Karl-Heinz Heddergott

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Karl-Heinz Heddergott (born August 27, 1926 in Düsseldorf ) is a former German football coach and author of specialist literature. The Rhinelander, who comes from the Flehe district of Düsseldorf and lives in Hennef-Geistingen, worked for decades as an association, DFB and Bundesliga coach.

Career

education

He studied from 1948 to 1951 at the German Sport University Cologne and at the same time English at the university. As part of his sports studies, he completed a football teacher training course under the direction of national coach Sepp Herberger . This was the third central course in 1949/50. Course colleagues were u. a. Fritz Herkenrath , Helmuth Johannsen , Julius Ludorf , Radoslav Momirski , Hans Rohde , Rudi Schlott , Paul Schneider , Richard Schneider , Horst Stürzen .

Trainer stations

  • 1950–1954: Rhineland Football Association
  • 1954–1956: West German Football Association; in Westphalia
  • 1956: Assistant to national coach Herberger for half a year
  • 1956–1967: Middle Rhine Football Association
  • 1967 to April 17, 1980: DFB
  • April 16 to October 13, 1980: Bundesliga coach at 1. FC Köln
  • then various stations abroad
u. a.:Technical Director of the US National Team ,
National coach Oman

He was responsible for all teaching work at the Mittelrhein Football Association. At the DFB, he supervised the selection of students, was responsible for the methodological orientation in school football as well as the training and testing of coaches. In the specialist magazine "Der Fußball Trainer", issue 11, year 1975, page 7, the following is explained about DFB courses in the Hennef sports school of the Mittelrhein Football Association:

"Every year the DFB conducts 4 A-license courses in Hennef, which are under the direction of Karl-Heinz Heddergott. DFB sports teacher Heddergott goes completely into his work, and if many active in the field of professional football say they in her career never so instructive and game related 've trained so that speaks very clearly to the work of former FVM sports teacher . "

As early as 1965 he was appointed to the teaching staff of the World Football Association.

He was also intensively involved in the congresses of the Association of German Football Teachers (BDFL) and in the association trainer seminars, mostly in a leading role in theory and practice.

Textbook "New Football Teaching"

With the writing of this revolutionary work in the mid-seventies, Heddergott made a respectable name for himself internationally in the teaching of football. For decades he shaped the ideas and the playful training aids, especially in qualitative youth training. His overriding basic idea of ​​the "game and competition-oriented" exercise method, away from abstract, constructed exercise templates, away from stubborn and joyless drill, towards the game has pushed aside encrusted structures. The joy of playing must be the driving force in the learning process as well as in training, so that open-mindedness and broad participation guarantee rapid teaching and learning success. The book showed new ways to a good football game. It was based on the player and the nature of the game. The "playing" person was the focus.

Bundesliga coach at 1. FC Cologne

"Master coach" Hennes Weisweiler left 1. FC Cologne on April 15, 1980 after five Bundesliga games without a win. This was preceded on April 12, 1980, the 28th matchday, the 0-1 defeat at Hertha BSC after an own goal by Bernd Schuster in the 73rd minute of the game. The billy goats were in 4th place with 32:24 points and had lost direct contact with the leaders Hamburger SV and FC Bayern Munich , each with 40:16 points. The conflict with President Peter Weiand, parts of the team and the Cologne media landscape, which had been simmering for some time, prompted Weisweiler to accept the princely rewarded offer from Cosmos New York and to break the tent in Germany. This was significant news for the media and was seen as a loss to football; However, the fact that an immediate solution was available with the DFB coach Karl-Heinz Heddergott as his successor even exceeded the media response to the Weisweiler resignation.

The first game for the new Bundesliga coach was on April 26 at 1. FC Kaiserslautern on the Betzenberg. Now the players were able to show that after being “liberated” from Weisweiler's performance-hindering authority, they would be capable of a new joy in playing, encouraged by the communicative gift of the new man at the director's desk. But there was no jolt by the team, it was a 2-0 defeat.

More decisive was the 1: 2 defeat in the DFB Cup final on June 4, 1980 against Fortuna Düsseldorf . After the 2-0 away win at Schalke 04 in the semi-finals on May 10th after goals by Pierre Littbarski and Tony Woodcock , new courage and confidence returned to the cathedral city. Now it was set on the new beginning in the round 1980/81. In terms of personnel, the good squad was reinforced with Rainer Bonhof, who returned from Spain, and Swiss national player René Botteron . Even without the two newcomers, there were several internationals in the squad: Schumacher, Cullmann, Konopka, Zimmermann, Schuster, Neumann, Dieter Müller, Woodcock, Okudera.

In its special issue for the 1980/81 season, KICKER wrote about the situation at 1. FC Köln:

“'A turning point is on the horizon. Final end of the Weisweiler era, new beginning from scratch! '
Coach Heddergott is by no means questioned as a formulation that has been popular in Swabia for some time. The late career in the Bundesliga business, who replaced Hennes Weisweiler, who was phlegmatic on his last days at work and only “cosmo (s) politically thinking”, is firmly in the saddle. Heddergott, however, is also facing the great test. The former DFB coach, who dared to plunge into a professional adventure, who was not held accountable in the past season after Weisweiler's early abdication, is now responsible. The new billy goat elf has to bear his signature. He is measured by that. Cologne has plenty of experts. Bringing them together into a team that can build on the double year of 1978 is Heddergott's mission. A task that has it all. "

However, the season started badly. After just five games, young star Schuster fell out with Heddergott and switched to FC Barcelona a few weeks later . After the 8th matchday the end came for Heddergott. With 7: 9 points and 15:18 goals in 12th place, his Bundesliga coaching work at 1. FC Köln was over. The professionals couldn't do anything with Heddergott, who was vilified as a “theoretician”, and even used him as an excuse for their inadequate performance and verbal lapses. Goalkeeping and conditioning coach Rolf Herings sat on the bench of 1. FC for one game and lost 5-1 in Kaiserslautern. After that, Rinus Michels , the former successful coach of Ajax Amsterdam, took over the team.

Karl-Heinz Heddergott's activities in the Bundesliga came to an end.

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 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's football. The encyclopedia. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00857-8 .
  • New soccer teaching, Limpert-Verlag, Bad Homburg, 1978, ISBN 3-7853-11-621 .

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personal data
SURNAME Heddergott, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer coach and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf