Michael Preetz

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Michael Preetz
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Michael Preetz (2019)
Personnel
birthday 17th August 1967
place of birth Dusseldorf ,  Germany
size 192 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
0000-1982 Düsseldorf SC 99
1982-1986 Fortuna Dusseldorf
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1990 Fortuna Dusseldorf 88 (20)
1990-1992 1. FC Saarbrücken 70 (29)
1992-1994 MSV Duisburg 65 (19)
1994-1996 SG Wattenscheid 09 60 (17)
1996-2003 Hertha BSC 227 (93)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1988-1989 Germany U-21 2 0(0)
1999-2000 Germany 7 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Preetz (born August 17, 1967 in Düsseldorf ) is a German football official and former football player .

Player career

society

Michael Preetz started playing soccer at school. At the age of eight he became a member of a small Düsseldorf football club, DSC 99 , then played in district and city teams before he moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf at the age of 14 . There he played up to the A-youth and was also appointed to various DFB selection teams. At the age of 18 he switched to the Fortuna professionals, where he was striker number four behind Michael Blättel , Sven Demandt and Henrik Ravn Jensen in his first professional year 1986/87 .

Preetz made his Bundesliga debut on September 2, 1986 in a 2-0 win against SV Waldhof Mannheim . The then Fortuna coach Dieter Brei surprisingly brought the young player into the starting line-up and he thanked him with his first professional goal for the 1-0 lead. With a total of five goals at the end of the season, Preetz was the third best shooter in his team. Nevertheless, even he could not prevent the relegation of the Düsseldorf team. In the 2nd Bundesliga , the tall attacker was initially ousted by newcomer Thomas Seeliger . But in the 1988/89 season Preetz rose again to the starting line-up and with eleven goals had a large share in the promotion.

In the summer of 1990 he decided to switch to the then second division club 1. FC Saarbrücken , where Preetz became the undisputed number one in the storm center. For two years in a row he was by far the most dangerous goal-scoring player in the FCS . In the 2nd Bundesliga he won the top scorer in the 1991/92 season in the southern season . Finally, during the 1992/93 season, MSV Duisburg lured him to the Ruhr area. With a lead of eleven goals over Ferenc Schmidt , Preetz also won the internal goalscorer list with his new employer. With Duisburg he made his second promotion to the German upper house. But no sooner had a déjà vu event caught up with him and Preetz again failed to assert himself, so that he was drawn into the second division for the second time. The SG Wattenscheid 09 secured the services of the center forward in the summer of 1994, but gave him up after two seasons and let him switch to Hertha BSC .

At Hertha Preetz celebrated his third promotion in the first year after his arrival. With nine goals in the promotion year, he had an enormous share in the rise, but was in the shadow of Axel Kruse . After Kruse injured himself during the first half of the 1997/98 season, all hopes were on Preetz. This finally made the breakthrough in the Bundesliga in the third attempt and led the team to eleventh place in the table with fourteen goals scored. In the following four years he always remained the capital's club's best shooter - all in all, Preetz scored double digits in five seasons in a row. In the 1998/99 season he was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 23 goals and the Berliners made it into the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the club's history . It was not until the Brazilian Marcelinho was signed in the summer of 2001 that the Berliners were no longer dependent on Michael Preetz alone.

In 2001 and 2002 he won the league cup with the Berliners . It remained the only two titles in his career. In the meantime, Preetz was the team's captain and is still Hertha's record scorer with a total of 93 goals.

National team

In the senior national team Preetz played seven times from 1999 to 2000 and scored three goals, including the 1500th goal of the DFB-Elf. Before that, he was a member of various youth teams and was U20 vice world champion in Chile in 1987 . On February 6, 1999, the striker made his debut in the senior team. In the 3-0 defeat against the USA, national coach Erich Ribbeck put him in the starting line-up of the Germans. Three days later, in the game against Colombia , he scored his first two goals in the DFB dress. In 1999 Preetz was part of the squad for the Confederations Cup in Mexico . There he managed a hit in the only win in competition against New Zealand. Preetz played his last game for the senior national team on April 26, 2000 against Switzerland in Kaiserslautern, when he was allowed to play from the start, but without a goal and was substituted for Ulf Kirsten at half-time.

Functionary career

Preetz was involved as vice-president of the players' union VDV between 1994 and 2003 . He completed an 18-month correspondence course in sports management .

After the end of his playing career in 2003, he switched to the management of Hertha BSC as Dieter Hoeneß's assistant and eventually became head of the club's licensed player department. He was considered the designated successor to Hoeneß, who wanted to give up his engagement as manager and managing director in 2010. After Hoeneß had resigned in June 2009, Preetz took over his duties. His first year as a manager ended with relegation from the Bundesliga as bottom of the table. The direct resurgence as champions of the second division was attributed to a not insignificant part to him, whereupon his contract was extended until 2014. In the following season, however, Hertha only reached the place for the relegation games against Preetz 'former club Fortuna Düsseldorf. Hertha could not use this opportunity, whereupon the club was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. This was followed by the direct resurgence as a second division champion again.

His contract is expected to run until 2022.

useful information

  • Michael Preetz is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Youth Football Foundation.
  • With 93 goals Preetz is Hertha record scorer.
  • At the Junior World Cup in 1987 , Michael Preetz was runner-up with the German team

successes

Awards

Web links

Commons : Michael Preetz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fortuna Düsseldorf: Der Kader 1986/1987 ( Memento of April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de
  2. ^ Match statistics Fortuna Düsseldorf - SV Waldhof Mannheim 2: 0 (2: 0) from September 2, 1982 on fussballdaten.de
  3. ^ MSV Duisburg: Der Kader 1992/1993 ( Memento from March 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de
  4. ↑ Hertha BSC: The squad 1996/1997 ( Memento from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Michael Preetz - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. June 4, 2015. Accessed June 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ http://t-online.sport-dienst.de/ Spieler/preetzmichael/1999/ Spielterstatistik Preetz, accessed September 5, 2008
  7. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Michael Preetz - International Appearances . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. June 4, 2015. Accessed June 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ Match statistics USA - Germany 3: 0 (3: 0) from February 6, 1999 on fussballdaten.de
  9. ↑ Match statistics Germany - Colombia 3: 3 (1: 1) from February 9, 1999 on fussballdaten.de
  10. ↑ Match statistics Germany - Switzerland 1: 1 (0: 1) from April 26, 2000 on fussballdaten.de
  11. ↑ GERMAN PROFESSIONALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CONTRACTUAL FOOTBALLERS POSTPONING THE RIGHT TO STRIKE "They should play football and be done" Article in the Berliner Zeitung on VdV activities by Preetz, accessed September 5, 2008
  12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Farewell article in the VdV member newspaper, p. 23, accessed September 5, 2008
  13. ↑ The sports manager diploma (IST) in his pocket - Michael Preetz starts his new job at Hertha BSC Berlin. IST Study Institute, July 4, 2003, accessed April 25, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Why Preetz deserves the contract extension. In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 3, 2011, accessed June 11, 2011.
  15. ↑ Tagesspiegel , accessed on October 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Preetz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf