Hans-Joachim Abel

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Jochen Abel
Personnel
Surname Hans-Joachim Abel
birthday June 25, 1952
place of birth Dusseldorf ,  Germany
size 180 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
SC Black and White 06 Düsseldorf
0000-1971 VfL Benrath
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1974 Fortuna Dusseldorf 6 0(1)
1974-1977 Westfalia Herne 102 (63)
1977-1982 VfL Bochum 144 (60)
1982-1984 FC Schalke 04 63 (23)
1985-1987 VfR Baumholder
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1973 Germany amateurs 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1987-1991 FC Balzers (player-coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Hans-Joachim "Jochen" Abel (born June 25, 1952 in Düsseldorf ) is a former German soccer player . The striker was mainly active with clubs from North Rhine-Westphalia . In the 1970s he was one of the most famous players in the Ruhr area .

Life

The trained car mechanic Jochen Abel played at the beginning of his career for the Bundesliga club Fortuna Düsseldorf .
Under coach Heinz Lucas he made two substitutions in the Bundesliga in the 1972/73 round. In his second Bundesliga round, 1973/74, four more missions were added with one goal. Reiner Geye , Klaus Budde , Wolfgang Seel and Dieter Herzog were his established competitors for a place in the attack formation. Abel had a total of six Bundesliga appearances with one goal for Fortuna.

For the 1974/75 round, Abel moved to the then third-class Association League Westphalia to Westfalia Herne . At the petrol station chain Goldin owned by the patron Erhard Goldbach from Herne , he had the opportunity to work as a petrol station auditor in addition to football. With Westfalia Herne he rose to the 2nd Bundesliga, group north . Abel had contributed to this success with 32 goals this season in 29 appearances. In his debut year in the 2nd Bundesliga, 1975/76, Herne finished tenth and Abel scored 17 goals in 33 appearances. He played a total of 73 games with 31 goals in the 2nd Bundesliga for Westfalia from 1975 to November 1977. He was considered a fan favorite at the time.

In October 1977 Abel moved to the neighboring city for first division club VfL Bochum , where he played until 1982. In his first season he scored 15 goals in 20 games. As before in Herne, Abel was a crowd favorite at VfL. He was sung about by the fans with “Hee Jochen Abel, bumbum, lalala ...”.

In 1982 he moved to FC Schalke 04 , which was relegated from the Bundesliga a year later. In the following second division season, Abel had 14 goals in the direct recovery of the club, but a complicated back injury was partly responsible for the fact that his contract was not extended in 1984.

Abel played 183 times in the Bundesliga for Fortuna Düsseldorf, VfL Bochum and Schalke 04 and scored 70 goals. His 60 Bundesliga goals for VfL Bochum were a club record. In addition, Abel played on May 23, 1973 a game for the national amateur team in a 2-1 win against Austria.

Abel's specialty were penalties. In the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga he scored 22 penalties (16 for VfL Bochum) and converted everyone. This record has not yet been exceeded in the Bundesliga. In the DFB Cup, however, Abel missed three penalties.

After a break, Abel played for VfR Baumholder in the third highest amateur league and in 1987 moved to Balzers in Liechtenstein to become a player-coach. He then worked there as a warehouse clerk at a company that sells connectors for the audio industry.

statistics

  • Bundesliga (183 games / 70 goals)
  • 2. Bundesliga (103 games / 45 goals)
  • DFB-Pokal (30 games / 21 goals)
  • European Cup (1 game / 0 goals)

successes

literature

  • Ralf Piorr (Ed.): Much more than just a game. 100 years of SC Westfalia 04 Herne. FRISCH -tex publishing house. Herne 2004. ISBN 3-933059-38-0 , pp. 245-250
  • "I wanted people to remember fondly" - Interview with Jochen Abel, in: Reviersport 85/2011, p. 61

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c http://www.100-schalker-jahre.de/stichtag_040625_abel.php
  2. ↑ Markus Franz: The boys from Castroper Strasse. The history of VfL Bochum. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 3-89533-506-1 . P. 291
  3. ↑ RevierSport 85/2011, pp 61
  4. ^ Abel: A native of Düsseldorf in Liechtenstein . Rheinische Post, September 4, 2008. Memento from the Internet Archive of March 8, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Hans-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abel, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf , Germany