Horst-Dieter Höttges

Horst-Dieter Höttges
Portrait of Höttges on a postage stamp
Personnel
birthday	September 10, 1943
place of birth	Munich Gladbach ,  German Empire
size	176 cm
position	Vorstopper / Libero
Juniors
Years	station
	Blue and white dahl
	Rheydter SV
0000-1960	Borussia M'gladbach
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960-1964	Borussia M'gladbach	30 0(0)
1964-1988	Werder Bremen	420 (55)
	SC Oberbecksen
	TSV Achim
1979-1980	Werder Bremen amateurs	14 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1963-1964	Germany U-23	3 0(0)
1965-1974	Germany B	2 0(0)
1965-1974	Germany	66 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Werder Bremen (Youth)
1 Only league games are given.

Horst-Dieter Höttges (born September 10, 1943 in Munich Gladbach , today Mönchengladbach ) is a former German football player .

Career

societies

He joined Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1960 from his parent club Blau-Weiß Dahl . After a year in the Regionalliga West (1963/64 season) at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Höttges played 420 Bundesliga games for Werder Bremen from 1964 to 1978 . He scored at least one goal in every season for Werder. He scored a total of 55 Bundesliga goals, 39 of which were from penalties and 5 from free kicks, and 13 goals in the DFB Cup, nine of which from penalties. He is the field player with the most Bundesliga games for Werder Bremen, he is only surpassed by goalkeeper Dieter Burdenski .

In 1965 he won the German championship with Werder Bremen . In 1966 he was fourth with Bremen, and vice-champion in 1968. He reached the semi-finals of the DFB Cup three times with Bremen (1972, 1973 and 1978). In the 1970s, Höttges was mainly used in the club as a stopper , then as a Libero . Between 1968 and 1978 Bremen only played in the midfield or in the lower ranks of the Bundesliga. There were no great successes despite millions of investments. The flippant saying: “As long as I play, Werder won't be relegated!”, With which Höttges was quoted again and again, should prove to be true.

In 1978 Horst-Dieter Höttges, who was nicknamed "Eisenfuß" as an active player, ended his career as a Bundesliga player. After a year as an amateur in Oberbecksen , he returned to the green and white team: In the 1979/80 season he played for Werder Bremen amateurs in what was then the North Amateur League. The attempt to reactivate him as a sweeper for the defensive Bundesliga team could not be carried out for formal reasons. In fact, in that second season after Höttges, the professional team was relegated from the Bundesliga for a year. In his official farewell game in December 1979 in front of 15,000 spectators, SV Werder and a Bundesliga team (2: 3) faced each other. The selection was supervised by Helmut Schön and with Kevin Keegan , Paul Breitner , Jürgen Grabowski , Bernd Hölzenbein , Berti Vogts and Sigfried Held had long-term companions of Höttges in their ranks. Under the direction of the referee Walter Eschweiler , the "Eisenfuß" converted a penalty in the 37th minute of the game.

Höttges played for several years in the traditional Uwe Seeler team . He is still closely associated with SV Werder Bremen and is a frequent guest at home games in the Weserstadion . He was the supervisor of the SV Werder U15 team.

National team

Höttges made his debut on November 27, 1963 in the U-23 national team , which lost 4-1 to England 's national team in Liverpool . He then played twice in this national team, on March 4, 1964 in Ankara in the 1: 2 defeat against Turkey and on April 29, 1964 in Karlsbad in a 1-0 victory over Czechoslovakia. With a time difference of nine years, he also played two international matches for the B national team . He made his debut for this on September 1, 1965 in Cologne in a 3-0 victory against the Soviet Union, his last appearance was on June 22, 1974 in Hamburg in the 1-0 defeat against the GDR team .

In the senior national team , he came as a faster, strong duel and enthusiastic, but technically limited full- back to 66 missions between 1965 and 1974 and scored one goal (in the 12-0 win against Cyprus on May 21, 1969).

Höttges took part in three world championships and was runner-up with the national team at the 1966 World Cup in England , third at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico , world champion at the 1974 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany and European champion in 1972 .

titles and achievements

• World Champion 1974
• Vice world champion 1966
• European Champion 1972
• German champion 1965
• Silver bay leaf

Web links

Commons : Horst-Dieter Höttges  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Horst-Dieter Höttges in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Horst-Dieter Höttges - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. July 15, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
2. ↑ Kicker sports magazine. No. 99, December 6, 1979. p. 11.
3. ↑ The employees of the WERDER performance center ( Memento from March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 12, 2013)
4. ↑ Kicker Almanach 1987 - p. 136 - ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .
5. ↑ Kicker Almanach 1987 - p. 104 - ISBN 3-7679-0245-1 .
6. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Horst-Dieter Höttges - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. December 12, 2004. Retrieved July 20, 2011.