenbeck and Werner Olk in the Bayern defensive win prevent the championship. The "club" won the Bundesliga championship in 1968 and Heinz Müller, the exemplary disciplined team player, had scored two goals in 29 league appearances.

After winning the championship, Müller and his teammates experienced the deepest possible fall as defending champions in 1968/69 : Nuremberg was relegated to the second -rate regional soccer league south as 17th in the table . Müller had also played in this round with 28 league appearances (1 goal). It was no longer with a small regular line-up as in the previous year's championship year, now there were 18 players, a colorful mix of top dogs and a large number of newcomers. Merkel had let go of three players from the championship team with Brungs, Ferschl and Starek and actually signed 13 new players. It is a fact that with Erich Beer and Dieter Nüssing there were two highly talented players, with Amand Theis a future Bundesliga regular and with Klaus Zaczyk , Jürgen Rynio , Hans Küppers and Johnny Hansen players with an undisputed Bundesliga format - sometimes even more - came to the defending champion . But the entire staff rogue messed up the hierarchy of the team, brought unrest to the champions even before the start of the round, and since the start with two defeats against Aachen (1: 4) and Offenbach (1: 2) went wrong, Ajax Amsterdam In the European Cup, especially with the 0: 4 clap in Amsterdam on October 2, when the mood hit rock bottom, things got out of hand. The change of coach from Merkel to Robert Körner and finally to Kuno Klötzer didn't help either. The defending champion was relegated.

Müller had scored 72 Bundesliga games and nine goals by then. Then he ran for Nuremberg in the second -rate regional soccer league south . In the second regional round, 1970/71 , he won the championship with Nuremberg, but failed in the Bundesliga promotion round. Müller played a total of 81 league games and scored nine goals in the Regionalliga from 1969 to 1972 for the "Club". For the 1972/73 season he joined the Bayernliga promoted ASV Herzogenaurach together with Fritz Popp . In the second year, 1973/74 , he became champion with the ASV.

literature

• Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 349.
• Christoph Bausenwein, Bernd Siegler, Harald Kaiser: The legend of the club. The history of 1. FC Nürnberg. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-89533-907-3 .
• Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1967/68. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2006. ISBN 3-89784-087-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 501
2. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1967/68. P. 54
3. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1967/68. P. 116
4. ^ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin, Maik Großmann: Bundesliga Chronicle 1967/68. P. 138

Web links

• Heinz Müller in the database of weltfussball.de
• Heinz Müller in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Performance data at glubberer.de