Horst Heese

Horst Heese
Personnel
birthday	December 31, 1943
place of birth	Dusseldorf ,  Germany
size	177 cm
position	Center Forward
Juniors
Years	station
until 1964	VfB 03 Hilden
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964-1967	Hamborn 07	57 (20)
1967-1969	Wuppertal SV	38 (10)
1969-1972	Eintracht Frankfurt	108 (27)
1972-1974	Hamburger SV	41 (11)
1974-1975	AS Eupen	23 (6)
1975-1976	AS Eupen	- (-)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1979-1980	Kickers Offenbach
1980-1981	1. FC Nuremberg
1981-1982	Freiburg FC
1982-1983	FSV Frankfurt
1983-1985	SC Fortuna Cologne
	Kickers Offenbach
1986	Viktoria Aschaffenburg
1988-1991	Malta
1993	Eintracht Frankfurt
1996	VfB Giessen
2003-2005	Malta
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Heese (born December 31, 1943 in Düsseldorf ) is a former football player and coach .

Player career

Heese played 149 Bundesliga games for Eintracht Frankfurt and HSV (1972 to 1974). In his active time, Heese was considered a center forward who tried to score with every mission and did not spare himself. Soon after the coach Erich Ribbeck had brought him from the lower class Wuppertaler SV to the first division club Eintracht Frankfurt, Heese was given the attribute Kamikaze striker . It was said after him that his head went where other Eintracht players pulled their feet. Heese seemed to be an ideal complement to the Frankfurt team, which mostly preferred well-groomed, technically-savvy football and was often referred to as a beautiful player , not without good reason .

These characteristics finally prompted HSV, who slipped into the relegation battle in the first season after Uwe Seeler and a change in which many young players such as Manfred Kaltz or Caspar Memering had joined the competition team, to Heese as its successor during the winter break of the season 197273 commit. There he initiated regular team evenings in a pub operated by goalkeeper Özcan Arkoç , which helped to bring the club back on the road to success and to keep the league. In all 18 league games after his commitment until the end of the season he was in the starting lineup; He scored his first of six goals this season against his former club in January in a 3-1 home win for Hamburg, who scored 18 of their 28 plus points in the second half of the season. After a coach change from Klaus-Dieter Ochs to Kuno Klötzer in the following season, he was no longer a permanent regular, so he moved to the Belgian club AS Eupen at the end of the season.

Coaching career

After Heese had settled at home in Eupen , he took over the coaching position with the amateur team of SC Fortuna Cologne . From there, Kickers Offenbach guided him into professional football in 1979. In the summer of 1980, the Bundesliga promoted 1. FC Nürnberg signed him as a new coach, as the promotion coach Robert Gebhardt had fallen out with the club's executive committee three weeks before the start of the season and had resigned. However, since the club found itself in the bottom third of the table in the 1980/81 season , despite enormous investments of more than two million D-Marks , he was dismissed in the spring of 1981. In the summer of that year he inherited Bernd Hoss as coach of the then second division club Freiburger FC , but was dismissed here after a series of seven lost games and in a relegation position in March 1982 and replaced on an interim basis by the head of the licensed players department and previous assistant coach Hans Linsenmaier . He then took over the coaching position at the second division promoted FSV Frankfurt , which also dismissed him due to unsuccessfulness. In the season 1983/84 Heese coached SC Fortuna Köln, after an average season he was replaced by Johannes Linßen . He took over the coaching position at Kickers Offenbach again, before he became Viktoria Aschaffenburg's coach in the spring of 1986 . His former Frankfurt team-mate Bernd Hölzenbein assisted him there , but the two were dismissed in the fall.

Heese then worked abroad, first as the national coach of the Maltese national team , then in Cyprus and Malaysia. In April 1993, Hölzenbein brought him back to Eintracht Frankfurt as the responsible SGE board member, where he took over the team as the successor to Dragoslav Stepanović, who was moving to Bayer 04 Leverkusen , until the end of the 1993 season, until he took over Klaus Toppmöller, who was already the new coach for the following season / 94 supervised. During his engagement, he wrote himself in the history books of the German elite class when, on May 22, 1993, in the away game at Bayer 05 Uerdingen, he made a mistake that was widely noticed in the media and had serious consequences, namely the loss of the points actually won after a 5-2 game result led at the green table . In the mistake of having replaced a foreigner with the removal of the "football German" Slobodan Komljenović due to the substitution of the Slovak Marek Penksa by another foreigner, he exceeded the contingent of three simultaneously playing foreigners per team, since with the players Zchadadze , Yeboah and Okocha already had three foreigners on the field. In 1996 he briefly coached VfB Gießen , who wanted to move up to professional football with dubious investors behind them, including obligations such as Uwe Bein and Harald Preuss . He later took over the coaching position for the national team of Malta when he inherited Sigfried Held in autumn 2003 . At the end of 2005 his contract was terminated, at the turn of the year Dušan Fitzel took over the post of Maltese national coach.

Heese has lived with his family in the east Belgian town of Eupen for years.

Web links

• Horst Heese in the database of weltfussball.de
• Horst Heese in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Horst Heese in the Eintracht archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost : "Rustic oak - Peter Nogly is 70" (January 14, 2017, page 32)
2. ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung : "Heese new trainer for three months" (April 1, 1993)
3. ↑ Confused! on www.spox.com
4. ↑ Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung : "Einwurf" (March 24, 2018, p. 26)