Heinz Strehl

Heinz Strehl (born July 20, 1938 in Kalchreuth ; † August 11, 1986 there ) was a German football player .

As a striker he played for 1. FC Nürnberg in the 1960s and became German soccer champions with this club in 1961 and 1968 . In the Bundesliga , he was active in 174 games and scored 76 goals, which he is still top scorer in the Bundesliga francs.

Strehl wore the jersey of the German national soccer team four times between 1962 and 1965 and took part with the team in the 1962 soccer world championship in Chile , where he was not used.

Under the leadership of Max Morlock , he developed into one of the best center strikers who ever played for 1. FC Nürnberg. He was considered technically adept, eager to run and with a goal instinct.

Athletic career

Grave of Heinz Strehl in Kalchreuth

Oberliga Süd

The striker, who was born in Kalchreuth, not far from Nuremberg, played at the club in the Oberliga Süd from 1958 when he dared to jump into the league from TSV Gleißhammer . After his debut year 1958/59 he was consistently in the regular formation and by the end of the Oberliga era 1962/63 he had 117 games and 81 goals for the German record champions at the time. In his second season in 1959/60 he was top scorer in the south with 30 goals in 28 games. After winning the southern title, 1. FC Nürnberg also brought the German championship in 1961 to Noris. In the south, Heinz Strehl was successful with 22 goals, Rudolf Brunnenmeier and Stein had each scored 23 goals. In the final on June 24, 1961 in Hanover against Borussia Dortmund , which was considered the favorite, he marked the final score in the 67th minute with a 3-0 win.

In 1962, thanks also to Strehl, the title was successfully defended in the south, and on August 29, the DFB Cup victory - again in Hanover - was celebrated with a 2-1 win against Fortuna Düsseldorf . Since in the 1961/62 series there were also games to be played in the European Champion Clubs' Cup , Heinz Strehl and his comrades were constantly busy as contract players in the major league. In the European Cup, Nuremberg made it to the quarter-finals and Strehl was one of the top five goalscorer with 7 goals.

Bundesliga

After the transition to the Bundesliga from the 1963/64 season, it was up against equal competitors on every match day. In the fifth year of the Bundesliga, 1967/68, the club managed to win the championship title sensationally with Strehl and the coach Max Merkel, who is known as the master maker . Heinz Strehl made a significant contribution to this with his 18 goals. A special triumph was the 7-3 home win on matchday 16 against FC Bayern Munich (1-0 by Strehl). Autumn champions became this team with the result of 11 wins, 5 draws and only one defeat in 17 games with 27: 7 points.

• see also: Germany at the 1962 World Cup in Chile

literature

• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .
• Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
• Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= AGON Sportverlag statistics. Volume 20). AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .

Web links

• Detailed page with photos at 1. FC Nürnberg