Hennes Weisweiler
| Hennes Weisweiler | ||
 Hennes Weisweiler, 1970
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Hans Weisweiler | |
| birthday | December 5, 1919 | |
| place of birth | Lechenich , German Empire | |
| date of death | 5th July 1983 | |
| Place of death | Aesch near Birmensdorf , Switzerland | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| VfB Lechenich | ||
| Cologne BC 01 | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1937-1952 | Cologne BC 01/1. FC Cologne | 62 (0) |
| FC Wacker Munich | ||
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1948-1952 | 1. FC Köln (player-coach) | |
| 1952-1954 | Rheydter SpV | |
| 1954-1955 | Germany (assistant coach) | |
| 1955-1958 | 1. FC Cologne | |
| 1958-1964 | SC Viktoria Cologne | |
| 1964-1975 | Borussia Monchengladbach | |
| 1975-1976 | FC Barcelona | |
| 1976-1980 | 1. FC Cologne | |
| 1980-1982 | New York Cosmos | |
| 1982-1983 | Grasshopper Club Zurich | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Hans "Hennes" Weisweiler (born December 5, 1919 in Lechenich , today in Erftstadt , † July 5, 1983 in Aesch bei Birmensdorf , Switzerland ) was a German football player and coach . Under the training direction of Sepp Herberger , he acquired his coaching license as a player for 1. FC Köln in the winter of 1947/48. From 1957 to 1970 he led courses at the German Sport University in Cologne to train soccer teachers. His textbook Der Fußball , published in 1959 . Tactics, Training, Team was regarded as a standard work for the training of football coaches of all levels and as an orientation aid for the design of the training.
Through his work with the Borussia Mönchengladbach team , which he transformed from a regional league into a top European team within a few years with an offensive game system with consistent integration of young players, Weisweiler was considered one of the best club coaches worldwide in the 1970s. He took over Borussia in 1964, led the team to the Bundesliga the following year and won the German championship three times in 1970, 1971 and 1975 with the “Fohlen-Elf”, in 1973 the DFB Cup and in 1975 the UEFA Cup .
With 1. FC Köln , whose mascot and heraldic animal, the billy billy goat Hennes , has been named after Weisweiler since 1950, he celebrated winning the DFB Cup in 1977 and the following year with the double, the greatest success in the club's history to date.
After his first international engagement with FC Barcelona in the 1975/76 season ended after only nine months of work by premature contract termination, he became champion of the North American Soccer League with New York Cosmos in 1980 . In Switzerland he celebrated another double success in June 1983 with the Grasshopper Club Zurich . Three weeks later, on July 5th, Weisweiler died of a heart attack.
Career as a football coach and teacher 1936–1947
Hennes Weisweiler grew up in Erftstadt-Lechenich near Cologne. He started playing football at VfB Lechenich (since 1974 VfB Erftstadt). After graduating from secondary school, he moved to Cologne to attend a commercial college. From 1935 the son of an authorized signatory was a member of the athletics department of the Cologne BC 01 in the Klettenberg district . At the age of 17 he made his debut in the senior team of the KBC football department at the local derby against VfL Cologne in 1899 . He made his debut in the Gauliga Mittelrhein under player-coach Jupp Bleser .
After graduating from high school, Weisweiler began an internship as a grocery wholesaler in 1938 . In the war years he was assigned to the air defense, trained in Greifswald and stationed in Quakenbrück . When the Wehrmacht transferred him to Munich , he temporarily played football for Wacker Munich . He was captured in Danzig , from where he returned to his homeland on the left bank of the Rhine in 1945. After returning to his hometown - it was the time of the big barter deals, in which Weisweiler participated with "organized" briquettes, meat packets and even delicacies like sparkling wine and cognac - he devoted himself to rebuilding VfB Lechenich, where he also worked as a coach was active. In neighboring Cologne, the 27-year-old registered at the sports university, which opened on June 1, 1947, for the first training course to become a football coach, which he completed as the best in his class.
With 1. FC Köln in the league 1948–1952
Franz Kremer , chairman of the club from February 1947, tried to rebuild the Cologne Ballspiel-Club 01 . In addition to other former players, he convinced Hennes Weisweiler to return to Cologne-Klettenberg. The man from Lechenich was a power footballer who could be used in almost any position, lived primarily from the will to fight and committed, and had been appointed to the Cologne city selection several times, as well as to the Munich city selection during the war . After the merger with SpVgg Sülz 07 to form 1. Soccer Club Cologne 01/07, the team trained by Karl Flink qualified for the promotion games in the Oberliga West in the 1947/48 season , but lost them to Rhenania Würselen . Weisweiler was seriously injured during the second leg and had to be taken to hospital. The next day it was rumored that he had died as a result of the injury. It was true that Weisweiler had suffered a fractured skull base .
1. FC Köln became champions in its group in the Rheinbezirksliga in 1948/49. In addition to the recovered Weisweiler, the young Hans Schäfer was on the pitch at 1. FC Köln. In the relegation games, the team of Weisweiler , who has meanwhile acted as player- coach, prevailed against Bayer 04 Leverkusen and rose to the Oberliga West.
In the first league season in 1949/50 , the climber finished fifth at the end of the season. The regular cast had hardly changed compared to the previous season. Weisweiler, who had meanwhile moved to the left defensive side after starting as a striker, was playing in the representative selection of the West German Football Association at that time .
In the 1951/52 season, the player-coach and his team failed to make the hoped-for entry into the final round of the German championship. In the club, the voices demanding his replacement increased. In the summer of 1952, at the end of the season, the club finally separated from Weisweiler.
Between 1949 and 1952 he played a total of 62 league games for 1. FC Cologne. About his skills as a player he later said:
“At least five players played better than me in the team. But I obviously had more assertiveness. I was more concerned about football. I developed my own ideas. "
As a coach, he established the team with the two fifth ranks in 1950 and 1952 and fourth place in 1951 in the upper third of the Oberliga West. The goal striven for by the board of directors Kremer to play an important role on a national level was achieved by 1. FC Köln when it entered the German championship finals for the first time in the year after Weisweiler's departure under his successor Helmut Schneider .
The present from the circus boss Carola Williams for the carnival celebration in 1950, a billy goat, became the mascot and later heraldic animal of 1. FC Köln. The animal was baptized with the name Hennes , based on the then trainer Hennes Weisweiler.
Rheydter Spielverein 1952–1954
For the season 1952/53 the Rheydter Spielverein hired Weisweiler as a coach. The club, called "Spö" by its supporters, hoped for an immediate resurgence with the commitment of Weisweiler. In fact, the game club with its new coach behind VfL Bochum reached the runner-up in the II. Division West 1952/53 . Rheydt secured promotion to the top division for the second time. The establishment in the league did not succeed in Weisweiler's two coaching years. The Rheydter Spielverein finished at the end of the 1953/54 season only the penultimate place and rose again from the second division.
From Herberger assistant to university lecturer 1954–1955
After the World Cup triumph in 1954 , national coach Sepp Herberger took the opportunity to establish an assistant coach position for the national team at the German Football Association (DFB) . For this purpose, he selected the best student in his first training course at the German Sport University (DSHS). Hennes Weisweiler accepted this new task with thanks. The initial enthusiasm soon gave way to the realization that Weisweiler's ideas could not prevail over the previous teacher. Weisweiler gave up the unproductive collaboration with Herberger on the national team in favor of a return to 1. FC Köln.
In addition to his coaching activity, Weisweiler had worked for the German Football Association since 1953. After the first three courses carried out by Herberger, trainer training has been carried out decentrally by the regional associations of the DFB since 1950. As the central head of examinations, Weisweiler held an important position in the association's training system. In 1955 he accepted a position as a lecturer at the DSHS in Cologne. From 1957 the DFB again offered the training to become a soccer teacher centrally at the DSHS and transferred the management to Weisweiler. In the 13 courses that took place under his leadership up to 1970, with Weisweiler mostly teaching himself, a total of 255 participants graduated. In 2005, the DFB renamed the still existing trainer training facility at the DSHS to " Hennes-Weisweiler-Akademie ". One of Weisweiler's first students, Gero Bisanz , succeeded him at the DSHS. A few years later he saw many others, such as Zlatko Čajkovski , who later coached Bayern Munich and 1. FC Cologne, in the opposing coaching bench in the Bundesliga.
1. FC Cologne 1955–1958
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When Weisweiler returned to 1. FC Köln in the summer of 1955, he found a team that had changed in terms of personnel. The team showed great form fluctuations over the course of the season. Clear victories like the 5: 1 against Fortuna Düsseldorf as well as successes over the co-favorites from Dortmund, Schalke and Essen (the reigning German champions were called Rot-Weiss Essen) contrasted with defeats in Hamborn or Herne. The team finished the round in 1955/56 in seventh place. Weisweiler waived costly new signings in spite of financially strong supporters of the club, especially the Cologne-based Kaufhof group, and a sustained high audience.
Instead, he made the Cologne youngsters Hansi Sturm , Rudi Eder and Hennes Pfeiffer contract players. The chance of second place, which entitles them to participate in the finals, remained open until the last match day. The Weisweiler-Elf missed a goal in 3: 3 at the Aachen Tivoli to overtake Duisburg SpV. With two points behind defending champion Dortmund, level on points with the runner-up from Duisburg, Weisweiler and Cologne took third place.
For the 1957/58 season Weisweiler again led his squad exclusively to players from its own youth and amateur area as well as from the Rhineland. Of the newcomers, only Günter Mühlenbock from Bonner FV made 27 appearances in the regular formation, the youth national goalkeeper Fritz Ewert , who came from TuRa Düsseldorf , made nine season games. The mixture of experienced players like Nordmann, Stollenwerk, Schäfer or Röhrig and young talent like Fendel, Mühlenbock, Sturm and Pfeiffer did not work in the preliminary round (15:15 points). In addition, problems arose within the association; Weisweiler fell out with President Franz Kremer , who was endowed with a certain tendency towards self-importance and infallibility and occasionally wanted to have a say in the formation of the team. In addition, the poor defensive behavior of 34-year-old Čajkovski was a thorn in his side in midfield, which was reflected in Weisweiler's famous exclamation “Tschik, cover! Asshole! ” Culminated. With 25: 5 points in the second half of the season, Weisweiler's team won the runner-up in the Oberliga West behind Schalke 04 and then prevailed against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in qualifying for the German finals . In their final group , however, the team trained by Weisweiler had no chance.
SC Viktoria Cologne 1958–1964
For the 1958/59 season Weisweiler moved to the " schäl Sick ", the other side of the Rhine, to SC Viktoria 04 . This club was created the year before through the merger of the two strongest clubs in Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine, Preußen Dellbrück and SC Rapid . Like 1. FC Köln, Prussia Dellbrück has played in the league since 1949, but has lost ground over the years and recently fought relegation.
The start of the round failed. After seven point games, Viktoria graced the end of the table with 0:14 points. According to Ludger Schulze, the author of the coaching book The Great Football Strategists, the rumor should have arisen in the cathedral city that Weisweiler had been sent by 1. FC Cologne to harm their local rivals. Little by little he established Viktoria with players like Günter Habig , Jean Löring , Carl-Heinz Rühl and Gero Bisanz in the midfield of the league. Under his leadership, the team of SC Viktoria 04 scored 81 goals in 1962/63 , the most hits of all western clubs. The games against the top Hungarian team Ferencváros Budapest in the first round of the European Trade Fair Cup were the highlights of the season. SC Viktoria 04 won their home game 4: 3, but lost 1: 4 in Budapest. The goal of catching up with FC was a long way off. 1. FC Köln was not only a top team in the West, it also won the German soccer championship for the first time in 1962.
In the following season, the DFB introduced the Bundesliga as the new top division . Viktoria was not qualified after the underlying twelve-year ranking and from then on played in the Regionalliga West . In their debut season 1963/64 Weisweiler and Viktoria missed the goal of the Bundesliga promotion round with a fifth place.
Borussia Mönchengladbach 1964–1975
With the "Fohlen-Elf" in the Bundesliga 1964–1967
On the recommendation of national coach Sepp Herberger, the then regional league team Borussia Mönchengladbach signed Hennes Weisweiler on April 27, 1964 as the successor to Fritz Langner, who had previously moved to Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04, as the new coach. Borussia's Vice President and Manager Helmut Grashoff justified the change of coach with the following argument:
"It was time to swap Langner for something brilliant - for a trainer who could bring about the full development of the hopeful approaches."
In the Rhineland, Weisweiler was already considered a major player in the coaching industry. With the experience from twelve years of coaching Oberliga West, training by Herberger, one year as assistant to the national coach and his teaching activities at the Sport University in Cologne, Weisweiler came to Mönchengladbach at the end of April 1964, where he played Borussia in the last two games of the 1963 / 64 supervised.
In terms of personnel, he had to cope with the departures of the previous top performers Horst-Dieter Höttges , Karl-Heinz Mülhausen , Heinz Crawatzo and the record goal scorer Uli Kohn . With his first newcomers, he set the direction for his approach in Mönchengladbach. In the Bundesliga chronicle Die Elf vom Niederrhein , Jenrich and Aretz put it into the words: "He was looking for his staff among young, aspiring, albeit unknown, talent." Bernd Rupp from SV Wiesbaden came from the Hessian amateur camp, youth national player Werner Waddey from local rivals 1. FC Mönchengladbach and from the club's own reserve, he pulled the 19-year-old striker Jupp Heynckes up into the regional league team. Again and again he relied on young players and tried to develop them into high performers. From the beginning he relied on the playmaker qualities of the 20-year-old Günter Netzer and his team led the first round table with 27: 7 points. He put the attack together with Herbert Limmern, Jupp Heynckes, Bernd Rupp, Günter Netzer and Werner Waddey. At 22, Rupp was the oldest striker in attack. Together these five players scored 87 of Borussia's 92 goals in the Regionalliga West in 1964/65 . It was the hour of birth of the “Foal Elf”. The nickname, created by the sports journalist Wilhelm August Hurtmanns, who quickly caught on both nationally and internationally, referred to the low average age of the Weisweiler-Elf and their light-footed and impetuous way of playing football. Matthias Weinrich described the Gladbach trainer's style as follows:
“Weisweiler embodies the complete contrast to its predecessor Langner. He promotes the individual strengths of his boys, does not press them into a tactical corset and also gives them space outside the field. Netzer, Heynckes, Rupp & Co. thanked them with a carefree, technically strong and offensive game that was also crowned with success. "
With 92:39 goals the Weisweiler-Elf won the championship in 1964/65 in the Regionalliga West. In the promotion round, the West Champion prevailed against SSV Reutlingen , Holstein Kiel and Wormatia Worms and rose to the Bundesliga.
For the first Bundesliga year 1965/66 , Weisweiler continued to add personnel to the promotion team, as he had done in his first year in Gladbach. With Gerhard Elfert , Heinz Wittmann and the 18-year-old national youth player Berti Vogts, he signed on with talented talent. His team paid apprenticeship money in the football upper house, with 29:39 points and 68 goals against Gladbach finished 13th. For the second Bundesliga year, 1966/67 , the "offensive coach" attempted to reinforce the defense by adding a new goalkeeper and an international defender. With Herbert Wimmer also came another winger talent from the middle Rhine Amateur bearings at the Bökelberg. As in the previous year with Berti Vogts, Weisweiler relied on the talent of the ex-amateur footballer from Borussia Brand and immediately made Wimmer a regular player (34-2) in the Bundesliga. Since Herbert L Bäumen now proved his scoring risk with 18 goals, the attacking performance brought the Weisweiler students to eighth place in the table with 70:49 goals. On January 7, 1967, the Gladbach “Torfabrik” achieved the first double-digit result in the young league history with an 11-0 home win against FC Schalke 04.
Weisweiler's ability to improve players individually, both technically, tactically and physically, led to the fact that after Netzer, Bernd Rupp, Jupp Heynckes and Berti Vogts, three other Gladbach players came to Borussia's second Bundesliga season for national team appearances. The meeting with Hennes Weisweiler was essential for the development of Berti Vogts. Bitter notes in his lexicon of the national team:
“This was not just a first-class soccer teacher and sponsor. Weisweiler, who was still childless at the time, saw Berti Vogts as something like his son. An unusual relationship developed, one that was characterized by human warmth and success. "
According to Jenrich and Aretz, Weisweiler “guessed the abilities of the defender, who was classified as a rather inexperienced, technically wooden kicker when he made his debut in the Bundesliga, and took on the boy who had lost his parents at an early age like a father”. Vogts made 419 Bundesliga appearances in the course of his career, making him Borussia's record player (as of 2012).
Established in the league from 1967 to 1969
The positive sporting development in Mönchengladbach aroused desires among the competition. Other clubs attracted “foals” with salaries that they would not have earned in two or three years on the Lower Rhine. In the summer of 1967 Heynckes signed better value contracts with Hannover 96, Rupp with Werder Bremen and Elfert with Eintracht Braunschweig. In return, the Borussia coach decided to bring center forward Peter Meyer and midfielder Peter Dietrich to the Bökelberg from the two Bundesliga relegated Düsseldorf and RW Essen . From the Regionalliga West, the Münster club signed the fast winger Klaus Ackermann . The twins Erwin and Helmut Kremers as well as Klaus Winkler were taken over from the Borussia youth team in the professional squad.
With the midfield line-up Dietrich, Netzer and L Bäumen and the three attackers Wimmer, Meyer and Ackermann, Weisweiler was able to prove for the first time in his third Bundesliga year in 1967/68 that successful offensive football made the way to the top of the table possible with speed, technique and combination ability. The midfield was mostly playful, the storm was based on two fast wingers and a new striker acted in the attack center with the ex-Düsseldorf Meyer. Borussia scored the most goals with 77 goals, ahead of the new champions 1. FC Nürnberg, and finished third at the end of the season.
“Once again, trainer Weisweiler had proven his feeling for young talent, his empathy and his passion for attacking football. [...] Even without Rupp and Heynckes, who scored ten goals each for their new clubs and thus fell far short of expectations, the Gladbachers effortlessly consolidated their reputation as the best attacking team in the league. "
The performance development of attacker Peter Meyer - he had scored eight goals in 25 league games for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 1966/67 season, under the training management and in the offensive system of Weisweiler, he led the scorers list in the Bundesliga with 19 hits after the first 18 rounds and made his debut for the national team in December 1967 - a testament to the coach's extraordinary ability. On January 9, 1968, Meyer broke his tibia and fibula during training in a collision with goalkeeper Volker Danner and did not play a game after the 18th matchday due to the consequences of injury until August 23, 1969.
In addition to "Pitter" Meyer, another protégé of the football teacher Weisweiler, Herbert Lektiven, put on the national jersey. Mönchengladbach repeated third place in the previous year in the 1968/69 season. The Olympic amateur Hartwig Bleidick , who came from Soester SV, played all 34 games straight away - the talent of the talent recognizer and promoter Weisweiler also stood out - and improved the stability of the Gladbach defense. Since his eye for talents was also right with the youth international Winfried Schäfer , the newcomer represented Peter Dietrich, who was missing due to various illnesses, in midfield. In addition, the young goalkeeper from VfL Schwerte, Wolfgang Kleff , has already proven his talent in nine Bundesliga appearances. Herbert Wimmer, another Weisweiler protégé, made his debut in the national soccer team. The profile of the Gladbach team formed by Weisweiler was described in the following words:
“You didn't care about safety, you just attacked, refreshing and resourceful. The young foals from Bökelberg resisted any logic of slide rules, they played themselves free from all constraints, they irresistibly stormed forward. In 1967 Schalke and Neunkirchen were defeated in double digits, but one week after the 0:11 in Gladbach, Schalke won the cup game 4-2. That was typical for Gladbach. Better to go down with flying colors than bolt on the road to success with a stubborn frame of mind. "
First championship and title defense 1970–1971
In the Bundesliga preview 1969/70 , the then editor-in-chief of the Kicker sports magazine stated:
“If you listen around a little in the country, then when you are asked about the championship favorite you keep hearing: Mönchengladbach. The Borussia are very easy to do! "
Above all, the reinforcement of personnel on the defensive by Vorstopper Ludwig Müller and Libero Klaus-Dieter Sieloff led to this view, also represented by sporting, journalistic and political celebrities. In the course of the round, the Danish left winger Ulrik le Fevre developed into one of the most dangerous wingers in the league. In 1970 Weisweiler won the German championship for the first time with Borussia . The championship team of 1970 came up with the statement in his textbook Der Fußball , where he spoke about the findings from the World Cup, citing, “If we are on the ball, we are all attacking; conversely, everyone plays for the defense, if the opponent is in possession of the ball ”, very close. The Weisweiler-Elf of 1969/70 represented a unit that could practice both poles of the modern football game, defensive and offensive, in the correct alternation. Borussia had become champions not least because of their consistent defensive performance. She conceded 29 goals for the first time as the best defense in the league. Sieloff and Müller, who both had to watch in just one championship game each, had proven to be a stroke of luck for the black and whites.
