Karl-Heinz glove

Karl-Heinz glove
Personnel
Surname	Karl-Heinz glove
birthday	November 30, 1947
place of birth	Germany
size	176 cm
position	Midfielder / striker
Juniors
Years	station
	VfB Reichenbach
	VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966-1974	VfB Stuttgart	185 (64)
1974-1980	Eintracht Braunschweig	173 (22)
1980-1982	Offenburg FV	66 0(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1972-1975	Germany B	2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Karl-Heinz Handschuh (born November 30, 1947 in Reichenbach) is a former football player who played 358 games in the Bundesliga and scored 86 goals for the clubs VfB Stuttgart and Eintracht Braunschweig from 1966 to 1980 .

career

Youth and beginning in the Bundesliga until 1967

Karl-Heinz Handschuh came from his hometown club VfB Reichenbach to the youth department of VfB Stuttgart and played as an A-youth in the season 1965/66 in the youth national team of the DFB. Together with VfB teammate Horst Köppel , he formed the right wing of the DFB team for the first time on November 7, 1965 in Belgrade against Yugoslavia. In May 1966 he was active in the UEFA tournament and on June 29, 1966 he said goodbye to the youth team with the international match against Sweden in Kassel. The offensive talent - he was a technically well-trained endurance runner with playmaker qualities - was taken over from the youth department in the VfB licensed squad for the 1966/67 season - like Horst Köppel. The international newcomers Gilbert Gress and Bo Larsson also joined the team of coach Rudi Gutendorf . Handschuh made his debut in the Bundesliga on October 1, 1966 in a 0-0 draw at Wedau Stadium against MSV Duisburg. After the 1: 4 defeat on December 3, 1966 - it was the 15th match day - at the bottom of the table Karlsruher SC - Köppel and glove formed the right wing of VfB - coach Gutendorf was dismissed and from December 7th by the old international Albert Sing replaced. With 33:35 points, the Stuttgart team took 12th place after a disappointing round and Handschuh had been able to prove his talent with three hits in just seven missions.

Regular player at VfB Stuttgart, 1967 to 1974

Under coach Gunther Baumann , the midfield talent made a breakthrough alongside Gilbert Gress in his second Bundesliga season in 1967/68 . Handschuh scored eleven goals in 26 games and VfB had climbed to eighth place. His performance was rewarded by being appointed to the U23 junior national team for the international match against England on June 3, 1968 in Kassel. In the two seasons 1970/71 and 1971/72 he got to know the training work of Branko Zebec before Hermann Eppenhoff took over as coach in Stuttgart for the team with the red chest ring from 1972 . With a 4: 3 away win at Borussia Mönchengladbach - with two glove hits - VfB Stuttgart ended the round 1972/73 on June 9, 1973 . Stuttgart was sixth in the table and had qualified for the 1973/74 UEFA Cup . Handschuh was the internal top scorer with 13 goals, ahead of Hans Ettmayer , Wolfgang Frank and Horst Köppel, who each scored eleven goals. On November 14, 1972, glove completed his first game in the B national team of the DFB . In Winterthur, the German team won the international match against Switzerland with 3-1 goals. Ottmar Hitzfeld , Köppel, Klaus Wunder , Handschuh and Dieter Herzog stormed in the attack .

For financial reasons, the VfB around President Hans Weitpert could not hold the attackers Wolfgang Frank, Horst Köppel and Dieter Schwemmle before the round 1973/74 and recruited the replacement with Hermann Ohlicher (FV Ravensburg), Heinz Stickel (07 Ludwigsburg) and the three of their own Amateurs Markus Elmer, Klaus Jank and Eckhart Müller completely from the amateur camp, as well as Bernd Martin and Arno Schäfer from their own youth. In the Bundesliga, this risk led to ninth place with 31:37 points. The experienced players Gerhard Heinze , Willi Entenmann , Manfred Weidmann , Reinhold Zech , Hans Ettmayer, Roland Mall , Dieter Brenninger and Handschuh with 32 appearances with six goals had this performance in conjunction with the two new strikers Ohlicher (17 goals) and Stickel (12 Goals) brought to fruition. Amazingly, after successes against Nicosia, Tatran Presov, Dynamo Kiev and Vitoria Setubal in the UEFA Cup , Glove and colleagues made it to the semi-finals against Feyenoord Rotterdam . Coach Wiel Coerver's team prevailed against VfB Stuttgart in April 1974 and finally won the UEFA Cup against Tottenham Hotspur in May. Handschuh had played nine games in European competition and scored three goals for VfB. After disagreements about new contractual arrangements, he moved to the Bundesliga returnee Eintracht Braunschweig in the summer of 1974. From 1966 to 1974 Karl-Heinz Handschuh had played 185 Bundesliga games for VfB Stuttgart and scored 64 goals.

Eintracht Braunschweig, 1974 to 1980

Handschuh, who had already trained with the second promoted tennis player Borussia Berlin , quickly became the playful head of the Eintracht team and completed all 68 Bundesliga games in the first two rounds for the team of coach Branko Zebec and achieved fifth place in 1975/76 and thus the entry into the UEFA Cup of the 1976/77 round. Zebec stood for excellent physical condition, disciplined tactical behavior, area coverage with storming full-backs, a four-man midfield usually with Wolfgang Dremmler , Dietmar Erler , Aleksandar Ristic and playmaker Handschuh as well as the two goal-threatening attackers Wolfgang Frank and Bernd Gersdorff . The crowd favorite Danilo Popivoda was only able to demonstrate his extraordinary ability in 15 games in 1976 due to injury. The DFB also registered the playful upswing of the team from the stadium on Hamburger Straße and nominated glove and teammate Gersdorff for the B international match on October 8, 1975 in Duisburg against Romania.

The highlight was the third year in Braunschweig, the 1976/77 season . The Braunschweig team started the second half of the season in second place with 23:11 points. At the end of the season they were one point behind champions Borussia Mönchengladbach, level on points behind runner-up Schalke 04, third. That was the best placement that Handschuh has ever achieved in the Bundesliga. In the UEFA Cup he played with Braunschweig from 1976 to 1978 against Holback BK, Espanol Barcelona, ​​Dynamo Kiev, Start Kristiansand and PSV Eindhoven. He played his last Bundesliga game on April 12, 1980 in a 2-0 home defeat against VfB Stuttgart. Braunschweig was relegated from the Bundesliga in 1980. From 1974 to 1980 Handschuh had played 173 games for Eintracht and scored 22 goals.

For the 1980/81 round, the 32-year-old Swabian returned to Baden-Württemberg and joined the FV Offenburg , thus ending his career in professional football. His son Steffen Handschuh was also a professional footballer at VfB Stuttgart for a short time.

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: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 4: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 2. Goals, crises & a successful trio 1975–1987. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-89784-133-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl-Heinz Handschuh - player profile. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .