Karl-Heinz Riedle

Karl-Heinz Riedle
Karl-Heinz Riedle 2012 in the show Markus Lanz
Personnel
Surname	Karl-Heinz Riedle
birthday	September 16, 1965
place of birth	Weiler in the Allgäu ,  Germany
size	179 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	TSV Ellhofen
	SV hamlet
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1986	FC Augsburg
1986-1987	Blue-White 90 Berlin	34 (10)
1987-1990	Werder Bremen	86 (38)
1990-1993	Lazio Rome	84 (30)
1993-1997	Borussia Dortmund	87 (24)
1997-1999	Liverpool FC	59 (11)
1999-2001	Fulham FC	34 0(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1986-1987	Germany U21	4 0(1)
1988	Germany Olympic selection	1 0(0)
1988-1994	Germany	42 (16)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2000	Fulham FC
1 Only league games are given.

Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Riedle (born September 16, 1965 in Weiler im Allgäu ) is a former German football player ( striker ). He played in the Bundesliga , the Italian Serie A and in England in the first and second division as well as in the German national team. In total, he scored 72 goals in 207 Bundesliga games.

Career

Karl-Heinz Riedle began playing football at his home club TSV Ellhofen. With a stopover at SV Weiler (now: FV Rot-Weiß Weiler), he moved to FC Augsburg in the then Bayern League in 1983 .

society

Blue-White 90 Berlin

In the summer of 1986 he was signed by the Bundesliga promoted Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin . There he was a regular player, played all 34 games of the season and scored ten of the 36 goals of his team this season. That made him the best shooter of the blue-whites .

Riedle made his debut in Germany's top division on the first day of the 1986/87 season on August 9, 1986 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In the same game he scored his first Bundesliga goal when he equalized to 1: 1 in the 24th minute. The game ended 1: 4 from the point of view of Berlin. Riedle scored his first “league double pack” on matchday three against Borussia Mönchengladbach . Only when he came on as a substitute in the 74th minute when the score was 1: 2, he turned the game around with a double strike in the 82nd and 90th minutes, securing his club's first win of the season. In the current season, the Berliners won only two more games and relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga after this year .

Werder Bremen

After a season in Berlin, Riedle signed in the summer of 1987 with SV Werder Bremen , which was trained by Otto Rehhagel . He made it into the regular team straight away, only missing one of the 34 season games because of five yellow cards. Together with Frank Ordenewitz , who was of the same age , Riedle scored 33 goals, 18 hits alone, making him the king of internal shooters. Only Jürgen Klinsmann from VfB Stuttgart was better with 19 goals and secured the top scorer. At the end of his first year with Bremen, the team became German champions . In the following year Riedle scored 13 times in the opposing goal and was together with Frank Neubarth the best shooter of the green-whites . In the European Cup , for which Werder was qualified because of the championship in 1988, the attacker made his international debut in the first game of the preliminary round on September 6, 1988 against the Berlin FC Dynamo , which the team lost 3-0. In the second leg on October 11th, Riedle scored his first goal in the competition in the 62nd minute when he defeated Dynamo goalkeeper Bodo Rudwaleit . It was the gate to 3-0. The final score was 5: 0 for Bremen, so that the team could qualify for the round of 16 despite the first leg defeat. Bremen then lost to AC Milan in the quarterfinals .

In the 1989/90 season Riedle only made 20 league appearances and scored seven goals because of a groin operation that had been emerging for a long time. The striker Wynton Rufer , signed in the summer, represented Riedle and was able to celebrate the most goals scored this season. With the talent of the time Marco Bode and experienced players like Manfred Burgsmüller and Frank Neubarth , Riedle faced further competition.

Lazio Rome

In the summer of 1990, Riedle, who had just won the world title with the national team (see below), decided to change. For a transfer fee of DM 13 million, he was signed to Serie A by Lazio Rome . This transfer was considered a record transfer at the time, as never before had so much money been paid for a German player. A year later he was followed by national team colleague Thomas Doll . In his first year in the Italian capital, Riedle prevailed and was a regular player. At the end of the season the club finished 10th. In the following year Riedle scored 13 goals in 29 games and was thus a guarantee for the recovery of his team. With fifth place in the league, it was the best result for Lazio since 1978. A year later, fourth place was achieved, Riedle scored eight times.