The rise of the "foals", the development into an offensive, technically oriented top team with high levels of popularity, which was highly popular, crowned by the German championship in 1969/70, was the work of the coach Hennes Weisweiler. The chronicle of the 1960s lists:
“An upward trend was unmistakable under Langner's predecessor. But what Hennes Weisweiler made of it was like a meteoric rise; the soccer teacher not only continued Langner's work, but also refined it in the best possible way. Gradually he sorted out the veterans, brought in exactly the right people and prescribed a fresh system of highly attractive attack football for this young team - he gave birth to the foals . "
With methodically balanced training work, Weisweiler improved the performance of the individual players and thus the team performance in technical, tactical and physical terms - also through his eye for talents and their introduction to experts. The basis of the continuous development of the Gladbacher Elf was Weisweiler's ability to form a team over the years. Before taking office in 1964, only Herbert Lektiven and Günter Netzer had already played championship games for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the senior division. Many players began their high-class careers under Weisweiler. What is striking is the fact that Weisweiler developed players from the youth field such as Vogts, Schäfer and Zimmermann and the amateur camp such as Heynckes, Rupp, Wittmann, Wimmer, Kleff or Bleidick into established Bundesliga and national players. When selecting various newcomers, he had proven that he was also an expert in signing up experts. The regional league player Volker Danner took over the goalkeeping position straight away, Peter Meyer proved his scoring qualities until his career-ending injury. Peter Dietrich developed from an unknown midfielder to a World Cup participant in Mexico. The development of Ludwig Müller, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, Horst Köppel and that of the Danish striker Ulrik le Fevre fit seamlessly into the success story. All of these players benefited from the professional and human competence of the Cologne football teacher.
L Bäumen, who played in Gladbach from the D-Jugend, described Weisweiler's way of working with the following words:
“Fritz Langner was an incredibly difficult coach who never gave an opinion and everything he did was right. And with Weisweiler it was exactly the opposite. He talked to the players, asked them for their opinion. In the end, of course, he always made the decisions on his own, but he involved us and sought advice, including on tactical matters. And that was his big plus. [...] Then we just didn't stop and in the end we prevailed. Weisweiler's part in this was enormous. Although he mercilessly sorted out and no longer paid any attention to the elderly, this was the only way to find the optimal mix. "
Before the 1970/71 round , Weisweiler convinced the team and the presidium of the need for Jupp Heynckes to return from Hanover. In addition, he made sure that with Rainer Bonhof and Hans-Jürgen Wloka two talented young players found their way to the Bökelberg. For the first time in the history of the Bundesliga, a German champion managed to defend his title. On the last day of the match, Bayern Munich's 2-0 defeat at MSV Duisburg and Gladbach's 4-1 success at Eintracht Frankfurt made the decision. Hennes Weisweiler's team won the second German championship with a thrilling return series to Mönchengladbach with a two-point lead over the Munich team .
Heimkehrer Heynckes distinguished himself as a 19-time goalscorer in 33 games in the offensive Weisweiler system in 1970/71 and promoted his career in the national soccer team from October 17, 1970.
On the initiative of the Israeli national coach Emanuel Schaffer , who had completed his training at the Cologne Sports University with Hennes Weisweiler, the Israeli football association IFA invited him and Borussia as the first German team to friendly games in Israel in February 1970. In Bloomfield Stadium , Weisweiler and Borussia won 6-0 against the Israeli national team , which led to discussions in the Israeli parliament about what the government intends to do to prevent such humiliations from happening again.
The "rifle throw" and the reorganization 1971–1972
After successfully defending the title, Mönchengladbach lost three regular players in the summer of 1971 for financial reasons: Dietrich, Köppel and Lracht. Among the newcomers, only Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp from Schalke 04 had Bundesliga experience. Dietmar Danner , Christian Kulik , Ulrich Surau , Gregor Quasten , Peter Wloka and Heinz Michallik came from the regional league or the amateur or youth sector. In the Bundesliga table, Borussia ranked fourth after the eleventh match day with 14: 8 points when the “ rifle throwing game ” took place in the first leg of the last 16 against Italian champions Inter Milan in front of 27,500 spectators in the Bökelberg Stadium in the European Cup on October 20 . Italian striker Roberto Boninsegna was hit by a lemonade can thrown from the stands, fell to the ground and was replaced when he was unable to play. The game was later canceled by UEFA. In Weinrich's European Cup book it is noted: One year after losing the second round on penalties against FC Everton , the “foals” Inter produced sensational 7-1 goals in a “glittering ball night” and played their way into the hearts of all German football fans . The eyewitnesses said that "never before and never after have seen a greater, more memorable football game with my own eyes". The playmaker at the time said more than 20 years later:
“On that day we would have outplayed everything, no matter what stood in our way, the Italians couldn't resist. They tried everything, but it was hopeless. We couldn't be stopped. We really couldn't be stopped. "
Three days after the Milan game, the leaders Schalke 04 came to Gladbach with 19: 3 points and 27: 5 goals. While still in the "Inter-game frenzy", the Weisweiler students ran over Schalke on October 23 with 7-0 goals. "No German team can win against an eleven in this form at the moment," remarked Schalke President Siebert after the game.
The team trained by Weisweiler enjoyed the sympathy rallies not only on the Lower Rhine. Especially on foreign pitches, the attractive attack football of the mostly sympathetic and modest players made Borussia as image bearers to the FC Bayern counterpart. Gladbach stood for aesthetics and tragedy, drive and passion, wit and speed, youth and forgivable mistakes, and the "father of the team" was Hennes Weisweiler. Helmut Böttiger later saw it this way:
“Gladbach and Bavaria faced the two options that vied for supremacy in the years after 1968, when there was real movement in the German structures: radicalism or sobriety, reform or pragmatism, utopia or functionality. […] The two Gladbach championships in 1970 and 1971 are highlights of the football avant-garde. "
Months of injury pauses for Berti Vogts (meniscus operation) and Ludwig Müller (broken leg) made more than third place in the Bundesliga impossible in the 1971/72 round.
The 1972/73 round was dominated by injury-related failures on the defensive by Libero Sieloff (6 BL games) and defender Bleidick (9 BL games) as well as the change from Vorstopper Ludwig Müller to Hertha BSC. The loss of the defensive center through Vorstopper and Libero weighed heavily. Since the conductor in midfield, Günter Netzer, only made 18 appearances with three goals and the excellent winger Ulrik le Fevre had signed for Club Bruges, the coach had to redesign the team. In the offensive it worked with 82 hits, of which Heynckes shot 28, Jensen eleven and Rupp nine, good. The club had responded adequately by signing Henning Jensen and the returnees Bernd Rupp before the start of the round. On the defensive, however, the gaps could not be compensated. Immediately there was 61 goals against, the worst record since the Bundesliga debut year 1965/66. Gladbach ended up in fifth place.
