Hubert Schmitz

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Hubert Schmitz (born April 15, 1955 in Düren ) is a former German soccer player . He played from 1976 to 1988 as a professional footballer in the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga . As a midfielder, he scored 14 goals in 98 Bundesliga games. In the 2nd division he made 109 appearances and 3 goals.

career

amateur

When Hubert Schmitz won the runner-up in the Mittelrhein Verbandsliga in the 1975/76 season with TuS 08 Langerwehe and played two games for the German amateur championship against VfB Oldenburg , he also played two games in the German national football team in March and April 1976 of the amateurs . In Offenburg Austria and Bremerhaven Denmark were both beaten 1-0 goals. For the 1976/77 round, coach Dietrich Weise brought him to Fortuna Düsseldorf in the Bundesliga. In his first year in the Bundesliga, Weise used him in three games. Schmitz made his debut on August 28, 1976 in the 2: 4 defeat at Tennis Borussia Berlin , when Benny Wendt scored all four goals for the "Veilchen". In this round there were no further appearances with the DFB amateurs. Schmitz played the three other amateur international games in the 1977/78 round when he had 19 Bundesliga games with two goals at Fortuna and Düsseldorf was fifth in the table. His fifth and final game with the amateur national team was the game for third place at the 1978 European Amateur Championship in Athens against Ireland. On May 15, the DFB amateurs won the game 3-0.

Fortuna Düsseldorf, 1976 to 1981

The third season with Fortuna Düsseldorf, 1978/79, was the most successful for the man from Langerwehe. In the Bundesliga he made 25 appearances with three goals. On May 16, 1979 he acted in the midfield of Fortuna on the side of Rudi Bommer , Dieter Brei and Thomas Allofs in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup against FC Barcelona . The Spaniards won the final in Basel with 4: 3 goals after extra time. In the third highlight of the season, the DFB Cup final on June 23, 1979 in Hanover against Hertha BSC , Schmitz and his teammates celebrated the victory with a 1-0 win after extra time. In this round he was also there in the 7-1 victory on December 9, 1978 in the Rheinstadion at home against Bayern Munich.

When Fortuna won the DFB Cup on June 4th in Gelsenkirchen with 2-1 goals against 1. FC Köln in 1980, Schmitz was not in the final team. He only participated in the first two main rounds of the competition in the games against Borussia Neunkirchen and Wacker 04 Berlin. In his fifth season with Fortuna, 1980/81, he only made 12 appearances with four goals and therefore moved to Hertha BSC in the 2nd Bundesliga in the summer of 1981. In the last Bundesliga game for Fortuna, he scored both goals for coach Heinz Höher's team on June 13, 1981 in a 2-2 home draw against Eintracht Frankfurt .

2nd Bundesliga, 1981 to 1988

With coach Georg Gawliczek , Hertha BSC came in 1982 to the runner-up and promotion to the Bundesliga. Schmitz had played 34 games. Gawliczek and his top performers Gregor Quasten , Werner Schneider , Rolf Blau , Jürgen Mohr and Thomas Remark could not achieve relegation in the first division in 1982/83 . Schmitz made 24 appearances in this series. After relegation, he ran again in 29 games for Hertha BSC in the 2nd division in 1983/84 and then moved back to the football west. He played a round in the amateur league in North Rhine-Westphalia for Viktoria Köln in 1984/85 before he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1986 with Rot-Weiss Essen . From 1986 to 1988 he laced his soccer shoes for RWE in 47 games in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the summer of 1988, the trained wholesaler ended his career as a licensed footballer.

literature

  • Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
  • Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
  • Matthias Kropp: Triumphs in the European Cup. All games of the German clubs since 1955 (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Volume 20). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1996, ISBN 3-928562-75-4 .
  • 25 years 2nd league, AGON Sportverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89784145-2 .

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Schmitz - player profile. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren