Hermann Michel (soccer player)

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Hermann Michel (born December 2, 1935 ; † September 18, 2015 in Mettingen ) was a German soccer player , coach and sports teacher who played ten international matches for the German national soccer team from 1961 to 1963 .

career

Player, until 1969

Hermann Michel played for Ibbenbürener Spvg in Tecklenburger Land . In the 1960/61 round, he was promoted to the Westphalia Association. He made his debut in the amateur national team on June 1, 1961 in Oberhausen at the international match against Holland. In the 5-3 success he formed the German defender pair with Anton Regh . At the end of the first round of the Association League - Ibbenbüren took 11th place in Group 1 - the defender was appointed to two more international matches in the DFB team. On April 7 and May 31, 1962, he and Bernd Patzke formed the defense at the internationals against Italy and France. The DFB only played three amateur international matches in 1961 and 1962, with Michel defending in the dress of the German amateur team. With the association selection from Westphalia, the man from SV Ibbenbüren won the national cup for amateurs in Siegen in 1962 with a 1-0 victory against the Middle Rhine. As a tough defender, he earned the nickname Hermann the Teutone .

DFB coach Helmut Schön made Michel his captain in 1963 when building a new amateur national team. In May the DFB amateurs were in England at the anniversary tournament (100 years) of the English Football Association . There, Michel and Walter Liebich as defenders and the runner row with Walter Birkhold , Wilhelm Zott and Horst Kunzmann played well . In September 1963, the two German-German elimination games for the qualifying games for the 1964 Summer Olympics took place in Tokyo. The GDR national soccer team won the first leg with 3-0 goals in Karl-Marx-Stadt on September 15th and was able to get over the 1-2 defeat eight days later in Hanover. In October 1963, the DFB amateurs took part in the “Pre-Olympic Tournament” in Tokyo - they won the tournament - Michel completed his tenth and last international match on October 16 in a 1-1 draw against Japan A. Erhard Ahmann succeeded him as right defender in the next few years . Until the 1966/67 round, Hermann Michel played with SV Ibbenbüren in the Association League Westphalia and then moved to SV Meppen as a player-coach in Emsland .

Trainer at SV Meppen, 1967 to 1974

As a player coach, the ex-amateur national player in 1967/68 led the team from the Hindenburg Stadium in Meppen to the championship in Lower Saxony straight away. In the promotion round to Regionalliga Nord , Michel and his team took third place behind TuS Celle and SV Friedrichsort and only managed to get promoted two years later, in the 1969/70 round. As a coach, Michel could not hold the class with SV Meppen in the 1970/71 season in the Regionalliga Nord . He immediately led the Emsländer back to the Regionalliga in the 1972 promotion round against competitors Bergedorf 85, Blumenthaler SV and Schleswig 06. In the rounds of 1972/73 and 1973/74 he finished 10th and 8th with SV Meppen. Meppen was not qualified for the two-pronged 2nd Bundesliga for the 1974/75 round and had to return to the amateur camp with coach Michel.

As a sports teacher in Meppen

After Michel had completed his training as a football teacher at the Sport University in Cologne , he was hired as a sports teacher at the Marianum Gymnasium in Meppen in the early 1970s , where he taught until 1991. During this time, he not only coached the school's teachers' soccer team, but was also chairman of the staff council for many years .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Heimann, Karl-Heinz Jens: Kicker, football almanac 1993 . Copress-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0398-9 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 2: Bundesliga & Co. 1963 to today. 1st division, 2nd division, GDR Oberliga. Numbers, pictures, stories. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-89609-113-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Michel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1935
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2015
Place of death Mettingen