Helmut Littek

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Helmut Littek
Personnel
birthday April 15, 1944
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1964 BV Altenessen
1964-1973 Red and white food 210 (19)
1973– BV Altenessen
1 Only league games are given.

Helmut Littek (born April 15, 1944 ) is a former German soccer player . From 1964 to 1973, the attacker played a total of 197 league games at Rot-Weiss Essen ( Football Regionalliga West , promotion rounds, Bundesliga ) and scored 62 goals.

Career

At the age of 20, Littek moved from BV Altenessen from the Niederrhein Association to Rot-Weiss Essen . The trained miner made his debut on the first round match day, August 9, 1964, in the 1: 3 away defeat at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the then second-class Regionalliga West. The young center forward had to deal in particular with Helmut Traska , Lothar Kobluhn and Hans Siemensmeyer on the side of the Kleeblattelf from the Niederrhein Stadium . Under coach Fred Harthaus , the team from Bergeborbeck finished seventh in the west and the fast and technically good new striker had scored nine goals in 24 missions alongside Werner Kik , Herbert Weinberg and Manfred Fallisch .

With the new coach Fritz Pliska , he was promoted to the Bundesliga in the 1965/66 season ; Littek had scored eight goals in 19 league games alongside new strike partner Willi Lippens . In the championship round, the runner-up was celebrated behind Fortuna Düsseldorf . In the following round of promotion, Littek and teammates relegated FC St. Pauli , 1. FC Saarbrücken and 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 to their places and were promoted. The first Bundesliga season of Littek, 1966/67, could not be designed successfully, at the end of the season the 18th and thus last place in the table was on the books and there was immediate relegation. Littek was operated on for the first time on the meniscus and was able to score two goals in only ten Bundesliga games.

In the following two regional rounds , 1967/68 and 1968/69 , Littek and colleagues came to the runner-up and thus moved into the respective promotion rounds. In the coaching year of Erich Ribbeck , 1967/68, Lippens (25) and Littek (14) led the internal goalscorer list of the eleven from Hafenstraße with thirteen goals ahead of Günter Pröpper . In the promotion round, Littek was on the field in all eight games and scored twice in the opposing goal. With the 2-0 home win on June 12, 1968, Hertha BSC decided the duel for promotion against Essen in front of 85,000 spectators. The RWE attack tips Weinberg, Littek and Lippens could not prevail against the Hertha defensive around Volkmar Groß , Lothar Groß , Uwe Witt , Tasso Wild and Hans-Dieter Kluge on that day. In 1969, the Rot-Weissen started with a 4-2 home win against TuS Neuendorf under coach Willi Vordenbäum in the promotion round. Littek distinguished himself as a three-time goalscorer. With 14: 2 points Essen rose confidently into the Bundesliga.

Two years in the Bundesliga followed for Littek with Essen. In the first year, 1969/70, he came under coach Herbert Burdenski on 24 Bundesliga appearances and scored five goals on the side of Erich Beer , Diethelm Ferner and Egbert-Jan ter Mors when reaching twelfth place. In the second season 1970/71 Essen was 18th and was relegated back to the regional league. In terms of sport, two successful rounds in the second division of the Regionalliga West followed. In the year of the European Football Championship and the 1972 Olympic Games, Wuppertaler SV and Essen scored 111:23 and 113:37 respectively to the top of the table. The WSV was promoted to the Bundesliga and RWE failed due to the poor goal difference - 29: 7/22: 6 - at Südmeister Kickers Offenbach . Under coach Horst Witzler , the team from the Georg-Melches-Stadion won the championship in the west in the 1972/73 season with a five-point lead over the vice SC Fortuna Köln and also prevailed with 14: 2 points in the promotion round and thus returned back to the Bundesliga again. Due to persistent knee problems, Littek was only able to play the two games against Wattenscheid 09 and Lüner SV in the championship round, where he acted as a center forward and was supported on the wings by Horst Gecks and once each by Lippens and Harry de Vlugt . The attacker played his last competitive game for RW Essen in the promotion round on June 20, 1973 in a 3-1 home win against SV Röchling Völklingen. He came on in the 64th minute for Dieter Bast . In the summer of 1973 he ended his professional playing career and returned to his hometown club BV Altenessen.

successes

  • Champion in the West Regional Football League: 1972/73
  • Three promotions to the Bundesliga: 1966, 1969, 1973
  • Four runners-up in the Regionalliga West: 1966, 1968, 1969, 1972

literature

  • Georg Schrepper, Uwe Wick: “… RWE again and again!” The story of Rot-Weiss-Essen. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-467-7 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Littek, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1944