Herbert Neumann

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Herbert Neumann
Personnel
birthday November 14, 1953
place of birth Cologne ,  Germany
size 180 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1961-1969 SpVgg Porz
1969-1972 1. FC Cologne
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1972-1980 1. FC Cologne 184 (35)
1980-1981 Udinese Calcio 25 0(1)
1981-1982 Bologna FC 20 0(1)
1982-1983 1. FC Cologne 10 0(1)
1983-1984 Olympiacos Piraeus 23 0(4)
1984-1989 FC Chiasso at least 17 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977 Germany B 1 (0)
1978 Germany 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1986-1989 FC Chiasso (player-coach)
1989-1991 FC Zurich
1992-1995 Vitesse Arnhem
1995 RSC Anderlecht
1995-1996 İstanbulspor
1997-1998 NAC Breda
1998-1999 Vitesse Arnhem
2005-2006 VVV-Venlo
1 Only league games are given.

Herbert Neumann (born November 14, 1953 in Cologne ) is a former German soccer player and coach .

Athletic career

Club career

The midfielder learned to play football at his home club Sportvereinigung Porz. In the spring of 1969, the youth coach of 1. FC Cologne , Josef Röhrig , discovered the talent with the noticeably flowing blond hair while playing a youth district selection in the Hürth district of Efferen.

Although he initially played a few good games after joining the first team of FC in autumn 1972, his breakthrough was denied for the time being. One of the highlights of his first season in the professional squad was the hit to equalize 1-1 in the 1973 DFB Cup final against Borussia Mönchengladbach , although the Cologne team was defeated. Neumann resembled Wolfgang Overath in his play equipment , but could not fulfill the hope of his successor in this position and threatened to end up as an "eternal talent".

Although the trained industrial clerk always proved his reputation as a sunny boy and bon vivant and did not subordinate everything to football, he can look back on some successes at that time. He won the DFB Cup in 1977 with 1. FC Köln and even the double of the cup and championship in 1978 . But his relationship with his coach Hennes Weisweiler suffered more and more because of constant differences of opinion.

Two years later Neumann moved to Udinese Calcio in Italy for around one million DM . After the season was over, he came in 5th in the best foreigner election. Despite the good debut, he moved to Bologna FC after a year . After suffering relegation with Bologna, he started looking for a new club again. After a failed trial session at Arsenal FC and unsuccessful contract negotiations with FC Basel and 1. FC Nürnberg , Neumann returned to 1. FC Köln.

After winning the DFB Cup again in 1983 against SC Fortuna Köln , he went to Olympiacos Piraeus in the first division of Greece after 194 first division appearances in Germany . In 1984 he made the jump to Switzerland to FC Chiasso , where his career as a player ended.

Selection bets

After Neumann had got his problems in the form of stomach ulcers, protracted strains and growth disorders under control, 1. FC Köln's patience with him paid off. The former youth national player and Heinz Flohe became part of a central axis of the team and found himself in the plans of the national coach Helmut Schön for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina . In Munich Neumann made his debut in the same year in the jersey of the national team , which defeated England 2-1. However, it was his only full international match. He had previously played a game in the B national team in 1977 .

Coaching career

In 1986 he took over the sporting management of FC Chiasso as a player- coach and led the team in this constellation for three years until he moved to FC Zurich . He finally had his breakthrough as a coach at his next station, at the Dutch club Vitesse Arnheim .

Together with the former Dutch national goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed as assistant coach , he worked there with great success and also found his private home in the Netherlands . After a short employment with RSC Anderlecht and an interlude with the Turkish İstanbulspor AŞ , he returned to the honor division in 1997 and looked after NAC Breda . In the first season, the class could be held, but in the 1998/99 season the decline could not be stopped. Neumann then returned to Vitesse.

From June 2005 Neumann was coach of the second division club VVV-Venlo , which just missed promotion in the 2005/06 season. He was released there in June 2006.

Since August 2012 Herbert Neumann has been writing the column Changing Pages for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Under the title Seitenwechsel 2.0 , Neumann initially wrote the column together with Matthias Scherz , who, however, stopped working as an author after he started playing in the regional league club SC Fortuna Köln in December 2012 . In terms of content, the column dealt with current events at 1. FC Köln, and was finally discontinued in February 2013.

statistics

  • European Cup
    25 games, 4 goals (1.FC Köln)
    4 games (Olympiacos)

successes

  • 1973 German vice-champion
  • 1973 DFB Cup finale
  • 1977 DFB Cup winner
  • 1978 German champion
  • 1978 DFB Cup winner
  • 1980 DFB Cup final
  • 1983 DFB Cup winner

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Player Lexicon 1963–1994 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , page 358.
  • Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player Statistics from A to Z . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , page 90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Herbert Neumann - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . May 2, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Herbert Neumann - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . May 2, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne , Germany