The “foals” performed successfully in the UEFA Cup and the DFB Cup . In the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, Weisweiler was able to fall back on his defensive boss Sieloff, who only played six games in the Bundesliga. This successfully conducted the defense in the two games against Twente Enschede in April 1973 and Borussia moved into the finals against Liverpool . In May he was missing in the two finals against the "Reds". In particular in the first leg, which was lost 3-0 at Anfield Road , the lack of the defense organizer with an excellent header game and strength in a duel made a difference in the game. The experiment with Günter Netzer on the libero position did not work. Before the second leg at home in Bökelberg Weisweiler changed the defensive. On May 23, Berti Vogts acted as sweeper, Dietmar Danner played against Keegan and Netzer was again directing midfield. The 2-0 home win by two Heynckes goals could no longer prevent the team around superstar Kevin Keegan's cup success .
The cup final and Netzer's substitution in 1973
In the legendary cup final on June 23, 1973 in Düsseldorf against the Rhenish rival 1. FC Köln, Sieloff played again on the position of defense chief and the Borussia defensive therefore met the offensive department of the runner-up with Wolfgang Overath , Heinz Flohe , Herbert Neumann , Jürgen Glowacz and Hennes Löhr with success. The game ended 2-1 after extra time.
This played a subordinate role in media coverage. Weisweiler banished Günter Netzer, who was moving to Real Madrid , to the substitute bench at the beginning of the finals because of poor physical condition. Due to several injuries, the playmaker was only able to play 18 games for Borussia in the Bundesliga and was not in the best shape. The coach wanted to replace his long-time playmaker at half-time, Netzer refused.
Shortly before the start of extra time, Christian Kulik was lying exhausted when Netzer went to him and asked him if he could continue playing. Kulik denied, whereupon Netzer replaced himself without consulting Weisweiler and scored the decisive goal three minutes later in the 94th minute of the game. Netzer's substitution was the top news after the game and certain countless comments about it.
Netzer himself goes into detail in his autobiography on the cup final and the accompanying circumstances. He explained that his fluctuating form resulted from several injuries this season, through his relationship problems and his non-performance-enhancing leisure behavior. He also cited the unexpected death of his mother and the fact that he had stopped training for a few days and summarized:
“I haven't been in the best physical condition for weeks, now the psychological stress has to be added. I mean, there were objective reasons to plan the final without me "
In conclusion, he broke a lance for the coach, who was "overwhelmed with criticism, ridicule and malice," by making it clear that Weisweiler did not deserve this, and summed up:
"Weisweiler brought us to this final, Weisweiler made this provincial club from the left Lower Rhine a national and European greatness in the first place, and his idea of football was the basis for us being glorified and elevated to a myth."
Runner-up and UEFA Cup victory 1974–1975
Weisweiler's personality and professional competence were evident after the playmaker Netzer's departure to Real Madrid in the summer of 1973. For the year one after Netzer, experts expected Borussia to crash and Hennes Weisweiler once again taught them better. The predicted development phase with a sporting regression due to the difficult upheaval after the Netzer era did not take place. One point behind champions Bayern Munich, Weisweiler's team finished third in the 1973/74 season, seven points ahead of third . The “man for talents” had brought Ulrich Stielike into the regular line-up and, with Hans Klinkhammer , Lorenz-Günther Köstner and Allan Simonsen, helped other youngsters to make their first Bundesliga appearances. There could be no question of a sporting step backwards in Gladbach. On the contrary, with the new talents new momentum found its way into the Bökelberg and with 93 goals in 34 matches, Borussia set a new club-internal goal record at the end of the season. In 1973 the coach explained in the round preview:
“We won't have a game like under Günter Netzer. We're not going to get worse, just play differently. What this new style will look like was shown roughly in the first 90 minutes of the cup final. [...] Netzer's absolute personality, whom everything ran through, is replaced by a collective of equals. Danner, Wimmer and Kulik, supported by Bonhof and Vogts, will give Borussia a new look. "
Before his eleventh coaching year 1974/75 Weisweiler had to cope with the departures of Bernd Rupp, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff and Heinz Michallik. He stayed true to his line and relied on young and developable players. He brought Karl Del'Haye, a 19-year-old national youth player, to Gladbach. Frank Schäffer came from the 1st Amateur League North Württemberg, Roger Roebben came from Limburg and he took over from the youngsters Norbert Kox . Allan Simonsen , who made the breakthrough in 34 league games with 18 goals as an attacker in 1974/75, formed the best storm trio in the Bundesliga together with Henning Jensen and Jupp Heynckes.
In the second year without Netzer, Weisweiler and his Borussia won the third Bundesliga championship six points ahead of runner-up Hertha BSC in 1975. It was not until matchday 28 that Hertha BSC added a defeat to Mönchengladbach after 17 unbeaten games. It was exactly at this high level of performance that the team played the two finals in the UEFA Cup against FC Twente Enschede. After the first leg ended goalless against the Dutch coached by Antoine Kohn in Düsseldorf's Rheinstadion on May 7, the Weisweiler team triumphed on May 21 with a convincing 5-1 win in Enschede and won the UEFA Cup in 1975 .
Review of Weisweiler's years in Mönchengladbach 1964–1975
After winning the German championship and the UEFA Cup in 1975, at the sporting climax, Hennes Weisweiler announced his departure to Barcelona. His activities in Mönchengladbach cannot be measured solely by the promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965, the 1970, 1971 and 1975 championships, the 1973 DFB Cup and the 1975 UEFA Cup. The basics of the Gladbach game with technique, speed, combination football, the aim of which has always been to score goals, conveyed the signature of their coach. Hardy Grüne describes Weisweiler's work in Gladbach with the attributes “father, master maker, talent scout and trainer in one person” . The successes were important for the “Fohlen-Elf” and Weisweiler, but by no means everything. With the offensive basic orientation of their game, the team and their creative coach mobilized a large following in German football long before the first German championship title in 1970, which reached far beyond the regional borders of the Lower Rhine. The memorable appearances with a negative outcome in the 1970/71 European Cup at Everton, the "rifle throwing game" 1971/72 against Inter Milan and the 1973 UEFA Cup finals against Liverpool contributed to the fact that the Weisweiler-Elf became popular has been. The Gladbachers had a comparatively modest financial framework at their disposal, half of the Bundesliga members were superior to the Niederrheinelf in this regard. The development of talent was another piece of the mosaic, the financial "failure" of stars and still the continuation of successful offensive football distinguished those responsible at Bökelberg and earned them recognition and supporters all over Germany.
Hennes Weisweiler developed the actors Hartwig Bleidick , Rainer Bonhof , Dietmar Danner , Peter Dietrich , Josef Heynckes , Wolfgang Kleff , Herbert L Genealogie , Peter Meyer , Günter Netzer , Bernd Rupp , Ulrich Stielike , Hans-Hubert Vogts and Herbert Wimmer into German national soccer players . The discovery and formation of the Danish offensive players Ulrik le Fevre , Henning Jensen and Allan Simonsen is also one of the coach's special achievements.
Goalkeeper Kleff once recalled the work and personality of his coach like this:
“Hennes Weisweiler was an absolute authority. The young players were almost afraid of him. He didn't really have to say anything, he just looked unequivocally and everyone already knew. It required courage from the players in the one-on-one game. The offensive game was his strength. Players like Simonsen and Bonhof were really blind when they first came to us. Weisweiler took the time to work with them intensively and shaped them into what they later became - international top stars. "
The long-time course director in coach training at the Sports University in Cologne demonstrated that football practice and sound theoretical basics, as well as the constant eye for international developments in tactics and technology, complement each other at the highest level of performance in the Bundesliga and in the European Cup over a decade and are successfully implemented could. And that despite the pursuit of success and profit, the ideals of beautiful and inspiring football do not have to be lost. The 7: 1 against Inter Milan had made Weisweiler's team immortal in one fell swoop; the annulment of it, on the other hand, made it a real myth. Helmut Böttiger saw it similarly:
“The magic of the people of Gladbach does not come from success, from the glamor of the winners, but from failure. The Gladbach aesthetic is an aesthetic of failure. In this failure there are utopias that are inexpressible and exert a magical pull. "
Thomas Hardt described the principles of working methods and characteristics of Weisweiler with the words:
“It was important for Weisweiler to take the stars in overall responsibility and to involve them in his tactical concept. Nothing upset him more than when an elegant offensive player was too good for bone-hard defensive tasks or had to fit in condition. 'Others hit the weak, I'll grab my head', was one of his motto. "
He set standards by including experts such as Helmut Bantz , Erich Ribbeck , Rudi Schlott and Karl-Heinz Drygalsky in the training work as an assistant or conditioning trainer, including the work that masseur Charly Stock began in 1962 and continued until 1990 . Weisweiler's work in Mönchengladbach was carried out in this overall package and that made him one of the greats in the coaching guild.
As part of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Borussia Mönchengladbach's club, the supporters of the club chose Hennes Weisweiler as the coach of the so-called eleven of the century .
FC Barcelona 1975-1976
After eleven years on the Bökelberg, Weisweiler moved to the Spanish top club FC Barcelona in the summer of 1975 . His predecessor Rinus Michels returned to Amsterdam after four years with the Catalans and Barça lured the German starter to the Mediterranean with a monthly salary of the equivalent of 40,000 DM . The generous salary for the time was not the only decisive factor for Weisweiler. When asked why he would leave Mönchengladbach at the height of his influence and success, he replied in an interview:
“I shaped my style in a team. Now I want to try to enforce it in Spain. "
With FC Barcelona and its Dutch stars Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens , he wanted to achieve his big goal of winning the European Cup. Cruyff and Weisweiler were already in a "state of war" from day one: "Weisweiler is not the coach of my choice," announced the Dutch playmaker, who apparently suspected that he would not get the freedom under Weisweiler that he had taken from Rinus Michels can. When Weisweiler took the Dutchman off the field on February 8, 1976 in Seville after he had conceded the second goal, it came to an open rift. "Away he never got over the middle line," Weisweiler later explained his measure. He turned not only the Dutch star, but also the fans against him. Cruyff complained that he didn't like being treated with authority and openly rebelled against the coach. The club leadership around President Agostin Montal finally ended the conflict by taking his side by extending the contract with Cruyff and complying with Weisweiler's subsequent request for early termination of the two-year contract. Bitter wrote about the trip to Barcelona:
“Barcelona - that was an unfortunate detour on his coaching path. One of the type of Hennes Weisweiler, who found it difficult to think 'around the corner' and who preferred the straight paths to the winding paths, simply had to fail in Barcelona. "
The Spanish sports newspaper Don Balón stated in January 1978 in a comparison of the activities of the two coaches Rinus Michels and Hennes Weisweiler that Michels only brought out one player and integrated it into the first team during his six-year tenure at FC Barcelona. To this end, the club signed no fewer than 23 new players for a total of ten million marks during this period. In contrast, Weisweiler managed to integrate seven junior or reserve players into the top division team in just under a year in Barcelona. Of them belong Antonio Olmo now the permanent staff of the Spanish national team.
1. FC Cologne 1976–1980
Double win of the DFB Cup and German championship 1976–1978
After the resignation from the Catalans, 1. FC Cologne, Fortuna Düsseldorf and MSV Duisburg immediately advertised the services of “Don Hennes” for the 1976/77 round from the Bundesliga . The club bosses Peter Weiand, Bruno Recht and Paul Märzheuser immediately flew to Barcelona and negotiated with the coveted football coach. Finally Weisweiler decided to start his third coaching period at 1. FC Köln.
Karl-Heinz Heimann described the situation in kicker before the start of the round with the following words:
“The fact that 1. FC Köln, as in all years, is once again one of the most frequently mentioned clubs in the favorites group, this time is neither because of their position in the table last season (fourth) nor because of the large number of talents that have been there for a long time . First and foremost, the name of the coach ensures this: Hennes Weisweiler, the 'master maker' from Bökelberg, returns via Spain to the club where he grew up as a player and where his coaching career began. Having a Weisweiler as a coach can be a stimulus for the team, but also a mortgage, because the number of those (especially in their own appendix) who think that with Weisweiler as a coach must automatically be champions will certainly not be small become. As if that doesn't depend on a whole host of other things! "
Like the star striker Kevin Keegan in Hamburg, who was signed in the summer of 1977 , Weisweiler caused a real euphoria in Cologne. Season ticket sales increased and 1. FC Köln was on top of the favorites lists for the 1977 title. In fact, the “billy goat Elf” had a dream start with the returnee from Spain. After five successes, 1. FC Köln were at the top of the table with 14-2 goals and 10-0 points. The harmony was already lost after the two lost games against Tennis Borussia Berlin and Bayern Munich. Above all, the weakness away from home caused tension. 61 goals conceded, defending champion Mönchengladbach only conceded 34 hits, were for Weisweiler a further indication that the time of Wolfgang Overath as a leading player in Cologne midfield was over. Weisweiler no longer trusted the almost 34-year-old playmaker after 14 Bundesliga seasons with a total of 543 competitive games for Cologne and 81 international matches, to change his game on foreign courts, to go to the top and to improve his defensive behavior. At the cup final on May 28, 1977 in Hanover against Hertha BSC , tensions between Overath and the coach escalated. In the 91st minute, Weisweiler took Overath out of the game and deleted him from the starting line-up for the replay two days later in the same place. With a goal from top scorer Dieter Müller , the Weisweiler-Mannen brought the trophy to Cologne on May 30th. Overath's career ended at the same time. The year after Overath ( 1977/78 ) Weisweiler started without any spectacular new signings. Only the young players Gerald Ehrmann, Heinz Pape, Norbert Schmitz and Holger Willmer got new contracts and during the first half of the season the 42-time Japanese international Yasuhiko Okudera came to the Rhine. Weisweiler relied on the existing squad and in particular on his playmaker Heinz Flohe in midfield. Weisweiler traveled with his team on the final day, level on points with Gladbach and ten goals ahead of relegated St. Pauli. It got exciting again because the defending champion led 6-0 after the first half against Dortmund, Cologne only led 1-0 in Hamburg with a goal from Flohe. In the second half, the goal scoring in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion continued, the Bökelberg-Elf won 12-0 , Cologne secured the championship with four more goals.