Borussia Dortmund

She returned to Germany in the summer of 1993. As the most expensive transfer in the history of the Bundesliga at the time, the striker moved to Borussia Dortmund , where he played for four years. This transfer was part of a "return campaign" initiated by Borussia Dortmund a year earlier for German national players who were under contract in Italy. A year earlier, Stefan Reuter , from 1993 Matthias Sammer , from 1994 Andreas Möller and from 1995 Jürgen Kohler from Italian clubs to Dortmund.

Riedle didn't score as many goals at Borussia Dortmund as in previous seasons, his highest score was seven goals. He scored his first goal for BVB on matchday 3 against SC Freiburg when he scored a 2-1 tie (the game ended with a 3-2 win).

In 1995 and 1996 Riedle won the German championship twice with Dortmund. Since Stéphane Chapuisat was usually set for coach Ottmar Hitzfeld in the storm , Riedle had to compete for second place next to Chapuisat with the attackers Flemming Povlsen , Heiko Herrlich and Ibrahim Tanko in the four years at Dortmund . In the 1995/96 season , when Chapuisat, like the entire BVB storm, weakened, there were many injuries in the offensive area and no attacker played more than 18 games, Riedle was Dortmund's best striker with seven hits. Only midfielders Andreas Möller and Michael Zorc scored more goals. In the league, BVB was replaced by Bayern Munich after winning two titles in the 1997 season , but the team caused a stir internationally. The Dortmund team reached the 1997 Champions League final against Juventus Turin in the Munich Olympic Stadium. With two goals, Riedle became the man of the day and thus secured the 3-1 success against the Italians. The third shooter from Dortmund was Lars Ricken . Riedle, who scored the goals in the 29th and 34th minute, was substituted for Heiko Herrlich in the 67th minute.

Liverpool FC

At the end of the Bundesliga season 1996/97, Riedle decided to move abroad again. Riedle played for two years for the then English record champions FC Liverpool . There the team was third in the Premier League . Riedle, who scored six goals in 25 games, was mostly overshadowed by the then youngster Michael Owen . The following year, under the new coach Gérard Houllier, participation in the UEFA Cup was missed. Although Riedle came to 34 games in his second year with the Reds , he was mostly a substitute.

Fulham FC

In the summer of 1999, Houllier rearranged the squad and suggested seven players, including Riedle, to leave the club. Riedle looked for a new club and found it with Fulham FC , which was playing in the second English division at the time. Although he briefed the team in 2000 as a player-coach, he was mostly only available to the team as a stand-by. At the end of the 2000/01 season, Fulham rose to the Premier League. Riedle announced his retirement at the end of the season in November 2000. Although he thought about a contract extension after the promotion, this did not take place.

Attempt at comeback

At the beginning of 2002, Riedle tried again to make a comeback and joined the training of the Liechtenstein soccer club FC Vaduz, which was then trained by Uwe Wegmann . After three weeks, however, he decided against a contract.

National team

At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, Riedle won the bronze medal with the German team.

In the German national team he played from 1988 to 1994. He scored 16 goals in 42 games. Riedle took part in the 1990 World Cup , the 1992 European Championship and the 1994 World Cup.

He made his debut under team boss Franz Beckenbauer on August 31, 1988 in the World Cup qualifier against Finland . When the score was 3-0 from the Germans' point of view, Riedle came on for Dieter Eckstein and increased to 4-0 in the 87th minute. In the following years he played more and more in Franz Beckenbauer's team and was nominated for the 1990 World Cup in Italy . There he made four appearances, but was striker number 3 behind Jürgen Klinsmann and Rudi Völler . In the quarter-finals match against Czechoslovakia , Riedle was on the pitch for the full 90 minutes. In the semi-final game against England , the penalty shoot-out had to decide on the entry into the final. Riedle scored to 4: 4. Since the Englishmen Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle missed, the German team moved into the final.

He was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for winning the World Cup.

Also for the European Championship in Sweden in 1992, he was appointed to the squad of the DFB team by the new national coach Berti Vogts . In this tournament he was set as a regular player and was in the starting line-up in all five possible games. Vogts encountered critical voices internally, but also in the German press world. In the entire tournament, Riedle scored three goals and, together with three other players, was the top scorer of the tournament. In the 0-2 defeat in the final against the Danish team , he was on the field for over 90 minutes.

When he won the US Cup in 1993 , Riedle scored his only three-pack in the national team on June 13 in the game against the USA . The attacker scored in the 4: 3 win against the hosts in the 34th, 40th and 59th minutes with a head.

