Norbert Eilenfeldt

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Norbert Eilenfeldt
Personnel
birthday 17th February 1956
place of birth Gelsenkirchen ,  Germany
size 172 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1962-1970 TSG Karnap 07
1970-1974 Red and white food
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1974-1976 1. FC Muelheim 68 0(4)
1976-1981 Arminia Bielefeld 181 (77)
1981-1984 1. FC Kaiserslautern 88 (24)
1984-1985 →  FC Schalke 04  (loan) 17 0(1)
1985-1986 1. FC Kaiserslautern 39 0(1)
1986-1988 Arminia Bielefeld 51 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1980-1981 Germany B 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Norbert Eilenfeldt (born February 17, 1956 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a former German soccer player . The midfielder played for Arminia Bielefeld , 1. FC Kaiserslautern and FC Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga and for 1. FC Mülheim and Arminia Bielefeld in the 2. Bundesliga . In addition, he came to four missions in the German B national team . In March 1981 Eilenfeldt scored the goal of the month .

Career

From Essen to Mülheim

Eilenfeldt grew up in Essen and played for the Essen district club TSG Karnap 07 as a child . At the age of 14, Eilenfeldt then switched to the youth department at Rot-Weiss Essen . After the end of his youth, he was transferred to 1. FC Mülheim , who had just qualified for the newly created 2. Bundesliga North. On August 4, 1974, Eilenfeldt celebrated his professional debut in Mülheim's 1-0 win against VfL Osnabrück and scored his first second division goal on matchday five of the 1974/75 season in a 1-0 win against DJK Gütersloh .

Eilenfeldt immediately fought for a regular place in the midfield of the Mülheimer coached by Horst Witzler , but never got beyond the relegation battle with his team. After an eleventh place in the 1974/75 season, 1. FC Mülheim had to relegate as seventeenth in the table at the end of the 1975/76 season . One point was the deficit on Wacker 04 Berlin , who took the last non-relegation place. During this time, Norbert Eilenfeldt played 68 second division games for Mülheim and scored four goals.

Arminia Bielefeld

After the descent of Mülheim, Eilenfeldt moved to league competitor Arminia Bielefeld in 1976 . Under the new coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , the Armines played a successful first round in the 1976/77 season and secured the autumn championship. After a weak phase at the beginning of the second half of the season, the Bielefeld team fell back to second place behind FC St. Pauli at the end of the season . Relegation games followed against the runner-up in the 2nd Bundesliga South, TSV 1860 Munich . With a 4-0 first leg win on the local Alm , the Bielefeld already looked like the sure climber. However, Munich could also win the second leg 4-0. According to the rules of the time, there was a playoff in the Frankfurt Waldstadion , which the Munich “Lions” won 2-0.

The following season 1977/78 went better for the Arminia. With one point ahead of Rot-Weiss Essen , the Bielefeld team secured the championship of the 2nd Bundesliga North and promotion to the Bundesliga. Norbert Eilenfeldt contributed 16 goals to this success and was the club's most successful goalscorer for the first time. Eilenfeldt made his Bundesliga debut on August 11, 1978 when Arminia played a 1-1 draw at MSV Duisburg . Eight days later, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 3-2 win over FC Schalke 04. The highlight of the 1978/79 Bundesliga season was the appearance of Arminia at Bayern Munich on March 10, 1979. Norbert Eilenfeldt contributed two goals to the sensational 4-0 away win for Bielefeld. The game went down in club history as the "Bayernspiel" . On the same evening, Eilenfeldt was the first Arminia player to be invited to the current sports studio on ZDF with moderator Dieter Kürten .

After the surprising victory in Munich, Arminia went downhill, which led the team from the secured midfield to a relegation zone. Bielefeld's goalkeeper at the time, Uli Stein, described the Bayern game as the reason for relegation at the end of the season. The club managed to keep the team together and set the course for one of the most successful seasons in the club's history. With 66:10 points and 120 goals achieved in the 1979/80 season the direct rise. Norbert Eilenfeldt scored 30 goals this season and formed the so-called 100-goal storm with top scorer Christian Sackewitz (35 goals) and Gerd-Volker Schock (22 goals). It was sluggish for Eilenfeldt in the first third of the season and after twelve games he had only scored twice. This was followed by 28 goals in the last 26 games, including nine doubles and three goals in the 3-2 away win at Alemannia Aachen . Eilenfeldt was also successful twice in the 11-0 win over SV Arminia Hannover , the highest victory in the history of the 2nd Bundesliga.