With 48:20 points and a goal difference better by three goals, 1. FC Köln won the championship for the last time after the DFB Cup in 1978. The 86 goals scored are a club record for the “billy goats” in the Bundesliga and 20 fewer goals conceded than in the previous year gave the defense a good report. Tactically, Weisweiler's training work was characterized by the flank runs of the full-back Konopka and Zimmermann with assists on center forward Dieter Müller as well as the playmaker's role of Heinz Flohe, who is characterized by willingness to run, playfulness and goal danger, and the goal-threatening corner ball variants on the short post with a surprising drop in front of the goal. Weisweiler had given the 30-year-old Flea the key position as playmaker and the team had chosen the man from Euskirchen as the new captain. Flohe was sure of Weisweiler's trust and fought with a dedication that other coaches had missed in him. He remarked:
"It could have always been like this, but hardly anyone has ever dealt with me before"
As in previous years, Weisweiler's team was technically well trained, demonstrated running ability and tactical discipline. Due to the age distribution, the championship team had a future and by no means had reached its zenith. With Bernd Cullmann, Heinz Flohe, Harald Konopka, Dieter Müller and Herbert Zimmermann, five Cologne players belonged to the World Cup squad for Argentina and with Schumacher, Gerber, Strack and Neumann there were other national team aspirants.
Failed title defense and departure to New York 1978–1980
Before the 1978/79 round , the veterans Johannes Löhr, Heinz Simmet and Wolfgang Weber ended their playing careers. The Presidium would be ready to invest, in fact, the youth national players Pierre Littbarski , Bernd Schuster and Thomas Kroth , Jürgen Willkomm from the FC youth team and Jürgen Mohr from the Middle Rhine amateur area joined the club. In the course of the unsatisfactory round, the significantly reduced offensive strength with 55:47 goals played a decisive role. The previous goal scorer Dieter Müller had his weakest lap record of his time in Cologne with eight goals. Playmaker Flohe only played 13 games for last year's champions. A never-ending streak of injuries and illnesses caused the Cologne team to sink almost to mediocrity this season.
Despite the disappointment with sixth place in the Bundesliga, the coach managed to establish two of Germany's most talented young players in the league, Schuster and Littbarski. The fact that Weisweiler also let A-Junior Stephan Engels come into play is further proof of his unbroken gift of introducing new talent. In the European Cup , Cologne beat ÍA Akranes , Lokomotiv Sofia and Glasgow Rangers and failed in the semifinals. Second leg through a 0-1 home defeat to Nottingham Forest .
Before Weisweiler's fourth year in Cologne, 1979/80 , the Heinz Flohe personality caused discussions. On July 15, 1979, just before the season opener training, 1. FC Köln released the 39-time national player, who wore the billy goat jersey for 13 years, from his contract with the Bundesliga promoted 1860 Munich, which ran until 1980 . The national player found that his relationship with Weisweiler alone was the reason for the move to the Isar. After being sent off on May 9, 1979, Heinz Flohe and Herbert Neumann were suspended from training within the club with immediate effect in the game at Hamburger SV and were fined 1,000 marks each. According to this, Weisweiler is said not to have spoken to either Flea or Neumann. The kicker, on the other hand, noted in early December 1978 "that Weisweiler had shown a lot of understanding and subtle empathy, especially in the" Heinz Flohe case ".
For the opening game, the team received the Munich "lions" with fleas on August 11, 1979 in Müngersdorf. The Weisweiler-Elf passed the first test with a 2-1 home win. By the end of the first half of the season, the team got together, Cologne finished fourth after the 17th matchday with 22:12 points. For this, the Nachverpflichtung of wearing Tony Woodcock in, who celebrated his Bundesliga debut on 30 November.
Since President Peter Weiand occasionally expressed doubts about the work of the coach and the Cologne club management was hesitant about extending his contract, Weisweiler angrily accepted an offer from Cosmos New York in February 1980 . He wanted to end the 1979/80 season at FC, which at that time was doing well in both the championship and the cup competition. After a series of five games without a win, including the two top games against Hamburger SV and Bayern Munich, the championship title was out of reach. Weisweiler therefore agreed with the club in mid-April to terminate or release the contract early and traveled to the USA, where the 1980 season had already started.
When Weisweiler left, FC was fourth in the table and after winning 4-1 at FC Homburg in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup. The squad was staffed above average. With Littbarski and Schuster, Cologne had two promising German talents. The national "double" won under Weisweiler from the cup and championship in 1978 as well as the semi-finals of the European championship competition the following year are among the greatest successes in the club's history for 1. FC Köln, in addition to reaching the UEFA Cup final in 1986.
Cosmos New York 1980-1982
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The North American professional league NASL has been attracting European and South American stars to the USA and Canada with high salaries since the mid-1970s in order to increase the level of awareness and popularity of football. The European football world mocked the league as the "operetta league" because of its show elements and the players who mostly acted beyond their sporting zenith. Weisweiler was nevertheless convinced that he could do some development work:
“In addition, the trend at Cosmos is moving away from the commitment of old European stars and towards much younger players. The roster now includes 13 foreigners and 13 Americans, including six 18-year-olds. I mainly want to work with them and build on them. "
Franz Beckenbauer , who had already come to New York in 1977 and wanted to form a new team around Weisweiler, played an important role in his project . Weisweiler reached the “Soccer Bowl” straight away with Cosmos, which in addition to Beckenbauer had such prominent stars as the Dutchman Johan Neeskens , the Italian striker Giorgio Chinaglia and the Brazilian Carlos Alberto . With a 3-0 victory over the Fort Lauderdale Strikers , Gerd Müller's team, his team secured the title. The following year, Cosmos moved back to the league final, but lost to the Chicago Sting .
Weisweiler felt at home in New York. Shortly before moving to the USA, on March 3, 1980 in Neuss , he married his long-time friend Gisela Heizmann, who was 23 years his junior; In the summer of 1981, at the age of 62, he became the father of a son. Despite the sporting successes at Cosmos, it was offensive to both the star players and the club management. When he called Beckenbauer in defense at the “Soccer Bowl '80” and banished Carlos Alberto to the bench, he turned the Brazilian against him, who then left the club. His biggest opponent at Cosmos was striker Chinaglia. This accused Weisweiler, among other things, of the fact that Cosmos had lost its high-profile character under him and that he had sacrificed it to a conservative and reserved style. This remark alludes to Weisweiler's little audience and media appeal. His concept of forming a team not with prominent international old stars, but primarily with young Americans, met with little approval from those responsible for Cosmos. They were of the opinion that first and foremost, attractive names ensured sufficient awareness and thus economic success. The unexpectedly early departure of Beckenbauer, who returned to the Bundesliga in the fall of 1980, contributed to the fact that Weisweiler announced his departure before the 1982 round after talks with Nesuhi Ertegün , the jazz producer and then chairman of the board of Cosmos New York .
