Josef Piontek

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Sepp Piontek
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Personnel
Surname Josef Emanuel Hubertus Piontek
birthday March 5, 1940
place of birth Breslau ,  German Empire
size 181 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1949-1958 VfL Germania Leer
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1958-1960 VfL Germania Leer
1960-1972 Werder Bremen 278 (16)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1965-1966 Germany 6 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1972-1975 SV Werder
1975-1976 Fortuna Dusseldorf
1976-1988 Haiti
1978-1979 FC St. Pauli
1979-1990 Denmark
1990-1993 Turkey
1993 Bursaspor
1995 Aalborg BK
1997-1999 Silkeborg IF
2000-2002 Greenland
2004 Greenland
1 Only league games are given.

Josef Emanuel Hubertus "Sepp" Piontek (born March 5, 1940 in Breslau ) is a former German football player and coach . As a player, he won the DFB Cup in 1960/61 with SV Werder Bremen and was German champion in 1965 . As a coach, he made a name for himself in particular through his work with the Danish national soccer team .

biography

Career as a player

Piontek is the son of Leonard ( Leo ) Piontek , playmaker from Germania Königshütte . The father won the Upper Silesian Gaume Championship three times and therefore took part in the German Championship.

After the Second World War , Piontek jun. 1945 in the East Frisian Leer . In 1949 he began playing football as a center forward in the youth team at VfL Germania Leer . There he drew attention to himself as a goal scorer in the 1959/60 season in the then amateur league of Lower Saxony .

Under coach Georg Knöpfle he became a contract player for Werder Bremen in the 1960/61 season in what was then the first-class football league north . Piontek made his debut on October 30, 1960 in a 0-0 away game at Bergedorf 85 in the league. He played in the then mostly practiced World Cup system on the side of offensive colleagues Günter Wilmovius , Willi Schröder , Horst Barth and Gerhard Zebrowski in the attack center as a center forward. In the course of his debut round he played in all runner positions and took the right defender position for the first time on March 12, 1961 in a 4-1 away win at Concordia Hamburg . The young hope was after 21 league appearances (1 goal) at the end of the round on the side of record shooter Arnold Schütz (22 goals) runner-up in the north and moved into the final round of the German championship with Werder. There he played all six group matches against 1. FC Köln , Hertha BSC and 1. FC Nürnberg . He was alternately used as a right defender and center runner. In 1961, the DFB Cup was not played until the second half of the year. After successes against 1. FC Saarbrücken (1: 0), 1. FC Cologne (3: 2) and a 3: 2 win after extra time against Karlsruher SC , Piontek and colleagues moved into the September 13, 1961 in Gelsenkirchen Final against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . After a 2-0 win, he won his first title with Werder Bremen.

His achievements also brought him into the notebook of national coach Sepp Herberger . In September 1961 and May 1962, Piontek was used by the DFB as a defender in two international matches of the U23 junior team . In the 1961/62 season , the two games in the European Cup Winners' Cup against eventual winners Atlético Madrid stood out, in which he was faced with the international class of Atletico winger Enrique Collar . After three runners-up in the Oberliga Nord from 1961 to 1963 with a total of 75 league appearances, eight games in the final round of the German championship, three appointments to the U23 (the third international game he played on September 25, 1963 in Karlsruhe against Bulgaria) and three European Cup appearances 1961/62, after the 1962/63 season, the chapter of the regional league era closed for Piontek; from 1963/64 the Bundesliga was played.

He was a defender of Werder Bremen in the first year of the newly created performance class. On the start day, August 24, 1963, he played under coach Willi Multhaup in his regular position of right-back. In the 3-2 home win against Borussia Dortmund , he primarily fought their left wing Lothar Emmerich . When his club had strengthened itself before the second Bundesliga season 1964/65 with the newcomers Horst-Dieter Höttges and Heinz Steinmann purposefully on the defensive and with center forward Klaus Matischak on the offensive, surprisingly won the German championship. Piontek was part of the championship eleven with three goals in 28 league games and, with Höttges, formed one of the best defender pairs in the Bundesliga. Werder only conceded 29 goals in 30 point games and that was the guarantee of winning the title. This success also led him to the German national soccer team . On March 13, 1965, he made his debut under national coach Helmut Schön in a 1-1 draw in Hamburg against Italy in the A-Elf of the DFB. He formed the German defensive in front of goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski with Bernd Patzke , Höttges, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff and Wolfgang Weber . He convinced in the game against experts like Sandro Mazzola , Giovanni Rivera and Mario Corso and was at the end of the season in three other international matches against England (0: 1), Switzerland (1: 0) and on June 6, 1965 in Rio de Janeiro used in a 2-0 defeat against Brazil, led by Djalma Santos and Pelé . In the World Cup year 1965/66 he gained experience in the European Cup of Masters in the games against Partizan Belgrade and came in the World Cup qualifier in Nicosia against Cyprus (6: 0) and two months before the tournament in England, on May 7, 1966 in Belfast Preparatory international match against Ireland (2-0), for his sixth and last international match. Although he belonged to the 40-man squad of the DFB at FIFA at the end of May 1966, he did not make it into the 22-man squad for the 1966 World Cup. The defender competitors Höttges, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , Friedel Lutz and Bernd Patzke drove in his place World Cup tournament.

In 1967/68 he was again German runner-up with Werder Bremen. In 1972 he ended his career. Between 1963 and 1972 he played 203 Bundesliga games for Werder Bremen, scoring 15 goals. He has been described as a professional with a role model. In the mid-1960s, he made a name for himself when he saved a ten-year-old boy from drowning in Bremen. The boy had broken into the ice one winter day and Piontek jumped into a cold lake and brought the boy ashore.

Career as a coach

When Piontek ended his playing career in the 1971/72 season with his last appearance on June 3, 1972 in a 2-2 away draw against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, he was the first coach at SV from October 25, 1971 to May 7, 1972 Werder Bremen exercised. In 1972 he successfully completed his coaching training to become a soccer teacher . From 1972 to 1975 he then looked after SV Werder for three rounds in the Bundesliga. He then moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf for the 1975/76 season , but was released at the end of his first season in April 1976. He then coached the Haiti national team for two years, working under sometimes adventurous conditions, but qualifying for the 1978 World Cup was just missed. In 1978/79 Piontek finally coached the second division club FC St. Pauli and led the club to sixth place, but the club had to accept a license withdrawal a short time later.

On July 1, 1979, Piontek was the new coach of the Danish national team . Piontek was recommended by DFB President Hermann Neuberger , but he was only the third choice behind Hennes Weisweiler and Helmuth Johannsen, who were favored by the Carlsberg brewery . When he took office, Piontek did not speak Danish , but learned the language quickly; while two weeks after taking office he could only speak two hundred Danish words, three weeks later he held the preliminary briefing for an international match in Danish. The Danish association had produced outstanding players time and again, but all of them played abroad and were not considered for the national team. The Danish national team was more of an amateur team until Piontek was hired. Until Sepp Piontek took office, the Danish team - apart from the European Championship in 1964 , which only began in the semi-finals - had never been able to qualify for a major tournament. Piontek traveled around Europe twice a year to see Danish players and get them into the national team. This was the beginning of the most successful period in Danish football. Initially ridiculed by the Danish public and dubbed by the media as a “tough German”, Piontek managed to form a team from individualists.

On September 21, 1983, Piontek's Danes qualified after a 1-0 win at Wembley Stadium in London against England for participation in the 1984 European Football Championship in France and, thanks to euphoric offensive football , reached the semifinals, in which they only got on penalties of Spain failed. This upswing in Danish football gave Danish fans their first participation in a football World Cup two years later . Under Piontek, the team was first in the preliminary round group before Germany at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico . Germany was beaten 2-0 - Piontek is next to Georg Buschner (for the GDR at the World Cup 74) the only German coach who defeated the German team in a competitive game with a national team. Denmark then clearly lost 5-1 to Spain in the round of 16, with Emilio Butragueño scoring four goals.

Two years later, Piontek took part in a European Championship with Denmark for the second time. At the European Championship in 1988 in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Danes, who played in a group with Spain, the hosts and Italy, had to return home after the group stage. In 1990 he was sacked after having missed qualifying for the 1990 World Cup a year earlier. In the same year he became national coach of Turkey and trained it until 1993. The assistant coach of Sepp Piontek was the later Turkish national coach Fatih Terim , because he mastered the Turkish language and so half-hour tactical speeches could be held. During Piontek's tenure, he and the former national coach Jupp Derwall , who previously coached Galatasaray Istanbul , “trained many coaches” and looked for “types of players who were a little different”. At the same time, he coached the Turkish first division club Bursaspor for a short time in 1993 .

In 1995 he returned to Denmark and coached the first division club Aalborg BK , which he led into the UEFA Champions League . From 1997 to 1999 he coached Silkeborg IF before temporarily ending his coaching career. Shortly thereafter, Piontek took over the coaching position of the Greenland national team , which he had already coached in 1981, and coached them until 2001 or 2002. In 2004, he took over the Greenland national team for a short time and then finally ended his career as a football coach.

useful information

In 2002 he was a co-commentator for Danish television at the 2002 World Cup ; he commented on Turkey's games.

Piontek lives with his Danish wife in Blommenslyst on Funen and has a daughter (* 1985).

Successes, honors

as a player
as a trainer
Honors

literature

  • Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Player Lexicon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 .
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 .
  • Svern Bremer, Olaf Dorow: Green and White Wonderland. The history of Werder Bremen . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-621-8 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .

Web links

Commons : Sepp Piontek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardy Green, Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. , P. 293
  2. ↑ a b The right man at the right time. In: Sunday Report. Verlag SonntagsReport GmbH & Co. KG, March 7, 2015, accessed on March 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Sepp Piontek = Werder-Recke and Elected Dane. March 5, 2010, accessed March 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Otto Busche / Heinz Fricke, The great Werder book, football history and stories , page 81
  5. ↑ Jens Reimer Prüß (ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-88474-463-1 , p. 177.
  6. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Josef "Sepp" Piontek - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 1, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  7. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Josef Emanuel Hubertus 'Sepp' Piontek - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 1, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  8. ↑ Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 , p. 359 .
  9. ↑ a b c d e f Jürgen Leinemann: Performance only if you also have fun . Ed .: DER SPIEGEL. No. 26 , June 19, 1986, Sport, pp. 213–215 ( online [accessed on January 2, 2012] online article also available as a PDF file).
  10. ^ "Nu er Sepp Kaiser" (Danish press headline the next day)
  11. ^ Roberto Mamrud: Josef "Sepp" Piontek - International Matches as Coach . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. October 1, 2015. Accessed October 9, 2015.
  12. ^ Term of office of Sepp Piontek as national coach of Turkey , Berliner Morgenpost, accessed on March 21, 2020
  13. ^ National coach Greenland , Der Tagesspiegel, accessed on March 21, 2020
  14. ↑ a b SEPP PIONTEK exclusively in the BZ In: BZ Online. BZ Ullstein GmbH, June 15, 2002, accessed on September 30, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Piontek, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piontek, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw