Klaus Heinlein

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Klaus Heinlein (born December 23, 1953 in Fürth ) is a former German soccer player . With 54 goals in the 2nd Bundesliga , he is the best goalscorer in the league in the history of SpVgg Greuther Fürth and its predecessors.

Athletic career

Heinlein played in his youth for ASV Fürth and drew attention to himself there as a striker , so that he was appointed to the junior teams of the Bavarian and South German Football Associations , where he played alongside Dieter Müller and Bernd Dürnberger , among others . As a result, he committed in the summer of 1973 the local competitor SpVgg Fürth , for whom he made his debut in the then third-class Regionalliga Süd and at the end of the 1973/74 season qualified for the newly created 2nd Bundesliga . There he was an undisputed regular player in the following years while the team was mostly placed in the middle of the table. In the 1977/78 season, overshadowed by some injuries and the death of his father , he still scored 18 goals this season and led the club to sixth place in the table in a storm duo with Erich Unger , followed by fourth place in the table the following season, the best placements for the three-time German champions since long time. Here was Eduard Kirschner takes the place of the 1. FC Saarbrücken entered exchanged Ungers.

1980 changed Heinlein and Kirschner common in the North American Soccer League , where they together with the Hamburger SV to butted Peter Nogly in Edmonton Drillers were a German trio. In the first season, the team won the Western Division of the American Conference , but failed in the championship playoffs in the semi-finals to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers around Gerd Müller , Teófilo Cubillas and Arsène Auguste . The following season, the playoff games were missed.

After two years, Heinlein returned to Germany in 1982, where he competed for BSC Erlangen in the then fourth-class Bavarian State League. There are different versions of the further career path: either he stayed with the club until 1989 and later took over the coaching position at FSV Stadeln or he was active at FSV Bad Windsheim from 1984 and later at SG Randersacker .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Licensed team of SpVgg Greuther Fürth: Klaus Heinlein. In: kleeblatt-chronik.de. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ NASL-Klaus Heinlein. In: nasljerseys.com. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Heinlein, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth , Germany