His penultimate game in the jersey of the DFB made Riedle in the preliminary round game of the 1994 World Cup in the USA against the selection of South Korea . In the 18th minute of the same game, he also scored his last goal for the national team. The game ended in a 3-2 win. Riedle played his last game for the German national team three months later in the friendly against Russia when he came on for Stefan Kuntz in the 74th minute .

Success as a player

with Werder Bremen :

• 1988: German champion

with the German Olympic team :

• 1988: Bronze at the Olympic Games in Seoul

with the German national team :

• 1990: world champion
• 1992: Vice European Champion
• 1992: one of four top scorer at the European Championship (with 3 goals)

with Borussia Dortmund :

• 1995: German champion
• 1996: German champion
• 1997: UEFA Champions League winner

After retirement

Until spring 2007, Riedle worked as head of sport at the Swiss record champions Grasshoppers Zurich . In addition, the former top striker owns a 4-star hotel and a football camp for children in Oberstaufen im Allgäu as well as a sports and event agency. On August 28, 2014 he and Melanie Winiger drew the groups for the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco . Since November 2014 Riedle has been working as an “international brand ambassador” for his former club Borussia Dortmund.

Private

Riedle is married to his childhood sweetheart Gabriele. They have three children, including Alessandro Riedle .

useful information

Before he became a professional footballer, Riedle learned the trade of butcher.

Although not particularly tall at 1.79 m, he was considered a player with strong header due to his jumping ability, which earned him the nickname "Air Riedle".

Web links

Commons : Karl-Heinz Riedle  - Collection of images

• Official website of Karl-Heinz Riedle
• Karl-Heinz Riedle in the weltfussball.de database
• Karl-Heinz Riedle in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Karl-Heinz Riedle in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Karl-Heinz Riedle in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Karl-Heinz Riedle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Karl-Heinz Riedle - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
2. ↑ Match statistics Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin - 1. FC K'lautern 1: 4 (1: 2) from August 9, 1986 on fussballdaten.de.
3. ↑ Match statistics Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin - Borussia M'gladbach 3: 2 (1: 2) from 23 August 1986 on fussballdaten.de.
4. ↑ Match statistics FC Berlin - SV Werder Bremen 3-0 (1-0) from September 6, 1988 on fussballdaten.de.
5. ↑ Match statistics SV Werder Bremen - FC Berlin 5: 0 (1: 0) from October 11, 1988 on fussballdaten.de.
6. ^ SV Werder Bremen: The squad 1989/1990 ( Memento from December 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de.
7. ↑ Match statistics Borussia Dortmund - SC Freiburg 3: 2 (0: 1) from August 21, 1993 on fussballdaten.de.
8. ↑ Borussia Dortmund: The Kader 1995/1996 ( Memento from December 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de.
9. ↑ Marcel Haisma: Karl-Heinz Riedle - Matches in European Cups . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
10. ^ Karl-Heinz Riedle before moving to Fulham from September 20, 1999 on spiegel.de.
11. ↑ "Torches at the end of your career" from April 17, 2001 on spiegel.de.
12. ↑ Karl-Heinz Riedle trained with FC Vaduz on January 9, 2002 on news.ch.
13. ↑ Karlheinz Riedle does not go to FC Vaduz from February 6, 2002 on news.ch.
14. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Karl-Heinz Riedle - Goals in International Matches . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
15. ↑ Match statistics Finland - Germany 0: 4 (0: 2) from August 31, 1988 on fussballdaten.de.
16. ↑ Match statistics Germany - Czechoslovakia 1: 0 (1: 0) from July 1, 1990 in fussballdaten.de .
17. ↑ Match statistics Germany - England 5: 4 nE from July 4, 1990 in fussballdaten.de .
18. ↑ Neues Deutschland from October 16, 1990, page 12 … the German national soccer team received… the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker for winning the World Cup. ...
19. ^ Karlheinz Riedle: "An embarrassing finale" . In: tagesspiegel.de .
20. ↑ Match statistics USA - Germany 3: 4 (1: 3) from June 13, 1993 in fussballdaten.de .
21. ↑ Match statistics Germany - South Korea 3: 2 (3: 0) from June 27, 1994 in fussballdaten.de .
22. ↑ GC: Berbig and Vogel intervened on April 19, 2007 on blick.ch.
23. ↑ Note in: RevierSport 10/2013, p. 25.
24. ↑ Die Welt : Riedle as the lucky fairy in the group drawing on August 28, 2014.
25. ↑ Borussia Dortmund brings Riedle back , kicker.de from November 22, 2014.
26. ↑ "soccer star with a penchant for meat" of 12 October 2005 on zsz.ch .