Norbert Brinkmann (soccer player)

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Norbert Brinkmann (born June 16, 1952 in Oberhausen ) is a former German soccer player . The defensive player has in 05 Uerdingen Bayer 1972-1987 in the Regionalliga West 45 league games (1 goal), 2nd Bundesliga 211 league games (8 goals) and Bundesliga football 153 league games (2 goals) completed. With Uerdingen, the defender, mostly used as a stopper, won the DFB Cup in 1985 .

career

The defender, who emerged from the youth division of the Sterkrade 06/07 game association - he was runner-up in the Niederrhein association league with Sterkrade in 1971 behind champion and regional league promoted Uerdingen - switched to the second-class Regionalliga West at Bayer 05 Uerdingen in the 1972/73 season. There he played his entire career. On July 30, 1972 he made his debut under coach Klaus Quinkert in a 0-0 home draw against Alemannia Aachen in the Regionalliga. At the end of the round he had completed 11 league games (1 goal) and the blue-reds from the Grotenburg-Kampfbahn had taken 3rd place. In his second year in Uerdingen, 1973/74 , he was not missing in any of the 34 round games and again took third place with his club. With Uerdingen, the 1.81 m tall, athletic two-fighter in the debut round of the 2nd Bundesliga, 1974/75, was runner-up in the northern season and thus came to relegation games against the southern vice FK Pirmasens to determine the 3rd Bundesliga climber. In the first leg in Pirmasens, the hosts showed offensive players like Georg Beichle , Günther Michl , Harry Erhart , Raimund Krauth and Dieter Weinkauff why they had become runner-up in the southern league. They scored four goals against the Uerdinger defense, conceded only 38 goals in the Northern League, by goalkeeper Manfred Kroke and the defense line with Lothar Prehn , Libero Paul Hahn , Vorstopper Brinkmann and Edmund Stieber . With his goal in the 81st minute of the game to equalize 4: 4, Wolfgang Lüttges Uerdingen created a good starting position for the second leg on June 22, 1975. In the home stadium, Pirmasens was then without a chance and lost 6: 0 and Brinkmann and colleagues celebrated Promotion to the Bundesliga.

The team from Krefeld started in the Bundesliga on August 9, 1975 with a 1: 2 away defeat at Rot-Weiss Essen. Vorstopper Brinkmann got to know the goalscoring qualities of the "headball monster " Horst Hrubesch (two-time goal scorer). There followed in the next three games duels against Jupp Kaczor , Rüdiger Wenzel and Gerd Müller , with which Brinkmann had a debut at the highest level in the highest league. Overall, Uerdingen had a hard time and was immediately relegated back to the 2nd division as 18th. Brinkmann had played in all 34 round games.

In the third second division year, 1978/79, Brinkmann reached the runner-up in the second division under coach Horst Buhtz and thus again had the chance to return to the Bundesliga through relegation games against south runner-up SpVgg Bayreuth. In the round, the top performer in defense had accumulated 37 games and scored three goals. At the cover center Paul Hahn (Libero) and Brinkmann (Vorstopper), the Bayreuth attackers around Manfred Großler and Wolfgang Breuer bit their teeth. In Bayreuth they separated 1: 1 and in the home game the Buhtz troupe prevailed 2: 1 and from 1979/80 belonged again to the Bundesliga.

After two years of relegation to the Bundesliga (1979/80, 1980/81) and one year of the 2nd division mediocrity (1981/82), the table went up again in 1982/83 and at the end of the round, the 3rd place under coach Hans- Dieter Tipphauer to achieve the renewed promotion to the Bundesliga by relegation against FC Schalke 04. Uerdingen won the first leg on June 15, 1983 in the home stadium 3-1 and the 1-1 draw in the second leg was enough to return to the Bundesliga . Goalkeeper Werner Vollack , Libero Matthias Herget and the indestructible Vorstopper Brinkmann formed the stable defensive axis of the Uerdingen, which the Schalke attackers Hans-Joachim Abel , Ilyas Tüfekci and Wolfram Wuttke had to experience. For the 30-year-old Brinkmann, the most successful years with Bayer 05 began.

He no longer played for relegation with Uerdingen, the Blue-Reds even reached 3rd place in the Bundesliga under coach Karlheinz Feldkamp in 1985/86 after they beat Bayern Munich 2-1 in the final on May 26, 1985 had won the DFB Cup. The 35-year-old defender played his last Bundesliga game on June 17, 1987 - one day after his 35th birthday - in a 3-2 away win against SV Waldhof Mannheim.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 75.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karn, Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963-1994. P. 75
  2. ^ Matthias Weinrich, Hardy Green: German Cup History since 1935. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2000. ISBN 3-89784-146-0 . P. 389

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personal data
SURNAME Brinkmann, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen , Germany