Grasshopper Club Zurich 1982–1983
In February 1982 there were many indications of Weisweiler's return to the Bundesliga. Eintracht Frankfurt was looking for a successor for coach Lothar Buchmann , who quit at the end of the season. President Axel Schander called Weisweiler a "dream coach" and after initial discussions a few days later he was confident that he would come to the Main. In an interview at the beginning of March he pointed out that the Grasshopper Club Zurich had a second serious prospect and that he had not yet made a decision:
“My situation is this: Should I take on a challenge again, with everything that is behind it? I would certainly not go to the Bundesliga with naive eyes. On the other hand, I'm at an age where the question arises: Don't you want to take a slow commute? My work is not a question of money, I've had enough of that. [...] I would like to form a team again according to my ideas, whether in Switzerland or in the Bundesliga. "
A few days later Weisweiler signed a two-year contract in Zurich. He moved to a club where President Karl Oberholzer stood for long-standing and sovereign club leadership and which had sufficient financial means for any reinforcements. Weisweiler found more favorable framework conditions in this regard than in Frankfurt. In addition, he convinced himself of the playful potential of the squad during a league game on the Hardturm and attested it to be “absolute Bundesliga format”.
Although the Grasshoppers had won the Swiss championship under German coach Timo Konietzka in 1982 , the club was far behind Lucerne , Servette , Aarau and city rivals FC Zurich in terms of audience favor . The "start trainer" Weisweiler should consolidate the success on a national and international level. In the 1982/83 season the high expectations were partially fulfilled. Grasshoppers failed to defeat Dynamo Kiev in the first round of the European national championship cup , but not only defended the championship title, but also won the Sandoz trophy in the cup final after 27 years. For Weisweiler this double success was the second "double" after 1978.
Death and Remembrance 1983
On July 5, 1983, just three weeks after winning the cup with GC Zurich, Hennes Weisweiler died at the age of 63 of a heart attack in his house in Aesch near Birmensdorf , a town near Zurich. He had planned to end his career here and devote himself exclusively to his family and writing his memoirs.
His death, as sudden as it was unexpected, caused great sadness and sympathy. His body was laid out in front of Cologne Cathedral . This was an honor that, apart from him, only Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Höffner were granted. 6,000 people, including numerous personalities from sports and politics, came to the last escort. He was buried in his native Lechenich; his tombstone bears the inscription "A life for football" .
Weisweiler's death was well received in the national and international press. The Spanish sports newspaper El Mundo Deportivo dedicated a detailed obituary to him, devoting seven pages to the life and work of Hennes Weisweiler in its July 6, 1983 edition. In the German kicker sports magazine , Harald Landefeld described Weisweiler with the words:
“He didn't always make friends. But he always had some. In the end he preferred them to all the money he had earned over the course of his great international career. He could imagine a life without money, but not without friends. "
The then kicker editor -in- chief Karl-Heinz Heimann added:
“Hennes was a teacher of football in the truest sense of the word and a downright fanatical learner right up to the end. [...] Herberger was particularly impressed by Weisweiler's talent for combining the theoretical and the practical. […] Weisweiler, as a player, was a player for whom safety was paramount, and as a coach was a downright fanatical supporter of the offensive game. At a time when everything in German football was largely geared towards safety, he and his former student Čajkovski (now with Munich Bayern) brought a breath of fresh air to the Bundesliga with their teams that had been promoted in 1965. The enthusiasm with which his Gladbacher 'foals' stormed, carried over to the stands in the German stadiums. [...]
Football - and not just German - has lost a person whose senses and attitudes have always been directed towards further developing the game, promoting it. [...] His successes are immortalized in the championship lists of three countries. The person Hennes Weisweiler will stay in the memory of everyone who was lucky enough to have dealt with him. Goodbye Hennes! "
Hennes-Weisweiler-Sportpark
On May 22nd, 2015, the Hennes-Weisweiler-Sportpark in Erftstadt-Lechenich was inaugurated in memory of one of the most famous citizens of this city.
successes
International
Bundesliga
DFB Cup
North American Soccer League
- North American Soccer League champions: 1980
Swiss National League A
Swiss Cup
- Swiss Cup winner: 1983
Honors
- 1977: Football coach of the year
- 1980: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2018: Admission to the Hall of Fame of 1. FC Köln
Publications
Soccer textbooks
- Hennes Weisweiler: Football. Tactics, training, team. 1st edition. Hofmann, Schorndorf bei Stuttgart 1959 (8th edition = ISBN 3-7780-3028-0 ).
- Helmut Bantz, Hennes Weisweiler, Karlheinz Grindler: Games and gymnastics for footballers. 1st edition. Hofmann, Schorndorf near Stuttgart 1965 (7th edition = ISBN 3-7780-3197-X ).
- Hennes Weisweiler: technology, tactics, goals. Reiff Verlag, Offenburg 1980, DNB 821156217 .
More specialist books
- Hennes Weisweiler, Roland Gööck: IX. Soccer World Cup Mexico 1970. Bertelsmann-Sachbuchverlag, Gütersloh 1970.
- Hennes Weisweiler (Ed.): X. Soccer World Championship. Germany 1974. Bertelsmann, Munich / Gütersloh / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-570-00036-2 .
- Hennes Weisweiler: My secret soccer tricks. F. Schneider, Munich / Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-505-07094-7 .
literature
biography
- Günter Giersberg (ed.), Hermann Josef Weskamp, Kurt Röttgen: Hennes Weisweiler. Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-7307-0100-3 .
Short biographies
- Jürgen Bitter : Hennes Weisweiler. In: The master makers . Wero press publisher, Pfaffenweiler 2004, ISBN 3-937588-02-7 , pp. 96-98.
- Gladbacher Bank (ed.): Hennes. From the book series: Witnesses to the Urban Past. Volume 18. Mönchengladbach 2000.
- Ludger Schulze: Hennes Weisweiler. In: Trainer. The great football strategists. Copress Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7679-0292-3 , pp. 83-88.
- Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Hennes Weisweiler. In: Strategists of the Game. The legendary soccer coach . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-475-8 , pp. 408-410.
- Dieter Ueberjahn: Hennes Weisweiler. In: The greatest games of great coaches . Engelbert-Verlag, Balve 1977, ISBN 3-536-00444-X , pp. 96-111.
Club chronicles Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Werner Jakobs: 100 years of Borussia Mönchengladbach. Rheinsport networking, Kaarst 1999, ISBN 3-934702-00-7 .
- Holger Jenrich, Markus Aretz: The Elf from the Lower Rhine. 40 years of Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-503-7 .
- Ulrich Merk, André Schulin, Maik Großmann: My club: Borussia Mönchengladbach. Chronicle of the 1960s. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-293-9 .
- Ulrich Merk, André Schulin, Maik Großmann: My club: Borussia Mönchengladbach. Chronicle of the 1970s. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89784-301-1 .
- Markus Aretz, Elmar Kreuels, Stephan Giebeler: Borussia Mönchengladbach: The Chronicle. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-748-2 .
Club chronicles 1. FC Köln
- Thomas Hardt, Thomas Hohndorf, Bruno Morbitzer, Hubert Dahlkamp, Hardy Grüne: Hennes & Co. The history of 1. FC Cologne. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-470-7 .
- Dirk Innschuld, Thomas Hardt, Frederic Latz: Under the sign of the billy goat. The history of 1. FC Köln. 3rd edition, Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89533-582-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hennes Weisweiler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helmut Rönz: Hennes Weisweiler. In: Internet portal Rheinische Geschichte .
Individual evidence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weisweiler, Hennes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weisweiler, Hans (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lechenich , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1983 |
| Place of death | Aesch near Birmensdorf , Switzerland |