Klaus Fischer (soccer player)

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Klaus Fischer
Klaus Fischer 2013-06-29.jpg
Fisherman (2013)
Personnel
birthday December 27, 1949
place of birth KreuzstraßlGermany
size 178 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1958-1961 SC Kreuzstraßl
1961-1968 SC Zwiesel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1970 TSV 1860 Munich 60 0(28)
1970-1981 FC Schalke 04 295 (182)
1981-1984 1. FC Cologne 96 0(31)
1984-1988 VfL Bochum 84 0(27)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971 Germany Juniors 2 00(2)
1977-1982 Germany 45 0(32)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1988-1989 VfL Bochum (assistant coach)
1989-1992 FC Schalke 04 (assistant coach)
1990 → FC Schalke 04 (interim)
1992 → FC Schalke 04 (interim)
1992-1995 FC Schalke 04 amateurs
1 Only league games are given.

Klaus Fischer (born December 27, 1949 in Kreuzstraßl near Lindberg , Regen district ) is a former German football player and trainer . The Bavarian had its heyday in the 1970s with FC Schalke 04 , with whom he was runner-up and cup winner. The Bundesliga player with the second highest goal scoring also played in later years for 1. FC Köln and VfL Bochum . Fischer, who achieved sustained international fame with drop-back goals , took part in two soccer world championships for Germany and reached the World Cup final in 1982.

life and career

Klaus Fischer already played sports as a small child. In summer he played soccer, in winter ice stock sport was on the program. As a teenager, he became Bavarian, German and European ice stock champions with SC Kreuzstraßl from the Bavarian Forest . He learned the trade of glassblower .

Klaus Fischer was invited by the later Mönchengladbach master maker Hennes Weisweiler for a week of trial training, but he found him physically too weak and put him off for the following year. Meanwhile, he should stay with his club in Zwiesel . The TSV 1860 Munich had no such concerns and so was fishing in 1968 as a 18-year-old from the district division club SC Zwiesel to the lions . He quickly established himself there as a regular player and already played 26 Bundesliga games in his first season, in which he scored a total of nine goals. On the 21st matchday he was the only expulsion of his career in the 0-2 defeat of the Sechzger in Dortmund in the 86th minute - in 535 Bundesliga games he otherwise only got eight yellow cards. He played his second season with the Lions completely. He scored 19 goals (3rd place on the list of goalscorers). He could not prevent the descent of TSV 1860 in 1970.

Change to Schalke 04

He got a very good offer from FC Schalke 04 , which he also signed. A short time later he also signed a new contract with 1860 Munich. He received a fine from the DFB and was allowed to play for Schalke. During this time he also did his basic military service . He found a new home in the Ruhr area and remained loyal to the association for more than a decade. He also established himself there immediately in the main lineup. In the 1971/72 season, Fischer was a key player in a strong team around midfield director Heinz van Haaren , in which Norbert Nigbur had an outstanding season in goal. Behind him, Klaus Fichtel and Rolf Rüssmann were at the fore and ensured that Schalke had to accept fewer goals than all of their Bundesliga competitors. Stan Libuda and the Kremers twins, Erwin and Helmut , were other key players in the strong formation that was able to keep the championship race open until the last match day. At the first Bundesliga game in the history of the Munich Olympic Stadium , however, the new home side of FC Bayern gave a gala performance with the famous Maier - Beckenbauer - Müller axis and won the title with a clear 5-1 victory. Fischer scored the consolation goal . His 22nd goal of the season secured him, together with Hans Walitza from Bochum, second place in the list of goalscorers behind Gerd Müller, who scored 40 times this season.

The Gelsenkircheners were able to comfort themselves a little in the DFB Cup . In the semifinals at 1. FC Köln, Fischer quickly scored the 0-1, but in the second half the hosts pulled away 4-1. In the second leg that was usual at the time, Fischer also scored the 1-0 for Schalke early on, who were ahead 5-2 after 120 minutes and won the penalty shoot-out. In the final in the Lower Saxony Stadium in Hanover, which took place just three days after the Bundesliga final, Schalke defeated 1. FC Kaiserslautern 5-0, with Fischer contributing 4-0 (his sixth goal in the competition). The 5: 0 is still the final record today, but it was set by the Schalke team in the 2011 DFB Cup final when they beat MSV Duisburg 5: 0.

Manipulation and consequences

The following seasons were difficult for Schalke 04. The club was involved in the big Bundesliga scandal in 1970/71 . Numerous players, including Klaus Fischer, spent a lot of time in courtrooms. The Schalke players had deliberately lost a game against Arminia Bielefeld against relatively low pay and as a "favor for Waldemar Slomiany " with 0: 1 that season. In the 1972/73 season Schalke was only able to break away from the relegation ranks in the last days of the game. Fischer himself, like other teammates, did not play at all, as he was initially banned from the DFB for life. Years later, Fischer said: “My God, how stupid we were back then. Losing a game for 2,300 marks per man couldn't be more stupid. At that time, the prize money was 2,000 marks. "

return

At the beginning of the 1973/74 season, Fischer was pardoned and he was allowed to play again from the tenth game day. He scored 21 goals in 25 games (third place in the top scorer list). But the big team from 1972, in which many hopes had been placed, was destroyed - it was only enough for places in the upper midfield. In 1976, 6th place was enough for a UEFA Cup participation. With his personal best of 29 goals, which also earned him the top scorer cannon, Fischer had a decisive role in this, especially since the goal difference decided the placement. In the following season, the Schalke team, who had been strengthened by the right wing of the national team, Rüdiger Abramczik , and the great Yugoslav midfield director Branko Oblak , among others, were even runner-up. Fischer contributed 24 goals to Schalke's 77 goals this season. The highlight of the season was the 7-0 win at Bayern, in which Fischer scored four goals.

For the next season Oblak was sold to FC Bayern and other important players left Schalke 04, which was plagued by financial difficulties, and continued to lose ground in the following years. A complicated fracture of the shin, which he suffered in March 1980 in the home game against Bayer Uerdingen , had particularly serious consequences for Fischer . He was out for ten months and could not take part in the 1980 European championship in Italy, where Germany won the title with center forward Horst Hrubesch .

The club, which was still weakened in terms of personnel, soon got into the relegation zone of the Bundesliga in the 1980/81 season and was relegated in 1981 as the penultimate. After eleven years at Schalke, Klaus Fischer announced his move to 1. FC Köln in the current 1980/81 season . For this, Fischer was massively verbally abused by fans and threatened with physical violence; eggs were thrown against his front door.

Later years in Cologne and Bochum

The 1. FC Köln under coach Rinus Michels was runner-up in Fischer's first season there. Fischer scored seven goals this season (third place in the club's internal goalscorer list - behind the Englishman Tony Woodcock and the young, up-and-coming Pierre Littbarski ). In the following two years he scored twelve goals each. A highlight of his time in Cologne was winning the DFB Cup in 1983 , when the billy goats defeated second-rate city rivals SC Fortuna Köln 1-0 in the final. After three seasons and 31 goals in 96 games, his contract was not extended.

Ottokar Wüst , President of VfL Bochum, brought Fischer to Bochum. He had a great first season with VfL Bochum . The fisherman, who is now 35 years old, played all of the season's games in 1984/85 and scored 16 goals.

Summary

In total, Fischer had 535 appearances in the Bundesliga for the clubs TSV 1860 Munich, FC Schalke 04, 1. FC Cologne and VfL Bochum.

In the national team he scored 32 goals in 45 games between 1977 and 1982. According to Gerd Müller, this is the best rate (0.71) for a top 10 striker and a striker with at least 45 international matches. Fischer took part in two soccer world championships and was runner-up in Spain in 1982 .

He became known in particular for his overhead kicks , which were mostly preceded by flanks from Rüdiger Abramczik . In 1977 in the international match between Germany and Switzerland (4-1) he scored the goal of the year , which later also became goal of the decade and goal of the century . Fischer also scored the important 3: 3 in the extra time of the 1982 World Cup semi-final against France ( night of Seville ) with an overhead kick - this goal was voted Goal of the Year 1982 . In fact, Fischer scored a total of four hits with overhead kicks during his career. Six of his goals were each voted goal of the month , with a special record; for there are almost 28 years between his first goal of the month and his last.

With 268 goals, he is second behind Gerd Müller in the Bundesliga all-time goalscorer list. Klaus Fischer ended his active career in 1988.

Activity as a trainer

In the 1988/89 season, Fischer was the assistant coach of Franz-Josef Tenhagen in Bochum. He then worked from 1989 to 1992 as an assistant coach for FC Schalke 04. After the layoffs of Peter Neururer and Aleksandar Ristić , he briefly took over the training of the professional team. After signing Udo Lattek , Fischer trained the amateur team of FC Schalke 04 for three years.

Private

Fischer was at times a player in the traditional Uwe Seeler team. In 1997, Fischer opened a football school, which he still runs. In 2006, together with the author Alexandra Steil-Wehr, he published his autobiography entitled Fallrückzieher und mehr… . Fischer is married and lives with his wife in Gelsenkirchen.

successes

Web links

Commons : Klaus FIscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Fischer: Master in ice stock sport.
  2. A fisherman lets it flounder in the net, WAZ from May 24, 2004, PDF ( Memento from September 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Detailed interview in: RevierSport 15/2012, p. 52 f.
  4. a b "Nobody had to persuade me to join VfL"; vflbochum.de, September 5, 2010 ( Memento from September 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. Detailed interview in: RevierSport 15/2012, p. 52 f.
  6. Detailed interview in: RevierSport 15/2012, p. 52 f.
  7. so Fischer in a detailed interview in: RevierSport 15/2012, p. 52 f.
  8. Klaus Fischer turns 60 ( Memento from June 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland , December 26, 2009
  9. cf. Detailed interview in: RevierSport 15/2012, p. 52 f.
  10. Klaus Fischer: This is how you train overhead kicks Interview on welt.de from June 6, 2010, accessed on September 4, 2014
  11. http://www1.sportschau.de/sportschau_specials/tordesmonats/tor_des_monats/html/popup.php5?show=statistik