Heinz Simmet

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Heinz Simmet (born November 22, 1944 in Göttelborn ) is a former German soccer player . The player initially used in the attack developed in the further course of his long career to a defensive man in midfield and completed a total of the clubs Borussia Neunkirchen (29-13), Rot-Weiss Essen (33-5) and 1. FC Köln ( 357-37) 419 league games in the Bundesliga and scored 55 goals. With Cologne Simmet won in the season 1977/78 , the Double and 1968 and 1977 nor the German Cup .

career

In Saarland, until 1966

Simmet began playing football in 1955 as a youth at SV Germania 1913 Göttelborn. There he was vice-Saarlandmeister with the A-youth in 1961. In his first season after the youth, 1962/63, he played with SV 05 Holz in the 2nd amateur league Saarland East and accepted the contract offer from Borussia Neunkirchen for the 1963/64 round and moved to the Ellenfeldstadion together with his club mate Volker Münz . The young attacker made his debut on August 11, 1963 in a 5-1 away win against BSC Oppau in the second -rate regional soccer league Southwest . Simmet stormed in the center forward position and scored a goal. At the end of the round he celebrated the championship with 27 regional league appearances and ten goals with Borussia in 1963/64 . The team of coach Horst Buhtz had led the table in the southwest with 106:32 goals and 60:16 points and was thus moved into the first Bundesliga promotion round. Elmar May and Günter Kuntz each contributed 25 goals to this success. In the promotion round, Neunkirchen surprisingly prevailed against the favorites FC Bayern Munich with the talents Sepp Maier and Franz Beckenbauer ; Simmet was only used in one game (1 goal).

In the Bundesliga round 1964/65 Simmet came for the first time on November 21, 1964 in a 0-1 away defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt. Due to a broken fibula he was only able to continue his Bundesliga career from March 20, 1965. In the remaining seven games he scored seven goals and Borussia finished in 10th place. Neunkirchen closed the round on matchday 30, May 15, 1965, with a 3-1 home win against VfB Stuttgart. Simmet played on half right in the World Cup system at the time and stood out as a two-time goalscorer. In the second year of the Bundesliga, the black and whites from Saarland could not repeat the performance of the debut round and were relegated to the regional league as 17th. Simmet had delivered a good round personally, six goals in 21 appearances, but the defensive stability of the previous year could not match the team of coach Buhtz.

In two years in the Bundesliga, Simmet had scored 13 goals in 29 appearances for Borussia. He accepted the offer of the Bundesliga promoted Rot-Weiss Essen and moved to Bergeborbeck for the 1966/67 season to the team from the Georg Melches Stadium .

Essen and Cologne, 1966 to 1978

Under coach Fritz Pliska and alongside teammates like Peter Dietrich , Klaus Fetting , Werner Kik , Willi Koslowski , Willi Lippens and Adolf Steinig , Simmet completed 33 league games with the Red-Whites and scored five goals. But it was not enough to keep the league. Essen rose with 25:43 points just like the second promoted Fortuna Düsseldorf, immediately from the Bundesliga again. FC President Franz Kremer convinced the Saarlander to sign with 1. FC Köln, and Simmet then played for FC in the Bundesliga in eleven rounds of the season, from 1967/68 to 1977/78.

Under coach Willy Multhaup , Simmet made his debut on August 19, 1967 in a 3-0 away defeat at Hannover 96 at FC in the Bundesliga. The newcomer from Essen had been given the security by the strong Hans Siemensmeyer . At the end of the round he had accumulated in 31 league games and had scored three goals when reaching 4th rank. In the first half of the season, his performance was honored by the DFB on November 22, 1967 when he was appointed to the U23 national team . In Saarbrücken, in his homeland, Germany's U23 played against Romania, the game ended 1: 1. With Rudolf Assauer and Klaus Fichtel the man from Göttelborn formed the German runner row and was also the goal scorer of the DFB team. The extremely strong, combative endurance runner and extremely important driver and ball tugger experienced the sporting climax in the DFB Cup in his first year in Cologne. After successes against FC Homburg (4: 1), Eintracht Frankfurt (1: 1 n.V .; 1: 0 re.), Eintracht Braunschweig (1: 1 n. V .; 2: 1 re.) And a clear Simmet and FC moved into the final on June 9, 1968 in the Südweststadion in Ludwigshafen against the surprise team VfL Bochum, 3-0 at home in the semi-final against Borussia Dortmund . In front of 58,000 spectators, Cologne prevailed with the midfield of Simmet, Heinz Flohe and Wolfgang Overath after goals from Carl-Heinz Rühl (2), Heinz Hornig (1) and Johannes Löhr (1) with 4: 1 and caught up with the trophy Cologne.

In his first round in Cologne, Simmet also experienced the atmosphere in European club football in the third competition by participating in the trade fair trophy . In the first round Slavia Prague was eliminated (2: 0, 2: 2), in the second round Cologne failed in November 1967 to Glasgow Rangers (0: 3, 3: 1 n.V.). Simmet had been in action in all four games. The defensive midfielder had a very good season in 1972/73 under coach Rudi Schlott . In the Bundesliga, FC was runner-up and Simmet had played all 34 rounds and scored eight goals. In addition, the billy goats moved into the cup final again, where they fought a legendary final with Borussia Mönchengladbach on June 23, 1973 in Düsseldorf . Günter Netzer scored in extra time in the 93rd minute to make it 2-1 for Gladbach.

When in 1968/69 there was little convergence in the Bundesliga under Multhaup's successor Hans Merkle (13th place), Simmet made it to the semi-finals with Cologne in the European Cup Winners' Cup . But there was in April 1969 against FC Barcelona with Josep Fusté and Carles Rexach (2: 2, 1: 4). Also in the 1970/71 trade fair cup , Simmet and 1.FC Köln drew after successes against Racing Paris Sedan (5: 1, 0: 1), Fiorentina (2: 1, 1: 0), Spartak Trnava (1: 0, 3 : 0) and in the quarter-finals against Arsenal (1: 2, 1: 0) in the semi-finals in April 1971 against Juventus Turin. But the men around Pietro Anastasi , Franco Causio , Fabio Capello , Helmut Haller and Roberto Bettega prevailed 2-0 in Turin after a first leg draw of 1-1 in Cologne and prevented FC from making it into the final.

Simmet, also simply referred to as the “water carrier” and “chain dog” of Cologne's midfield star Wolfgang Overath , was a regular for 1. FC Köln throughout his years. Between 1970 and 1977 he was used in 258 Bundesliga games in a row - a Bundesliga record for outfield players. Simmet stayed with 1. FC Köln until the end of his career in 1978. This was also his most successful year, winning the German championship and winning the DFB Cup under coach Hennes Weisweiler , although he only made 23 appearances due to injuries.

Heinz Simmet was considered an uncompromising fighter who was five times in the DFB Cup final with Cologne and won it twice. In total, he played 419 times in the 1st Bundesliga and scored 55 goals. After his professional career, he played for years in the amateur area at SC Blau-Weiß 06 Köln (1978/79), at SpVg Frechen 20 (1979-1983), where he chased the ball with the Frechen idol Karl Lambertin and hung from 1983 to 1986 still three rounds as a player-coach at BSG Macha Heppendorf.

Honors / awards

In September 2013 the community of Göttelborn opened a Heinz-Simmet-Weg. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Bundesliga, Simmet was elected to a “Saarland Anniversary Elf” in 2013. All Saarlanders who had played in the Bundesliga since 1963 were up for a vote, which was organized by Ellenfeld eV and the Saarpark Center .

Trivia

Simmet was trained as a master painter by his brother. He runs a painting company in Cologne with 25 employees.

societies

statistics

  • DFB Cup
    55 games; 6 goals 1. FC Cologne

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 476.
  • Dirk Innschuld, Frederic Latz: With the billy goat on his chest. All players, all coaches, all officials of 1. FC Köln . Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7307-0047-1 . Pp. 338-340.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 678
  2. ↑ https://www.sv-goettelborn.de/heinz-simmet/ (accessed on July 12, 2019)
  3. ↑ Election of the Saarland jubilee team , accessed on July 6, 2018
  4. ↑ https://www.sv-goettelborn.de/heinz-simmet/
  5. ↑ http://a.rhein-zeitung.de/on/97/04/09/sport/news/millio.html

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personal data
SURNAME Simmet, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Gottelborn