Jürgen Friedrich (soccer player)

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Jürgen Friedrich
Personnel
birthday November 11, 1943
place of birth Dresden ,  Germany
size 1.75 m
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
Eintracht Frankfurt
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1962-1968 Eintracht Frankfurt 85 (15)
1968-1974 1. FC Kaiserslautern 158 (26)
1 Only league games are given.

Jürgen "Atze" Friedrich (born November 11, 1943 in Dresden ) is a former German football player and functionary . He was President and CEO of 1. FC Kaiserslautern . As a professional, he played for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1962 to 1968 and for 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1968 to 1974.

Childhood and youth

Jürgen Friedrich was born in Dresden . As a child he moved with his family to Berlin , where he was called "Atze" as a little brother. He is a trained wholesale merchant.

Career as a football player

Eintracht Frankfurt

Coming from the youth of Eintracht Frankfurt , he was appointed to the top division team of Eintracht in 1962.

On March 3, 1963, he made his debut in the Oberliga team of Eintracht in a 2-2 draw against 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 on the side of Friedel Lutz , Richard Kreß , Egon Loy and Hermann Höfer . In this game, the striker also scored his first league goal in the 15th minute. He played a total of 7 league games for Eintracht in the 1962/63 season, in which he scored three goals. In all remaining league games of the concord he was used. In the Bundesliga, which was newly founded for the next season, Friedrich was not a regular player. On September 21, 1963, on the 5th matchday, he came to his first Bundesliga game in a 3-0 win against Eintracht Braunschweig. It was used twice in the 1963/64 season and once in the 1964/65 season. After he came to 9 missions in the 1965/66 season, he became a regular midfielder in the 1966/67 season. For Eintracht he came to a total of 78 Bundesliga games in which he scored 12 goals, as well as 5 cup games in which he scored 2 goals. For Eintracht he also made 17 appearances (3 goals) in the Intertoto round and 5 appearances in the Alpine Cup.

1. FC Kaiserslautern

In 1968 he moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern , for whom he played until 1974. For FCK he played 158 games in the Bundesliga and scored 26 goals. With Kaiserslautern he made 15 appearances in the DFB Cup.

In total, he played 236 times in the Bundesliga and scored 38 goals. He also came to 18 appearances and 2 goals in the European Cup. 14 games and 1 goal were for Eintracht.

He had to end his active career at the age of 31 after a serious broken leg in a friendly against ASV Landau.

Greatest success as a player

With Eintracht Frankfurt he finished 3rd in the Bundesliga in 1963 and 4th in 1967. In the DFB Cup , he reached the 1964 final in Stuttgart, where they lost 2-0 to TSV 1860 Munich .

With FCK he came in 1972 in the DFB Cup final, which was lost in Hanover against FC Schalke 04 0-5.

Friedrich as president of 1. FCK

Friedrich was president of 1. FC Kaiserslautern for two terms: from 1976 to 1981 and from 1985 to 1988. After resigning from FCK at the end of the 1987/1988 season, he was sports director at the Bundesliga rivals from September 27, 1988 to June 17, 1989 Eintracht Frankfurt.

After the relegation of FCK at the end of the 1995/1996 season, Friedrich - along with other members of the opposition, including former coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp - fell the club boss of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Norbert Thines . Friedrich again took over responsibility for the traditional Palatinate club, initially as chairman of the supervisory board. In this role he hired coach Otto Rehhagel , under whose direction the club succeeded in returning to the Bundesliga in 1997 . In the following 1997/1998 season, 1. FC Kaiserslautern was the first to become sensationally German champions and achieved the associated qualification for the Champions League . Friedrich had meanwhile changed to the newly created post of CEO (who replaced the previous "President").

After the Rehhagel era , who resigned from his position after the 7th match day of the 2000/2001 season, they ended up on a disappointing 8th place in the Bundesliga. In the 2001/2002 season that followed, the coaching duo Andreas Brehme and Reinhard Stumpf took 7th place, which was a very unsatisfactory result for the season at the time.

Afterwards Friedrich was involved in a financial and tax scandal in connection with the personal rights of football professionals. He had to answer in court with his colleague Gerhard Herzog and supervisory board chairman Robert Wieschemann, among other things, for tax evasion and was finally convicted. After Friedrich's tenure, the club was close to bankruptcy in 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b kicker.de: Interview with Kaiserslautern's chairman Jürgen Friedrich
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Etch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and official
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , Germany