Back in the Bundesliga, Arminia fought relegation again in the 1980/81 season. The viewers of the ARD - Sportschau Eilenfeldts Tor in the 4-1 victory of Arminia against Karlsruher SC for goal of the month . On May 9, 1981, the Bielefeld met TSV 1860 Munich and had to win to create relegation. Arminia was already down 2-1 when Helmut Schröder equalized five minutes before the final whistle. In stoppage time, Volker Graul struck the ball into the penalty area . Eilenfeldt ran to the near post, hit the ball and scored the winning goal. At the end of the season the league was successful.

Kaiserslautern, Schalke and back

For the 1981/82 season Eilenfeldt moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern, where he was also under contract for five seasons. His first season on the "Betze" was his most successful. Under coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp, ​​he played all 34 Bundesliga games alongside Hannes Bongartz , Hans-Peter Briegel and Friedhelm Funkel and with eight goals contributed to the fact that FCK finished fourth at the end of the season. He also reached the semi-finals with FCK in the 1981/82 UEFA Cup and scored three goals in this competition. First, the “Red Devils” prevailed against Akademik Sofia , Spartak Moscow and SC Lokeren before FCK met Real Madrid in the quarter-finals . In the first leg, Eilenfeldt met a penalty to make it 1: 3 from Lauterer's point of view. In the second leg he contributed a goal in the 5-0 victory of his team, which then failed in the semifinals at IFK Göteborg .

Kaiserslautern reached the quarter-finals again in the 1982/83 UEFA Cup and knocked out well-known clubs such as SSC Napoli and FC Valencia on the way , but then failed due to the away goals rule at FC Universitatea Craiova . In the Bundesliga, however, the “Red Devils” slipped back into the middle of the table. During the 1984/1985 season , a “dream” came true for Eilenfeldt. For the second half of the season he was loaned to FC Schalke 04 in December 1984. Here he played under coach Diethelm Ferner with the young Olaf Thon and the former national player Bernard Dietz in a team. He would have liked to stay in Gelsenkirchen, but in the summer of 1985 his former teammate Hannes Bongartz became coach in Kaiserslautern. Eilenfeldt returned to the for another year.

Return to Bielefeld

In the summer of 1986 Norbert Eilenfeldt went back to the Bielefelder Alm. The year before, after losing relegation to 1. FC Saarbrücken, Arminia had been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga and was in serious financial difficulties. Norbert Eilenfeldt took over the post of captain of a team that was decimated more and more in the 1986/87 season by bad luck with injuries. Sometimes the goalkeeper Wolfgang Kneib had to act as a striker. On October 18, 1986 there was a grotesque game against 1. FC Saarbrücken due to the rules that were valid at the time, according to which no more than three amateurs may be used . The Arminia had to start the game with ten instead of eleven players.

After ten minutes, the professional Thomas Ostermann was injured , so that the Bielefeld had to finish the game nine and lost with 1: 3. Norbert Eilenfeldt played as a defender in this game . After a ninth place in the 1986/87 season, relegation followed in the following 1987/88 season as bottom of the table. Due to injury, Eilenfeldt was absent for a long time. On May 29, 1988 Norbert Eilenfeldt completed the last game of his career in the 2-0 defeat at SpVgg Bayreuth , which he had to end due to cartilage damage .

International career

Between 1980 and 1981 Norbert Eilenfeldt was used four times in the German B national team and left with his team as the winner. However, remained in these four missions without a goal. He made his debut on October 7, 1980 in the 2-1 away win against the Netherlands on the side of later national players such as Rudi Völler , Karl Allgöwer and Thomas Allofs . Eilenfeldt last played on September 22, 1981 in a 1-0 away win against Luxembourg.

