Heinz Meiners

Heinz Meiners (born April 21, 1944 ) is a former German soccer player .

career

The defender was active for Eintracht Gelsenkirchen in the then second-rate Regionalliga West from 1967 to 1973 and made a total of 134 games (eight goals). In 1973 he moved to Saarland to FC 08 Homburg in the Regionalliga Süd. The last year of the old system of the Bundesliga substructure by the Regionalliga, 1973/74 , finished Meiners with the FCH in third place behind the two former Bundesliga clubs Borussia Neunkirchen and 1. FC Saarbrücken . With two points behind Saarbrücken, they narrowly missed the promotion games to the Bundesliga, but qualified sovereignly for the newly created 2nd Bundesliga South from 1974. In the premier season of the second Bundesliga, Heinz Meiners played 29 games and finished 14th with the team around Manfred Lenz , Albert Müller and goal scorer Otmar Ludwig , tied with SpVgg Fürth and SV Röchling Völklingen . A better placement nullified the negative 6:32 points balance in the away games.

In the summer of 1975, his former Gelsenkirchen coach Friedel Elting brought him to 1. FC Bocholt in the Association League Niederrhein , where Meiners also met his former teammates Jan Roeloffzen and Erwin Maslowski . After he was still on the bench at the beginning of the season, Heinz Meiners was nominated for the first time for the starting XI on matchday 6 against BV Altenessen 06 and was henceforth an integral part of the Bocholt defense. With the Schwatten vom Hünting he became Niederrhein Champion in the 1975/76 season , leaving the favored competitors Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , Olympia Bocholt and VfR Neuss clearly behind. In the following round of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, however, the club narrowly failed and only because of the goal difference at Bonner SC and VfL Wolfsburg . Heinz Meiners became a tragic unlucky fellow when he missed a penalty shortly before the end of the game against Bonner SC (1: 1).

literature

• Achim Nöllenheidt (ed.): Fohlensturm am Katzenbusch. The history of the Regionalliga West 1963–1974. Volume 2, Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-206-X .

Web links

• Heinz Meiners in the database of weltfussball.de
• Former players of SG Eintracht Gelsenkirchen