Michael Bella

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Michael Bella
Personnel
birthday September 29, 1945
place of birth Duisburg ,  Germany
size 172 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1953-1957 DJK Lösort-Meiderich
1957-1964 Meidericher SV
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1988 Meidericher SV 405 (13)
1978-1979 Sterkrade 06/07
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1966-1970 Germany U-23 4 0(0)
1968-1972 Germany 4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Bella (born September 29, 1945 in Duisburg ) is a former German soccer player who played 405 games with 13 goals in the Bundesliga for MSV Duisburg from 1964 to 1978 , making him the Meidericher's record player.

career

society

Michael Bella emerged from the youth of DJK Lösort-Meiderich. With the beginning of the C-youth he moved in 1957 to the youth department of the Meidericher SV. He started out as a goalkeeper in his youth. Having problems in this position due to his lack of size, he switched to the field and developed into an excellent striker. For the second Bundesliga round in 1964/65 he was taken over together with Rüdiger Mielke from the amateur team in the professional squad of the runner-up in the 1963/64 premiere round. Both young players made two appearances in their first year in the Bundesliga. On March 20, 1965, Bella made her Bundesliga debut at the home game against Hertha BSC . Coach Rudi Gutendorf was released on March 1, 1965. In the second round, Bella already made 22 appearances under the new coach Hermann Eppenhoff and moved into the DFB Cup final on June 4, 1966 in Frankfurt against FC Bayern Munich with his teammates . He played all five games in the DFB Cup in the 1965/66 round. Munich won the final with 4-2 goals. When Gyula Lóránt replaced ex-Schalke Eppenhoff as coach for the 1967/68 round, Michael Bella completed five rounds in a row, all 170 league games for the "Zebras". From 1967/68 to 1971/72 he was not missing in any round game of the MSV.

In the 1974/75 round there was again the battle for relegation in the Bundesliga, with the 14th place the class could be kept, in the DFB Cup, however, the team of coach Willibert Kremer celebrated the entry into the final. Bella was active in all cup games, including the 3-2 win on February 8, 1975 at Bayern Munich. The second cup final was lost for the Libero playing Bella on June 21, 1975 in Hanover with 0-1 goals against Eintracht Frankfurt. In the 1975/76 round, Bella played the four games with MSV in the UEFA Cup against Paralimni Famagusta and Levski / Spartak Sofia.

In his last season, 1977/78, the veteran under coach Carl-Heinz Rühl played 28 games and finished sixth with his team. On matchday 34, he said goodbye with the 1-0 home win against FC Schalke 04 after 405 appearances in the Bundesliga. Teammates in this game were Kees Bregman , Ditmar Jakobs , Bernard Dietz , Theo Bücker , Herbert Büssers , Kurt Jara , Rudolf Seliger and Ronald Worm .

National team

The DFB called the young MSV player for the first time to the international match of the junior national team U-23 on November 16, 1966 in Bucharest against Romania. In 1967 two further appointments followed. When the German national soccer team made a trip to South America in December 1968, Bella was accepted into the squad by national coach Helmut Schön . On December 18 and 22, 1968, the Meidericher played his first two internationals against Chile and Mexico. When the list of 40s was named to FIFA on April 23, 1970, Bella was also one of the DFB's chosen players for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. He was not part of the squad for the tournament. On October 14, 1970 he was for the fourth time in the junior national team in Leicester against England. A month later he played his third senior international match against Greece in Athens. The fourth and final A international match was the European Championship qualifying game on February 17, 1971 in Tirana against Albania.

The defender was part of the squad for the European Championship quarter-final against England on April 29, 1972 in London, the second leg on May 13 in Berlin and the international match against the Soviet Union on May 26, 1972 in Munich. However, it was not used. Also at the European Football Championship in Belgium in 1972 , again Bella was in the squad, he was not used. The Meidericher had his last appointment to the national team at the international match on November 15, 1972 in Düsseldorf against Switzerland.

End of the career

For the season 1978/79 Michael Bella moved to the amateur camp for the game association Sterkrade 06/07 , where he ended his career after a serious knee injury. During his professional career, the trained precision mechanic had built up a steel construction company, which he now runs together with his brother. The former MSV player Kevin Grund completed his training there.

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, Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 6: German Cup history since 1935. Pictures, statistics, stories, constellations. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-146-0 .
  • Jürgen Bitter : Germany's national soccer player: the lexicon . SVB Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00749-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Michael Bella - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. May 8, 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Michael Bella - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. March 27, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Bella, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg , Germany