After the career

Eilenfeldt stayed with the Arminia Bielefeld club and worked as a trainer in the youth field. In 1992 he became Bernard Dietz's assistant coach at SC Verl in the then third-class Oberliga Westfalen . In autumn 1996 and in the final phase of the 1998/99 Regionalliga season, Norbert Eilenfeld worked as an interim trainer after the losers parted ways with Dieter Brei and Fritz Grösche . By 2008, Norbert haste field was as a youth coach at SC Verl. After that, he was still a youth coach in Spvg Steinhagen and TuS 08 Senne I active. He later ended his coaching career because he no longer had the necessary fire.

Style of play

Arminia Bielefeld's club history describes Norbert Eilenfeldt as a “true workhorse” and “driver in the midfield”, who “always toiled and fought until he dropped”. Christian Karn and Reinhard Rehberg described Eilenfeldt in their game dictionary 1963-1994 as a fast, technically good central midfielder with a big pull to goal. With his short turns in the penalty area , he could almost play like a striker .

Life

Norbert Eilenfeldt lives in Steinhagen at the gates of Bielefeld and works in the Verler company Beckhoff Automation in Controlling . Eilenfeldt will retire on December 31, 2019. He is married and has a daughter. Eilenfeldt is closely associated with the Arminia Bielefeld association and is a member of the association. In Arminia Bielefeld's club chronicle for the 100th anniversary, Norbert Eilenfeldt is listed as one of 16 “legendary Armines” and referred to as a “silent hero”. When he was invited to the ZDF sports studio after the surprising 4-0 victory of Arminia at Bayern Munich, he initially fought with hands and feet. Only his trainer Otto Rehhagel succeeded in persuading Eilenfeldt to accept the invitation. According to his own statement, he drank a whiskey before the show , but should rather have had several. Otto Rehhagel said about Eilenfeldt that he would still go to the stars in awe today and get an autograph .

Achievements and honors

Overall, Eilenfeldt completed 212 Bundesliga games across clubs, in which he scored 47 goals. In the second division he came to 232 missions and 63 hits. For more than 30 years Eilenfeldt held the club record for the most goals in the 2nd Bundesliga with 59 goals at Arminia Bielefeld. On August 17, 2019, Fabian Klos surpassed this mark when he scored his 60th second division goal for the DSC in a 2-0 win over FC Erzgebirge Aue . Eilenfeldt is fifth among Arminia Bielefeld's most successful Bundesliga scorers. In the ranking of the players who most frequently played for Arminia Bielefeld in the 2nd Bundesliga, Norbert Eilenfeldt is second with 164 appearances behind Helmut Schröder, who has one more appearance.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Arminia Bielefeld in 2005, Norbert Eilenfeldt was elected to the club's “Elf of the Century” . The Bielefeld-born entertainer Ingolf Lück commented on Eilenfeldt's choice with the words: "Anyone who does not vote for the eleven of the century should be punished with a life-long stadium ban".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Kirschneck, Marcus Uhlig , Volker Backes, Olaf Bentkämper, Julien Lecoeur: Arminia Bielefeld - 100 years of passion . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-479-0 , p. 78-79 .
  2. ↑ a b c Kirschneck, Uhlig, Backes, Bentkämper, Lecoeur. Pp. 203-204
  3. ↑ a b c Kirschneck, Uhlig, Backes, Bentkämper, Lecoeur. Pp. 183-184
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: The UEFA Cup 1981/82 - 1. FC Kaiserslautern (FRG). RSSSF , accessed September 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b o.A .: I would have liked to have stayed at Schalke . In: Schalker Kreisel of September 22, 2007, p. 82
  6. ^ A b > Daniel Keller: Tore for the Arminia history book. Westfalen-Blatt , accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  7. ^ Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Spiellexikon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 118.
  8. ↑ a b Jörg Fritz: Ex-Armine Norbert Eilenfeldt is celebrating his 60th birthday. Neue Westfälische, accessed on September 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ “It is still incomprehensible to me today”. Arminia Bielefeld , accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  10. ^ Scandinavian connection and club record. Arminia Bielefeld, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Dirk Schuster: "I will grant Fabi the record". Westfalen-Blatt, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  12. ^ Frank Müller: List of Bundesliga scorers. Blue data, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  13. ^ Frank Müller: List of missions in the 2nd division. Blue data, accessed September 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Eilenfeldt, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen